. King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive. William H. Haile. emoluments of a large and valuable industry. The manufacture of envelopeshas also been introduced extensively and profitably. Papeteries, now sogenerally used in a wide range of styles, had their origin with the MorganEnvelope Company, which also had the first contract with our governmentfor the manufacture of postal-cards. The manufacture of envelopes andpapeterie has been large and, in the main, remunerative; and the stormcentre — so to speak — of the envelope and papeterie
. King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive. William H. Haile. emoluments of a large and valuable industry. The manufacture of envelopeshas also been introduced extensively and profitably. Papeteries, now sogenerally used in a wide range of styles, had their origin with the MorganEnvelope Company, which also had the first contract with our governmentfor the manufacture of postal-cards. The manufacture of envelopes andpapeterie has been large and, in the main, remunerative; and the stormcentre — so to speak — of the envelope and papeterie business still hangsover the city of Springfield. Card-board and glazed-paper making, thoughof later introduction than paper collars and papeteries, are a prominent KINGS HANDBOOK OF SPRINGFIELD. 49. branch of business, which is increasing in volume yearly. Counting-house calendars are also made by the million in their season, each year, and sent broadcast throughout the land, as an advertising medium of different branches of trade, the most prominent of which, however, is insurance. Paper boxes were early manufactured in Springfield, and a large trade is still had in this line of manufactures. buttons, skates, small hard-ware, steam-boilers, foundery-cast- ings, watches, spectacles, thimbles, games and toys, candy, rubber tvpe, woollen goods, cotton waste, sewing - machine needles, wire goods, and other lines of greater or less prominence, are made and sold with much success, aggre-gating a very handsome manufac- David Ames turing business, and keeping many thousands of hands busy, and many thousands more of mouths well filled. The banks and insurance-compa-nies of Springfield, though smallerin number and capacity than thoseof Hartford, rank well with them,however, both in charac
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