The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . f urgan reeds has been. FACTORY OF HAMMOND REED COMPANY. carried on in the city for many years. The Hammond C)rgan Reed Com-pany is now the only concern in Worcester, and the factory on May streetis probably the largest in the world, in fact only two other factories are inoperation, both located in Chicago; and these with the Hammond factorypractically supply the demand of the whole world. WORCESTER CONTRACTORS. Worcester has gained much celebrity during the last quarter of a centuryfrom the fact that it has been the headqu
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . f urgan reeds has been. FACTORY OF HAMMOND REED COMPANY. carried on in the city for many years. The Hammond C)rgan Reed Com-pany is now the only concern in Worcester, and the factory on May streetis probably the largest in the world, in fact only two other factories are inoperation, both located in Chicago; and these with the Hammond factorypractically supply the demand of the whole world. WORCESTER CONTRACTORS. Worcester has gained much celebrity during the last quarter of a centuryfrom the fact that it has been the headquarters of several of the largest andmost widely known building and contracting firms in this country. Ofthese, Norcross Brothers has been, and is, the most prominent, and the listof between seventy and eighty large and costly i)ublic buildings erected by The Worcester of 1898. 529 this firm in different sections of the United States, which is given in anotherpart of this volume,* is an unparalleled and noteworthy one. The Webb Granite & Construction Company* owns extensive quarries, an
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