The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . 4 The Worcester of 1898. acter to help but little in the new venture, and a beginning was made atthe rock-bed foundation of the corset business; 2^1r. Lancaster drafted andmade the first patterns, and personally cut the first samples; one girl was-hired, and with the first samples completed they were taken to market bythe proprietor and the first order secured. Additional hands were put towork in a few weeks, with Mr. Lancaster doing the cutting and superintend-ing and teaching the work at each process, and attending to all
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . 4 The Worcester of 1898. acter to help but little in the new venture, and a beginning was made atthe rock-bed foundation of the corset business; 2^1r. Lancaster drafted andmade the first patterns, and personally cut the first samples; one girl was-hired, and with the first samples completed they were taken to market bythe proprietor and the first order secured. Additional hands were put towork in a few weeks, with Mr. Lancaster doing the cutting and superintend-ing and teaching the work at each process, and attending to all correspond-ence and keeping the books at night. It was from a. m. to ii p. m. inthose days, to use Mr. Lancasters own words, and we had all the trialsand set-backs of all new concerns struggling for life, and in addition we hadthe hard times of 1893 and 1894 to further contend with, which were theworst ever known then. From this small beginning, step by step, overcoming all obstacles as theywere met, working along the lines of certain principles adopted at the. FACTORY OF GLOBE COMPANY. beginning, bringing into play every p(.iint that energy could accom-plish or brain conceive, the Globe Corset Company has advanced in fiveyears to a recognized rank among the leading corset manufacturers ofAmerica. From a small space of less than 2,000 square feet, occujiied during thefirst few months, additions have from time to time been made until thecompany occupies over twenty times more than at first. There are now offices and salesrooms at Boston, New York, Chicago andSan Francisco, from which a corps of twenty-two salesmen travel into everystate in the Union. The entire output of the factory is sold direct to theretail dealers under the brand Globe. Nearly 100 styles of corsets are manufactured from every variety of fabricand to fit every figure. The machinery equipment comprises the very latestand highest speed machines, and many patented devices of their own areused to im
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