New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . forty-five feet in area, have beenentirely rebuilt within a year. Mr. Holmes business is increasingand he employs fifteen men. Temple S. Corson carries on the coal business on Front street,at the foot of Middle. The coal yard, at the head of this wharf, isseventy-five by two hundred feet in area, and is provided with shedsand pockets. He employs about fifteen men and handles betweeneight thousand and fifteen thousand tons of coal INDUSTRIAL AND FINANCIAL. 287 The coal business of Hathaway Brothers (B
New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . forty-five feet in area, have beenentirely rebuilt within a year. Mr. Holmes business is increasingand he employs fifteen men. Temple S. Corson carries on the coal business on Front street,at the foot of Middle. The coal yard, at the head of this wharf, isseventy-five by two hundred feet in area, and is provided with shedsand pockets. He employs about fifteen men and handles betweeneight thousand and fifteen thousand tons of coal INDUSTRIAL AND FINANCIAL. 287 The coal business of Hathaway Brothers (Benjamin F. Hatha-wa}, Jr., and James L. Hathaway) was established by Benjamin in December, 1865. The above firm succeeded about a year ago. Ten men are employed and the retailtrade ot the firm aggregates about eight thousand tons wharf and yard of the firm is next south of the Old Colonypassenger station. Bates & Howard have been established in the coal business forabout two years. Their yard is at the foot of Hill man street. GAS AND ELECTRICITY. In 1850 a company of gentlemen from Philadelphia, actingtogether with Messrs. James B. Congdon and Abraham H. Howland,obtained a state charter and the necessary city authority for supplyingthe city with gas, organizing with a capital of $50,000. Other citi-zens soon bought out the Philadelphia interest and a permanentorganization was formed, with William C. Taber as president andJames B. Congdon as treasurer, and the works were comp
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