The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ready for use. The making of lead traps was a later departure, and patents on several of the makes of traps are owned by Mr. Baker. Aside from its manufacturing the company deals at wholesale in plumbers supplies and sanitary fittings of all kinds. The business has had a healthy growth, and the products are in use all over the Union. The companys traps are sold in many countries, and a large trade has been established in England, Ireland and New South stock of the Baker Lead Company is capitalized at $35,000, and
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ready for use. The making of lead traps was a later departure, and patents on several of the makes of traps are owned by Mr. Baker. Aside from its manufacturing the company deals at wholesale in plumbers supplies and sanitary fittings of all kinds. The business has had a healthy growth, and the products are in use all over the Union. The companys traps are sold in many countries, and a large trade has been established in England, Ireland and New South stock of the Baker Lead Company is capitalized at $35,000, and Mr. Baker is president, treasurer and general manager. James H. Whittle In 1880 Mr. James H. Whittle, anative of Pawtucket, RhodeIsland, first started in busi-ness in Putnam, Connecti-cut. In (;)ctober of the fol-lowing year he brought hisbusiness to Worcester, andin 1893 he erected his presentbrick factory building onHarlow street. This lattercovers ground space of about135 by 85 feet, and is equip-ped with a thirty-five horse-power products of the Whit-. FACTORY OF JAMES H. WHITTLE. 528 The Worcester of 1898. tie factory are tin cylinders, cotton-cans, slasher-cyclinders, patent bar cardscreens and shieet-metal mill specialties. They are supplied to cotton andwoolen machinery manufacturers and to the mills throughout the Union,the sheet-metal work for nearly all of the new mills in the South beingfrt)m this factory. Musical Instruments. — The Brown & Simpson Piano Company, Maystreet; the Mason &• Risch Vocalion Company, the Taber Organ Companyand the Loring & Blake Organ Company, all on Union street, and the GuildPiano Company, Chandler street, are large concerns manufacturing musicalinstruments in Worcester. C. G. Conn Manufacturing Company, Mechanicstreet, makes band instruments. The manufacture c}f urgan reeds has been
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