The Wheel and cycling trade review . he sons taking up what the fathers haveleft, yielding mechanics who have beendrilled into their work from almost a large degre9 the cheap foreign elementis wonderfully lacking, and the disorganizerswho are only too prominent in the new West-ern country find there is no place for themamong this domestic and peace-loving Yankee ingenuity—that term for fullknowledge of the subject handled—counts formuch, and as producers the States east ofNew York, of which Connecticut is easily theleader, stand to-day in a proud position, sec-ond to none
The Wheel and cycling trade review . he sons taking up what the fathers haveleft, yielding mechanics who have beendrilled into their work from almost a large degre9 the cheap foreign elementis wonderfully lacking, and the disorganizerswho are only too prominent in the new West-ern country find there is no place for themamong this domestic and peace-loving Yankee ingenuity—that term for fullknowledge of the subject handled—counts formuch, and as producers the States east ofNew York, of which Connecticut is easily theleader, stand to-day in a proud position, sec-ond to none on the globe. A stranger riding on the cars along theNaugatuck is at once impressed with the sizeof the factories he can see from the many cases they are enormous. They tella good story of an Englishman who on hismaiden trip through the Naugatuck ex-pressed much curiosity as to what the vari-ous plants they passed were used for, andwas much astonished as to the varied assort-ment of their product. First it was brass,. silverware, Wilcox & Howe, for many yearsextensive forgers of carriage hardware, haveturned over their hammers to the produc-tion of bicycle material, sprockets, cranks,frame connections, and all those parts thathelp make the finished machine, are made ina quantity and of quality commending themto the careful buyer. The company have re-cently added to their equipment a numberof improved drop hammers and doublepresses, which put them in a position, evenbetter than in the past, to meet the enormouspressure that their trade has brought. For1897 they are showing a number of forgingswhich are up to date in every particular. Anew bottom bracket, and a variety ofsprocket designs with fancy centres, areamong the novelties offered. A few miles further up the river is Sey-mour, a typical valley town, and here the H. A. Matthews Manufacturing Company, whohave earned an enviable reputation as themanufacturers of steel stampings, occupy aplant just oa the outsk
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