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In January, 1892, this corporation purchased and came into possession of the mill property of the Syms & Dudley Paper Company, adjoining their original plant, and by this purchase increased their capacity to twenty-five tons daily, and became the largest producers of their particular line of papers of any mill in the country.
The papers manufactured by the "Nonotuck " are
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THE HAMPDEN GLAZED PAPER AND CARD COMPANY, HOLYOKE.
times what it was and the output has correspondingly increased.
The product of the mill is surface-coated papers and cardboard of all kinds. The plant is thoroughly equipped with the necessary machinery for the pro- duction of this class of goods, as some time since all old machinery was discarded and new works sub- stituted. A large proportion of the product is fine litho- graphic paper and a specialty is made of the finer grade of high-finish glazed papers and embossed papers and the line of finer products, especially for fine color
The board of directors consist of Messrs. George F. and T. H. Fowler, with Aaron Bagg and Edward P. Bagg of the Parsons company, and George A. Clark of the Newton company.
THE NONOTUCK PAPER COMPANY.
The Nonotuck Paper Company of Holyoke, whose mill buildings are pictured on the opposite page, was organized in June, 1880, and began the manufacture of paper in December of that year. The original plans
of great variety and include animal-sized flat and ruled writings, envelope, map, super-calendered and machine-finished book, also enameled book, coated label and lithograph papers. The number of its em- ployes is about 325, and the weekly pay roll is $3,000.
The officers of the company are Aaron Bagg, Jr., president ; J. S. McElwain, agent; Wm. H. Heywood, treasurer; Henry E. McElwain, clerk, and H. D. Bradburn, manager, the active management of the business being now, as from the first, in the hands of Mr. Bradburn and Mr. Heywood.
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WHITMORE MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
Among the paper mills of Holyoke, where all kinds of papers are made, there are not many more interest- ing or important than the Whitmore Manufacturing Company, whose works occupy a large portion of the
pers in a small way, with none but skilled employes. The goods made by this company soon became fa- mous and recognized as superior to what the market had up to that time known, so that the demands on this company for really fine goods have been such as compelled an increase of capacity from year to year
glazed and enameled papers, tag board, bristol board, box board, etc., but more particularly the finer grades of surface-coated lithograph papers for color printing. The papers of this company have stood successfully the printing of thirty different colors in completing one picture.
THE WHITMORE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, HOLYOKE.
immense building on Cabot street, erected by the Hol- yoke Water Power Company in 1880.
The Whitmore Manufacturing Company was or- ganized in November, 1881, with a capital stock of $25,000, and began the business of manufacturing cardboard, glazed and surface-coated lithograph pa-
until the present time, when their product amounts to over half a million dollars per year, and their fine coated lithograph papers are found in nearly all the most important lithograph establishments in the United States and Canada. The product of these works includes cardboard of all thicknesses and colors,
The company now employs eighty-five skilled work men, their pay roll is about three thousand dollars per month, and they use up about four thousand tons of paper annually.
The Hon. William Whiting is president and F. D. Heywood is the treasurer and manager.
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THE NORMAN PAPER COMPANY.
As the latest established of the new paper mills, that of the Norman Paper Company, at Holyoke, invites special attention, from the size of the plant and its thoroughly modern equipment. The Norman paper company was organized April, 1891, and was incorporated in May of the same year. The plant, which was de- signed by Architect Tower of Holyoke, is located at the corner of Appleton_and
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Water streets, just north of the Connecticut river railroad bridge, and consists of nine buildings. These are all of liberal size and equipped for the large business already on hand. The engine room is 221 X 46 feet, machine room 184 x 60 feet, and other departments are in proportion, and all equipments of the most im- proved modern pattern.
The buildings are brick, laid in full cement up to the first floor, and half cement the rest of the way, and the roofs are flat and graveled. About six million of brick were used in construction, and about four thousand cubic yards of stone masonry. The main walls are twenty inches thick. Fire walls separate the different rooms, and the doors are hung on self-closing trolley tracks and covered with tin. The timbers and floors and harness work for the machinery is of Southern pine, of which one and a-half million feet were used. The planking for the machine room floor is seven and one-fourth inches thick, and is bolted to steel T beams, which rest on the brick piers. A cement floor on corrugated iron and brick sur- round the wet part of the paper machine.
The office building is finely fitted up, and contains a counting-room 17 x 32 feet, treasurer's and president's offices and closets, with California redwood and antique oak furnishings.
The hallway, forty feet long and six feet wide, is finished in cherry. There is a superintendent's office 16 x 18 feet, in which are shelves and cases for keeping samples. Also a storeroom 16 x 30 feet, for storage of the more expensive supplies. The offices are lighted with electric lights and gas, it being so arranged that on coming in it is possible to turn off a gas or electric light in any office from the hall- way. Push buttons and electric bells form a complete system for calling.
The dynamo is located in the power house, is driven by water power, and furnishes one hundred and fifty incan- descent lights of sixteen candle power each. Underneath the offices is located the filter plant, of one thousand gallons per minute capacity, for filtering the wash water. The size of the mill site is 600 x 354 feet.
There is also a building of brick for the storage of lime and oils.
The buildings are equipped with new Grinnell automatic sprinklers, and nine
two-way hydrants supplied with city water, at one hundred and ten pounds, furnish fire protection. A one-thousand-gallon Clark Machine Company rotary fire pump furnishes water for the hydrants and sprinklers in case the city water is shut off. Shipping facilities are afforded by the tracks of the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. and Connecticut River R. R., running into the mill yard to the shipping and receiving platforms.
The capital stock of the company is $200,000. The officers of the company are: President, James H. New- ton; treasurer, Frederick H. Newton; paymaster, Edward S. Towne; shipping and billing clerk, John W. Stebbins; superintendent, Henry L. DeWolf.
The company propose to manufacture a high-class of animal-sized and machine-dried papers, competing with the loft-dried mills. The mill began running June 21, and had its first consignment ready for ship- ping June 24.
Interesting, as showing the artistic taste of its founder, is the handsome letter-heading of the new Norman mill, especially when studied in connection with that of the Wauregan Company. The vignettes in both are the result of considerable study; the latter pictured the Indian warrior Wauregan, on Mount Tom, with his hands raised in admiration at the city of Holyoke below, and the vignette for the Norman mill pictures William the Conqueror, with his generals, entering upon the Conquest - a very suggestive pair of vignettes and appropriately recognizing the enterprise of the Newtons.
WAUREGAN PAPER COMPANY.
This corporation was organized in January, 1879, and incorporated January, 1881 and manufactures tub-sized writing and envelope papers. It uses five mill powers, running seven 1,000-pound engines, two Jordan engines and one eighty-four-inch machine, producing five tons of finished paper per day. The mill employs sixty males and fifty females, and the pay roll is $3,000 per month. The site is on the first level canal, corner of Dwight and Bigelow streets, and the officers of the corporation are as follows: President and treasurer, James H. Newton ; secretary, Edward T. Newton; superintendent, George B. Stalker; bookkeeper, Wm. D. Judd ; manager, E. T. Newton.
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THE GEO. C. GILL PAPER COMPANY.
This company was formerly called The Chemical Paper Company No. 2, and was formed July 3, 1891, but changed to its present style, May 1, 1892, owing to the confusion caused by having two corporations of practically the same name in the city.
The mill was built for the Winona Paper Company, but was thrown on the market after the failure of the Winona in January, 1891, and was sold under fore- closure of a mortgage by the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and the Holyoke Water Power Company to Geo. C. Gill for Moses Newton and others, June 9, 1891.
Repairs and a general overhauling commenced at
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tiring efforts, taken together with careful and close management, it is now generally recognized as the leading mill of its kind in this country.
The mill has ten mill powers, five permanent and five non-permanent, is fully equipped with a steam plant to use in case of a short water supply at any time, which can be started up at a moment's notice.
It has, in addition to three smaller ones, a sixty-inch Hercules water wheel, which, of itself, is capable of swinging the entire mill with ease, and which is so powerful, that when the other mills on the same canal are either shut down, or else running partially by steam when troubled with back water, this wheel swings the mill so easily and nicely that back water is never thought of. The general plan of the mill is such that
side section of the dryer is going. This fan conducts hot air to the paper and is increased in temperature as the paper goes from one dryer to the next, until at the end of the machine the paper is better and more evenly dried than if hung on poles, a dozen sheets or more on top of each other. This even drying is such a benefit to the color and general appearance of the paper, that it is eagerly sought for all over the country. It might be added that at the present time this is the only machine of its kind in this country, though they have been in successful operation in Scotland and England for years.
George C. Gill, after whom this company was named, bought a controlling interest in this company in Feb- ruary, 1892. Mr. Gill was born in Hinsdale, Berkshire
MILLS OF THE GEO. C. GILL PAPER COMPANY, HOLYOKE.
once under the personal supervision of Mr. Gill, and on July 3, the first meeting of the stockholders was called, and the name chosen of "The Chemical Paper Company No. 2." This name was taken as the Chemical Paper Company held a large block of the stock and the two mills were to be so closely identified, having practically the same officers, Moses Newton president; George C. Gill, secretary and treasurer of both companies. James Kirkham is vice-president and these gentlemen, with Henry S. Hyde and L. J. Powers of Springfield, constitute the board of direc- tors, and with Geo. E. Crafts agent, make the entire list of officers.
Mr. Robert W. Allan assumed charge of the mill as superintendent early in July, 1891, and with his un-
it can be handled very easily, the storerooms being so convenient to the place of working all the grades of stock.
The product of the mill is fine writing papers, twenty tons per day of flat and ruled goods, making it the largest mill of its kind in the city.
One of the most interesting things seen in walking through the buildings is the large air-drying machine, which not a few authorities maintain to be a great ad- vance on the lofts used in the average fine mills and they predict that these lofts will soon become obsolete.
This machine has a size tub and size rolls at its head, and after the paper goes through a bath of hot sizing the full width of the roll, it is taken over a line of 120 skeleton dryers, inside of which is a fan run- ning in the opposite direction of the paper and out-
county, Mass., February 10, 1858, and, after gradu- ating at the high school, took a course of study at Carter's Commercial College of Pittsfield, at that time a well-known school, after which he took a busi- ness course at Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham. He is director of the Chemical Paper Company, and also a director of the Platner & Porter Paper Manufactur- ing Company of Unionville, Conn. He is a practical paper maker, having spent two years in a special study of paper making in all its branches, from the rag room to office, in the mill of the Chester Paper Company at Huntington, Mass. He came to Holyoke February 17, 1882, as bookkeeper for the Chemical Paper Co., and in 1892, when he sold his stock, was its treasurer and the largest individual stockholder but one.
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THE BEEBE & HOLBROOK COMPANY, HOLYOKE, MASS., MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH-GRADE LOFT-DRIED WRITING PAPERS.
G. B. HOLBROOK, PRES.
A. W. ESLEECK, TREAS.
FRANKLIN PAPER COMPANY.
This corporation was organized in 1866, with a capital stock of $60,000, but has lately come into the possession of new men, the Messrs. Ramage, who also have a large plant at Monroe Bridge in Franklin county.
They have changed the machinery of the Franklin mill, so as to make bristol board and duplex papers, where formerly it made only white and colored flats.
The Messrs. Ramage took possession April I last, employ sixty hands and make about six tons of paper a day. They use two mill powers, running eight 400-pound engines, two Jordan engines, one 100-horse power Harris-Corliss engine and one 40-horse power N. Y. Safety engine.
The company consists of James Ramage, president; John Ramage, vice-president ; James M. Ramage, treasurer, and C. W. Ramage, secretary.
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CROCKER MANUFACTURING COMPANY
TREASURER'S OFFICE.
CROCKER MANUFAC- TURING COMPANY.
As manufacturers of colored papers, the Crock- er Manufactuing Com- pany has won a high reputation, as also for their specialties, Eng- lish glazed hardware paper and the "Crocker American matrix paper." Its success in these par- ticular lines serves to dis- tinguish it from most of the paper mills reviewed in these pages.
The company was or- ganized in May, 1871, the
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active person in interest being the late Col. Daniel P. Crocker, a shining light in the paper world. He died in 1887, and the mantle worthily fell upon the shoul- ders of his brother, Clifton A. Crocker, who had been connected with the office for ten years. The capital stock of the company, which was originally $60,000, was increased in 1879 to $90,000, and in 1890 a repurchase of the Dickinson & Clark property, originally held by the company, with the enlargement of the original mill, gave the corporation one of the finest and best mills in Holyoke. The water supply thus secured includes six mill powers, while the ground space runs from the canal back to the Connecticut river. Owing to the topographical cur- vature at that point, the lots are wider at the rear than at the front, so that the principal demensions may be described as follows: Frontage on the second level canal, 257 feet; depth, 400 feet; river frontage, 335 feet. The Dickinson & Clark, while not a large mill, had enjoyed a good reputation, and in taking upon themselves the business of the dissolved organization, the Crocker company have demonstrated their wisdom.
The capital stock of the company is at present $100,coo and the list of officers is as follows : President, Samuel S. Crocker of Leominster; treasurer, Clifton A.
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THE FINISHING ROOM.
Crocker; secretary, R. Frank McElwain ; superintendent, Charles A. Outterson.
In closing this page it de- serves to be stated that this company furnished the excellent cover paper used on the paper- covered edition of " Picturesque Hampden." Emphasis should be laid here upon the fact that the Crocker Company stands at the head in cover-paper manufac- turing in this country, making it a point to have always in stock the largest and most complete line of these papers made or carried by any mill anywhere in the country.
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THE CHEMICAL PAPER COMPANY.
This is one of the largest paper concerns in the city of Holyoke and the largest of its kind in the world. Starting with a capital of $80,000, in 1880, the pressure of business soon made an increase to $250,000 neces- sary. The premises cover 21 acres of ground and about 160,000 square feet of floor space are used. Six- teen mill powers are used and the average daily prod- uct of the mills is twenty-eight tons of paper. Some days the product goes up to forty tons, of the higher class of manilla writing, envelope and lithographic
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papers. The company's fine line of colored patent wrappings and cover papers are probably unsurpassed. It is continually bringing out novelties in the paper line, and the enterprise and sagacity of its founders are extended and far-seeing. The treasurer of the com- pany, Moses Newton, is interested in other paper manufacturing properties at Holyoke; in the National Metal Edge Box Company, at Readsboro, Vt .; is a large real estate owner in Holyoke, Vermont and else- where ; is part owner with his brothers in, and superin- tendent of, the Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington rail- road, which line has opened a hitherto undeveloped,
but certain soon to be developed, region of country, and to "make that wilderness blossom like the rose." The enterprise of the Newton brothers has been far- reaching and beneficent, and if in such a publication as this it could not be alluded to thus incidentally - in spite of the modesty of those gentlemen - hardly any place would be appropriate for it.
The officers of the Chemical company are: John C. Newton, president; James Kirkham, vice-presi- dent; Moses Newton, treasurer; William B. Harding, secretary; and they have an assistant in the person of Superintendent James Phillips.
MILLS OF THE CHEMICAL PAPER COMPANY, HOLYOKE.
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MILLS OF THE NEWTON PAPER COMPANY.
THE NEWTON PAPER COMPANY.
This company owns the only mill of its kind in Holyoke, and one of the largest in the country, mak- ing building paper, patent corrugated carpet lining felt and heavy wrapping paper.
The company organized in 1876, with a capital of $24,000, which has since been increased to $72,000. At present the company requires about six mill powers of the Water Power Company and runs three steam en- gines. It employs sixty hands besides office employes, and averages a product of fifteen tons of paper a day.
The company has such a high standing in the mar- ket that there is a constant demand for all the paper it can make, and its reputation for goods of superior texture is known all over the country. Its present officers are : President, Moses Newton ; vice-president, James Ramage ; treasurer, George A. Clark.
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THEINATIONAL BLANK BOOK COMPANY, HOLYOKE.
NATIONAL BLANK BOOK COMPANY.
The National Blank Book Company occupies two and a half floors of the Holyoke Water Power Company's Cabot street mill, as represented in the above
FACTORY OF THE HOLYOKE ENVELOPE COMPANY.
engraving. The present officers are : Wm. Whiting, president, and F. B. Towne, treasurer, and the latter has general charge of the business. The company has a store at 76 Duane street, New York, and does a large business throughout the United States, in ledgers, blank books and memorandums. In connection with the above a job department is carried on and all kinds of special books are made to order. Correspondence is solicited.
HOLYOKE ENVELOPE COMPANY.
This is the largest envelope manufactory in the world, having a product of 3,400,000 envelopes daily, and yet the company is the youngest prominent concern of the trade in this country, having been organized in 1880 and having begun the manufacture of envelopes in 1881. Being at the center of paper supply, the company has enjoyed exceptional facilities for accom- modating its customers. It makes all its own boxes, ranging from the plainest envelope box to the richest and most elegant papeterie box, and all sizes of envelopes, of course, from the horse-car ticket envelope up to a No. 14, on self-gumming machinery, The cheapest papeterie boxes are machine made, while those of silk, and the finer grades, are hand made.
The making of papeterie boxes requires care, and their variety is infinite, as every one knows who has bought them. They are filled with elegant and excellent stationery, but their attraction generally lies in the boxes themselves. The Holyoke Envelope Company run at present several hundred different styles of papeteries and bring out a hundred or more entirely new styles every year.
Fire brought a temporary interruption to the business of the company, January 22, 1888, while located on Cabot street, and the entire stock and plant were destroyed, at a loss of about $200,000, but with an energy and
THE VALLEY PAPER COMPANY, HOLYOKE.
enterprise which has told since in the further development of the business, the officers met the emergency so promptly that the interruption was but brief. The site for the present building was purchased within a week after the fire, and in the following July machinery was moved into the new edifice, which shows among the engravings on this page. It is a finely equipped establishment, 300 feet long, 80 feet wide, three stories high, and its officers' quarters are sumptuous and elegant. Business men going to Holyoke will find it a convenient place to visit, as the electric cars from the depot run by the door.
James T. Abbe of Springfield is president of the company and George N. Tyner of Holyoke treasurer, and their business success, as represented in this enterprise, is monumental among the manufacturing interests of Holyoke. The force of workmen consists of about 250 employes and the pay roll amounts to about $8,000 per month.
THE VALLEY PAPER COMPANY.
This corporation manufactures loft-dried bond, linen, ledger and writing papers, and its daily product is five tons. The officers are: J. S. McElwain, president ; H. E. McElwain, treasurer ; L. F. Hayward, secretary.
ALBION PAPER CO., HOLYOKE, MANUFACTURERS OF ENVELOPE AND ANIMAL-SIZED FLAT CAP AND BOOK PAPERS.
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MILLS OF THE MASSASOIT PAPER COMPANY, HOLYOKE.
THE MASSASOIT PAPER COMPANY.
No corporation in the city has a better repu- tation than the Massasoit Paper Company. It was organized in 1853, and built its first mill in Huntington, under the name of the Greenleaf & Taylor Company, and did not change its title until shortly before removal to this city, in 1872, when the capital stock was increased to $300,000.
The mills are sufficiently described in the very handsome engraving at the head of this page, though it may be said that the business has grown considerably within a few years, from a ton and a half to five tons product per day of the very finest loft-dried papers, at the present time. No pains are spared to have the produc- tion as near perfect as possible, and the mill runs on orders exclusively, shipping to the trade in all the great paper-distributing centers.
The officers of the company are : E. C. Rogers, president, and C. B. Wells, secretary and super- intendent. Mr. Rogers is a resident of Spring- field, a director of the John Hancock national bank and the Electric Light Company of that city. Doubtless as much could be said for many of the paper-making corporations of Holyoke, but the Massasoit company has a specially strong reputation for the superior class of workmen it employs and the liberal treatment they receive from their employers-and this all redounds eventually to the benefit of customers.
BEEBE, WEBBER AND COMPANY, WOOLEN MANUFACTURERS, HOLYOKE.
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LINDEN PAPER COMPANY, HOLYOKE. CAPACITY TEN TONS DAILY, LOFT-DRIED PAPER. - PRESIDENT, J. S. MCELWAIN ; TREASURER, H. E. MCELWAIN.
MILLS OF THE GEO. R. DICKINSON COMPANY.
GEO. R. DICKINSON PAPER COMPANY.
The late George R. Dickinson, who died in 1887, was the founder of this cor- poration, with a capital of $150,000. The premises have always been quite exten- sive, but additions have been made within a few years, until it is now the best equipped mill of its kind in Holyoke, and its productive capacity ranks with the five largest in the United States. The equipment originally included twelve rag engines, two Jordan engines and two Fourdrinier machines of 84 and 88 inches, respectively, but the extension in 1890, of the engine room 60 feet and the finish- ing room 70 feet, allowed of additional machinery. Four 2,cco-pound engines, two calenders, two cutters and one 110-inch Fourdrinier have been added.
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