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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 3 1 Browse Search
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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The public schools of Cambridge. (search)
as often called a high and grammar school as a high school. The high schools of Wards Two and Three were for both sexes, that of Ward Two being the only one in the town not associated with grammar school pupils. In 1847, the plan of uniting the high school pupils of the three wards was revived. A high school for the city (Cambridge had ceased to be a town May 4, 1846) was opened October 4 of that year in the high school building of Cambridgeport, with Elbridge Smith as master and Miss N. W. Manning as assistant. Seventy-four pupils were admitted, all but one from the Port and the Point. The single exception was the mayor's daughter from Old Cambridge. Members of the city council from Old Cambridge had said in substance to their associates, Place your high school where you choose, we shall make no use of it. This attitude, however, was not long maintained. In June, 1848, the high school of Old Cambridge was closed, and in the following September its pupils took their seats wi
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
housand tons. Although there have been many extensive concerns in this kind of manufacturing organized in all parts of the country, Edward Kendall & Sons still occupy a position among the largest and most reliable. They have given especial attention to boilers constructed for high pressures, such as are used for the largest mills, in connection with their compound and triple expansion engines. For this purpose they build horizontal tubular boilers, and also upright boilers, such as the Manning and other designs. Notwithstanding the local competition in other parts of the country, they still secure orders from industries of various kinds in all quarters, from the copper and iron mines of Lake Superior to the cotton, lumber, and sugar mills of the South and West. They have also sent their boilers across the Pacific to China, and across the Atlantic as far east as Constantinople, and also to South America. Barbour, Stockwell Co. The Barbour, Stockwell Co. is the result of