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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) 2 0 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), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
g, two stories, one hundred and fifty feet by sixty, has been erected. This addition is especially adapted for handling heavy work, and is fitted with electric cranes and the most modern machinery and tools. They at present employ one hundred and fifty mechanics. The company was incorporated, May, 1896, with a paid — in capital of seventy-five thousand dollars. Boston Bridge Works. The Boston Bridge Works, located on Sixth, Ninth, Rogers, and Binney streets, was established by D. H. Andrews, the present proprietor, in June, 1876. The business was begun on Main Street, in a building belonging to the then existing firm of Kendall & Roberts, at the spot where the office of Edward Kendall & Sons now stands. Bridge-manufacturing in Boston or vicinity previous to that time had not been successful, and the modest beginning of the Boston Bridge Works gave ample opportunity to study and, so far as possible, avoid the causes of previous failure. The growth of the business was