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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), Life in Cambridge town. (search)
ds the singing, the speaking, and the payment of the bills. At that time the population of the whole town had expanded to 8409, rather more than one third of this being .in what is now Ward One. It is hard to convey an impression of the smallness of the then Cambridge in all its parts and the fewness of its houses. The house in which I was born in 1823, and which had been built by my father, was that at the head of Kirkland Street, then Professors' Row,—the house now occupied by Mrs. F. C. Batchelder. The field opposite, now covered largely by Memorial Hall, was then an open common, where I remember to have seen the students climbing or swinging on Dr. Charles Follen's outdoor gymnastic apparatus; or perhaps forming to trot away with him at double-quick, their hands clenched at their sides, across the country. The rest of the Delta was covered with apple-trees, whose fruit we boys used to discharge at one another from pointed sticks. Looking down Professors' Row we could see
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)
re came upon the industry in 1873. One evening a blaze started in the cellar of the factory, and in a short time both building and machinery were totally destroyed, together with two sheds full of lumber, a cargo of lumber that had only been landed a few days before, and their large lumber wharf, and a dry-house full of hard-pine boards. Notwithstanding this sudden and heavy loss, but a short time was required to place the concern again in working order. The old furniture manufactory of Batchelder, Moore & Co., of East Cambridge, was secured, and new machinery put in, and a room was hired in Leander Greely's building, where the cigar branch was carried on. Early in the spring of 1874 the present brick building, one hundred and thirty by fifty feet, three stories high, was commenced, and in July of the same year it was ready for occupancy. At this time Mr. Wesley L. Page became a junior partner, and the firm name was George G. Page & Co. In 1880 failing health compelled Mr. George G