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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) 5 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), Cambridge clubs. (search)
tituted in its place. The club was incorporated July 23, 1894, and it is in the possession of a handsome club-house, colonial in design, located on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Davenport Street. The object of the club is to promote physical culture and social intercourse among its members. The club-house has a commodious gymnasium and six fine bowling-alleys. The membership is about four hundred and twenty-five, and includes many well-known men in the city. The officers are: E. D. Mellen, president; W. H. Lerned, vice-president; John C. Sylvia, secretary; George W. Apsey, treasurer. The Cambridge Club is the outgrowth of the Harvard Lyceum, an organization formed October 26, 1879, by citizens mostly of Cambridgeport, with the object to promote literary and social culture among its members, and especially to consider and discuss questions relating to the welfare of the city of Cambridge. Meetings were held at Pythian Hall, Main Street. At a meeting held November 17, 18
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)
one, as it is largely followed by all the leading manufacturers of to-day. The partnership was terminated in 1887 by the death of Mr. Davis. The business was continued under the old firm name, Mr. Mellen taking into partnership his son, Edwin D. Mellen, who had previously been engaged at the works as chemist and superintendent. The works have been extended in late years by the addition of a glycerine plant, for the recovery of what had previously been a waste product, and the addition of facture of machinery designed at the works and patented by the firm. This partnership was recently terminated by the death of Mr. James Mellen, and the business is continued at the present time under the management of the surviving partner, Mr. E. D. Mellen. The works now comprise the soap works in the old original building, greatly enlarged; the glycerine works, the boiler-house, with boilers equipped with coal and ash-handling machinery, and other modern improvements; the laboratory buildi