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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), Chapel at Harvard. (search)
dy, and why should it not be under the same rules? Thus at an early hour every morning the college bell, under the faithful charge of Old Jones as he was affectionately called, caused several hundred young men to leap from a deep sleep into their clothes and make their hurried way along the muddy paths and around the puddles of the yard to the chapel. The whole college could then be accommodated in the chapel, though at that time it had no side galleries. It was popularly supposed that Jones was not as faithful at the furnace as he was at the bell; but perhaps the fault was with the furnace. With upturned coat-collars, the students watched good old Dr. Peabody remove his spectacles to read the Scriptures and then replace them to offer prayer; they then joined heartily in one of the familiar hymns and after the benediction broke away for breakfast. It has become the fashion in these latter days to speak of the prayers of early times as worse than useless, and to emphasize the
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)
. Reardon died in 1887. The business at the present time is carried on by Edmund Reardon. C. L. Jones & Co., soap makers, 172 Pearl Street, Cambridge.—Business in this place was started about was probably carried on in a very crude way. In 1845 Mr. Valentine made an arrangement with Charles L. Jones, who was then operating a small factory in Boston, to take charge of his soap business, and the firm of C. L. Jones & Co. was established, Mr. Valentine still carrying on the beef-packing business under the name of C. Valentine & Co. In 1850, on the death of Mr. Valentine, the packing business was given up, and Mr. C. L. Jones then took entire charge of the soap business, associating with himself two of his brothers. The business at that time had grown to quite large proportions. Business kept on increasing, and the buildings were enlarged from time to time. In 1879 Charles L. Jones died, and the business from that time to this has been carried on by Henry E. Jones and Fra
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Index to manufactures (search)
, 341. G. B. Lenfest, 341. Lombard & Caustic, 341. Powell & Co., 341. C. H. Taylor & Co., 341. Louis F. Weston, 341. Edward W. Wheeler, 341. Publishing. Ginn & Co., 337-339. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 334-336. Pumps. Geo. F. Blake Manufacturing Co., 353. Rubber goods. American Rubber Co., 381. Shoe blacking and Metal Polish. W. W. Reid Manufacturing Co., 395. Soap. Carr Brothers, 362. Curtis Davis & Co., 358. James C. Davis & Co., 359. C. L. Jones & Co., 361. Lysander Kemp & Sons, 360. Charles R. Teele, 362. Spring-Beds. Howe Spring-Bed Co., 393. New England Spring-Bed Co., 392. Stone work. William A. Bertsch, 389. Charles River Stone Co., 389. Connecticut Steam Stone Co., 389. Austin Ford & Son. 389. A. Higgins & Co., 389. John J. Horgan. 389. Alexander McDonald & Son, 388. R. J. Rutherford. 389. Union Marble and Granite Works, 389. Sugar. Revere Sugar Refinery, 394. Telescopes. A