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manufacturers of tin cans, 442 Main Street, began business in 1875, and at present employ about twenty hands.
They make a specialty of cracker, varnish, and syrup cans, the work being done with dies and machinery.
They are the patentees of the process of making solderless square tin boxes for the use of biscuit and confectionery manufacturers, also patentees of the key-opening screw can-top, used in all kinds of preserve cans.
The concern uses mostly American tin plate, made in sizes to suit their work.
The manufactured goods are sold all over
New England, and shipped West as far as
St. Paul.
The partners are
C. E. Pierce and
Charles Waugh.
Glass-making was one of the earliest of manufacturing industries in
Cambridge; in fact, the industry was once a prominent one in
New England.
Competition in the
West and the ability to produce a cheaper glass has caused an almost entire removal of the industry to that section.
P. J. McElroy & Co. are the only manufacturers of glass left in
Cambridge.
The business was established in 1853, and the product—glass tubes, philosophical and surgical instruments—is sold over the
United States, with large exports to
South America,
Japan, and
Australia.
Carlos L. Page & Co., located at Nos. 164 to 174 Broadway,
Cambridgeport, have carried on the business of box-making for ten years. They occupy a four-story brick factory seventy-five by forty feet, which, with other buildings, covers an area of about forty thousand square feet.
The factory is fully equipped with all modern machinery necessary to carry on a large business.
The lumber used in the construction of boxes is brought from
Maine and
New Hampshire, and about four million feet is used annually.
Employment is given to sixty men.
This business was established in
Cambridgeport in 1860.
The company manufactures fine-grade stiff, silk, and soft hats for the retail trade throughout the country.
The capacity of the factory is from sixty to seventy dozen per day. One hundred and fifty hands are employed, and the weekly pay-roll is from fifteen hundred to two thousand dollars. The partners are
David Wilcox,
Elbert P. Wilcox, and F. R. Going.
The manufacture of spring-beds was established in
Cambridge in
