Identifier: hartfordconnasma00hart (find matches)
Title: Hartford, Conn., as a manufacturing, business and commercial center; with brief sketches of its history, attractions, leading industries, and institutions ..
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hartford (Conn.). Board of Trade
Subjects: Hartford (Conn.) -- Commerce Hartford (Conn.) -- Industries Hartford (Conn.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Hartford, Board of Trade
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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rt demand has been quite important. Mr. Cook is assisted by his sons M. F. and John F., both graduatesof the high school, and both practical mechanics. He employs ordinarily about 50 men, and pays $40,000 yearly inwages. HARTFORD MACHINE SCREW COMPANY. The Hartford Machine Screw Company was organized July 24,1876, on a paid-up capital of $40,000, with the privilege of increaseto $200,000. For a number of years the business had been prose-cuted by a partnership, and had failed to be remunerative. Whileits affairs languished in a condition of uncertainty respecting the ulti-mate outcome, George A. Fairfield, then president of the Weed Sew-ing-Machine Company, at the solicitation of friends, and under theassurance of adequate pecuniary support, consented to take charge ofthe enterprise. A charter was at once obtained from the State, anda corporation formed. Mr. Fairfield was elected president, and DanielMorrell secretsrv and treasurer. For some time Mr. Fairfield continued ipuMHHHHKfiiEi
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< s o u ■ fi# £ .■ ft w u (4 » :r w & K u < S 0 ^ u. f- V. < X 122 THE CITY OF HARTFORD, CONN. at the head of the Weed, giving incidental attention to the screwbusiness, which was carried on in a small room under the same roof.As the possibilities of the system became more apparent he resignedthe presidency of the Weed, and has since devoted his time andenergies to the exclusive service of the Screw Company, ably sec-onded by Mr. Morrell, a man of wide experience and ample means,and also, for several years after the reorganization, by Christopher M.Spencer, as superintendent and mechanical engineer. The original patents were taken out by Mr. Spencer, more widelyknown, perhaps, as the inventor of the rifle that bears his name.Since his retirement many valuable improvements and inventionshave been made by the officers and employes of the establishment,which have so added to the efficiency of the process and to the per-fection of the work, that the company and its lice

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