Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; (1904) (14802124113)

Identifier: connecticutascol03morga (find matches)
Title: Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen;
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Morgan, Forrest, 1852- ed Hart, Samuel, 1845-1917, joint ed Trumbull, Jonathan, 1844-1919, joint ed Holmes, Frank R., joint ed Bartlett, Ellen Strong, joint ed
Subjects: Connecticut -- History
Publisher: Hartford, The Publishing Society of Connecticut
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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y Colonel Albert A. Pope of Boston, who submittedto them a proposition to manufacture for him the ColumbiaBicycle. To this they agreed, and the work of their skilledmechanics, and their high reputation as sewing-machine man-ufacturers, were devoted to the perfecting of the bicycle.The result was so successful that in 1890 Colonel Pope, tofacilitate manufacturing, was confronted with the alternativeof either purchasing the stock of the Weed ManufacturingCompany, or building elsewhere. A liberal proposition wasmade by Colonel Pope and his associates to the stockholdersof the company, which resulted in their acquiring the entireproperty, and the company was absorbed by the Pope Man-ufacturing Company. Thus, in fourteen years from the time Colonel Pope exhib-ited at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia the firstmodern bicycle, which he had imported from England, achain of factories have developed in Hartford, which at timesemploy 5,000 hands, and placed Connecticut in 1900 fourth 266
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CONNECTICUT AS A STATE In a rank in the United States in the manufacture of bicycles.The business was for a time merged in the great trust, theAmerican Bicycle Company, and its head office removed toNew York, Colonel Pope retiring from the management.But without his ability and experience it ran down, and heresumed the management and restored the headquarters toHartford. There was organized in Hartford in 1879 the SmythManufacturing Company, for the development of a ma-chine for sewing books with thread; after overcomingmany difficulties, the company has succeeded in introducingthese machines into the leading binderies of this and foreigncountries. They have also placed upon the market a book-case machine which operates automatically, except that oneperson feeds the cut cloth. The first paper-making industry in the State was startedat Norwich in 1766 by Christopher Leffingwell, under apromise from the Legislature to pay a bounty of twopence aquire on writing paper, and one penny a qui