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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
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l manager.In 1874, the new company entered the lists as bidders for makingstamped envelopes for the government, and were successful in securingthe prize. Many obstacles were thrown in their way by parties longinterested in the successive quadrennial contracts, but all were over-come, and improvements so numerous and radical have since beenmade in appliances for doing the work, that inventions protected bypatents have since enabled the company to underbid all competitors.The Morgan Envelope Company of Springfield, Mass., joined thePlimpton Company in the first contract with the government, and theassociation has continued till the present time. This branch of thework has always been conducted in a separate building, and so far asaccounts and details are concerned, kept entirely by itself. In 1886, to meet the growing demands of their general trade, thecompany built a factory for their own exclusive use on Pearl street.Jt is constructed of brick with stone trimmings, and has four floors
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128 THE CITY OF HARTFORD, CONN. above the basement, each containing seventeen thousand square feet.It is lighted by electricity, furnished with automatic fire extinguishers,and thoroughly provided with modern appliances for the convenientand economical dispatch of business. Before the structure was fully completed, the spacious rooms werefreely tendered to the Robert O. Tyler Post for the fair given underthe auspices of that organization in December, 1886, for the benefit ofdisabled and needy veterans of the war, and for dependent widowsand orphans. The profits realized during the week amounted to overten thousand dollars. The first floor above the street is used for offices, for the retailtrade, and for the storage of stock; the second contains a com-plete equipment for job printing on a large scale ; the thirdis principally devoted to the manufacture of envelopes, the annualproduct ranging above three hundred and fifty millions, and in partto the manufacture of envelope machinery, a

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