Amesbury City

Amesbury City

J. S. Hart, Tailor, and Dealer in Woolens, Gents' Furnishing Goods, etc., No. 113 Merrimack Street. - With but one exception Mr. J. S. Hart is the oldest merchant tailor and dealer in woolens and gents' furnishings in Newburyport. The business was inaugurated in 1850, and from the beginning this establishment has been the resort of those desiring the latest custom-made clothing. In the fitting and wearing qualities, style, and general excellence of his garments Mr. Hart is unsurpassed in this city, and his facilities to supply the best and latest designs in woolens, vestings, gents' furnishing goods, etc., enable him to successfully compete with any house in his line in New England, and it is both pleasant and profitable to place orders with this reliable merchant. He is a native of England, and in his residence in this city for over thirty-six years he has always been held in general esteem.

Paul Adams, Drugs, Medicines, and Chemicals, No. 40 Pleasant Street. - This attractive pharmacy was* established in 1881 by Mr. Paul Adams, whose energy has made him one of the representative business men of Newburyport. His establishment is very tasteful in its appointments, and his stock is always fresh, complete, and reliable. He carries a complete assortment of pure drugs, medicines, and chemicals, the latest and most popular fancy and toilet articles, and the best brands of foreign and domestic cigars, besides pure wines and liquors for medicinal purposes, and in quality, as in prices, invites comparison with any house in New England. Physicians' prescriptions are accurately compounded, and confidence in this experienced and reliable pharmacist is always justified. He is a native of Newburyport.

Jollll "Wills, Pharmacist, corner of State and Pleasant Streets. - For four years as clerk, and more recently for two years as proprietor, of the attractive pharmacy at the corner of State and Pleasant streets, Mr. John Wills has been engaged in business in Newburyport. He is a thorough master of his profession, and carries a full and fine assortment of fresh, pure drugs and chemicals, standard proprietary remedies, cigars, toilet and fancy articles, pure liquors and wines for medicinal purposes, and in prices and in quality are beyond competition. Absolute accuracy is insured by the scrupulous care observed in compounding prescriptions, and faith in the skill of Mr. Wills is always justified. He is a native of Boston, is sole proprietor and manufacturer of the famous Wills' instantaneous cough cure, which has attained wonderful popularity throughout this section.

Eagle Printing" Company, Mercantile Printers, No. 38 Inn Street, Joy Block. - The Eagle Printing Company was organized in 1879, with the present proprietor, Mr. Jas. H. Higgins, as an active member, and since October 1st, 1884, he has been sole proprietor of the business. The office is located at No. 38 Inn street and is fully equipped with improved power and job presses, operated by steam, and latest and finest assortment of type. All kinds of work, job and commercial printing is executed in the most artistic manner at short notice and low prices, and satisfaction is always warranted. The company have a fine stock of stationery, holiday cards, and art novelties, which they supply at manufacturers' rates. Seven skilled compositors and pressmen are employed. Mr. Higgins was born in Newburyport, and is held in universal esteem.

John F. Bryan, Manufacturer of all kinds of Harnesses, No. 46 Pleasant Street. - As successor to G. P. Bishop, Mr. John F. Bryan has successfully conducted business as a manufacturer of harness and dealer in whips, blankets, robes, and horse-furnishing goods generally for three years in Newburyport. He is located at No. 46 Pleasant street, where he employs several skilled workmen in the manufacture of light and heavy harnesses of every description, giving to his business his entire attention and the benefit of his long experience. He carries a full and complete assortment of robes, blankets, whips, fly-nets, dusters, horse-boots, and everything desirable in the line of horse-furnishing supplies. Mr. Bryan is a native of Massachusetts and is a most energetic and thoroughly reliable business man.

ESSEX county, Massachusetts, is thickly dotted with active manufacturing centres, and each apparently devotes itself to special branches of productions. Among these should be classed Amesbury, widely known for the manufacture of carriages. The village is located in the extreme northern section of the county, on a branch of the Merrimack river, and on the Eastern railroad, now leased and operated by the Boston and Maine railroad. It is forty miles northeast from Boston, six miles northwest from Newburyport, and seven miles northeast from Haverhill. The country about Amesbury contains much fine scenery, and the views from the hills are delightful. The stream is navigable for vessels of three hundred tons, and in former years considerable attention was paid to mackerel fisheries off the coast. Among the prominent residents of the section was Joseph Bartlett, M. D., one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, who was born in 1738. He was Governor of New Hampshire from 1790 to 1793. Amesbury has a population of near three thousand five hundred. The following descriptive articles make mention of the leading industries of the place :

Amesbury Business Houses

C. X. Dennett, Sole Manufacturer and Patentee of the Dennett Standing Extension Top Jump-Seat and Sleigh. - Founded in 1876, the carriage factory of Mr. C. N. Dennett has attained a high reputation for the superiority of its products, which embrace all kinds of light carriages - a specialty being made of the patent Dennett jump-seat carriages and sleighs the invention of Mr. C. N. Dennett. Mr. Dennett, who is a native of Massachusetts, and acquired a knowledge of his trade in Merrimack, has a well-equipped factory, employs a large force of hands, and controls the largest business in his line in Amesbury. He does not attempt to cope with competitors in the production of cheap goods, but makes it the principal object to produce only the best kind of work. Parties who do not want to keep but one carriage, and would like something that can be changed with perfect ease from a one to a twoseated carriage, will find the " Dennett" to be just the style they are looking for. When adjusted for one seat it makes a light, handsome canopy top sunshade, and by simply swinging the main seat back and turning out the inside seat, the carriage is changed at once to a two-seated carryall, with plenty of room for four persons. The room between the seats is easy and comfortable, the front seat being the same depth and width as the back seat - a feature not found in any other jump seat. Only the best materials are used in the manufacture of these seats, and the latter are protected by patents granted in 1876 and 1860. Mr. Dennett has also recently invented, and is now manufacturing, a new jump-seat buggy, for which a patent has been applied for, and which it is claimed is the best in the market. The manner of shifting the top back and forth is on a new and novel plan. The top can be shifted with one hand, in the easiest manner possible, standing on one side of the carriage. The front seat can be adjusted to same width as back seat, so that two large persons can ride side by side without being crowded for room. The manufactures of this house are shipped to all parts of the country and also abroad.

F. D. Parry, Carriage Manufacturer. - Among the leading manufacturing establishments of Amesbury we must include the well-known and respected house of Mr. F. D. Parry, manufacturer of carriages. Mr. Parry has been connected with the carriage trade since 1848, but during the Civil War he joined the Thirty-second Massachusetts Volunteers, and was with the Army of the Potomac in all its principal engagements. After the close of the war in 1866 he started business and quickly built up a large patronage, which has been yearly on the increase. His premises comprise five large buildings, all thoroughly equipped with the best mechanical appliances. Employment is afforded to forty-five skilled workmen. The house makes a specialty of two-seat extension and covered carriages, phaetons, top-buggies, two seat democratic wagons for family use, etc. All parts of carriages are manufactured on the premises. About five hundred carriages are produced yearly, and a large stock is always kept on hand for inspection and sale. The trade of the house extends to all parts of the New England States. The house is a representative one, and its reputation for square dealing and careful attention to customers' wishes has made it very popular.

G. W. Osgood, Manufacturer of Light Carriages and Sleighs. - One of the leading carriage manufacturers in this carriage-manufacturing community is Mr. G. W. Osgood, who is a native of the town. He was educated and trained as a shipjoiner at East Boston, and worked at that trade about twenty years. In 1870 he established his business, in which he has manifested practical ability and a thorough mastery of the craft. He has developed a trade amounting to about $100,000 a year, which is annually increasing. He produces only the best classes of light carriages and sleighs, using only the most reliable materials, employing only the most skilled workmen, and turning out work which, for beauty, style, and finish, cannot be surpassed, and has gained a reputation for refusing to let any inferior work go out of his establishment. His manufactory has a floor surface equal to one and a half acres, equipped with modern machinery, and forty-two workmen are employed. About seven hundred carriages and two hundred sleighs are turned out yearly, and he has constantly in his repository from seventy to eighty carriages in all the newest designs. The trade extends to all parts of the New England States. Mr. Osgood is one of the largest property owners in the town.

George W. Marden, Manufacturer of Light Carriages of all Styles, rear of Hotel. - One of the prominent carriage manufactories is that of Mr. George W. Marden, which is the oldest of its character in Amesbury. Mr. Marden came into possession of the business in 1882 as the successor of Mr. A. M. Huntington, who had controlled it for the seventeen years preceding that date, and who was himself the successor of Mr. J. R. Huntington, the founder and owner of the business for fifteen years. The businesp, when started, began in a small way, but by degrees it grew to its present extensive proportions. The premises occupied comprise five large buildings, which are used for manufacturing and storage purposes. The manufacturing department is thoroughly equipped, and employment is afforded to from twenty to thirtyfive workmen. The products comprise medium and light carriages, open and top buggies, carryalls, etc., and about four hundred carriages are built yearly. From ninety to one hundred carriages are constantly kept in stook, and the facilities of the house for promptly filling all orders are all that could be desired. The trade extends to all parts of the New England States. Mr. Marden, who is a native of New Hampshire, is a thorough master of all the details of his business, and is young, energetic, and pushing.

Leading Manufacturers And Merchants

D. J. Marston, Manufacturer of Carriage Wheels. - An important contingent industry to the staple trade, that of carriage building, of Amesbury, is the manufacture of wheels, and in this department of enterprise the establishment of Mr. D. J. Marston occupies a foremost position. Mr. Marston, though a native of Chester, N. H., has long been a resident in Amesbury, where he received his business training, and where he is widely known as one of the most enterprising and successful business men of the town. During the war he shouldered a musket and went into the thick of the fight with the Eleventh New Hampshire Regiment, under the command of Colonel Harriman, afterward Governor of New Hampshire. In 1875 he embarked in the business of manufacturing light carriage wheels in Amesbury, and he has since built up an immense and flourishing trade, which has its ramifications over all parts of the Union and Canada. He has a large brick factory, two stories in height, and covering an area of 50x150 feet. Last year this concern turned out five thousand sets of wheels. They are the Sarven patent wheel as well as the common wheel ; the banded hub wheel for fast driving and pavement use; in fact, all the kinds needed by the manufacturers of vehicles here. Mr. Marston's workshops are large enough for this large business, and with the best of improved appliances and machinery, employs quite a large force of skilled workmen. From what we have heard from the various manufacturers here, they all speak highly of the products of Mr. Marston. No flaw whatever is ever found, and every part of what is entered into any wheel is carefully selected. Nothing is admitted except what is perfect. This is a high compliment to pay to any manufacturer. We take pleasure in giving these facts as we find them, and take this method in giving the same publicity. Mr. Marston stands well in both social and commercial circles. His success has been fully merited. He will be pleased to send price-lists to all who may apply.

of A. N. Parry & Co. was adopted. The premises comprise two buildings. One of these, a two-story structure, covering an area of 30x130 feet, is used for offices and salesrooms. The other, which con-

A. X. Parry & Co., Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in Carriages. - The reputation of the Amesbury carriage trade is one of the highest character, and among the oldest and most favorably known houses engaged in manufacturing and dealing at wholesale in carriages is that of Messrs. A. N. Parry & Co. The concern was originally founded by Mr. F. D. Parry, one of Amesbury's oldest carriage manufacturers, and one of the first to establish the wide-spread reputation of Amesbury carriages by exporting them to Australia and elsewhere. After being in business some time, Mr. Parry took his son, Mr. A. N. Parry, into partnership, and the style of the house then became F. D. Parry & Son. The business was conducted under this style until 1871, when the present firm-name sists of four floors and a basement, and is 50x110 feet in dimensions, is the factory, and is equipped with the best class of machinery known to the trade. Fifty workmen are permanently employed, and about six hundred carriages are made yearly. These embrace buggies, phaetons, rockaways, and all kinds of light carriages. In addition to their own productions they offer at wholesale to the trade those of over forty carriage builders in Amesbury and Merrimack, including carriages in all the latest novelties in design and construction. The firm have a large trade with dealers throughout the West and South.

T. W. Lane, Manufacturer of Patent Carriage Springs, Carriages, etc. - Engaged in the double capacity of manufacturing springs and shackles and all descriptions of light carriages is Mr. T. W. Lane, who founded his business in 1874. His factory comprises four extensive buildings, and a large wareroom for the exhibition and sale of his products. Mr. Lane is a practical mechanic and carriage builder, and the inventor of Lane's patent spring, and in the making of his carriages he has used these springs for seven years, and find they ride easier and stand better than any other kind. They are the very best. The springs on regular buggies weigh thirty-two pounds, make a lighter buggy than elliptic springs, and need no hanging irons. A special feature is also made of patent cross springs for democratic wagons. The house manufactures finished carriages in at least three different grades. Top and open buggies, comings, pianos, concave and all good styles, Concord wagons, democrats, medium and light weight, phaetons, two-seat pianos, side-bar surries, etc. The factories are thorough and complete in the efficiency of their equipments, and a staff of twenty workmen are employed. The output of the establishment is about five hundred carriages a year, and a stock of about sixty are constantly kept on hand. The trade of the house extends to all parts of the country, and Mr. Lane, who is a native of New Hampshire, is one of the most respected men in the trade.

D. J. Folg'er, Carriage Manufacturer. - As a manufacturer of a fine line of carriages, justly celebrated and popular, Mr. D. J. Folder has a reputation of an enviable character. For fifteen years

The firm is enabled to fill all orders promptly and upon the most advantageous terms, and is too well known in the trade to call for any personal comment from us.

he has been a well-known manufacturer in Amesbury, of which town he is a native, and where he acquired a thoroughly practical knowledge of his trade. In 1880 he founded his present establishment, which is one of considerable dimensions, and comprises four buildings. The main one is three stories in height, and covers an area of 45x70 feet. The workshops are thoroughly equipped, and thirty experienced workmen are employed. About five hundred carriages are produced yearly, and from fifty to seventy-five are always kept on hand in the warerooms. The house manufactures all kinds of light carriages, buggies, wagons, carryalls, sunny extension tops, jump-seat carriages of different patterns, and the Wells jump-seat in particular. A special feature is made of medium priced work, and the trade relations of the house extend to all parts of the country.

John S. Poyen & Co., Dealers in Coach and Carriage Hardware and Trimmings of every Description. - Among the active, energetic, and old-established business houses in this line in Merrimack and Amesbury must be remembered that of Messrs. John S. Poyen & Co., which was founded forty years ago. The firm occupy a fine, imposing, three-story building, 60x140 feet in dimensions, and the stock carried is a very large and comprehensive one, the firm being the largest dealers in their line in New England. In addition to their establishment in this town, they have a large business-house in Merrimack, where duplicates of all the goods handled in the Amesbury establishment are kept in stock. This concern is divided into departments for leather, one for carpets, another for cloth, another for axles and springs, and others for different classes of goods. Twelve salesmen and clerks are regularly employed. The proprietors are manufacturers' agents for Slater Woolen Co.'s broadcloths, S. Halsey & Son's leather, William Wilkins & Co.'s curled hair, Smith Bros. & Co.'s springs, Ashtabula covered carriage-goods.

T. A. Babcock & Co., Manufacturers of Light Carriages, Wagons, etc. - This business was originally founded by Mr. James Hume, a wellknown carriage manufacturer. In 1876 he was succeeded by the present firm, Messrs. T. A. Babcock & Co., who manufacture every description of buggies, phaetons, extension tops, wagons, etc. They make a specialty of two-wheeled wagons, of the English cottage gig, and are the largest manufacturers of two-wheeled vehicles in Amesbury. Their two-wheeled wagons have a national reputation, and have not only a large domestic patronage, but a thriving export business to Australia and the West Indies. The manufacturing departments are comprised within two large factories, each three stories in height, and each 30x160 feet in dimensions. All the work turned out is hand-made and of the most reliable description. Another building of brick, of three stories, and 60x100 feet in dimensions, is utilized for offices, salesroom, etc. Here are displayed samples of the manufactures of the concern. They employ, about one hundred hands, and their facilities enable them to produce from one thousand to twelve hundred carriages a year.

Goss, Drummond & Co., Manufacturers of Carriage Parts. Carriage Bodies, Ironed Work, and Finished Carriages. - The concern under notice makes a special feature of manufacturing carriage parts, carriage bodies, iron work, and finished carriages, and a prominent specialty in their business is the manufacture of ironed work ready for paint and trimming. The firm employ steam power, and their extensive factory is equipped with the most modern improved wood-working machinery. Established only in 1880, the firm has risen to the distinction of being one of the most extensive manufacturers of carriage bodies, gears, etc., in the town, and their products are disposed of principally to the carriage manufacturers in Amesbury. They occupy two fine, large brick buildings. One of these is four stories in height and 50x150 feet in dimensions, and the other, a three-story structure, covers an area of 45x110 feet.^ Sixty hands are employed, and outfit yearly is about three ahousand carriage bodies, three thousand gears, tnd from five hundred to six hundred complete carriages in different styles. The members of the firm are Mr. C. Goss, and Mr. J. Drummond, and John Currier and C. D. Cameron.

H. P. Wells, Automatic Jump-seat Carriages and Sleighs. - During the past quarter of a century a thorough revolution has taken place in the building of carriages and sleighs. The latest improvements effected are those made by Mr. H. P. Wells, carriage builder, of this town. Mr. Wells, who is a native of New Brunswick, and there received his training as a practical carriage builder, is a gentleman of an ingenious turn of mind and always planning improvements in the products of his trade. He established himself in business in his present quarters in 1883, and he has already built up a trade connection that older establishments might envy him. He is the inventor of Wells' patent automatic jump-seat carriages and sleighs, which are fast finding their way into popularity. The important points in the construction of these new seats are, that the seats work automatically - when one is moved the other conforms to its action ; the changes can easily be made with the strength of one finger, so perfectly are the parts fitted and adjusted ; the front seat is so braced as to prevent side motion. Heretofore there has been much complaint regarding the narrowness of the front seats in jump-seats. Mr. Wells built this carriage expressly to obviate this trouble, thereby giving one of the best front seats ever found in a jumpseat carriage, and has made the change in a manner that adds beauty and grace to the vehicle. Mr. Wells makes it a specialty to supply jump-seat bodies of his own design with irons complete, but undertakes to furnish any other style of carriagebody preferred in which jump-seat irons will work. These seats are pronounced perfect, and Mr. Wells will forward a sample body, with irons complete, to any reliable firm in the country for approval, The products of this establishment are disposed of to manufacturers in Amesbury and in all parts of the country and in Canada. The premises occupied are of sufficient capacity for the business, and a number of hands are employed. During the present year the house will turn out fully four hundred carriage bodies fitted with jump-seats. Young, energetic, and ingenious, Mr. Wells has a bright future before him.