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fine public building, and manifold rural adornments. This 

 company maintains the highest reputation for integrity. 

 Many names honored abroad are tarnished at home. Only the 

 strictest honesty and fair dealing can stand the test of daily 

 business intercourse with hundreds of hands for half a century. 

 " They do everything on the square," was, in substance, the 

 answer of many citizens and workmen to my inquiries on this 

 point. The company has fairly earned and gained the confi- 

 dence of their men arid of this entire community, and a good 

 name at home naturally follows them everywhere. The work- 

 men say that they are never permitted to do any sham-work, 

 even for the most distant market. To quote the pithy phrases 

 of the men, " no shoddy here," " no veneering," " no puttying." 



There is a superior class of workmen in this establishment. 

 All are males. Their work is proof of skill. Their looks and 

 conversation indicate intelligence. They are mostly Ameri- 

 cans, and come from the surrounding towns. More than half 

 of them are married, and settled here as permanent residents, 

 interested in the schools and in all that relates to the prosper- 

 ity of the place. Many of them own their houses, with spa- 

 cious grounds for yard and garden, and often a barn for the 

 poultry and cow. These houses are pleasing in their exterior, 

 neatly furnished, and many of them supplied with pianos and 

 tapestry or Brussels carpets. How different from the nomadic 

 factory population, swarming from Canada and from other 

 lands to densely crowded tenement houses, who never bind 

 themselves to civilization by a home, much less by a house of 

 their own ! The tenement houses, also, are inviting and com- 

 fortable, and surrounded with unusually large grounds. The 

 town is managed on temperance principles, and drunkenness, 

 disorder and strife among the hands are almost unknown. 

 Most of them are church-goers, many of them church members. 



I examined the pay-roll and found the wages very liberal. 

 The workmen seem well satisfied on that score. Wherever it 

 is possible, the work is paid for by the piece. The work itself 

 is largely done by machinery and that sui generis, invented 

 here and for the special and peculiar results here reached. The 

 men are encouraged to expedite their processes by new inven- 

 tions and share largely in the benefits of all such improve- 



