Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 12, 1918, Page 6

NORWICH BULLETIN, FRIDAY, JULY 12, FRONT bl ADDITION- 10 and Sateens, e Ponemah company irflfi[n:‘ il drawin spinning en | known 1 osperous career | Litd., Oldham, 1 extension A big story addition has it the line out the| Iy on ton to i of w a: getting thed agent, 0 BALTIC COTTON MILL Four Story Building 220 Feet Long and 84 Feet Wide—Will Add 20,000 Spindles to Miil Capacity and Mean Employment of From 150 to 200 More Hands—Will Operate' : on Fine Combed Yarns in Manufacture of Fine Lawns, Crgandies, India Linens, 1,000 shape t spindies. that ¢ I\Hu\«d 'I or- known firm of Provid: nd mill enzi i rank E K he : increased e nh to carry m 160 s; one steam and om,\-leme son of the founder of the com- WEAVE RUOM, switchboard, the mac hin- (] |r"4(a|l :l and \v\fl\ The ring spin- CLASSED AS PREMIER AMONG COTTCN MILLS. Baltic Mills Co. Property Makes More Than Half the Grand List of Town of Sprague—Operates 70,000 Spindles and Produces Approximately 13,000,- C00 Yards Annually. syronym for| Into the Baltic mills arg fed annual- n average of 4,000 bales f yards of the William the m . and one of the | four directors of the company Peck, previously bookkeeper has held the office of operation of plant is|1905 Mr. kmen from a | for the company, directing ' the BALTIC MILLS CO. COTTON MILL VIEW—SHOWING NEW ADCITION AT RIGHT OF PICTURE, WEAVE SHED AT LEFT. y that the Sprague mill 2 i burned created much & a were pl | ty il and the general conduct of the| business with an abili recognized in the brought the Baltic m est recognition wherever the finest cotton goods from one of the premi cotton mills of the world are wanted. The annnal production of the mill is approximately 13,600,000 vards. The | compan; was or- sanized in 1899 by the late I les of Provide the purpose of taking up ang the - itic mill Property. ation of 500,000 been ' sed to !} | $1,000, Sayles of Provi- | pany, is president and treas ert W, a\l'w of Chestnut Peck of Baltic, four men comprise the | directors. treasurer's office is i Prc no sales agen maintained in any of the larger the product of the mill d of directly through Mr. Peck as urer, and William agent. These What the altic Mills company means to Baltic and the town of| Sprague is indicated when it is known ; that the total g st of the town! of § . of which the | assessed fi of the Haltic mills ac- | counts , and the annual! wage distribution ef the mif; approxi- | mates between $400,000 and $450,000. Over and a half acres in floor d by the principal mill ch nearly two and a under the roof of the ed, which was the last addition made to the mill property be- fore the*new acdition that is just about to be put into operation. The mill operates a total of 70,000 spindles, and 15,007 looms, and gives employment to 559 people. After the fire that destroyed the old Sprague mill on this site in Oectober, 1887, the property stood idle till it s bought by the Ponemah company in 1892, and a stone power house, 100 half acres new weave s yrm‘l at T j street { When the Baltic Mills company | bought the feet by 60, five stories high, was built, i with two nl\ namos installed to furnish power for 1,000 looms in its No. 2 tville and for the Norwich lway. i from the Pohe- mah company in 1 they erecied the {main mill buildis 8, of stone, four stories and l)axeml‘nt just south of and adjoining the power house, | later built the immense weave shed at i the north end of the plant, and have 1notv just finished the latest addition iut the south end of the main mili | building. There i a total length of 696 feet in the mill buildings, four and five stories high, while the iweave shed has {a street frontage of 290 feet, of which 205 feet of the building has a depth of 1198 feet and 185 feet is 341 feet deep. | Contiguous to the main mill build- ings are the boiler house, picker house, tcard room building and a storehouse, 300x51, along the railroad track. A number of other small storage build: :ings are located on the westerly side of the Shetucket river, which i8 eroes- Ved by bridge on to the company's land jin front of ,the mill. The company owns 447 acres of land, 247 tenernent hotises anhd several other buildings in the village. Every modern sanitary provision is made for the benefit of the emploves | fin the way of adeguate lighting and {ideal working conditions and the mill is eauipped mostly with Rnelish ma. chinery, weaving. The water power privilege is one of the most valuable on the Shetucket = m v gives velopin. is an aux he ‘ low water. i together and supply the i resérvoir of 1 acres and is fed by ver, with a pond that flows back three miles as far as the Scotland dam of the Uncas Power company. The Baltic dam, which is of woad, is built shape and is 508 feet long and a 30 foot head of water, de< 1,800 horse power, ard there ary steam plant of 1,000 of The dam has been rebuiit | since the Baltic Mills company own- al has been feet aver- se power to provide for times ed the site and the ca deepend and wideneq to 7 age width and depth of 21 feet. For Baltic Village BY 105,000,000 GALLON RESERVOIR AND ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT OF BALTIC MILLS CO. a1 Company Provides Club House For fts Employes—Three Mile Pond Behind Mill Dam Is One of the Beauty Sport of the Village. Those two e: modern life—goo plenty of it, and hnln furnished to an vi by the Baltic Mills Co. The electric light comes from two h are run ctrie light 75 kilowatt Zenerators, w- for both the The fine mill and the vil age and the mill ty which was built in t of the mill. 268 feet above sea level, ther pressure of 75 pounds for the fi tection at the mill and fér the s in the village, T pond covers Two dam one of 209 feet flong and 30 feet iigh, and the other t) feet iong a 18 feet form the rescrvoir. At the time as providit Y the company put in a_sew cystem for the village tl »d ran three miles of supply the house ater piy the work on of one und&r the super Ch cer C. Thoughtful provi re of their employe the company in providing a c which is for the use of It is conveniently situate age and contains readiny liard room, a gymna ndle The natural beauty of the place is|p enhanced by the long three-mile pond \m agues owned in formed aho the mill makes an inviting recreation summer for these owning and rowboats and in winter who skate. The wooded many sites for summer camps and except for the spinning and 2,000 people makes the most considerable part population of geod 5('h0015 in the graded gramm< '.A[e hoaxdm" sehool while t'\v two—>Methodist ns are remarked, mill on the four + I er supply for both the OLD MILL BUILT BY RHODE ISLAND SPRAGUES. ons capaci- mmer of 1908 on high ground haif a mile east With the top of \l\e dam Bought tre Ba! tic Site in 1855—0wned Shetucket River from Occum to Willimantic. v of Spragues which reac! for this admirable water |t £61 ec miles long out 1857 or and William S n for the wel- iz shown by tbhouse e mill help. d in the vil- om, bil- m and a small About 1865 chasex after e (hl"en stat aunches v those shores offer a nnv;\l;md | Fire Wiped Out Mill at Baitic on October 14, 1887—In Three Hours the Whole Property Was Destroyed—William M. Williams Steam Fire Engine From Norwich Rushed to Help But Could Not Arrive in Time, - Still employed in ths present Baltic cotton mill are a few who worked in { the ola Sprague mill at the time of the | fire that destroyed it in the early morning hours of Friday, October 14 {1887, The fellowing account of the burn- {ng of the old Sprague mill is from the! | Bulletin at that time: Help From Norwich. Saturday, Oct. 15, 1 887—The news c had ment in ¥ morning. The flames een from this city be- 4 o'clock and a call was Norwich, ¥ *en 3 ar wived a ineer C: er ordered out the Will- jam M. Wiiliams steam fire engine company and they made good time over the hill 100 late to render any assistance for the roof of the mill had fallen in and the once magnificent structure was but 4 smoldering mass of ruins. Started On Fourth Floor. The fire was discovered by one of the watchmen at o'clock Friday merning between the speeders and the spinning machines in tue center of the SPEEDER ROCM. floor. An imme nded to.” The company had r nd of the mill, ent help and a men got to B But the to have han an hot lenath five Built of Native Stone. built of stene e north 3, juare feet of 2 h machinery and r: The as the mn! and machi v This corp: Amasa, and V idence thirty not only the Shetucket Ameri They owned 447 land and 247 tenement houses, of that year. two large boarding houses, mill and other buildin. 5&"“%’&&&;& | | ssistance, Chief En-{/ s to that distant village,j reaching it at 6 o'clock, but they were| floors and | Robhit S smoidering I‘OI\I‘P h( flquax'!' feet wide, failure of .the Spragues in 1373, the 1 broperty“has been in charge of Zach- arizh Chaffed, trustee, of Providence. The mili property was leased and op- erated l:y H. L. Aldrich, a Previdencg +| cotton lugkel The payroll amounts to nearfy $1,000 a g4y &ndA. the Mill sus- tained’ d!vrlqy ud mfirwflv at least 1,500 dopl e Gause nf Ffsl Tl catise 'of /the ‘fire i inknown, Two watehmen @re ~employéd who | make the rounds of the miHl every hour. Between one and two; o'clock ‘ there was not a srgefl of smoie on the tourth fleor, but at 2.45 the watchman had to rétracy his'stéps and get out of the building as speedily as péssible. The grand list-oft he town of xSpravue is $1,188,000 of which this es- | tate "pay¥ tax on $763,000. Betudes the ! operatives the farmers of the imme- i icinity whe have foumd Baltic a ready market for their produce will sadly feel the estoppal of; $22,000 month as ‘will all the c!fiuer! of trade in this vivinity. 3 $2,000,000 Spent On Plént. There has been expendedion this pfant $2,000,000, of which $300,000 was to rebuild the dam and the north wing, nin&ty feet of ¥ tefwhirh was swept away and hot fe- ind promptly re- ! buil izinal cost of the mill and the id to have been §1,- -mn.mcc as telegraphed 00. CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE GLARING HEADLIGHTS To Be Made in the Sta~e—-Pu|:ca De- partment is Informed. State = Au nomo!ulehg Commi B 'flpr-x wi\’ be:)w \lomm 6f thes state Rhode Isiand and New. Xurk the laws in regard to the stFength of auto- mobile Leadlights are not as strict as th Connecti ind conse- the |""l x of summer from those s, the danger. ftom glaring lights hepomas greatef, .. . Qemmissioner Stocckel is determined that auto- me _who stay in the state for any stderable lensth of time shall obey the law and not carty, headlights of Mmore than the oLulfia:y brilliance, The inspectors will feo-operate with the city potige he Pnloti‘m" the laws ¢ | regarding thi§ Apatter; A large allotment of hospital and refugee, garmeéngs -has --been appér-. | tioned Rockville Red Cross chapter, to be made before September 1.