L. W. Pond Machine & Foundry Co.

The L. W. Pond Machine & Foundry Co., 37 Gold Street, is planning to practically double its business and force of employees. The growth of the business during the last three years has rendered a large addition to its floor space imperative.

The proposed alterations and additions will cost about $75,000, according to President O'Leary.

Only the more modern buildings of the company, which face Gold Street, will remain when the new foundry is finished. All of the old foundry and small buildings which were built as the business of the L. W. Pond Co. grew, will be torn down and the new foundry building will be constructed on the site, extending 240 feet to the Madison Street boundary, with a uniform width of 100 feet.

On the opposite side of Gold Street, directly across from the foundry, a plot of land containing 10,000 square feet, at the corner of Gold Street and Gold Court, has been bought from Charles A. McCaffery, Jr., on which will be erected a two-story brick pattern storage building of mill construction and as near fireproof as possible. As an added precaution against fire, this building will be equipped with a sprinkler system.

The storage building will cover about 4000 square feet of the land, the remainder to be kept for further development of the company. A spur track elevated 18 feet will be built in the rear of the new foundry, giving the firm direct connection with the railroads. For two years the company has been without a spur track, due to the abolishing of the grade crossings and the building up of the Boston & Albany railroad tracks parallel with the factory.

The new foundry will be of modern foundry construction of steel and brick, and will above the basement have windows about two feet apart throughout the building, making the plant light as day.

Three large electric cranes will be included in the new equipment, which will travel the entire length of the new foundry. Many jib cranes will be put in to handle the smaller work.

When finished the L. W. Pond Co. will have their buildings extending in a straight line on Gold Street. Wooden fronts connecting the modern buildings on the Gold Street side will be replaced by brick ones, and a modern entrance for employees will be built.

The new foundry will have two huge cupolas capable of handling fifteen tons of metal each in an hour. They will be operated on alternate days, so that any repairs can be made on one and allowed to become firm without delaying work or forcing the use of the damaged cupola before it should be used.

The old core ovens will be ripped out and in their place will be built four large modern ovens.

The shipping department will be removed from the centre of the present group of foundry buildings to the east end of the new foundry, where raw material can be brought in and products of the company handled and shipped at the least possible cost.

Richard French Iron Works

The Richard French Iron Works, Muskeego Street, manufacturers of structural and ornamental steel and iron work, is having an addition built which will give double the present floor space and enable the corporation to double its working force of thirty employees. The addition will run parallel and adjoining the present factory building, the north side of which has been ripped out to connect the two buildings their entire length.

The interior of the building will be given all the light possible,

for along the entire north side are high windows, separated only by narrow partitions to hold the frames.

The addition is 94 by 36 feet, one story, of brick and wood, and will be regular foundry construction. It will cost when completed about $2000.

Royal Worcester Corset Co.

The Royal Worcester Corset Co., Wyman Street, is to begin at once the foundations for an addition to its present plant, which will cost when completed between $100,000 and $110,000 and enable the corporation to increase the number of employees from 1500 to 2000.

The addition will give the company a total floor space of about five acres and will mean an increase of about 25 per cent. in the amount of work which can be turned out.

Preparations for the big addition, which will extend along the Grand Street front of the corporation property, have been progressing quietly for months in charge of Arthur F. Gray, Boston, a widely known architect and mill engineer, who has designed other additions which have been made to the plant.

The addition, which will contain many of the most modern and upto-date features, is to be built upon Grand Street and will extend this frontage 165 feet farther toward Main Street. It will have a width varying from 53 feet to 63 feet, built of brick, and will be five stories in height.

In addition to the enlargement of the present shipping room, the facilities for shipping and distributing will be enhanced by the addition of a shipping platform about 12 by 80 feet, with abundant openings, protected by an overhanging roof, affording protection from the weather in loading.

Decked waterproof floors will be laid over the stock rooms so that it will be almost impossible for stock to get wet by water from upper floors

A new driveway with an ornamental gateway of iron inclosed by massive posts of brick and stone will grace the new entrance to the grounds, which will be treated by the art of the landscape architect at completion of the building.

Spencer Wire Co.

The Spencer Wire Company, Webster Street, will erect at once a new mill to be used for the general manufacture of wire. The contract for the erection of this new building which will cost approximately $75,000, has been given to the E. J. Cross Co. of this city. The plans were drawn by Giles S. Pease, engineer for the Spencer Wire Co.

The new building will be of mill construction, 400 feet long and 80 feet wide, three stories in height. The walls will be of brick and the foundation and floors of concrete. The roof will be of tar and gravel and the building will be beated by steam and lighted by electricity.

The B. F. Marsh Company

The mason supply business now located at 22 Garden Street, which has been conducted for twenty-five years by B. F. Marsh, has been incorporated with a capital of $15,000. R. H. Whitney, who has been active in the building up of the company, becomes Vice-president and Treasurer, and the President is B. F. Marsh, the founder of the business.

Hill Machine Dogs

The business of the M. B. Hill Manufacturing Co., 65 Beacon Street, manufacturers of machine dogs, was started three years ago by Milton B. Hill, who had been for many years a salesman for the Norton Co.

One product of this concern which has met with favor is a milling machine dog and driver. The feature of this dog consists of a ball sliding on the tail of the dog and between grooved jaws. Means are provided to take up all wear and lost motion. As the set screw in the driver ordinarily used with the lathe dog is entirely eliminated, it is claimed that all liability of the dog getting loose in the driver and cramping or springing the work is avoided. It is further claimed that correct spacing on taper work and a true rectangular taper may be obtained by simply lowering the dividing head centre without adjusting the tail stock centre.

A holdback dog is a device designed to replace the belt lacing or hook bolt to hold work up to the head centre. It consists of an adjustable dog or driver with two bolts passing through the face plate, on which bolts at the back of the face plate are spiral springs. The makers state that the springs give the flexibility of the lacing and the work is held as securely as with the hook bolt. The bolts can be so adjusted as to draw equally on both ends of the dog, causing the work to run true in the rest.

Butts & Ordway Company

A new business in Worcester which will interest the metal trades is the Butts & Ordway Co., 17 Blackstone Street.

This is a branch store of the Butts & Ordway Co., 33 Purchase Street, Boston, which was established in 1888 and incorporated in 1898.

The new concern will carry a line of heavy hardware, iron and steel, including such items as iron and steel bars, machinists' supplies, blacksmiths' supplies, bolts, screws, nuts, files and twist drills. There will also be carried a line of wagon woodwork, springs and axles.

Frederic M. Butts, from the Boston store of the company, and Ralph F. Blackmer, of this city, who is well known among the younger business men of Worcester, will jointly manage the new enterprise.

When asked the reason for the selection of Worcester as the location for a branch store, Mr. Butts said: "After considerable study, the firm decided that Worcester offered a better opening for a heavy hardware store than any city within a convenient range of Boston. We looked upon it as a live and growing city with a large number of large and small industries using our goods and surrounded by manufacturing towns and cities filled with similar industries. We consider it an unusually good distributing and receiving point."

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