Mynderse Academy - Myndersian Yearbook (Seneca Falls, NY)

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The company employs about flve hundred people from Seneca lalls and nearby towns It has grown to become the second largest manufacturer of men s heavy hosnery IU the United States the output betng ll' :gum Rug U mer about four thous and dozen patrs a day Sales coaer the entrre United States wxth an Important branch of hee on the west coast Knrghts Letter Works one of the outstanding let ter makrng faetoraes tn New York State was anstt tuted nn 1863 by Horace West Kntght Sr Mr Knight had learned the prmtmg trade through an apprentaceshlp and had opened a small prantmg Ins home with the assastanee of one or two men When the faetory hnally was bualt ID 1863 Horace lxnaght Sr managed at smglehanded The regular work w as prtntlng However the work progressed so rtprdly that Horace D Kmght r became has father s partner Under these two men new wings were .added to the building and the staff was Increased 'loday about twenty two people are employed and Mr lrank Knaght grandson of the ortganal founder manages the busmess 'Ioday they make metal let ters nllmg orders from all seetlons of the country 'lhe Wagner Rug Works was tneorporated an 1915 by Idward S Wagner lt began manufaeturang an a small bulldang behmd tts present location rn the Ired I Hunttngton butldmg Soon .after the bustness was founded rt was mosed to Oak Street where tt occu pred the Glen Wagon Works structure lrom there nt moxed back to nts present loeatton tn w hat w as then Ilae Seneca ltber Products butldtng Here foldang cardboard boxes were made Thus was formerly one of the farst yeast plants of the country The Rug Works manufactures what as known as the Iluff Rug whtch ts made of repressed Ingram and Brussels carpets and rugs In addxtnon to thetr manu facturcd hne the Wagner Rug Works are selltng agents for a consrderable territory an the eastern part of the country for a complete lane of reversrble chenalle rugs made by a promment Pennsylvania mall One hundred years ago a flour mtll was burlt on the Ertc Canal All of the stone used tn the bulldang was quarrred an Seneca County The oak tlmbers used tn Its constructlon were flfty snr feet long and hewn by hand Today that same burldrng houses one of the many tndustrtes of Seneca falls the Rule and Block Com pany In 1857 New York State was the center of the wheat malltng lndustry Ior za time the llttle mall had a steady stream of canal boats brlngang wheat to at and carryang the flour to market In 1878 however the foundations for the present burldrng were set up on the sate of the old mall Mr T Mrller and Mr Walltam O Day were the founders of the small com pany whtch at first manufactured chain pumps for household purposes snow shovels and sleds When the company was Incorporated an 1886 rt had gtven up lts early manufactures In their place rulers toy bloeks domanoes and elaeckers were made Slnce the World War all of these except rulers have been dropped from the llst of manufactured products At present the company makes rulers eaeclusnely rl Rule md Block Cowpfulp though rt sttll retains the name Rule and Block These rulers are used for adxerttsmg purposes as well as ln schools and ofhces The large gray stone burldang wlueh w as originally a flour mall as the oldest local factory burldtng stall an use S D 1 K 74 T - .. 1 , - T v' . ' ' A ' ' ' K L 4 5 A K. -. C C - .4 L . . . Sak, L - A, ' 1 A 1 . I 1 1 1 A I L A A K 1 A at 4 C I L . .. , .L . ' 1 T . 11 , a . , , ' ' L 'a ' 1 1 ' ' ' 1 . . 1 . L L I . , , . , . ' '., A 1. V . , ., f' 1- '.- ' . f . v ' ', . 1 1 f ' 1 ' ' . , . . . , I I 11 1 . I 1 , , 1 7 6 t ' 1 I . 1. . . ' z,. 13' ' '., . ' L A l I L I 1 L . shop nn Seneca lualls. Later, he made metal letters rn . . . . A ' 1 1 a z Sf' ,1- ' ' 1' a . , ' , Y , . zz ' '. ' - . 1 1 . ' . Y ,l. 'L ' . . ' , L A ,, , ,,.. . . t A K 1 s ' 1' ' ' '- 1 1 . L '. 'Z S c Y . Q 1 I V Y .1 Y 1 1- A T 4' 1 I 4 i . A 3 .. . . 1-1 I' . ' ' 1 1 ' . . V - . ' ' v'- af ' ' v

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