Miscellaneous Items

Bainbridge Cigar Manufactory

Chenango Union, September 28, 1882

 

Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] has a stock cigar manufactory, called "The Susquehanna Valley Cigar manufactory," of which Hon. H.A. Clark, O.W. Day, Elliot Danforth, Esq., and W.C. Hickox are Trustees, and F.T. Nichols, Treasurer.  The factory is under the immediate supervision of George R. Wilcox, of Binghamton, and his brother, J. Fred Wilcox, will act as commercial agent of the company. The factory rooms will embrace the entire upper rooms of the Mammoth Block.  Fifteen hands will be employed at the commencement, and soon several cigar makers with their families will remove from Binghamton, employees of the old firm of Wilcox Bros.  Bainbridge is fast becoming a manufacturing town, and setting an example worthy of imitation to towns of larger growth in the County.  Success to the enterprise, and an abundant reward to the public spirited citizens who are interested in it.--Republican

 

Gilbert Manufacturing Company, Bainbridge, NY

Chenango Union, May 8, 1884

 

Monday morning the stockholders of the Gilbert Manufacturing Company were invited to visit the establishment and witness its formal opening.  Eighteen machines, each adapted to peculiar work of its own, are arranged throughout the vast building, and on this occasion all were in motion, and velocipedes were being turned out with lightning like rapidity.  The members of the company were very much pleased with the arrangements and the work, nor could they feel otherwise, as Mr. Presbrey, the Superintendent, is master of his trade, and thoroughly understands the placing of machinery that it may work to the best advantage. 1,000 velocipedes and 1,000 express wagons are now in process of completion; after the first of June sleds will be made almost exclusively.  Eighteen men are now employed, but this force will not be sufficient in a short time.  New machines are daily being placed in position, and the establishment will  undoubtedly prove the greatest enterprise Bainbridge ever fostered--Republican

 

Wagon - Train Accident Near Bainbridge

Chenango Union, January 17, 1895

 

Will Jameson and Claud Burrel, two young men employed in the Sidney glass works, while returning home at three o'clock Sunday morning, were struck by the D.&H. sleeper at a crossing one mile east of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY].  The engine struck the foremost wheel of the wagon in which they were riding.  The horse was thrown a considerable distance and instantly killed.  The boys were dragged in the wagon nearly forty feet, when the train was stopped.  They were picked up and carried to Sidney.  Jameson sustained a slight bruise above the eye, but Burrel was found in an unconscious condition, and is seriously injured.  It is thought he will recover.  Burrel states positively that no warning was given by the engineer.

 



I.B.M. Drops 400 Women from Payroll

Bainbridge News & Republican, February 24, 1944

About 400 women employees of International Business Machines Corp. were released from their jobs in the plant last Friday night. All the women affected by the order are married women whose husbands are employed, says an Endicott correspondent.  The order affects only women employed by the company on a temporary basis.  The release order, the first development of its kind since IBM plunged into record production with the presidential proclamation of a period of limited emergency in 1940, will affect approximately 5 per cent of the company's 8,000 employees.

 

Charles A. Kirk, vice-president in charge of manufacturing, issued the following statement on the step:  "Due to a revision in production schedules at the International Business Machines Corp., Endicott, approximately 400 female employees who had been employed on a temporary basis are being released.  All employees being released are married women whose husbands are gainfully occupied at the present time.  Operations at the Endicott plant will continue on a full two-shift, 50-hour week basis."

 

Company officials did not enlarge on the announcement but several of the women employees who were notified that their jobs would terminate Friday night said they were told by department foremen that the step was made necessary by reduced production schedules required by the government.