New Industry for Bainbridge, NY -- 1891

New Manufacturing Concern for Bainbridge, NY

Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, February 11, 1891

 

Through the prompt and energetic action of Messrs. White, Hovey & Co., proprietors of the Bainbridge creamery, a new and valuable industry is being established in this village [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY].  The proprietors are Messrs. Reed and Carnrick, of New York City, and the business is the manufacture of several varieties of prepared foods for infants, children, mothers and invalids.  Having determined to remove their works from Goshen, N.Y., Messrs, Reed and Carnrick, after careful consideration and investigation of the claims and advantages of different localities, elected Bainbridge as the town, and the grounds adjacent to the creamery as the site upon which to plant buildings and machinery at a cost of about $50,000.  Within an incredibly brief time, not withstanding the severity of the cold, a three-story frame building, 40x60 feet, upon deep and broad foundations of stone masonry has been erected, finished and painted; also adjoining this in the rear, with a fire-proof wall between, a two-story brick building, 40x60 feet, and divided by a brick wall  into two sections.  In the northern section are several large and heavy machines, and in the southern are two boilers of eighty horse power each and a seventy-five horse power engine. These buildings have sprung up almost as by magic,  under the superintendence of Mr. A.W. Reynolds, contractor and builder, of Binghamton.  To a stranger unaccustomed to such sights, the many busy workmen and the multitudinous variety of machinery and materials have been almost bewildering; but careful observation has disclosed the fact that the work of placing, fitting, adjusting, testing, etc. was being pushed briskly and energetically on, and that these things were but the necessary antecedents of the order and system incident to a large and successful business.  All this part of the work is under the immediate direction and surveillance of the gentlemanly Superintendent, Mr. F.E. Libenow.  The manufactory is expected to be in full operation within a week.  Two ingredients prominent in their prepared foods are milk and beef.  The milk will be supplied by the adjacent creamery, and the beef will be procured from the west.  Of the latter there will be required about four thousand and five hundred pounds per week.