his patterns or mode of manufacturing, until he was driven to it to keep his customers.  At the time when I invented the one-day brass clock in 1838, he said much against it, that it was not half so good as a wood clock, and that he never would take up any thing again that Jerome had adopted; but he was compelled to, in a year or two, to keep his customers.  He sent his foreman over to Bristol, where I was then carrying on business, to get patterns of movements and cases and take all the advantage he could of my experience, labors, and improvements which I had been studying upon so long.  I allowed my foreman to spend more than two days with his, giving him all the knowledge and insight he could of the business, knowing what his object was.  A friend asked me why I was doing this, and said that if I should send my man to Thomas’ factory he would be kicked out immediately.  I told him I knew that perfectly well, but that if Mr. Thomas set out to get into the business, he certainly would find out, and that the course I was taking was wisest and more friendly.  I have thought since how quickly such kind treatment as I showed towards his man can be forgotten; yes; this company have all forgotten the service that I rendered them twenty years ago, and as I have said before, would probably have been making the old wood clock to this day, had it not been for other parties.  There always has been a great deal of jealousy among the Yankee clock-makers, and they all seemed to hate the one who took the lead.  The next establishment of which I shall speak, is that of William L. Gilbert, of Winsted, Connecticut.  He is said to be miserly in feeling, and is quite rich; not very enterprising, but has made a great deal of money by availing himself of the improvements of others.

The next one in the business to whom I shall allude is E.N.  Welch, of Bristol, Connecticut.  He is about fifty years of age, and has been in many kinds of business.  He was deeply interested in the failure of J.C.  Brown a few years ago, and succeeded him in the clock business.  He is a leading man in the Baptist church, and has a great tact for making money; but he says that all he wants of money is to do good with it.  He is a Democrat in politics, and never wants an office from his party.

These five companies which I have named, make nearly all of the clocks manufactured in Connecticut; though movements are made by three other companies.  Beach and Hubbell of Bristol, are largely engaged in manufacturing the movements of brass marine clocks.  Also two brothers by the name of Manross, in Bristol, are engaged in the same business.  Noah Pomeroy of Bristol, is also engaged in making pendulum movements for other parties.  I should, however, mention Ireneus Atkins, of Bristol, who is making a first-rate thirty-day brass clock, and I am told there is no better one for time in the country.  The movement for this kind of clock was invented by Joseph Ives, who has spent most of his time for the last twenty-five