CHAPTER VII.
REMOVAL TO NEW HAVEN .-- FACTORY AT BRISTOL DESTROYED BY FIRE .-- OTHER TROUBLES, ETC.
In the winter of 1844, I moved to the city of New Haven with the expectation of making my cases there.

I had fitted up two large factories in Bristol for making brass movements only the year before, and had spared no pains to have them just right.

My factory in New Haven was fitted up expressly for making the cases and boxing the finished clocks; the movements were packed, one hundred in a box, and sent to New Haven where they were cased and shipped.

Business moved on very prosperously for about one year.

On the 23d of April 1845, about the middle of the afternoon one of my factories in Bristol took fire, as it was supposed by some boys playing with matches at the back side of the building, which set fire to some shavings under the floor.