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History of the Great Lakes
Illustrated, In Two Volumes, Vol. II
Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1899

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              The Chase Machine Company was organized in September, 1888,
           for the manufacture of the Chase automatic fog whistle machines,
           stationary and marine engines, steam pumps, dredging machinery
           and deck engines, and to do a general business as engineers,
           machinists and blacksmiths. Later specialties have been vacuum
           power hammers and drop hammers, automatic hotwater heaters,
           marble-cutting machinery, and marine machinery of various
           descriptions. The Chase automatic towing engine, for handling a
           wire tow line, and automatically relieving it from the extra-
           ordinary strains of rough water towing, and the Chase steam
           steering engine, with hydraulic lock and speed governor, are
           among the latest and most novel of the Chase patents. This
           company also builds in considerable numbers a wide variety of
           hoisting engines for marine and other work, and a special type
           of three-cylinder mining hoist has been favorably received.
              Officers of the company at its formation were G. C. BARNES,
           president; J. L. CHASE, vice-president and general manager; J.
           H. BALL, secretary and treasurer, and LUTHER ALLEN and G. E.
           CHALFANT, also directors. Other directors have been J. H.
           PANKHURST, WALTER MILLER, ROBERT S. HAY, CHARLES E. NEWELL, and
           J. D. KIRBY.
              Present officers are JAMES L. CHASE, president and general
           manager; WALTER WILLIAMSON, vice-president, and Frederick
           METCALF, secretary and treasurer. A biographical sketch of Mr.
           CHASE follows. Mr. WILLIAMSON is a skilled machinist of wide
           experience as foreman and superintendent, and formerly of the
           firm of WILLIAMSON & MCDERMOTT Twist Drill Company. MR. METCALF
           is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
           Mechanical Engineering, and has had eleven years' experience,
           mostly in charge of marine and hydraulic work.

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