Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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they had lived in Harnpden and their bosses - the boss of
Meadow m ill, the big boss over there was the Bowersox. He
lived at the big house at the corner of Buena Vista and
Union; the boss down at Mt. Vernon lived in what is now the
Crittendon home, and the boss at Clipper lived there in the
3500 block of Poole Street in that big stone house on the
east side of the street.
And af course some of the other bosses had better
houses than others.
Harvey: How about the owners of Mt. Vernon; where did they
live?
Lewis: Well, Mt. Vernon at that time when 1 was a boy -
Mt. Vernon, Clipper, Meadow, Druid Mill Park and Woodberry
M i l l all belonged to one company. They all belonged to one
company. They separated as years went on, sold them all.
Wasn't too long . . . in the twenties, they sold
mill; in fact the first voting machines Baltimore had were
made in Druid M ill. They also made washing machines down
there,
Harvey: Did you eves know those owners of the Ht. Vernon
mf L ls?
Lewis: No, I never knew them at all . . . you never seen
the officials - the big offices were downtown. William E.
Hooper - you seen Mr. Hooper and his family because they're
office was right there at the mill, you did see them. They
didn't come through the mill often; but I'd say Mr. Billy ~ilson,
elderly man, he was superintendent of everything at ~ooper's.