cement-factories

Updated: May 25, 2025

There was only one little inn near by, frequented by longshoremen and employees from the soap-works and cement-factories a rough lot and there at daybreak they went as soon as the other customers had left for work. "The place had a bar and six bare tables, and was simply infested with roaches. The only things that I ever could get were coffee made from burnt bread, with brown molasses-cake.

Frank Lewis Dyer - Edison, His Life and Inventions