History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 198
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] — ' writer of this arti-cle very well remembers casting his vote in the affirmative, as president of the village, in 1855, when the <jues-tion of lighting the place by gas was before the board of trustees which had voted four yeas anil four nays. One of the important industries which is car-ried on in Sing Sing is the manufacture of Bran-dreth's pills and Alcock's porous plasters. The pill-factory was established in this place about the year 1837. The porous plasters have been made exclus-ively in this place. The quantity manufactured an-nually reaches the enormous number of five millions. Of the pills, one million two hundred thousand boxes are annually made and sold. Since 1864 the govern-ment has received from this establishment, for reve-enue or proprietary stamps, the sum of about one mil-360