The New England magazine . ion about it all. When a newregion is to be filled up it is the naturalthing to do everything possible toattract attention, so that all the worldmay know it is on the map and readyfor business. Hereabouts it is different. New Eng-land seems pretty well built up andpretty well filled up. Nearly every-where they have their hands full doingthings. And they are so wonted todoing things and making no fuss aboutit that they have not considered itnecessary to tell all the world of this makes for undue con-servatism. But every old communitytends that way. The rea
The New England magazine . ion about it all. When a newregion is to be filled up it is the naturalthing to do everything possible toattract attention, so that all the worldmay know it is on the map and readyfor business. Hereabouts it is different. New Eng-land seems pretty well built up andpretty well filled up. Nearly every-where they have their hands full doingthings. And they are so wonted todoing things and making no fuss aboutit that they have not considered itnecessary to tell all the world of this makes for undue con-servatism. But every old communitytends that way. The real story getstold, however, by the tremendousvolume of finished products that flowsout over the country from the fountain-head of New England mills and work-shops; by the endless chain of freightcars and steamships loaded at ourbusy terminals. New England More Than HoldingHer Own New England has thus been keepingher end up. In rival sections consid-erable has been said from time to timeabout putting it over New England. 385. A TYPICAL NEW ENGLANDWATER POWER DEVELOPMENT HELPING NEW ENGLAND GROW 387 Now and then there has been somelittle nervousness at home about it,as when the South some time ago beganits cotton mill movement, and not afew became fearful for the future ofFall River, Lowell, Lawrence, andManchester. Cotton spinning in theSouth did grow tremendously. ButFall River continued to grow as neverbefore, and all the other places kepton flourishing; New Bedford jumpedahead phenomenally. That is the way it has been allround; nearly all the old industrieshave continued to grow, and a lot ofnew ones more than took the places ofthose that subsided or went the General Electric took upheadquarters at Schenectady it wasthought in Lynn that it meant the be-ginning of the end for the industrythere. But not only have the com-panys Lynn works been growingat a pace surpassing even that ofSchenectady, the large plant acquiredat Pittsfield by the same interest hadits developme
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