History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . B. Ayres,second vice-president; F. Kershaw, secretaryand treasurer; and H. T. Hershey, superin-tendent. Capitalized at $2,500,000 and pos-sessing, as stated before, the largest plantsin the world devoted exclusively to the man-ufacture of drying machinery, they havesucceeded in distributing Proctor Dryersin textile mills throughout the world. Proc-tor & Schwartz, Inc., have branch offices inChicago, Providence, New York, Charlotte,N. C, and a Canadian agency in Hamilton,Ontario. 281 HISTORY OF AMERICAN TEXTILE
History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . B. Ayres,second vice-president; F. Kershaw, secretaryand treasurer; and H. T. Hershey, superin-tendent. Capitalized at $2,500,000 and pos-sessing, as stated before, the largest plantsin the world devoted exclusively to the man-ufacture of drying machinery, they havesucceeded in distributing Proctor Dryersin textile mills throughout the world. Proc-tor & Schwartz, Inc., have branch offices inChicago, Providence, New York, Charlotte,N. C, and a Canadian agency in Hamilton,Ontario. 281 HISTORY OF AMERICAN TEXTILES. W. & J. SLOANE Looking upon that wonderful institution,the W. & J. Sloane store at Forty-seventhstreet and Fifth avenue, New York City, itmust be acknowledged that when on March2, 1843, William Sloane opened his doorsat 245 Broadw^ay the occasion was anevent. For it was from this beginning, ina store only 20x80 feet and rented at$3,000 a year, that there grew in sevensteps the vast carpet business today con-ducted by Mr. Sloanes sons, grandsons andtheir WILLIAM SLOANEFounder oF the Carpet House of W. &. J. Sloane (Picture is from an old print on wax paper) Six times has the house of Sloane set uplarger quarters, until now this progressivefirm is established in an eight-story buildingimpressive in its simple dignity and a htabiding place for the treasures of the loomto be found within its four walls. When the first William Sloane in Amer-ica was looking through the years to come,he knew deep dow^n in his heart, thatthough in 1843 only about five per cent ofthe carpets sold in the United States weremade in the United States, American initia-tive would eventually produce sufficientfloor covering to meet the domestic demand. William Sloane was right, and today allbut an infinitesmal fraction of the carpetssold by W. & J. Sloane are of Americanmanufacture. As showing the turn of the tide, it is in-teresting to note that in 1893 when millshad difficulty in disposing o
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