. The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed. so the new invented machines forcleaning seed cotton, etc. The power supplied to the Dickson mill came from thebreast wheel that was driven by water from a reservoirhaving a fall of some ten feet, the feeder of the reservoirbeing a brook flowing from the hills in the interior of Man-hattan Island. If a tide wheel was used, it was solely forthe purpose of pumping water into the reservoir during thedry season of the year. The business seems to have beenconducted
. The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed. so the new invented machines forcleaning seed cotton, etc. The power supplied to the Dickson mill came from thebreast wheel that was driven by water from a reservoirhaving a fall of some ten feet, the feeder of the reservoirbeing a brook flowing from the hills in the interior of Man-hattan Island. If a tide wheel was used, it was solely forthe purpose of pumping water into the reservoir during thedry season of the year. The business seems to have beenconducted until the close of 1793 as the New York Cottonand Linen Manufactory. According to Samuel Batchelderthe machinery was in full operation in 1795. The propertywas, however, sold Dec. 26,1799. These early attempts at the textile industry on the Islandof Manhattan demonstrated that it was not feasible ever toestablish much of a textile industry in the city of New late as 1824 the county of New York contained but threefulling mills, five carding machines, and two cotton andwoolen factories. Its greatest development has been in. MODERN AUTOMATIC NORTHROP LOOMS (Courtesy of the Draper Company) THE STORY OF TEXTILES 245 tlie cutting up trade and the manufacturing of clothing, towhich Hues of industry it owes its prominence as a textilecentre to-day. According to the census these industrieshave grown to a size which makes New York to-day theleading city of America in the cutting up lines, the grossvalue of its textile products, according to the 1910 census,being $52,000,000. AMSTERDAM The rugged figure of Sir William Johnson, the famouspioneer of middle New York, looms in the background ofthe history of Amsterdam, Montgomery County, Heit was who built the saw-mill on the Chuctenunda River,which was the beginning of the Amsterdam industry,and which later was one of the sites of the early textilemills. Johnson bought the property about Amsterdam in1742, and utilized the water
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