New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . s in the six great mills is almost beyond imagination,even when aided by figures and descriptions. There is one singleupright beam Corliss engine of three hundred horse power, one pairof engines of eight hundred horse power, one pair of eleven hundred,and one monster pair of two thousand horse power. Visitors to thecentennial exposition at Philadelphia in 1876 will remember the greatengine which was among the marvels of that collection of wonders,but though they could scarcely comprehend it, at that very time a
New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . s in the six great mills is almost beyond imagination,even when aided by figures and descriptions. There is one singleupright beam Corliss engine of three hundred horse power, one pairof engines of eight hundred horse power, one pair of eleven hundred,and one monster pair of two thousand horse power. Visitors to thecentennial exposition at Philadelphia in 1876 will remember the greatengine which was among the marvels of that collection of wonders,but though they could scarcely comprehend it, at that very time alarger engine was running in New Bedford. This enormous piece ofmachinery has a stroke of ten feet; the weight of its fly wheel isabout fifty tons, and other parts are in like proportion. The products of the Wamsutta mills are some seventy or eightyvarieties, in all grades and widths, of fine shirtings, cambrics, muslins,lawns, momie cloth, sateens, and cretonnes, and bleached and brownsheetings, plain, twilled, and double warp, in all widths up to onehundred twentv-four INDUSTRIAL AND FINANCIAL. 153 Of the quality of Wamsutta shirtings and sheetings it is hardlynecessary to speak. Beginning with a high standard, it has been theconstant aim not only to maintain it but to elevate it. During thewar, when so many manufacturers sacrificed their good reputationsby abandoning their standards and trying to make the most cloth-possible with the least cotton, the Wamsutta scrupulously kept up thequality of its goods in every particular. These goods alone madeWamsutta a household word in almost every quarter of the mills consume weekly, when in full operation, four hundred fiftybales of cotton, making an annual consumption of over twenty thou-sand bales, out of which is manufactured tw^entv-four million vardsof cloth,— thousands upon thousands of miles ! Great care is exercised in the selection of cotton from which thiscloth is made, especially with regard to the sta
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