. 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. as soon as it was light at other times. At eight oclockthere was a half-hour for breakfast, and at noon another half-hour for dinner. In some of the Fall River mills the malehelp at eleven oclock were treated to New England the work stopped and the mills shut Saturdays the mills closed at four or five oclock inorder to allow the employees to prepare for Sunday. Theworkers were then all Americans. A mill superintendentdrew $2 per day; ov
. 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. as soon as it was light at other times. At eight oclockthere was a half-hour for breakfast, and at noon another half-hour for dinner. In some of the Fall River mills the malehelp at eleven oclock were treated to New England the work stopped and the mills shut Saturdays the mills closed at four or five oclock inorder to allow the employees to prepare for Sunday. Theworkers were then all Americans. A mill superintendentdrew $2 per day; overseers, $ per day; male workers,from $ to $1 per day; while women received still less,and boys or girls from $1 to $2 per week. Power looms were not installed in the Troy mill untilthe latter part of 1820. The spinning frames had seventy-two spindles each, and the best spinners ran only a pair offrames, which produced two and one-half skeins per spindlea day. Blairs picking machine was first used by the FallRiver Manufactory. Previously the mills had been payingfour cents a pound for hand picking, and five or six pounds. THE STORY OF TEXTILES 227 were considered a good days work. The first dresser usedin the Fall River mill warped the beam in sections of aboutan eighth of a yard at a time; while the roping until 1825was made in cones with open tops or with tops that had tobe wound by hand upon the bobbin, and very little of theyarn was over No. 16. Here at first, as elsewhere in New England, linen wasused for the warp and cotton for the filling, or weft, but theintroduction of imported machinery soon produced cottonof sufficient strength to serve as the warp as well as theweft. As there were no middlemen in these early days, the man-ufacturers were obliged to find their own market, and clothswere accordingly sold directly from the mill to the peopleof the surrounding country. The products were verycoarse sheetings, and then plain cloths, and, when color waswanted, the
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