. 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. omplete Magazine, publishedin London that year, Some beautiful samples of the cottonmanufactures now carried on in Philadelphia have beenlately imported and greatly admired. Through the ef-forts of Tench Coxe, Samuel Wetherill, Jr., and others, asociety called The Pennsylvania Society for the Encour-agement of Manufactures and the Useful Arts, which wasan outgrowth of the United Company of Philadelphia,was organized on the 9th of August, 1787, at a meetingheld
. 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. omplete Magazine, publishedin London that year, Some beautiful samples of the cottonmanufactures now carried on in Philadelphia have beenlately imported and greatly admired. Through the ef-forts of Tench Coxe, Samuel Wetherill, Jr., and others, asociety called The Pennsylvania Society for the Encour-agement of Manufactures and the Useful Arts, which wasan outgrowth of the United Company of Philadelphia,was organized on the 9th of August, 1787, at a meetingheld at the University of Pennsylvania. The necessity ofpromoting and establishing manufactures was pointed outin an address by Tench Coxe. Every member on admis-sion paid to the treasurer the sum of ten shillings and thesame sum annually for the purpose of defraying the neces-sary expenses of the society, and a subscription of not lessthan ten pounds was opened, and called the manufactur-ing fund, for the purpose of establishing factories in suchplaces as might be thought suitable. The society on Aug. 23, 1788, had received thirteen. THE STORY OF TEXTILES 149 hundred and twenty-seven pounds, ten shillings, and six-pence, had spent four hundred and fifty-three pounds, tenshillings, and twopence for machines, utensils, and equip-ping the house of the old United Company of Philadel-phia for the manufactory, and had a capital left of eighthundred and seventy-four pounds, no shillings, and four-pence. As one of the objects of the society was the em-ployment of the poor, a quantity of flax was bought, andbetween two and three hundred women were employedduring the winter and spring in spinning linen yarn. Work-men were engaged to make a carding machine and fourjennies of forty, forty-four, sixty, and eighty spindles forspinning cotton. As soon as possible the house was fittedup and the machines set to work. Various obstacles,such as finding proper workmen, making machines fromimperfect mo
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