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 . e it impossibleto compete with English goods. The other was a glassmanufactory, which was started seventy miles from Phila-delphia, in Lancaster County, to supply the demands ofthe villagers and small farmers in the neighborhood. The approach of the Revolution, the growing needsof the colonists, and the time and expense it took to obtaingoods from England led Philadelphia, as well as othercolonial centres, to consider the question of home manu-factures, and, whe
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 . e it impossibleto compete with English goods. The other was a glassmanufactory, which was started seventy miles from Phila-delphia, in Lancaster County, to supply the demands ofthe villagers and small farmers in the neighborhood. The approach of the Revolution, the growing needsof the colonists, and the time and expense it took to obtaingoods from England led Philadelphia, as well as othercolonial centres, to consider the question of home manu-factures, and, when the convention of delegates from thePennsylvania provinces was held in 1775, various newspaperwriters recommended the establishment of woolen manu-factures. One writer, who signed himself Hibernian,proposed the formation of a patriotic society to manufacturewoolen with a permit to raise one thousand pounds bylottery. Weavers, he wrote, could be had from expense of importing twenty-nine workmen with yarnand worsted, wheels, reels, looms, steel, three-pitchedcombs, a press, and bedding for the twenty-nine hands, was. -^ THE STORY OF TEXTILES 215 estimated at five hundred and fifty pounds. Six thousandpounds of yarn could be bought for four hundred and fiftypounds, but the profits of manufacture were not calculated. The first joint stock company in the United States wasorganized in 1775 in Philadelphia to make cotton goods,and was known as the United Company of Philadelphiafor Promoting American Manufacturing. It was the pro-genitor of the American Manufactory, the earliest cottonand woolen manufactory in America. Samuel Wetherill,Jr., who was instrumental in the formation of the manufac-tory, had in 1775, on South Alley, a factory for woolens thatsupplied the Revolutionary army, and, when the price ofwool rose so high that he could not avoid loss, he notifiedthe Board of War that he would be unable to fill hiscontract. The colonial government of Pennsylvania encoura
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