. New England; a human interest geographical reader. ottonthread. The thread is converted into cloth by loomsrun by water-power, steam, or electricity. The finished cloth is sent to all parts of the UnitedStates, and to many distant countries across thesea. About half the people of the world wear cottonclothes. Rhode Island continues to be a leader in cottonmanufacturing, and among its other important manu-factures are woolen goods, machinery, and rubber foot-wear. Scores of factories in Providence are devotedto making jewelry and silverware, and in this city isthe greatest screw factory in th
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. ottonthread. The thread is converted into cloth by loomsrun by water-power, steam, or electricity. The finished cloth is sent to all parts of the UnitedStates, and to many distant countries across thesea. About half the people of the world wear cottonclothes. Rhode Island continues to be a leader in cottonmanufacturing, and among its other important manu-factures are woolen goods, machinery, and rubber foot-wear. Scores of factories in Providence are devotedto making jewelry and silverware, and in this city isthe greatest screw factory in the world. The place wasat one time a lumber-shipping port, for there was muchtimber in the region that lay back from the bay andstreams. This was uninvaded wilderness for manyyears after the settling of the watersides, but now thewooded tracts of the uplands and swamps yield littleexcept firewood. The Smallest State 245 The highest point in Rhode Island is Durfee Hill,which rises 805 feet above the sea level on the north-western border of the In a Rhode Island field near Newport Among the leaders in the Revolution the general who,next to Washington, did his country the greatest ser-vice, was Nathanael Greene of Rhode Island. He wasborn in 1742 at Warwick, about ten miles south ofProvidence. His father was a Quaker, who ownedflour and grist mills, and was a man of wealth for thosedays, but who thought the only education his sonsneeded was to learn to read, write, and cipher. Thisdid not satisfy Nathanael, and when he earned moneyhe spent it for books from which to acquire the age of twenty he began to read law and take 246 New England an interest in politics, and he helped to organize a bodyof militia in his home region. As soon as the news ofLexington and Concord reached Rhode Island, he andthree others promptly galloped toward Boston to offerthemselves as soldiers. The colony made him the commander ofits troops, andhe served withdistinction allthrough thewa
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