The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1845-07-31
INSTRUMENTATION SCREWS.

MASUFAcToRIEs-wooD SCREWS.
A cnussponden. Of the PL'lsdslph,a
u. S. Gez.ile. an letter dased - Prov
ids nee. n. q. makes The following allie
Sims 70 ihe ind0slry ard thru Of lhe
New Eneisnd people:
Al Ptosidsnre. l avsiled myali a. an
opp rlnnily 10 visit. among ,hs factories.
lhe ex,ensise .o,ks of lie Ns~ England
wood screw nsnuiseinry. Which . Gu
rio.ily worthy The nOnce 81 oil WHO visit
that eily. The works are very extensive,
and The machinery The most pesf,cl ihs,
can be found for the msnUf.elUrs Of THE
article. Some idea nav b. bad Of the FL.
tent Of the works from ihe fscl they turn
out six hundred tons OF screws per an
nun! Even with ihi. pr, duct they are
unable 10 supply The market. and have
order. months in advance &C their st:li,y
10 supply them.
Upon entering the principal room &c
this msnffaclofy--a very large one-I
beheId hundred and ffiy maehines in
operation. and producing drsfenirg clsi-
Ter. attended BY. probably. hundred and
thirty young women. girls and boys. from
twen.y yesrs OF age du~n 10 nine or Ten,
most Of them tending one machine. bu,
some hssir 2 charge of Tao. lcould not
refrain from fsmsikins 10 the eenilem On
who accompanied me. that this room pre-.
senisd one OF the most striking exempt.
fcations I had ever wI.nessed. Of the diff.
terence between the NouiI and the South.
Here we're from hundred md twenty 10
ahundred aud thirty persons, sho. ., The
South. would be dong nothing, md per.
haps worse ihsn nothing, that ~ers zach
$3.50 10 u. 80 - --&-..---y. an. :.sau-.
tion Of a"Ysnkse," performing The man
ual labor Of q, less, twenty -6se or thirty
fher. @
Suppose there were one hundred, each
Of whom. by The aid OF machinery, per-
formed The manual labor 81 t~snty meb;
the result, would be q product essai 10 the
labor Of 1000 men, from those Who. in
other parts Of the country. are sllnwed
to spend their tine in Idlrnsss and mt.
chief. Let ,hnse Who wonder why /, 10
that the !" Y snkses" ate 90 thrifty and
prosrerous--whyt they sccumuiste veal n.
living as they do upon cold, unptoduc.
i've, rock bound coil. uhIe the South.
with their rich bolton lands aud their ee.
NAL climate, are 80 fer IN the resr, ~ asp
10 wonder. The resspning is az plain a.
The noon day sun, and no man can .. in.
TO the New England fsc'oues wi,hou,
perseiving il. As | have before remark.
ed. the cspii.l,s,s Of New England, in.
stead oi dabbling in stocks and PLAYING
the game al I" Bull and Bear" invest
Their money with view 10 the employ.
ment Of labor, the only source Of weslth.
Their capital seeks labor and puts il !
into active operstIon, and The conse ouepce
10 that wealth is created, idleness and II.
tel thousand concomitant evils are, in
great degree, haGIshed from The commun,.
". did not see an idle man IN Pro,i.
denre. nor TO the best Of nv recollection
~ New England: nor was able To dis. !
cover, though | took pains to do so, any
appearances Of squslid poverty, or even Of
discomfort. The poorest iepemehts an |
pesled TO have an ar Of comior, and neat.
ness about them which nd Gated that he
wish Of Henry Nv. Of France wa. real.
lzed; namely that every POOR msa should
have rhicken IN his PIT at les, once
week. |, nay be inferred from tie fac,
81 60 many young people beng engaged
10 Tie factories IN Providence, that few
juvenile idlers were to be seen in the
streets; saw none, and therefore heard
none Of The biasphemous language v Inch,
frequently gree's The ear in our cily from
half grown boys and those Of lesser
growth. . "r4 ~