The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-02

little mill set up ON the Sperne, by l[endreW m
Pothouse, and u was soon ADOPTED IN varicus
parts OF the kingdom, Darlington being made
by ID, Tor little whlle famous resort OF linen
manufacturers. Thither James Aytoun wen,
from Manchester, in 1902, to make careful
study OF the machine and introduce important
improvements in IL before going 10 Kirkcaldy
to spend neatly seventy years IN Forwarding the
trade in which, perhaps, he was the most promi-
nent man of all. Tn ther also went John Mar
shall, from Leeds, to receive suggestions which
he was TO turn very notably 10 the advance
ment both of Leeds and of himself
Marshall was born at Leeds, on the 27th of
July, l7G5, three years after Gott. His grand
father, John Marshall, OF Yeadou Low Hail.
near Leeds, bad been a man OF some substauce
but his father, William Marshall, was a shop.
keeper in Briggate. John Marshall was soon
tired of his prospects as a shopkeeger's assistant
He was eighteen when Kendrew and Penthouse
produced their tlaX-spnning machine II is not
clear whether he was thereby influenced in his
choice of business, or whether mis- course had
already been marked out At any rate he lost
no time in proceeding to Darlington, there mas
tering the Intricacies-such as they ere-ot the
machine, and returning to his own town, to put
1t into use at Scotland Mill, near MeanwOod
which, in 1888, he built a few miles out of
Leeds, in partnership with Samuel Fenton of
Leeds, and Ralph Wood, of Knares borough
There he spent all his energies and all his
money in various experiments, doing all he
could towards improving the Darlington spin.
ning-machine as well as TO wards making SER
viceable the other instruments necessary for the
production OF linen. That he did considerable
business is proved by the fact that his deDt to
Kendrew and Penthouse, to whom he had
agreed to pay royalty for each spindle that he
employed, rose in II few years time to $500. He
| made no profits, however, during these first
years, and declared himself unable TO meet the
claim. He also contested it on the ground that
| the many improvements adopted by him made
his machinery so different from that OF the Dar-
| lington inventors that he had really ceased TO
| make use Of their patent-right.
iu those imDrOVpmpnta Matthp Aurrav W
! the chief author. Born at Newcastle in 1765,
Murray had been working as an engine-smith /.
| Stocktonon-Tees, when IN 1888 he determined
| to go and try his fortune in Leeds. He offered
| his services TO John Marshall, and was so sue
| cesstul in the first job on which he was en-
| poyed, that he was permanently engaged by
| him. By the end of 1889, before he had been
a year at his new work, he had made so many
| valuable suggestions that his mas ter made him
| present of f20 and he was promoted to the
management of the little workshop at Scotland
Mill. He continued for six years in Marshall's
establishment, by his ready wit and steady per-
severance helping his employer through all his
mechanical difficulties. and enabling him. in
due time, to become the most successful flax
spinner in the world. In 1895 he left John Mar
shall to enter into partnership with James Fem
ton and David Wood, older and richer men than
himself, in establishing engine building and
machine-making shops at Holbeck then a vii
lage, now part OF Leeds. Making all sorts OF
other tools, he continued to give special atten-
tion to the tools required in linen manutac
ture. ''But for his improvements" says his
son-in-law, lit is nearly certain that haX-spin-
ming in the neighborhood os Leeds would have
ceased TO exist, as all those embarked in it had
lost the greater part of their capital without
any success. AT his commencement mill-gearing
was in very rude state he left 1t in nearly its
present condition" In or near the year i795,
10 hn Marshall also went to Hoibeck, there in
Water lane to set up the much larger mill
which, with later additions, is s.in tho
seat of the linen manufacture, conducted by his
successors.
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