The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-09-18

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Ineerese1ng 1hees Regarding
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special correspondence Of the Advertiser
MANCHESTER, ENG,
August 27th, 1873.
Friend Charlie The copies Of
he ADVERTISER you kindly sent me
anne to hand to-day. You may be
lure they were welcome; it was a.
most like meeting IN old friend from
Cedar. l had planned to spend the
afternoon in visiting some parts Of
the city which I have not yet seen,
but with 20 much news from home !
thought ! could do better, 30 l came
to my room, made myself comfortable
and read the three papers through at
. sitting, almost to IN advertisement.
arrived in Manchester last FRI
day and have been pretty diligent
in using the time since in seeing the
city. II any one should come here
simply - . sight-seer he would prob
ably Be . good deal disappointed.
There il nothing imposing about Man
chester; it has no ruins, no ancient
buildings, no parks Of any eonse-
quence, nothing but large ware hous-
e. and a immense business. Still /
have been very much pleased with
my visit. / am q much interested in
the people Of England - in its seem
cry, and il one wishes to make any
study Of English society, he must do
it in the large cities. An American
is soon struck with the fact that Eng
land 10 . collection Of towns and cit
les. OF course there is large agri-
cultural population, but it is not ~
with US the majority.
Reckoning the two corporations Of
Manchester and Solford ~ one, this is
the third city of Great Britain, being
surpassed BY London and Liverpool
only. III course no one needs to be
told that it il the great center Of the
cotton trade in England. I hoped to
zee much more of this kind ofmanu-
facture than have; / have found it
harder to obtain admission to large
manufactures than in Scotland. How
ever was fortunate the FIRST day l
was here in being shown through one
Of the largest spinning establishments
in the city. ! don't intend TO attempt
any description of this process; to
those who have seen it it might be
tedious, and to those who have not I
fear it would be obscure. But if any
Of your readers ever have an opportu-
nifty to spend two hours in . cotton
mill, they will be wise in improving
it. Seeing it l am more than ever
astonishcd that the manufacture of
cloths is among the oldest of the arts.
It seems strange that men should
have contented themselves for ages
With the rudest of tools which very
little invention would have improved,
while 1t the same time they were
practicing one of the most complica-
ted and difficult arts, and in some cases
carrying it to the highest perfection.
It 10 only IN illustration Of the old
proverb, Necessity is the mother of
invention" ! have seen specimens
of cloth Of fine texture made BY peo-
pie who had only the rudest imple-
ments Of agriculture. The clothing
they must have, but they could reap
their grain with . sickle.
/ said Manchester had nothing i'm
posing about il. think this is large.
II due to two things: the narrowness
Of the streets and the fact that it is
largely built of brick. Add to this
that the smoke from it's thousands of
factories soon gives to al its buildings
= uniform dinginess, and you under
stand Why the place wants the at
Effectiveness Of many other large cit
ies. The narrowness of the streets is
compensated by its greater number of
them; and am not sure but this is
the better plan. have not seen .
Gam" 1t any Of the crossings such IS
often occurs in New York and Chica-
60; and yet Manchester man would
Be- indignant il you should hint that
it 10 because there il less traf6c on the
streets, and your hint would probably
be incorrect. The greater number Of
streets distributes the travel more,
and thus prevents confusion.
Wages ara somewhat better here
than in Scotland, and indeed they are
not far below wages in our own coun-
Try. Spinners IN the factories get
from two pound Eve TO three pound
Eve . veek-she way exchange il
hat would be from el1.75 70 e17.25.
talked with . young man who came
,ver in the boat with me, who had
,een working in one Of the best mills
a Massachusetts,. Spinners were
yetting from two dollars to two fifty
J day. You can easily see from that
our cotton manufacturers
leed much of . tariff to protect them
rom English pauper labor. Other
Aborers do not receive - much.
Carders get about twenty-five shill-
ngs and weavers I think about thir-
=. Still that is - much as they pay
q America l think. Ordinary labor
rs get about pound week, little
etter than in Glasgow. l see in
boxing over my letter from that place
hat said ordinary laborers were
citing from twenty three to twenty
* shillings. l don't know how
anne to say it; it is not true any way;
ighteen shillings is about the average
rice there-more under that than
yer it.
With these wages > large majority
( laborers ought to be comparatively
comfortable. Food is very high, but
ents and clothing are comparatively
heap. Ny landlady pays rent Of
IL shillings (el.65) . week for six
God rooms and cellar. She is just
ow re-renting two of the rooms, for
hitch, in addition to cooking for FIVE
zen, she gets fourteen shillings
,eck. There 10 an opportunity for
lmost any respectable woman who
~ no young family, TO do the same.
he great trouble with laboring men
they do not know bow to spend
'oney. I think the wsnt of the la
orer il not 30 much IN increase of