The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-08-07
FROM SCOTLAND.
Itvcruool and Glasg0w-Ihe
Wondcrs ofthc Paisley Loom
a Castle show I'm Scotland
ur,crcsefng companions be-
,,...es, stock there and here.

UmfAPc0ttmG con PuTisOns -
n ,,rcen stock there and here.
l. GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, J
d July, 18th, 1878. j
Friend Charley Possibly som
e thing from this metropolis Of Scotlar
= may interest some of your readers.
e reached this place yesterday, %
have not been in the city to-day, 80
: course can't say as much OF Giasgo'
a. shall be able to do. Some thing
however, one cannot help noticin
= who has been acquainted with gu
American cities. The people OF Gias
gov do not see the expediency 6
building seven story houses. hav
ONLY seen one business house that ma
five stories, and . great many hav
= but three. Besides the stories are no
> as high a. we build them as con
sequence the streets want something
of the grandeur that impresses one il
Chicago or New York. l observed th,
same thing in Liverpool; the business
houses are not over four stories. Wha
is lost in space, however. Is made III
BY more compact arrangement o
goods. There are no such grand sale
rooms as one sees in Chicago. Every.
thing is Is closely packed IS possible.
A business Of q great many thousand
| dollars will be done in little corner
shop. I am inclined to think the
Glasgow p.sn the best.
j TWISTED Paisley ;o-dsy-the place
so noted for its shawls and thread
nufactures. / saw one of the shawls
| in i.s process of weaving. shall not
attempt to describe the process. l
have some dim idea Of how it is posi-
BILE to make so many figures out Of .
number OF plain threads; better one
than ever had before; but 1t Is not
distinct enough to attempt to put il
on paper. / have always wondered
that weaving was 90 early invented.
It seems to me il is the most wonderful
and difficult o. all the practical arts.
Morse was a great genius: have
great respect for Fulton, but the man
who first invented loom was giant
beside them.
The thread manufacture has rather
superseded weaving in Paisley.
Coates & Co. have one of the largest
establishments. 1t employs over two
thousand persons, mostly girls. There
are few men and boys employed in
making spools. The girls earn from
seven to ten English shillings per
week, the men about fifteen. Board
costs from eight to twelve shillings
per week. Weavers can earn about
twenty shi!l!ngs per week. Although
wages have advanced greatly within
a few years, you see they are not yet
as good as in America. My attention
was especially called to this matter of
wages by discussions l heard on board
the ship in our passage over. A good
many dissatisfied Englishmen were
on board, who found great fault with
our country. am trying to collect as
careful statistics as possible of the
wages in different kinds of work.
Here in Glasgow mechanics receive
thirty shillings week and pay twelve
or fourteen for board. Unskilled labor
commands from twenty-three to TWEEN
ty-siX.
l also had the good fortune to
find cattle show going on near Pals
ley. 1t was called cattle show, al
though the chief interest seemed to be
centered in the horses, and there was
besides an exhibition of dogs, sheep
and poultry. Such an occasion gives
one an excellent opportunity of seeing
the farmer class and gladly improved
it. The fair was very different from
one in our States. The ground for
exhibition comprised, l should judge,
about five acres, SO of course people
"Sio hVPt Siosc koRctucA' " nS sciy
much pleased with the people met.
They were mostly farmers as the fair
had little to interest any one else /;
they were well dressed and gentle
manly in their manners, and seemed
to understand the business in hand
thoroughly. was not much inter
ested in anything beside the horses.
The cattle were of small breed suita-
bic for dairy but not in the line that
interests the people OF Cedar Co.
But the horses would have made
some Of our breeders of fancy horses
open their eyes. They were enormous
Still am not convinced that they are
the horse for Iowa. They are never
driven out of walk, and, from wha
see around this city, pretty SLOW
walk, and yet with this care they
seem peculiarly subject to diseases Q
the limbs. have seen more horse
with weak knees and deformed, swol
en- limbs since landed in Englan
than l ever saw before. OF course
may be the pavement and it may b
that New York and Boston horses ar
so, but think it is partly the fault {
the horse. or course all heavy horse
must be little more liable in thi
way, but think the heavy Clydes
dales are not as strongly and com
pactly limbed as the Norman horses.
So far have nothing but good t
say Of Scotland. While you are wear
ing the lightest clothing aud Vaughn,
fan from morning to night, ] an
dressed in a suit of substantial Scotcl
tweed and half signing for fire
Now l remember, have not seen
fan since I have been in Scotland.
doubt if there is one in the city o
Glasgow, The only thing that is in
dispensible is an umbrella. 1t rain
every day, or has 50 far, and is LIABLE
to begin at any time; not good dash
ing shower, as with US, but an easy
going kind of driZzle. But people are
rs used to that as W. are to heat and
seem not To mind it. This letter mus
be long enough. In my next l will
tel! you something Of how am living
J. II. RIGBY.
Lord Gordon Gordon" has run al
adventurous and checkered career