New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-07-28


Gated les is tide hut mc.u0es sketc u iAt Ue''l'P
,st ,f.I, .i,y industry ia ali ci!ucs and ages Inc
,ro.f,, n t. industry has hccn, Lac Bishop -'tIAe!
co,g Of cual.e westward the whole period oil io''-c
civilization has elapsed daring ITS slow movement '''o.s
ASIA Europe. and A.cIiea, sA worm egg TOT 'N'.'
lep, among tine last. tu"G t not tAc '"i. Of ca ."
product. The or GIN 81 ae silk industry in CHINA Gave,
af les Az far back as 1900 Z. c., and by atHe i-et''
M coiulli ten even GREATER antiquity should 'e o.
srocl The Emprcs, who FIST encouraged tie 'A"L'i!'
and IL q said discovered the ara OF rCthoE 'IA j. WE
SHIPPED g. this day, bens dele., as the "o'o'>' 90
Six Worms The more westerly E"l""0--i '''''''''
syriaus and Grc,k,-caied the sllA-md"hs PEG
Die Of Eastern Asia. TIE srres Some lA'i'l'7'5..
have atrl,.ed TO trace ia the stics Io"I SCI %
A. sr,posi 10 mean silk. from which they cei.'v '"'
Greek word SegisOR. Dr. Beckett pci'fs '',.'-'
which fuis the origin Of Serit0r IN s''e''"of' rum
Saerin which was @ name for TIE ihhH'''h'' We '''
. r.s,o, embracing bat row China ana t"l"ts' Ar
fairy BE tiis asst may thesuhseqi'nt mutations q" '.
word are NOT oufn 20 doubt SerLOB Vaa followed D!
the Latin seyfen in western languages tue chnI,"
10 seitcuH thus obtained, Was contracted 20 sac '
finally 10 silE Fol- tan two thousand s'"' '-''
s,cr, of Tie production OF silk was kept ia iis's'I s
,boucb raw six was imported into Europe during The
ris, Of the Greek republics, and garinc L
from It on the island OF Cos were known ~s woven
wind" During the whole period Of tne Greek ana 10
man civilizations Tie cost OF silk garments was 80 -'''
That their few were denounced t'' f-,"''
tate extravaganza. In the reign OF Tue E'ti'''' '
tini,u, HISTORIAN monks brought TIE se''t, w.
manufacture, and, what was more Eolof '''' '''
silk.yolns themselves, FROM CHINA to b'z'i'u"'
Within yo centuries from The date OF this ln'''"eu""
nj sillcue Europe became independent o. 'h'"" -''
the six supply In subsequent years the ''"'"','
tbe saraceuc conquest marked iol long l'.'u 'H'
western limits uf the six Industry &c was enc Oh ''
most important of the arts Of tie East that the ''dA
Crusaders brought to Western Europe Alter 'A's IT,
,noval the industry made progress fer the next Luu OF
five hundred years. chiefly In the itah'A states. ~ '
po bcco,u6 fairly established in France Gh'l IoJ'' ""
tho, only by the repeated efforts and aVSu 'Nttu"-
tpresUf Henry w (of Navarro, who eihl"St" sL' '
stIctors TO teach the method Of rearing sW"iu' d"
cave nm portion Of tie lands 10 be planted Win
The mulberry tree. An almost equally vigorous eHo'
was made shortly Giteyward by James l. o. L"sih" bu'
the climate OF Great Britain proved unia' JraJIC To t
SIX insect Determined 10 sustain the LShuii' "-o IL
England James |. adopted he eNpedent "i having ue
cocoos raised in Amcuca. He coupled Tie piJe'' WI"
another equally dear 10 his heart the F't'''"'' Ga
the growth Of tobacco in Virginia. TIE le-I-.'i'h
which he forced on that colony. fayoInS SIX
oud discouptcnaucuc tobacco, was pcrcmptWy and
scyerc In the other Colonial Governments OF
This country six culture also fostercd Ly egSIa-
tive edics and b0unes during almost the Wh"c riI'u
priot TO the Revolutionary War; Although tL' amounts
a. silk sent from America to England were 0ce@Sl"ii!
considerable enough to be chrOucled, the total result
and duration of the efforts. Meantime the culture and
manufacture Of silk rose to the highest rank among TIC
industries OF France. But the growth OF eight! years III
fiat country was suddenly cut down anu almost
DESTROYED before the close Of the seventeenth eet! W
The cxpulson of the Hugueuots after the revocation Of
the Edict OF Nantes. Tncn for the third tlne-H We
count the conveyance by HISTORIAN monks a. tao first
dij rcIiinus Influences assist spreading tuc s M
drstry throughout Europe England, the Netherlands,
Germany, and Switzerland became tie homes % u.
Hu-ueuot exes, and the rivals Of France in the lN
manufacture For more than century end ir'i the
success of England Ia this enterprise vas bcyoNh ali
question Tie six mills OF Ma .cl,sfcid and Man
chester OF spita,scd AID Coventry, We'd win those
of LYONS and st. EtcnuC. II Is Il TACT WHICH tt
opponents OF protection have never yet Oteh aoI'
IN ramsay or explain, that this entire lnanuae-
tuye m England was suddenly aud permanently reduced
10 a 1.-THE Of its former importance by The aoG oi
the duties on silks which Effected through the Coz
d Treaty of $50 In the United States after the Ecvo-
luolary War The rearing OF sikwcrms aud the liOddt-
ton Of oeed silk Tor purposes Of barter became house
hold industry in many parts Of the country ana n't''!
in Connecticut. Frequent attempts are recorded "i ue
manufacture Of Six goods within tie walls oil me mousse
hold; but the first silk mill i'll America was not onil
tNlslO; it was small affair." and ultimately proved
failure The earliest successful manufacture was founded
by william H. uOrstmuuu at Philadelphia, Ia 1919,
shortly after his arrival IN this country. The Mansfield
SIX CompanyOf Connecticut, formed m ISIS, brought
together several Of the pioneers in This industry Though
aferward oycrtaken by misfortune that company gave
great encouragement while lasted, and was tie ioe
runner Of many similar enterprises The biographies Of
these and 20 some extent Of the men who conducted
thin form tie principal feature OF Or. Bsockets H.
tory We ae thus led % the most extraordinary episode
I'm H. the M0fttS BtulEcpGtS mania. To many Of our
readers tI, norton OF the work will recall painful pc
liod Of loss and disappointment. The so-caed mania
grew out OF the endcavOr to make sh-ral'iAs opu"
busuess among the rIgal populations OF the Eastern
States; il was led by the speculative tendencies oil tne
pc.;od-lS3J-9-the enthusiastic essays OF writers on
SIX culture. and te ready growth OF the species OF mU-
l,ry tree from which the mania TOOK It's name HCst
" o had many Of these trees FOR sale Is credited In THE
History with Tightening the mania and tAoir selling
waffle by going from place 10 place and Offering two or
three times tie market price fJc the young trees, buyA5
none however because the holders were thus led to nope
for still higher prices. IL is comfort to learn tat ts
e,cculator was himself led away by the Juror Wich ne
helped to originate, and that after investing FSoOOo IN
fresh invoices al n,itjcais trees from France he was
,,,,,a IN soil then, for uel-rusb at a dollar hundred.
Tho fictitious value mulberry trees during the period
OF the mania was high that the rearing OF slS-"orins
became utterly improbable. The disaster 70 the specu-
ltors came in the Fail of 1882 Great dlscredt crued
t. the busiuees Of silk culture thereby II was follow
In 1874 by general blight of all kinds of mulberry trees
In the United States and the rearing OF the sik-worm
WAS then and there abandoned Except in the
Ivodgc.ion OF silkwOrm egg recently In California,
there has been attempt 10 fcSusciJdte the
bus.pess in this country up to the present time,
though a citizen Of New-York Myndcrt Van schaick,
endowed the American Institute with 300 year Tor
ten years from SI4 to be oiled in annual premiums
FOX the best specimens OF goods manufactured OF Amer
can-grown silk and these premiums were during several
succes,iye years earned aud awarded The manufacture
o. silk survived the ruin Of the silk culture but only at
tanned pcrmaucncc after many severe struggles. We
iudge from the interesting narratives given in Dr. Brock
etts History that tus earlier mapniacurers had TO CON
tend Simultaneously with variety " difficulties. Among
the chief Of these deficiency in the supply OF The
raw SIX; sarLln. mpcrec0ls In is recne, Nheihcr u