The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1882-09-23
Correspondence Baiiiaors County Union.
LETTER FROM SAVAGE, HOWARD
COUNTY, ND.
Our Town-Its Mighty Moving Centre
Wonderful Discoveries Men
The Philosophy OF Slavery and
Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln.
Msssrs. Editors Our little town IL a world
In miniature. wehave ell the trades that make IN
life surrounded BY farming ntsFes, that supplies
all our sustenanee. But, liksthe Prophet EEefisrs
wheel within Wheel oureentre and moving power
IL the Savage factory, owned by Messrs. VIM. II.
and Columbus Baldwin, both natives Of Maryland.
The former resides In Baltimore, the latter In New
York. The old mill vas built in 1875, and was
owned by the Messrs. Williams. Ills iiOxi0 feet
and Eve stories high. The Mcssrs. Baldwin have
now completed an addition, 100 by 200 feet. They
have added, Of superior and costly workman ship,
20 additional eaTders. 1000 spindes, so looms,
making a total Of III earders. 10000 spindles and
$50 looms. They have also added two improved
Lefel water wheels and one new Corliss engine of
I75 horse power. They are now erecting 20 brick
dwellings, Of five rooms each. l3xl5 feet, and en-
ploy $50 hands, which number will soon be In
creased 20 $50. They will light the whole mill
with electrcity-six lights IN the weaving room,
one In the machine department, and ono In the
"spocder room" THE latter takes It, name from
n machine for forwarding things IN manufactured
Their manufactures consist OF cotton Osnaburgs,
plaid and light duck. They get their cotton from
baltimore aud sell In New York and baltimore
The proprie,ors are thorough business men, very
upright, and largely benevolent. so much for
noble Pareniage The late Judge baldwin and
wife (sse Woodward) have LETT q priceless legacy
to their children 10 their good life aud example.
NJ. Alfred A. Blakeley Is the superintendent, 10
whom combine intelligence activity and urbanity.
l. there anything. all things considered, Of more
astonishing triumph Of skill and ingenuity than q
cotton milii The Jenny" was invented by liar.
greav-s in 1867, which Enabled one individual 20
spin 80 1870 threads with about the facility
that n single thread had been previously spun.-
The Jenny" was lifted only 20 spin the softer de-
scriptions of yarn. that used weff, being IN.
able TO give the thread the hrmness and hardse.s
In that used earP. This deficiency was soon
supplied by Arkwrieht, whose genius compistsd
what Iiargreaves had begun, by invcnting the
spinning frame. n wonderful piece Of maehiziyy
which spins any rutnber Of thTeads IL any degree
oi hncness and hardness. leaving 60 man merely
Co iced the machine with cotton and e. join the
threads when they break. About the zane time
that the spinning department was thus wonder
fully improved. DIR. Cartwright. u clergyman of
Kent, invented the p0wrT iuoin. machine which
has gone 80 far Go supeFcrle weaving by hand.
While these extraordinary inventions were be.
ing made Watt was perfecting the steam engine,
endowing IL with the capacity a. engrave seal.
to give motion 10 the most pondcroas machinery
~ to iiit ship like a baublc in the air. lie was
not only supplying the manufacturer With n new
power applicable 10 every purpose aud easy %
control, but With one that nigh, be placed in the
most convenient situations and amid q population
b trained 10 industrious habits.
Still something more necessary 60 complete
this astonishing career Of discovery. without a
vastly increased supply of the raw material At .
lower price than il had previously brought. the
invention o; Hargreavcs. ArkwTighi and Wat,
would have been Ut comparatively little value
/ Luckily what they did for the manufacturers Eli
Whitney did for the cotton growers. This extra
2 ordinary was born in Marlborough. MA,,a-
. chusetts. December Sth, 1866. lie was educated
a, Yale College and paid his expenses by school
teaching and mechanical labor. lie graduated in
l1a2 and went to Georgia a. q teacher. He found
B generous patron in the widow Of Gen. Green. of
the Revolutionary army, and resided on her estate
aud studied Law. The seed was then separated
/ from the cotton by the slow process Of the hand.
Mrs. Green had great confidence in Mr.. Whitney.
She said to her complaining neighbors. "Go to Mr..
. Whitney. am sure he can help you out Of your
troubles. for he can make am thing." At their de
sire he set 60 work under great dsadv antages -
B lie made his own tools aud had 20 draw his own
wire. The reports Of his success led some lawless
people 10 break into his work shop and steal his
machine aud get others made before he could
secure a patent. lie, with n Mr.. Miller, in 1898.
I went 90 Connecticut 10 manufacture cotton gins (:
but iac Law suits In defence Of his rights took all
his profits and $4,000 voted him by tho State Of
south Carolina. lie had but barren honor from
the gin. one Of the mos, important Of the whole
! series connected with the cotton manufacture. He
died at New Haven. January sth. 1925.
! Before whitney, discovery cotton was not very
profitable. and the subject agitaied Of abolish.
] ing slavery. The founders Of our Constitution
looked TO the year lsO0 for its extinction. Whit.
ncy's discovery made the raising Of cotton very
! lucrative and siAve-labor was indispen sable
/ When their lands wore out il was more profitable
/ TO buy new than improve the old. This made the
territories desirable and necessary. Out Of this
| arose the Missouri compromise and subsequently,
its abolition. Then the light for Kansas. Finally
arose the great Republican party, which said
slavery must not 20 beyond its present limit The
Al.