The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-04-17
Thriving by Industry.

A correspondent of the Yorkville En-.
quirer, writing from Cromwell, Connect.
cut, gives the following sketch of cyan.
kee Industry" which our people would
do well to read, ponder and initiate:
The coming of more pleasant weather
exhibits to us still more Of the industry
which characterizes New Englanders.
Everybody works. In the homes we
lind most of the ladies doing all their
own domestic work. Gentlemen of
means rs well as those without, may be
met with their dinner buckets as they
hurry to their places in the factory, the
quarry, ut the beach, or in the field and
have seen fewer idlers and tramps
than | have ever seen elsewhere. The
young ladies are not ashamed to work,
and suffer no compromise of their charac.
ters or respectability, by making an hon.
e support for themselves. Here, too,
there is industry in saving as well as in
making. The practical demonstration
of the trite axiom, take care of the pen.
nies and the dimes will take care Of
themselves" may be .een here. G'ha
penny enters largely into ell commercial
transactions, and not infrequently enters
the contribution plates of the churches.
1t sugar is fifteen cents pound, half
pound is seven or eight cents, and not
ten and when the little fellow draws on
papa's treasury for the wherewithal to
purchase candy, penny is given. aud it
seems that the child here thinks as much
OF one penny" as the average South
Carolina boy thinks of 70 nckle." This
industry aud economy would be fine
capital i'll the South, where have often
ri tbo lI
1--we on what is thrown away by the
Sontherners." 1t seems to have been
the outgrowth of about three causes, viz
Sharp competition in all branches Of
business, the necessity for each one to
work IN order that hc may live, and the
greatest cost of living here. These in.
austrious people find employment in the
factories which characterize this portion
OF the North. Here in our town Of about
seventeen hundred Inhabitants we have
q large establishment, which contributes
to the happiness of the little folks, am
told, all over the United States, and
even across the great deep, by :he man
utacture OF all styles of iron Toys. En-.
ployment is given to at least one hundred
men aud women. Their agent is TO sail
in few days for the promotion of the
business in Europe. There is also located
here the Cromwell Plate Co, manufac-
turers of electro silver plated ware, which
employs about fifty men and does busi.
ness Of about fifty thousand dollars a
year. Through the kindness of one of
the employees I have enjoyed q tour
through the factory. Commencing in
the moulding department, where the fire,
antimony and copper are compounded
to form Britannia, Of which their goods
are made; then TO the pondcrous pIesses
which take advantage Of the malleabiity
of the metal, aud transform the blocks
of several inches thickness to sheets as
thin as desired then to the spinning
department, where the circular t,ss plate
is shaped to order then to the goldc.era,
where the parts are pitt together from
the solderers to the plating room, where
electricity is employed to aid the Britain
MIA az it eppropriates to itself the pre-.
cious metal from the bars; then to the
engravers and burnishers-by hand and
machinery-where we begin to see The
effect of 80 much labor, as we behold the
beautiful, bright castors, ice. pitchers,
cake. baskets, butter dishes, &c. At last
we have completed the circuit in the
packing room, where the goods are made
ready for shipment 20 all parts of the
Union, and where we begin to lose our
conviction that the price Of such ware
has always been exorbitant. 1t costs not
little to make the attractive silver.
plated butter. dish, which ornaments
our table, from the metals in their orig.
inal state,