Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-01-24
TIE NEW ENGLAND OF TO-DAY.
Factories. Foctory Towns and Factor!
People.
BY 4 WHEELING LADY,

manufacturers. Efforts were made to
profit By this natural advantage, and thus
New England became the manufacturing
center Of this country.
The enterprises located in that section
were lot only diversified enough to be In
teresting, nut scoa became vast enough to
lever the United States and Great Britain.
The manufacture o. wooden and cotton
is immense, Massachusetts, alone producing
in either branch more than the balance OF
the United States.
The printing Of calico has reached large
proportions. the yearly production reaching
hundreds OF millions OF yards.
The production OF boots and shoes is
general throughout New England, with
Boston for $ marketing center, and his city
sends out a larger supply than sny other
boot and sloe market Of the world. Mas
sschusetts also excels il the production OF
cutlery.
Little Rhode Island comes to the front
with an industry the size OF which seems
merely incredible. Just out from Provl'
dence is one OF the largest chemical estab-
lishmepts in this country or Europe
Here are produced all the numerous pre-
parations that are brought before the pub
lie under the name Of Horsford. The best
known being cream Of tartar, nitric acid,
muristic acid, and a variety OF fertilizers.
Connecticut, though vastly overshadowed
by Massachusetts in the magnitude OF her
manufacturing. takes the lead Tor diversity.
The most notable is the manufacture OF
spool cotton, which is far superior to the
imported article. The Yankee clock ticks
for the millions. Patents and improve
ments have so c~hespeued this household
commodity that Il good article can now be
purchased very reasonable. In fact, Con.
n~ecticut gives TO the world most every
thing wanted, from firearms TO pins. in.
GLIDING that domestic necessity, the sewing
macbine-"lrght running, never out OF
repair, attachments thrown IN, warranted
for fifty ysnrs."
These larger institutions challenge our
admiration, bat the smaller concerns merit
as much attention, i! one has time to spare,
on account Of their variety and originality.
Nearly every village has some little indus
try Of lis own.
In Maine and New Hampshire sweet
corn canning is p;ohtebly carried on, and
the farmer boss and girls look forward TO
the opening Of the corn shops with eager
ness. The big girl wants to earn money
TO get @ pair OF shoes and q new dress to
wear TO school in the winter, and the big
boy is ambitious TO own e pair Of steers or
q Young colt. An instinct OF self preser-
walton is tie only heritage from father to
son, and the boy looks with longing eyes
upon crops and stock az econ as he puts On
pants.
As our illQ:tra.ion OF the shifts and
turns necessary 10 force q living from ster-
lie surroundings, | have in mind a farm
with which | was acquainted. The land
became most improbable, costing more
for fertilizers than the crop WAS worth after
it was raised. The house grew shabby, the
o%utbuildings showed neglect, barn doors
hung by one hinge or may be propped up
with a stake. The stock moped around
with an air that seemed to say: They had
eaten their last morsel OF food, and didn't
care if they had How could they be
bright and business like when they knew
there was not q spear Of grass an iuoh high
on the placer The oldest boy in the
family, fifteen years OF age, asked hii ia.
ther for the use of the corn house. AS it
Was empty and no prospect of ever again
being filled, the father said yea" The
boy crossed the river to the corn shop, got
some empty cans, and together with the
smaller children picked the apples in the
old orchard, and with the aid Of his mo-
ther prepared, cooked and canned them.
This production WAS taken to the village
nd col, Tho paxt yaor ha tpapt
into business upon a larger scale, con-
tracted with q Boston house and
reaped O neat profit. With the money thus
secured he grated the old apple trees, re.
deemed the farm, and the family is now
living prosperouslT and the boy preparing
himself for college at Yale or Harvard,
and may some day be a Fessenden, Web.
ster or Sumner.
The manufacture OF maple syrup and
is both easy and remunerstive. Nearly
every farm has q maple grove, and some
quite 'arge ones. Mos, people think maple
syrup very nice TO eat on hot breakfast
cakes, but the place where il tastes best is
in camp when it is iust strained of.
And now, though maple syrap and ssr.
dimes would make an odd combination to
. thlt L ! . W fItbh VI bhC alu ralNllC
factory while | think of it. Over on the
eastern coast Of Maine is q sardine factory
which employs quite q fleet OF fishing
snacBs. They catch the native American
herring while young and email, prepare
and pack and away il goes 10 market,
stamped genuine imported
Institutions for the manufacture Of pulp
leather, board, spoois, and sash and blinds
can everywhere DO found. 1t is not
always the most pretentious buildings that
are booming the best, for in some quiet,
obscure village, where water privilege could
be obtained for o sOrg, some cute, invent =
i've Yankee kas 3 homely little structure ,
and is supplying some metropolis with bis |
work. He may not get rich in a day, but 8
what he makes is his. He pays 10 divi. :
dend to a partner, he keeps his W books ,
srd Dc IS 70 awake some morning to lie ,rn ;
thGt his cashier is in Canada. He ia not ,
challenging the world TO admire the vast :.
ness OF his b~usiGeHs enterprise, neither does .
te 90 down in o financial crash ard tear
his family from q brilliant social position
TO one Of ob.curity.
While in e dull little village last cum ner
We were INVITED by a gentleman 10 look
over his mill. From the size and outward
appearance we judged that not moro than
fifteen minutes would be required for this
pprpose. II was a genuine Yankee inven. {
ion, Z tarpipg niit, and tbs articles pro-
d7ce5 showed marked geuius. Several .
kinds o. Eorb we're then II progression
4 cpts little barre about foar inches high
and perfect in shape, the natural color of
the wood, but sand pspered. oiled and pol.
ished TO an exquisitely smooth surface,
was then the leading fancy. These were
shipped by the hundred gross to Boston
and New York. These little barrels were
used for confectionery aud chewing gum
Pretty boxes with rounded tops were for ,
cosmetics; an acorn was used as a case for ]
q headache cure. We observed the pro
cess OF manufacture from rough TO finish.
We were shown a cabinet Of specimens OF
every device that have ever been mads il
this mill. There lie bat little machinery, o
aud that run by water power. :