Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-09-09

the women In chAxKe ~ - pfooe % tno
statement that with these automatic
looms one woman can producs plain cassA-
Ing enough for 600 people,
II Is but little that the woman has % d.
fer the loon itself seems gifted With in
telligencs to give notice II anything eoss
wrong. even Of 20 small . matter - the
breaking OF thread The line of svolu-
ton ran thus: First, hand power only.
rex; wind and water power and finally
stesm. And is II soon to Be elscsricisys Il
h to be hoped. for there arc still grave dis
advantages In using steam and when elec-
tricity can be transmitted 10 great dis
sances from tho waterfalls which generate
it there will no longer Be any economy in
concentrating the textile manufacturer
In few cities Each Village can then
have the weaving done for its own pop1la-
tiea at minimum cost The power for
this building Is supplied from an annex
running along the whole south side Of tho
building. In IL are forty;hrec engines
with an aggregate of so.elo horse power.
which also operates II. dynamos and thus
produce the electric light aud power for
all the other buildings
II Is on the silk looms, however. that the
finest work il done; but l shall refrain
from explaining them for reasons into
which trust the reader will not too Gu
riousiy inquire. OF Americans the Pho-
nix Manufacturing company, Of Philadel-
phia, has looms in full operation, and J. J.
Mannion, of Pittshure, and John Best s.
Co. OF Patterson, n. j.. run sets Of Jac-
quarl looms. On these are woven silk
hsndkerchiefs Of almost gossamer deli
eacy, with figures showing pictures Of the
Worlds fair buildings and portraits Of
prominent men. These are sold on the
spot by so-cailed "concession." but all
manufacturers who have not secured that
must remove their products every night.
Under the general subject of clothing
would come the long array OF sewing ma
chimes. cloth cutting and knitting ma
chimes and machines for making thread,
buttons, hooks and eyes, etc: but II Ia not
necessary to describe such common things.
1t is far cry from the Navajo woman
toiline at her rude loom and the Navajo
girl twisting wool on the rude hand.
spindle as she watches her sheep. to the
automatic loom and spinning jenny.
but II Is all illustrated here and far more
effectively than could bc done by volume
Of such writing as this.
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Moving eastward from the looms one
soon enters an area where he is almost
deafeued by the din-the tremendous car
moving on the beams overhead, the great
Hoe press, only turning ont q, 600 printed
copies per hour Of The Columbian during
two hours OF each day though capable of
doing much more, the great paper making
machine which | study long but cannot
comprehend, and the long. long lines of
poaderous machines for cutting, boring.
notohing, trimming or otherwise fashion.
ing iron, steel. wood and stone. In 1t all
we see prophecy that by and by only the
rude and uncul,ured nations will do hard
work. OTr sort OF folks will just stand
around and watch the machines do IL and
Dec that they do not rebel.
Blessed slaves With no bodies to kick
and no souls to bc damned. they yield US
the equivalent OF s0.1o.0oo of man-power.
Taking his stand upon the shore Of In
finite possibility the inventor has In iifty
years evoked from the boundless ocean Of
natural dynamics, and presented to US,
the labor Of sO,neO, 900 slaves. II the Amer
leans OF 1870 had been told that by this
time the supernai powers would have sent
TO the Unied States 5000, 900 of the most
Intelligent and stalwart beings from the
most highly developed planet for IL
amounts to that and that all their labor
should lie ours without need of lash or
fear Of insurrection, with what gladness
would they have cried; Vanish want
Away forever with discomfort, and talk no
more Of slavery in the south or misery in
the cities, For how can there be want or
discomfort when an intelligent and indus
trious people have such slaves in number
four times their own working forcoi"
The slaves have come. -Four times as
many as the 100000 human producers.
slaves of light and fire, soulless. bloodless,
nerveless. feeding only on the condensed
sunshine OF the carboniferous ago aud
wearing cut in our service without q
groan or a wound to any mans conscience.
And yet there is want and there are riots
and there are said TO bo 10000 people SUI.
.ias for lack OF work. Why