New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

IN looking for material from which to show the prosres
made in the manufacture silk goods In the Ilh'eu -
during tn last seventy or moio years t'e " d r.ha,
rluc of interest IT problem What 10 say anu " 49,
o Icac ursad rs To mention tho interesting events "
hstor, would require at least ono entire lsSue ~ -
Tribune With this apology ior onl'tlhe u' y" -.
many we NAV mention Aspinwal. o Mansfield conn
as having 1906 established the raising o NlNNo,I'
Now Haven Conn sarI aud PhiladePh" ~ ~
rorod half an ounce of mulberry sccd Scn to every
narch I'm Connecticut and tho Legislature for time or
tered a houuty on mulberry and raw silk NJ that
date no raw, silk was imported. 1898 965 pounds OF raw
silk was raised Mansfield. Conn and the quantity IN
1a.o1 ,.o.,l go, to rS2o v,,cn 1900 pounds pro-
6rced In 1S3@-if hiGht killed hc mulberry trees ana
tho culture raw abandoned The SIX so ralseu
was srun on hand vhcolS into sowing sk Whch was SoI
hy th- slein than by weight The LEGISLATURE pro
hbited the sale Of skcin Of sowing s'k harne c % %
4o wards under penalty dollars Thereafter the
Connecticut Yankees put up yards and sold the same as
skoius the half was proplby spoken VI ~, ~
The sale Mansfield sewing silk was usually mao "'
country in exchange for store truck III 10
Godins. Of Maccosfield England 'iu .. - M
csn,c TO Mansfield expecting find employment In SIX
factory and greatly surprised to find that inc onN
machinery used tho good wiies spinning WmeeL pu'
hc interested parties who formed the Mansfield SIX Com
parv and under instructions machinery was built ms
,,rnany commenced business 1928, made sewing silk
c sorr vest pattcrns handkerchefs but dis
,cved in iS4f For additional information on ule cary
hior Of silk culture and manufacture in the United states
s. r. Llys booklet entitled The SILK INDUSTRY ol '"e
United states l77G To 1874
To return to the pioneers silk culture and manufact-
c soon aftcr the Revolutionary War Dr. Stiles president
Yo" COLLEGE, took great pans Tor ue distributor 81
mulberry seed first toward silk culture and man
N
trc husneqs silk manufacture and in that year pro-
tecyc dirty Of 4Oot placed sewing silk, expecting
fiat Scricutirc would he firmly established Marvellous
stories wore told the amount Of silk worth sixteen
dollars a pound I be produced from single tree ten
years old
The Connecticut Legislature voted bounty OF hfty cents
rcccd "RXford" ree--a reel WIN
traverse moonand appropriation OF sl5OOo was maze
the Connecticut Silk Mfg. CO. This Company was or
eanz and began operations the spring OF 1880 ran fou
or five wears and Several other small sk mIs were
started about which was Haskli hay
der's mill AT Windsor with less than dozen girls
and hoy working twelve hours The most efhcent
Girls earned $3.50 per week and paid S1OO week lor
hoard IN 1912 tariff Of 20'o on all lmpor-
ons alike caused mill close In 1St3 revised tart
was enacted giving protection and the mill was again
started The substantially taken from Historical
Sketches" by the late J. II. Hayden above referred TO-
About the time the Connecticut Silk Mfg Company
failed christopher started silk mill in part OF his
brother's pistol factory Paterson but soon closed
Eventually John Ryle experienced ard energetic Eng
shan now spoken the Father of the Paterson SIX
Industry got Of this crude machinery and built
M with the assistance Of his friend George W. Murray
great silk business In Paterson
In 1889 the Cheney Of South Manchester Conn.,
commenced the manufacture of sewing silk. presumably
from, imported raw they like others attempting TO
make Sercultre profitable had become discouraged not
vithstandng raw silk then 1000 higher and labor
1OOo, cheaper than In 1899 RiXford and Dmock, OF
Mansfield Conn., built for Ralph Cheney OF CheneE bro-
ers silk spinning frame and it was transported some
thirty miles yoke Of Soon after Rxord and