New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-25
HELPING THE SILK WORM UNWIND HIMSELF.

here" said one girl. "Im tired lookin' at them
things"
But she had come to see them just the same,
and she was smiling broadly now She herself
knew all about how those huge machines worked
In her heart she proud of the fact
She was proud to be one of $4,000 persons en-
plOyed in making silk in Paterson, an army that
receives in wages $12,57O,OOO a year and pro-
duccs S46,565,OOO worth of goods.
But Paterson is also the home of manufactures
that require highly skilled labor of another sort.
il is the home of the locomotive industry to
mention one, and the products of the Rogers
Locomotive Works and the Cooke Locomotive
Works-now plants of the American Locomotive
Company-have played no small part in the up
building of the West 1t Rogers locomo-
tive that first traversed the railroad that opened
the great Northwest
Seventy-ive per cent of the foregn-born pop
ulation of the city English, Scotch, Irish,
German and Dutch.
Twenty-Five hundred people employed in
iron working including foundries and machine
shops at annual wages of S2458,OO0 and an an
nual production of $3,7970OO.
No wonder that the men of the Chamber of
Commerce got together and decided on holding
on exposition in the 9Th Regiment Armory, among
these being S. S. Holman, chairman; +. H. Lam
bert president; W. L. Meakle, treasurer +. ;.
Cowperthwat, T. VI. ROdrock, NJ. H. Elenbogen,
George Arnold, +. A. Browne II. H. Brown, ).
Grossgebauer Eli Mirandon, j. T. Jordan, W. D.
Plumb. W. b. Bryant, A. Zabriskie, p s. Van
Kirk H. c. Lendrim and William Wieda.
WHAT THE TOWN SUPPORTS IN THE WAY
OF THEATRES. BANKS AND THE LIKE.
No wonder also, that this city of 1885 popu-
lation supports theatres and 10 moving picture
shows daily newspapers and "a weeklies and
periodicals; % public schools, including high
school costing half a million dollars; numerous
private schools and business colleges; 80
churches, including practically all denominations
known to the United States banks, with 1850
depostors and all the hospitals, parks and Ii
braries to match
Paterson is one Of the biggest shirt manufac-
turing centres in the country. You may not have
thought OF this. But it is safe wager that you
are wearing more than one Paterson shirt-not
1t time, necessarily, but as the days go by, be
cause it is rare home that does not have one
shirt in it marked "Manhattan."
Alexander Hamilton and his associates selected
the site for the City of Paterson with a view 10
establishing the industrial and manufacturing in
dependence of the United States.
To-day Paterson is a clean, wholesome city of
which its citizens vastly proud, no one more
so than George Oakley, member Of the Chamber
of Commerce
Within the radius Of five miles there are 225,O00
people, and within 300 miles Of Paterson there
are 3C,OOOOOO people -one-thrd of the population
Of the United States.
The assessed valuation of the real estate is
S7s252996. There are 100 mails day, which re-
ceive and despatch 25OOO,OOO pieces Of mail.
And the Hamilton Club is said to be the best APP
pointed mems club between New York and Chi
cago.
When city contains 7O2 business establish
ments, employing 35l16 people on capitalization
of 500, 4O2 900, and pays in wages S1S,1SGOO0 a
year to produce manufactured products valued
at S69,5S4OOO; a good club where business men
can meet at luncheon and talk politics and per
centages, freight rates and baseball are abso-
lutely essential.
\ CONVICTION OF THE SILkWORM THAT
PERSUASION CANNOT UNSETTLE.
J.. may also be that you have been SO en-
gro sed in your own troubles, to speak, that
you have omitted to note some of the diyertiHg
habits Of the domestic silkworm.
Tie domestic silkworm, first of ALL is set in the
matter Of food. What he will eat is principle
Of life with him.
There is no need for the owner of flock Of
skworms to wonder how the individual members
wo?ld prefer their eggs, because the slkworm has
settled that
The silkworm will not argue about 1t. He mas
got the food question down to a science. With
him it is not question Of whether this and that
will disagree with him after a speeding up to de-
liver unusually large consignment of silk to
meet requirements of the Western trade. His
only food is the mulberry.
II you think this exaggeration buy some do
nestle silkworms and endeavor to cajoe any one
of them to change his diet All attempts by ex-
pei. feeders TO feed the worm the leaves Of
hos Coll