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130 WATCHMAKING IN AMERICA.
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XIX.-WATCHMAKING IN AMERICA.
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_e "Within a few years a factory has bee...
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? A Gai^Ery Carried Over The Street On A...
displaying In their windows tiie waxen figure of an old bald heady _, instead of as with usdoing- their Lest to set forth youth and beauty
adorned with " luxuriant , hair and whiskers , " though this may possibly be intended as a courtly compliment to elderly royalty ; _..
but the absence of female effigies indicates , at least to the initiated ,. the not uninteresting fact that what is considered in England
asalmost exclusively a male occupation , is here in much more fitting - handsand ladies who require their hair dressed , are accustomed to
look to , their own sex to fulfil the office , although they may not be able to keep a maid for their exclusive service . As it is very
general to have this operation performed by a professor of the art _,, even women when earn no a special respectable occasion livelihood demands by extra waiting display on , a m number any young of
ladies every morning for the purpose , as regularly as the gentlemen are attended by their barbers , for which they are paid by
each customer about a thaler monthly .
Astebisk .
130 Watchmaking In America.
130 WATCHMAKING IN AMERICA .
Xix.-Watchmaking In America.
XIX _.-WATCHMAKING IN AMERICA .
_E "Within A Few Years A Factory Has Bee...
_ _e "Within a few years a factory has been in operation in one of
themanufacturing towns of New England , in which the American idea of making watches hy machinery has been developed into practical
utility . Nearly a third of the operatives are women , and the proortion gradually increases .
p To visit the interesting workshop where watches are turned - out by steamwe leave Boston and pass through Cambridge by
Harvard College , , by the residences of Professor Longfellow , J . Russell Lowell , and others of transatlantic fame ; by Mount
Auburn , the city of the dead ; through "Watertown , in sight of the home of Miss Hosmer the sculptor j to Walthama pleasant town _,,
, nine miles west of Boston , noted as one of the earliest manufacturing towns in the country , and also as the native place and home
of Major-General Banks . On a slightly elevated bank of Charles River , at a bend of the
stream , we find the factory of the American Watch Company . It is of brick , two stories high , and covers a half acre of ground of .
The views up and down the river are very One from the windows ' the building , which surrounds a quadrangular court , in order to secure the best light at the work benches ranged along the inner
and outer windows . It is essential that the workshop be located on a moist soilapart from other mechanical establishmentsthat a
, , dusty atmosphere may not interfere with the nicety of the work . The difference between watches made by hand and those by
machinery is , that in the case of the former , different parts are
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1863, page 130, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041863/page/58/
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