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330 &0WEIiI/ AMD ITS OPERATIVES 1 .
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Two Hundred Years Ago, The Fawtuckets, A...
laid out . At this place courts were annually held in . the month of by an lish istrate assisted bIndian chiefsto jud
May , Engmagy , ge of difficulties _between the t _^ vo races . The great plan of creation is progressiveand the red race
passed away as the steps of civilisation by the , English colonists advanced . In 1674 the natives at Wamesit numbered but
twohundred and fifty men , beside the women and children . In 1726 -their claim to the land became extinct . After the departure of the
Indians , this tract of land , situated at the corners of other towns , was of little importance . In 1792 , a company called the "
Proprietors of the . Locks and Canals on Merrimack River " was formed , and constructed a canal , about a mile in extent , round Pawtucket
Ealls , which move a descent of thirty-two feet in a series of rapids ,. amidst boulders and sharp rocks . The canal was to afford a safe
passage to boats and rafts in the transportation of wood and timber . "When the place was purchased by the founders of what
is now Lowell , it contained but a few scattered farm-houses , standing on good soil , and occupied by intelligent and substantial
families , - a few small buildings for powder-works and , making cloth , and less than two hundred inhabitants . To understand
Lowell as it is , one should know something of its parentage . In 1813 , Francis 0 . Lowell , Patrick T . Jackson , and Nathan Appleton >
gentlemen of "wealth and of high educational and social position _^ residing in Boston _^ Massachusetts _^ formed an incorporated comfor the anufacture of cotton cloth at WalthamIn
pany m . a _l " _^ amp The hlet power _, published -loom was by at Mr this . A time ppletbn being for introduced his friends , in he Eng says land : _•—^ , _~
but its construction was kept very secret ; and , after many failures , public inion was not favourable to its success . Mr . Lowell ,
information while on op a visit which to was England practical for his about health it , , had and obtained was determined all the
to perfect it himself . He was for some months experimenting at a store in Boston , employing a man to turn a crank . "
It differed in many particulars from the English loom , and , as Mr this . ; subject Appleton : te said Seldom in has a speech a mind before of so the much Stat science e Legisl been ature 7 turned upon
to this subject , and never was a triumph more complete . ' This loom required various improvements in other machines , which were
effected by the combined genius of Mr . Lowell and Mr . Paul Moodthe manufacturing agent at Walthamand were _imt in
successful y , operation in 1814 , at a factory in that place , . The gentlemen comprising this company devoted especial care to arrangements for
the moral character of the operatives : " There was little- demand for female laboursas household manufacture was superseded by
improvements in , , machinery . There was in . New England a fund of _labourwell educated and virtuous . It was not perceived
how a profitable , employment has any tendency- to deteriorate
330 &0weiii/ Amd Its Operatives 1 .
330 & 0 _WEIiI / AMD ITS OPERATIVES .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1863, page 330, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071863/page/42/
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