Show ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF COTTON SPINNING Lowell Mass was the first American town in which the spinning cotton was carried on according to farseeing plans and on f great scale and all the textilemaking towns of Now England and of the South all that vast busi hess that has been so developed and yet is still hv Its infancy sprung the New York Sun says directly from the falls of the Merrimac And yet the seventyfifth anniversary of tho incorporation In-corporation of Lowell a n town was celebrated last J week Francis Cabot Lowell was the moving spirit behind it r all I was he who organized the j I thing He and Nathan Appleton were traveling In England ninety years ago They found the north of England and the south of Scotland shaken by the displacements of labor and the violent Industrial and social changes resulting from the Introduction of the spinning frame the power loom and steam Thee swift revolutions had ruined hundreds of thousands of poor persons who had eked out a livelihood by spln nlng and weaving In their homes The population Avas In a wretched condition That set the two mon to thinking how they best could provide for the comfort com-fort of the American workman and work woman and when Lowell returned re-turned to Massachusetts he brought < not only plans of thepower loom and the spinning frame but also n definite j i 1 I scheme for the caro of the help Sixty years ago this Lowell system was fo j I mous and foreign travelers went to sec it as one of the curiosities of the I country The factory boardinghouse with Iw matron the debating societies debathlS societes I the t lectures the literary exercises the various means of fjclfInRtrucllon the t strong religious influences that our i rounded the new manufacturing town I i now SCOt remote and almost impost I slbk The visitor to Lowell now can lhardfy believe In them The Sun says j that the time of supervision has long j passed away and the operatives would J I resent it were the exercise of It now II proposed The great Lowell corpora j I I lions mind their own business pay their taxes humbly and keep out of sight n much as possible The Idyllic I perlpd of Lowell seems unreal In these I l I days Lowell found 8piniilngicand l weaving done In different shops le 1 brought the two processes together t in lone l-one factory In this respect and in o the building of houses for the operatives opera-tives he has been followed by the other cotton manufacturers North mid South The Sun says he In but a name now merged In his city but few men have r done more for the United States |