Show industrial INDUS TRIAI GROWTH it it Is very difficult lid for youn people to form an idea of the industrial crowth of ct the pa pat pac C century jt it hm bag been 10 marvelous ill ia inacy diorec lions to 50 iota into the of same oar of tile the southern states stales and mill inin gle gk nith ith people mho know nothing of c the ibe of modern civilized life gires gicca one an blea of the state stalo things were lu in almost universal iT crilly ly saady J ears cars ago ago jl it is ia interesting to cote somewhat in fit detail the ibe chagan ea that have live talen t place and abtil the pro gress been th alie e recent 0 the inauguration of 0 the ilia first fint president of the united statsy has brought brou glit before the people many thoughts though 1 I I 1 I 1 ls S and nd bacis fact the tbt industrial and intellectual growth of the century that to EO many developments have been made durins during that timi tim ami during the ilia latter it bialt f of 0 the tbt when the hie gospel wi was restored Is ia a matter of peculiar in terest berett to the people in these valleys the on the industrial growth of tile century nrc are from rom the new york tribune the methods tools products and artisans of 0 a century so 0 o in many departments have vanished ni as completely as ai ir if they belonged ld id another planet i lanct what has become of c the or the wooden clock the suit of 0 woolen cloth worn morn by president washington lit at big to congress in fit 1789 was war preb c tied by a woolen factory only established in ie ibe preceding year and cloth then cot coit 65 5 a oretho ard ord the tho hoople were clothed in ilia ali homespun made in fit every family lite power loom was wa not invented until 1830 30 in 1789 two citizens of norwich aked exemption from poll tax lor for themi and their op apprentices prentices because became they had act ct u up p eight stocking ins frames frame Is required two men for each A ce cen lilly fl ago go n ool cording tin binl been do docic by ilma but whittemore in nril machinery mach to make cards the arst carpet factory in fix the coury country isa as established a A century ren ogo ao the caton gin had not been in ent edthe i jenny wai yet rn nn and the fart fir it shipment crit of cotton to eight mi bis was ibale in 1718 now ill the e country hall ha rai anicil ed more than biles bales of 0 cotton in a bear ear and nd whorled forged up tip more than one thousand million pounds pound i 0 of f rot cot lou oil and ancl four hundred million pounds of wool A century ago only char coal iron was wai produced ani an I not as is much of 0 that probably as ai tont tons yearly for or beare fa later ter tho the product was but tons ton even great britian lit in 1788 produced only lont not na al much 0 ns cither ono one of se crall f furna urn ces cei antl I 1 country now turns out yearly yearly tl 11 e manufacture jut just begin ins in here twenty years later only tons n i ere produced in the tilt coarsest pig aror then lost cost about as ai hsuch tie ns steel rails raili do 10 now it A sin ainsle le railroad now bus bis yearly more iron than both great britian and tun this country the then made but there ocre mere neither neiti pr railroads railroad i Iti ennor iron inor elnor buildings building no petroleum pipes tor for there v nna US ZO no petroleum no gasi gagi even in ia europe until I 1 later a ter hogton lived la in an n age of darkness instead of tile electric light the millions oris lad bad candles coetia chalios about 2 cents apiece in all the and applications of 0 chemistry the century hat has simply created a new world american pressed glass abich has bai completely revolutionized the supply of table rod and house ware I 1 13 a an n in ini bention of the last sixty sixta years the silk manufacture lias has not existed in this country half a century the hie paper made a hundred y yeu ell ago ago would hardly be thought ht fit for use ul since modern methods ine thodi have been in critel vent til the only use me discovered for india rubber thou then was to eia chae e pencil marks and while tile the thill ul OL 13 LUU D il enado pairs of boots booti and shoes m liaa they were cle the lite shoes of today to day ilay and the nunu malin facture by lil machinery la is i bully cholly due dav to mentions ons since isoo 1800 sewing machines for iny purpose were nil known and salt sale was made by boiling bailing S seawater sea ea water though iu ill vas first made front from the springs near dear syracuse at the rate of about 10 bushels rr per day d ay iy and the cost soon ml fell to SO 50 cents per ier bushel farming iu in day knew nothing of ing of machinery even the first iron plow pile p in 1797 wigs a failure for new jersey failers thought it poisoned the soil mowers reapers sad and harvesters harvester began to be invented rented in about the sanle same time were nere such as it would not now noll be thought pot pamblo poM sible blo to use tile the steamboat was practically unknown known in anti anil the railroad entirely until forty anra later and the cost of transportation por tation by wagon confined lite area of possible production with profit as to most crops to tile the margin of navigable waters voters the whole nation could not produce in ing tons lons day as much wheat as single territories not bet et states now export each year and when the ic te counts I 1 of n century ngo ago tell ell of vast quantities quin exported I 1 they really mean less in it a year than the co country hia has tince since moved in a slagle single week of mages bilges it is enough to say ay that intsons a 1 century ago a earned 67 cents per day in massachusetts chu carpenters carp entera 53 52 cents blacksmiths 7 70 0 cents and ordinary labor au 0 cents food near the farms was cheap but pork is quoted in adds ilasa a chii at 16 canti per pound flour at per barrel 1 corn at 76 int per bushel and him ham at 20 centa cent per pound calico calica cost 58 cents per yard broadcloth 1112 d 70 buc buckram krai 22 cauti ceuti cotton cloth 83 cents crid tow cloth 30 10 collis cents hose cost per pair ani and corded nankeen breece brec clies 0 3 buttons from I 1 to 5 shillings shilling per dozen shoes of lasting 81 cents per pair and tar sugar from 15 to 22 cents put pel pound one jae does not nol need lu iu audy such fi figures ars as these theao very long iong to discover that tile the world anti and tte the living of today were simply impo impossible sible for ill the working people of it i century ago the whole world has changed lit non liere lias has the marvelous marve lons been greater agn aler or tor for the walking millions more beneficent than in fit t these united d states |