Fibre & Fabric Volume 32; A Record of American Textile Industries in the Cotton and Woolen Trade (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...corporation of Lowell, Mass. This coal, of which there was 5514 tons, was loaded on freight cars at Mystic wharf, and sent to Lowell. The schooner is 323 feet long, 50 feet beam, 24 feet, 8 inches depth of hold, and, carrying a full cargo of coal, draws 26 J feet of water. The new plant of the Egyptian Cotton Mill Co., at Cairo, Egypt, is ready to begin operations, and, in view of the failure of a previous similar project, it will be interesting to note how the new mills succeed. Forty years ago the facilities were not the same as today and there were not as efficient means of overcoming unfavorable atmospheric conditions, which were the cause of the old concern going out of business and the machinery being sold for old metal. The climate at Cairo is adverse to spinning fine cotton yarn; the rainfall is only about three-quarters of an inch per annum. It is exposed to the desert winds, which carry fine dust, specially injurious to machinery. The death of Charles L. Bailey, of Waltham, Mass., occurred December 22. He was born in 1842 in Bartlett, N.H. In early life he worked in a cotton mill in Shirley, Mass., and in 1874 he accepted the position of overseer of carding at Waltham, for the Boston Mfg. Co. He afterwards worked in the hosiery department and subsequently was given the superintendency of the cotton mill of the company. Last January he retired from the mill on account of ill health, and was succeeded by A. H. Gulliver. Mr. Bailey was on the Waltham School Board six years, and also served on the Board of Health several years. At one of the sessions of the Industrial Commission, in Philadelphia, Pa., last week, Mr. William Steel, manufacturer of woolen and worsted cloth, declared that he believed the contract labor law was an injury to the welfare of...