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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
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d dresses, I was quite as-tonished at the magnificent goods shown byCheney Brothers, Dexter, Lambert & Com-pany, Hamil & Booth, and William Stran.(?e& Company, of Paterson; and that there isno inferiority in machinery or dyeing is testifiedby the beautful silk-throwing machinery ofthe Danforth Jilachine Company and thefinely arranged cases of Weidmann & Greppo,dyers of Paterson. In an appreciative articleon the Exhibition, published in the Revue desDeux Mondes, Jules Siinonin pointed out thesilk industry of America as among the successeswith which France would be driven to a closercompetition. The Swiss Commissioner-Generalto the Exhibition called attention, in his officialreport, to the progress of Americans in silkmanufacture and warned his countrymen to beprepared for vigorous rivalry. The Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphiagave a considerable impulse to the domestic pro- ^duction of fancies and Jacquard weaves. Mr.Albert Tilt had prophetically said in a report en
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u2: erfpf—u< oz (/) SILK AND SILK INDUSTRY •Fancies, Scarfs, Handkerchiefs and Tie Silksto the Silk Association of America in May 1S75:Surely the destiny of American silk manufac-turers rests in their own hands. In 1876 the production of the American silkmills was: Value. Silk dress goods $ 1,350,53s Millinery and tie silks 1,799,112 Silk handkerchiels 927,000 Ioulards 472,000 Kibbons 4,526,556 Laces 244,500 Sewings and twist 7,252,519 Ladies dress trimmings, etc 4,278.830 P«-aids and bindings 31 5,000 $21,166,052 Founds of reeled silk consumed, 1,144,860 (raw silk averaged $g.io per pound),rounds of spun sillc consumed, 140,000. The Tariffs of the Unilcd States.—The wartiriffs of 1861-4 gave a great impulse to allkinds of manufacturing in the United States, andquite naturally the domestic silk industry wasbenefitted. The demand for skilled labor at-tracted a considerable immigration from themanufacturing centres of Europe. The qualityof the domestic silk fabrics put on the

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