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existence, ending in April, 1866, has been $25,- 

 530.68, to 1,868 persons, and the amount paid 

 to the fund has exceeded this sum by about 

 $1,200. The corporation contributes weekly to 

 this fund, and also to meet individual cases 

 which are especially aggravated. 



To meet the protection of the large number 

 of single females employed by the ^ company, 

 who are away from the guardianship of their 

 friends, the boarding-houses are controlled by 

 persons carefully selected for their ability to 

 influence this class of work-people of estab- 

 lished good character, who will secure the 

 comfort of their boarders, save them from bad 

 moral influences, and act as far as possible in the 

 place of guardians. If a female gives any rea- 

 son for suspicion that she is guilty of immoral- 

 ity, she is admonished, and, if reform is not im- 

 mediate, she is discharged from the house and 

 from employment. The doors are locked at 

 ten o'clock at night, and no one is allowed to be 

 out after that hour without a satisfactory ex- 

 cuse. Men of intemperate habits, or of gen- 

 eral bad character, are excluded from the com- 

 pany's service. 



When the company was first established, the 

 directors appropriated $1,000 for the purchase 

 of suitable books for a circulating library, and 

 provided a convenient room for it on their 

 premises. The work-people have always been 

 required to pay one cent each week during their 

 services, and they thus become members of the 

 "Pacific Mills Library Association," which is 

 managed entirely by themselves. This weekly 

 payment secures the privilege of the use of the 

 library and reading-rooms of the society. One 

 room is appropriated to males, and is supplied 

 with newspapers, and scientific and literary 

 serials, and is open from 6 A. M. till 9 p. M., 

 warmed and lighted. It is in close proximity 

 to the other room containing the library, now 

 exceeding 5,000 vols., and also a cheerful, airy, 

 comfortable, carpeted apartment for females, 

 and made attractive by daily and weekly pub- 

 lications, and stereoscopes. It is open from 9 

 A. M. till 9 p. M. A large number of volumes 

 of the library are in constant circulation, as the 

 number of the work-people who cannot read 

 or write does not exceed 50 in 1,000, and 

 these are principally of foreign birth. The 

 funds of the society are also used to purchase 

 tickets of admission to lectures, and suitable 

 popular amusements, which are distributed 

 among the members. 



It has often been stated that care of employ- 

 ers for the education and welfare of their op- 

 eratives, especially to the extent herein shown, 

 is incompatible with pecuniary success. Facts 

 prove that this is not true with the Pacific Mills. 

 There have been no strikes among the work- 

 people, which are their curse, and the dread of 

 employers. They have been encouraged to 

 feel that any grievances will be patiently lis- 

 tened to, and frankly discussed. A higher class 



FULFOED, FRANCIS. 



of workmen has been secured. Those best 

 able to appreciate the privileges enjoyed in 

 connection with this company have been drawn 

 thither for employment. Many of the work- 

 people have invested their funds in savings 

 banks, and this is specially encouraged. 



Quite a number of the work-people own 

 houses free of debt, while others have been 

 partially assisted by the company, it receiving 

 a portion of their wages each month in reduc- 

 tion of the debt. More than $50,000 are thus 

 invested. Others invest their funds in the 

 bonds of the United States Government. Sev- 

 eral of the workmen are owners of the stock 

 of the company. Their stock has now a market 

 value exceeding $60,000. Investments of earn- 

 ings in premiums on life insurance have been 

 made by many of the workmen. More than 

 one of the workmen has been a member of the 

 city government in its Board of Aldermen and 

 Common Council. 



The least sum now paid in weekly wages to 

 the youngest employe is $1.82 in gold. Boys 

 of sixteen years do not receive less than $2.85 

 gold weekly. The least amount paid weekly 

 to men is $6.Y5 gold. Females receive from 

 $2.48 gold weekly, for the lowest, to $6.Y2, 

 while a few earn more. Spinners, weavers, 

 and a few others, are paid in accordance with 

 their products, some of them earning very 

 large wages. 



The stockholders have invested $2,500,000 

 in the company. During the past twelve years 

 they have received in dividends more than 

 $3,000,000, and the value of the fixed property is 

 in excess of the capital stock ; and in the hands 

 of the treasurer, as cash capital, there is a very 

 large amount of undivided earnings. 



FULFORD, Right Rev. FKANCTS, D. p., Bish- 

 op of Montreal and Metropolitan Bishop of 

 Canada, a prelate of the Anglican Church, 

 born in Fulford, Devon, in 1803 ; died at Mont- 

 real, September 9, 1868. He was educated at 

 Exeter College, Oxford, and was for some years 

 a Fellow of that College. Resigning his fel- 

 lowship on his marriage, he was preferred to 

 the rectorship of Trowbridge, Wilts, and sub- 

 sequently appointed minister of Curzon Chap- 

 el, May Fair. In 1850 he was consecrated 

 Bishop of Montreal, and came to that city, 

 which was thenceforth his residence until his 

 death. He was active and zealous in his du- 

 ties in this responsible position, possessing rare 

 gifts of temper, judgment, prudence, and mod- 

 eration; in administrative power he had few 

 equals, and still fewer superiors. He was 

 noted for his learning, and took an active part 

 in the promotion of education throughout his 

 diocese ; yet his profound scientific and classi- 

 cal attainments were never paraded before the 

 public. He was widely popular with all class- 

 es and ranks of people throughout Canada. 

 In 1859 he was appointed, by royal letters 

 patent, Metropolitan Bishop of Canada. 



