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PAWTUCKET 



of interest. In New York there is a society 

 with a capital of over $500,000, which is also a 

 financial success. These and other similar so- 

 -huw that pawnbroking can be carried on 

 in a lawful manner and be financially successful. 

 Nevertheless, one compelled to borrow money 

 should look upon this means of making a loan 

 as a last resort. 



Consult Levine's A Treatise on the Law of 

 Pawnbroking ; by the same author, The Business 

 of Paicnbrokiny. 



PAWNEE, pawne', a tribe of North Ameri- 

 can Indians belonging to the Caddoan stock. 

 The name, which is a native word meaning 

 horn, was given them because of the hornlike 

 scalping lock which they wore, arranged in such 

 a manner as to stand upright. Their home 

 formerly was along the banks of the Platte 

 River in Nebraska. They raised grain and 

 vegetables, and built permanent homes of logs 

 and earth. During an epidemic of smallpox in 

 1838 over 2,000 members of the tribe died. In 

 1833 they ceded their territory south of the 

 Platte River, and in 1858 gave up all their 

 remaining land except a small strip along the 

 Loup River, on which they remained until 1874. 

 Then they removed to a reservation in Indian 

 Territory (now Oklahoma), where they now 

 live. The tribe numbers not more than 600. 



PAWPAW, a small tree or shrub belonging 



to the custard apple family, which produces a 



fruit, also called pawpaw, that looks somewhat 



the banana. The plant is distributed 



through the Southern United States, and is 



THE PAWPAW 

 (a) Flower; (b) fruit. 



found as far north as Kansas, Michigan, New 

 Jersey and Western New York. Its leaves 

 spread out in umbrellalike whorls, as do those 

 of some species of magnolia, suggesting the re- 

 lationship of the tree to certain tropical species. 



The pawpaw grows to a height of from twenty 

 to thirty feet and bears a fruit from three to 

 five inches long, covered with a wrinkled brown 

 skin. The yellow pulp is soft and sweet, but 

 has not enough taste to make it popular as a 

 table fruit. The wood of the trees is too soft 

 and coarse to be of value, but its thin, fibrous 

 bark is utilized in making fish nets. 



A tree of the passion flower family, called the 

 melon pawpaw, grows wild in southern Florida. 

 Its habits of growth are similar to those of the 

 palm, for its leaves are grouped, rosette fashion, 

 at the top of a tall stem. The fruit of the 

 melon pawpaw resembles the cantaloupe in 

 appearance and is eaten raw or made into con- 

 serves. 



PAWTUCKET, pawtuk'et, R. I., one of the 

 most important cotton-manufacturing centers 

 in the United States, a city of Providence 

 County, situated in the northern part of the 

 state, at the head of navigation of the Paw- 

 tucket River. Providence, the state capital, is 

 four miles south. In Pawtucket, in 1790, cot- 

 ton weaving by the factory system was intro- 

 duced into the United States, and here in the 

 same year cotton thread was first manufactured 

 by Samuel Slater. The city has the service of 

 the New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail- 

 road, and of the electric lines which extend in 

 various directions to adjacent cities and towns. 

 The population increased from 51,622 in 1910 

 to 59,411 (Federal estimate) in 1916. The area 

 of the city is about nine square miles. 



Industry. The Pawtucket River divides the 

 city into two sections and has a fall here of 

 about fifty feet, which not only contributes to 

 the scenic charm of the locality but furnishes 

 immense water power, which has been an im- 

 portant factor in the development of the city. 

 The first mill erected here was a water-frame 

 mill which manufactured the cotton warp used 

 by hand weavers in making sheeting, ginghams, 

 calicoes, etc.; then followed weaving by ma- 

 chinery, and now this industry is conducted on 

 the largest scale, many million yards of cotton 

 fabrics being annually made by one firm alone. 

 The kindred industries of bleaching and dyeing 

 are also .extensive. While the cotton-textile 

 industry is preeminent in Pawtucket, cotton 

 thread, spools, woolen goods, hosiery, gymna- 

 sium and electrical supplies, paper and a va- 

 riety of foundry and machine-shop products are 

 also manufactured. The commercial value of 

 the river has been increased by the improve- 

 ments made in the channel by the United 

 States government. Lumber, cement, coal and 



