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THE KyVRMER'S MONTIIJ.Y VlSircjR. 



(Fig. 34.) 

 Represents a i)art ami elevation of tlic same Cottage. 



Construction.— The principal objcition to this design is its length ; Init tlie arningenient is con 

 venient, though the rooms are cxtfjuhd back. The parlor is so placed that it may be a very warm 

 winter room.'Tlie chimney is b(i\, ecu that and the kitchen, as is the case m the other design ; this 

 is the best place for it when pj^rticuble. It liclps to diffuse a warmth through the house which is 

 lost, when placed asiainst an an outer wall. The roof is steep, and will acri.nimodate two cham- 

 bers on the second floor; the brd room windov.s look out mxin the piazza, and may be opened to 

 the floor if rcipiircd. 



Si7i(o(io?i.— This building is well calculated for an elevated site: k hai- a small number ol win- 

 dows, and witli a southern front v, ouhl be considered as well located ; surrounded with a garden, 

 low fence, and small fruit trees, it uould be a choice residence lor a small kiinily. 



I.iOWEIiL,"Its rise, progress, aud increase— 

 Furmius about IjOwell~Maiifacturiiig statis- 

 tics. 



In a recent visit at Loui'li, the great Mannlac- 

 tuiing Emporium of the United States, the editor 

 of the Monthly Visitor was exceedingly gratified 

 at tlie evidences of ils rising prosperity. We 

 remember passing oviM- the ground where Lowell 

 is now situated aliout the year 1817, when there 

 wa.s no village below the old Chelmsford glass- 

 works, near the entrance of INliddlesex canal 

 from the Merrimack river, and when a very few 

 inferior wooden buildings were clustered around 

 Murd's factory, on tlic Concord ri\er. 



It is not our purpose here to present an account 

 of the present statistics of Lowell ; wc h.'ive not 

 the means before us of doing it ; and every former 

 account \\ould do uijnstice to a description of 

 Lowell as it exisis at jiresent. If the census 

 should be there taken as it has been in other 

 towns, we will have an accurate description of 

 Lowell as it was in the month of June last. 



From the successful enterprise of erecting e.\- 

 tensive mannfactiiring establishments at Walth- 

 aln, on Charles river, distant about seven miles 

 out of Boston, soon after the termination of the 

 late war with Great Britain, some of the men of 

 capital al Boston were induced to look out a more 

 extensive water-power at some convenient point 

 of distance from the capital of New-England. 

 One of the master spirits at Walthani, who has 

 done more, perhaps, than anj- other man, to give 

 permanent success to nianiifactures in this eoun- 

 tiy, was Pathick T. Jackson, ^vllo, in the muta- 

 tions and changes of business, has both made and 

 lost for himself what most people would consider 

 a Ibrtune. The diftcrence between the Waltham 

 and Lowell establishments, and most other cor- 

 porate manufacturing institutions, has been, that 

 while the latter, in nearly all cases, have either 

 sacrificed the oriaiiial investment or given no 

 profit at various periods of their existence, the 

 tbriner have gone ahead imder everj' discourage- 

 ment. In no instance have we ever heard that 

 the stock in the manufacturing corporations at 

 Lowell has been sold at auction much under its 

 nominal par vahie, even when almost every spe- 

 cies of stock \vas below par. 



(Fig. 25.) 



Is an outline perspective view of the same, the buildings should have good elevation alcove the 

 road, at a good distance from it. 



General estimate. — Contents, 11,500 feet, iucluding frame. — Cost $5,00. 



Expression. — The stjle partakes of the Gothic, although it is only the balustrade on the roof of the 

 piazza, that gives it that character. It is simple, and is perhaps the only reason lor its introduction 

 here. Other forms might appear better, but would be more comjdicated and costly. 



Benutrks. — In such dwellings as arc here given, every laboring man ought to live: and any man, 

 no matter how wealthy, might live. All that in any dwelling exceeds these accommodations must 

 be either required for large families and extended hospitality, or for the display oi' snperfiuous 

 wealth or highly refined taste. The necessaries and even the eondbrts of life are within tlie rea<-h 

 of afar greater portion of mankind, than is generally supposed. 



But one room can be used at one time by cither tlic poor man who has no other, or the rich man 

 who has many ; and that room can only be rendered comfortable by being \varm, dry, light, well 

 ventilated, and convenient, qiKdities which dcpeud not so much on the materials M.sod in its construc- 

 tion, as on the manner of applying them. All that is wanted is knowledge — first, of wluit is iieces- 

 sarv and desirable ; sccondiv, of tlio means of obtaining it at a small expense. 



STEPHEN GILMAN, ARcnrrr.cT. 



Manchester, .V. H. 



Daniel Putnam, Esq., of Danvers, Massachu- 

 setts, has sent us two ears of eight ro\ved corn, 

 which are a beautiful sample of tiie improvement 

 which is making in that valued crop. The ears 

 are of the eight rowed kind, and of a similar 

 color to the Brown corn : the Piilnani corn is 

 longer than the ear of the Brown corn, and ap- 

 pears handsomer l>efore it is shelled. There is 

 no other kind of corn wc have yet seen w hich 

 comes up to the Brown corn in size of kernel 

 and in the quantity compared with the size of the 

 cob. The Brown corn also sets for more ears 

 than most other kinds of corn ; and it turns out 

 more corn for the same weight of stalk and liusk 

 than any other kind, if we except the small Ca- 

 nada corn. It also ripens sooner than evei-v 

 kind of corn, if we except perhaps the small 

 corn last namri'', i\T ■. T'liipnin'seorn, wr believe 



to bo an excellent kind for the highly cultivated 

 lands near the seaboard of Mass!(chi-setts. and 

 perhaps for the warm alluvial lands upon Con- 

 necticut river ; but for ihe higher ground in the 

 interior of tlie state we cannot think it so w ell 

 adapted as the Brow n corn. 



In the year llS17, .^Ir. Putnam raised of the 

 kind of corn of which the two ears received by 

 us are a specimen, ninety-five bushels of slielled 

 corn to the acre: he thinks his crop of the pre- 

 sent year w ill exceed one hundred bushels to the 

 acre. 



The farm on which Mr. Putnam lives, is the 

 same on which the veteran General Putnam, of 

 revolutionary memory, was born niore than one 

 hundred years ago. It is land which has been 

 under profital'le cultivntion for almost two hun- 

 dred \"e.-irs. 



The men employed to look out the location of 

 a manufacturing city pitched upon a point of 

 most forbidding ground, in the northeast corner 

 of the town of t'hclmsford. If the land ever was 

 good for any thing for farming, the virgin fertil- 

 ity of the soil had been extracted, and the occu- 

 pants, who lived in a very few inditferent dwel- 

 lings, depended more upon the fishing privilege 

 aflbrded on the river below the Patucket falls, 

 than upon any thing which the land produced, 

 for a livelihood. The shrewd men who had 

 looked out the spot for the future city, went there 

 rather in the character ol' s]iies tlian of open pur- 

 chasers ; the "Boston folks" tiir several days 

 hunted about the grounds in search of quails, and 

 l)heasants, and squirrels, and discharged theu' 

 tbwling-]iieces probably many times at vacuity, 

 to lull every suspicion of any sinister design upon 

 the owners and occupiers of the ground. Grad- 

 ually the subject of purchase was introduced, and 

 before one owner had any information that any 

 offer had been made to his neighbor, the main 

 part of al! tlie land on which I lie city of Lowell 

 now stands Axas purchased for any avowed or 

 sujiposcd purpose but that for which it was in- 

 tended. 



At the same time the corporation, which had 

 long existed, of locks and canals at the Patucket 

 falls, with the water-power, was bought out; and 

 from that day to this the parent manufacturing 

 company at Lowell has existed under the name 

 of the '• Locks and Canals." The men engagefl 

 in the great enterprises at Lowell have been slow 

 to publish to the world their intentions. The 

 several corporations are like " men without 

 souls ;" they consult their ow'n interests at all 

 events, whether these shell conflict or not with 

 the interests of the jieople around them. If the}- 

 have a design to build extensively in any one year, 

 they would be most likly to make propositions 

 antl contracts for materials and jobs of work at 

 a lime when prices were most depressed ; and 

 we believe it is a ]iriiieiple with the managers 

 even to keep the stockholders ignorant of their 

 immediate designs when any important change 

 is about to take place. 



From the cnniin''neenie' t of the manufhetur- 



