122 BRISTOL SOCIETY. 



Manufactures. 



Under the beneficent influence of a protective tariff, all 

 branches of industry hitherto established throughout, our terri- 

 tory have received an impulse ; and a variety of new ones have 

 sprung up within the past year or two, which have swelled be- 

 yond precedent the amount and variety of our manufactures. 

 An ordinary interest even, in these exhibitions, on the part of 

 the manufacturers and artisans of the county at the present 

 time, would have crowded our show-tables with specimens, of 

 which we should be proud. 



But a small proportion of our people are aware of the vast 

 amount and variety of manufactured articles which annually 

 go forth from this county into the great commercial marts. In 

 order to sustain these interests, it is all important that the peo- 

 ple should be advised of them ; and surely there can be no more 

 simple and effectual way to impart information than by avail- 

 ing ourselves of the exhibitions of the Society. We believe it 

 practicable to awaken a new interest in the matter, and trust 

 that the Society, now that its numbers and means are enlarged, 

 will take immediate measures for this end. 



As compared with former exhibitions, that of to-day will not 

 probably suffer ; what is wanting in variety, is made up in 

 quality. Amongst articles offered for premium produced in the 

 county, E. Wilson, of Fall River, offered some diamond pointed 

 gold pens, manufactured by himself, being the first article of the 

 kind made in New England ; they will compete with the cele- 

 brated pens of this description manufactured elsewhere. Messrs. 

 Washburn & Robinson, of Taunton, also exhibited pens of their 

 manufacture. The peculiarity of these pens is, that whilst 

 they are of the same shape with metallic pens, they are made 

 of the ordinary quill. A gothic tablet, wrought from marble 

 by S. Warren, of Taunton, is a fine specimen of his art. Daniel 

 Reed, of Easton, presented an improved slide dog for saw-mills, 

 which the committee consider worthy of attention. 



SAMUEL L. CROCKER, Chairman. 



