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tation for the style and quality of the great variety of fabrics 

 it produces. Through good times and bad times, buoyancy 

 or depression of trade, it has been kept constantly in opera- 

 tion, giving employment to a large number of operatives, and 

 a living to those dependent upon them. 



In its display at our exhibition, there were fine All-Wool 

 Goods for ladies' wear, in all shades of color, Bourette and 

 Matallasse Goods of both Wool and Cotton, for ladies' dress- 

 es, stout, closely-woven Cottonades for men's wear, Shaker 

 Flannels, Shirting Flannels, Cotton Flannels, with many 

 other varieties skilfully and tastefully manufactured. 



The Washington Mills made an extensive exhibit of Ladies' 

 and Gentlemen's wear, which Avas admired alike by Commit- 

 tee and the public, all uniting that quality and finish fully 

 equalling any foreign production. The Cloakings and Suit- 

 ings were the finest of fabrics. The variety exhibited con- 

 sisted of Shandons in fancy suitings of fine wool ; Trosachs 

 and Inverness fancy suitings from American and Canadian 

 wool, in. black and blue and fancy colors ; Vienna Coatings, 

 Black Worsted Cloth for Sontags, with worsted face and 

 woollen back ; Gilderslieve Superfine Worsted in black and 

 numerous fancy colors ; Matallasse Cloakings for ladies' wear, 

 made from worsted for face, and mohair and wool backs, in 

 black, blue, brown and green shades of color; Chantilly Su- 

 perfine Cloaking for ladies' wear, in fancy weave and fancy 

 colors, superfine worsted on the face, and fine wool backs ; 

 Blue Flannels and fine cloths from XX American and Aus- 

 tralian wool ; Extra Bay State Shawls, from Super and XX 

 wools in various styles and colors ; Eider Shawls, in imitation 

 of Camel's Hair Shawls ; also Serge in five shades ; Extra 

 Cashmere in seven shades ; Winter Cashmere in seven shades ; 

 Poplin in four shades ; Cretons in five shades ; Alpaca, 22 

 inch and 6-4, ten shades ; Wool-Dyed Brilliantiues in seven 

 shades; Wool-D3^ed Serge in eight shades; Fine Serge, six 

 shades ; Washington Fancies in six styles ; Costume Cloth 

 in seven shades ; Polonaise Cloth, two styles ; Fabrique Brou- 



