Report on Wool Manufactures, 115 



WOOL MANUFACTURES. 



Exhibited under the Direction op the National Association of Wool 

 Manufacturers, at the Thirty-eighth Annual E;s:hibition of the Ameri- 

 can Institute of the City of New York, 1869. 



The National Association of Wool Manufixcturers having decided to make an 

 exposition of the products of their special industry, were generously invited by the 

 American Institute to exhibit under their auspices, at the Thirty-eighth Annual Fair 

 of the Institute, to be held in the city of New York in the fall of 1869. 



The object of the exposition was to make known the extent, variety, and actual 

 condition of the wool industry of the United States, rather than to adjudge the com- 

 parative merits of competing manufacturers ; exhibitors, therefore, wei'e requested 

 to exhibit mainly such articles as they are accustomed to make for the general 

 market. Exhibitors were informed that an official catalogue would be published, in 

 which the name or business card of every exhibitor and a designation of his contri- 

 butions would appear. The present catalogue is made in cofiformi'ty With this 

 promise. 



The executive committee of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers have 

 the satisfaction to believe that the display of the goods herein designated is such as 

 will serve to make known to the American people their dependence upon their own 

 productions, and will tend to create that public sentiment in favor of the products 

 of our own soil and labor which is indispensable to the proper success of our manu- 

 factures, and at the same time will, by emulation and example, elevate the standard 

 of the American wool industry and its dependencies. 



ERASTUS B. BIGELOW, President. 



J.. WILEY EDMANDS, 



THEODORE POMEROY, 



N. KINGSBURY, 



GEORGE ROBERTS, 



E. R. MUDGE, 



R. C. TAFT, 



J. H. BURLEIGH, 



J. W. STITT, 



GEOR&E S. BO WEN, 



GEORGE BULLOCK, 

 Executive Com. of tlie Xat. Assomction of Wool Manuf. 



JOHN L. HAYES, Secretary. 



N. KINGSBURY, 



Superintendent of the Exposition. 



