THE CITY OF MANCHESTER 2ig 



Bock and Company — manufacturers of Manchester, 

 in Ontario county — tried their hand, and by means 

 of improved machinery beat the Britisher outright. 

 They spun the wool, wove the cloth, and made the 

 coat, in nine hours and fifteen minutes. 



However, our own Manchester can well take care of 

 its laurels in every branch of trade. Once at a local 

 carriage manufactory a railway waggon was con- 

 structed in the short space of twenty-four hours. It 

 is possible for a Manchester packmg-house to receive 

 two thousand five hundred pieces of ordinary China 

 shirtings in the afternoon, make them up, pack and 

 deliver them in bales at a railway- station, or at the 

 dock side of the Ship Canal, before half-past six 

 o'clock the same evening. 



The total value of the cotton manufactures pro- 

 duced in the United Kingdom — it might almost be 

 said in Manchester — in a year has been put at ninety- 

 two millions of pounds sterling. A fifth part of the 

 production is for home use ; four-fifths go abroad. 



Such are the dimensions of one branch alone of 

 that vast trade on which the wealth and prosperity 

 of England in the main depends. 



