MASSACHUSETTS— BEEHIVE OF BUSINESS 



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A DOFELR GIRL IN A LAWRENCE COTTON MILL 



This young lady takes the bobbins from the spinning frame as they become full of yarn. 

 Acres and acres of fast-flying spindles and whirling bobbins are found in Massachusetts. 

 All the bobbins, placed end to end, would reach from Montreal, Canada, to Memphis, 

 Tennessee. 



final sliver is made up of 216 original 

 slivers ; but it has gained in length all that 

 has been lost in diameter. 



But up to date the sliver is only a mass 

 of parallel fibers and has no strength 

 whatever. The succeeding three opera- 

 tions are intended to give it a certain 

 amount of twist, so that the fibers will 

 cling together, while the size is reduced. 



In the first of these operations final 



slivers from the drawing machine are fed 

 into a machine known as a "slubber." It 

 takes these and simultaneously twists and 

 stretches them into one strand, much 

 longer, but with a diameter reduced to 

 that of a clothes-line ; this it winds on a 

 headless - spool bobbin. This resulting 

 material is called "roving" (see p. 212). 

 Two strands of this roving from the 

 slubber are next twisted and stretched 



