Industry and Economy will Tell.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1671, 26 June 1875, Page 5 (Supplement)

Industry and Economy will Tell.

Sib "John Croasley, during a political canvass in Halifnx, publicly referrred to the fact that his mother was a servant girl on small wages. The story, a9 told to me, is that this giri was receiving £6 a year, but that, being very thrifty, bhe had managod to save ap a little fortune, amounting in all to £4iO. Mr. (Jroisley, who married her, had nothing at nl\ On the £40 they set up a shop in which various useful things were sold, the business being entirely conducted by the wife. Have ing gained more money by this means, the business was gradually enlarged, until finally they resolved to restrict it to a special artical —carpets. Next followed the project of a single loom; the one loom multiplied itself to a small roo"a full. Then they bought the patent of the American Bigelow loom, and this seems to have caused thair business to enlarge very rapidly, The first poor little building with which they began- 1-a pioture of it is kept in a frame —expanded like a magical tree, and now thuir establishments have spread into a town of their own, the buildings being connected by high bridges, passing above the streets. They employ 5,000 bands,* and their machinery is turned by seven steam-engines, representing an aggregate power of three thousand horseß.