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 AMERICAN WOOLEN 
 COMPANY 
 
 Wm. /A.Wood Vice Prest. 6* Trc2kS. 
 
From Wool 
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 by Joseph T. Shaw .• Secretary 
 
 American *Wbol en 
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 Wm. M.Wood vice Presr. & Treas. 
 
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LIBRARY nf CONGRESS 
 Two Copies aeceived 
 
 JUN 8 1904 
 
 A Copyright Entry 
 
 Xc.No. 
 
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 Copyrighted 1904 
 
 by 
 
 American Woolen Company. 
 
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 ■■-I 'Printed by 
 I Ltvertnore & Knight Co. 
 Providence, R. I. 
 
The 
 Establishment of the Industry. 
 
 VENTS which led up to the 
 war of the Revolution were 
 commercial as well as politi- 
 cal. 
 England was ever jealous of 
 our rising industries and did everything in 
 her power to check their growth. 
 
 This was especially the case in the attempts 
 of the colonists to manufacture the material 
 for their own woolen wearing apparel. 
 
There was always the fadish Tory copy- 
 ing English habits and London styles, 
 proud of his predilection for British customs 
 and of his appearance in the clothing which 
 England sent to this country. 
 
 There was also the colonist who stood 
 for the backbone of true Americanism and 
 showed his pride in all things American by 
 patronizing his own institutions. 
 
 Thus in the matter of clothes, although 
 the cloth spun and woven at the hearthstone 
 and fulled in the adjunct to the village grist 
 mill was perhaps crude and greatly lacking in 
 the appearance of the English product, yet 
 was preferred by the true colonist, if only 
 for the satisfaction to his pride and patriotism. 
 
 Until the latter part of the eighteenth 
 century, the only American Woolen Factory 
 was that composed of the hand card, the 
 spinning wheel by the hearth and the archaic 
 loom. 
 
The year 1788 saw the first attempt 
 to differentiate wool manufacture from a 
 household industry. 
 
 In that year by public subscription a small 
 plant was established in Connecticut which 
 started business in 1789. 
 
 After attaining the enviable distinction of 
 furnishing the first President of this country 
 with his inaugural suit of clothes, the Con- 
 necticut enterprise was abandoned. 
 
 In 1 794 the first carding machine in Amer- 
 ica was constructed and put into operation, 
 after which the development of the industry 
 was more rapid. 
 
 It was especially favored by the Embargo 
 Act and the War of 1812 which cut off all 
 importations of foreign goods. 
 
 The census of 18 10, which showed a 
 population in the United States of 7,293,903, 
 stated that there were woven in families 
 
9,528,266 yards of woolen goods and enu- 
 merated 372,743 spinning wheels, 122,644 
 spindles and 225,392 looms, or an average 
 of about one loom to 32 people. It 
 also reported the existence of 24 woolen 
 factories and 1682 fulling mills. 
 
 About this time a Connecticut Mill became 
 the first to employ steam for its operative 
 power,. installing a 24 horse power engine 
 which drove all the machinery required for 
 carding, spinning, reeling, weaving, fulling, 
 dyeing and finishing. 
 
 Prior to 18 10, mills for teaseling and 
 napping cloths were erected to some extent 
 in New England and New York, 
 y A great many patents had been granted 
 in the country for shearing cloth some of 
 which were in use at that time. 
 
 The comparatively rapid expansion of 
 wool manufacturing in the United States was 
 
stimulated by the exigencies of the country- 
 while engaged in warfare. It progressed, 
 nevertheless, under difficulties emanating 
 from the same source, and shortly there came 
 a day when the country under its own re- 
 sources was unable to supply its soldiers 
 and sailors with the necessary cloth. 
 
 Inglorious recourse was then indirectly 
 made to the manufactories of England and 
 in 1 8 13 over half a million dollars was 
 expended for army cloths and blankets of 
 foreign production. 
 
 During the war of 1 8 1 2 broadcloth in this 
 country brought as high as 1 18.00 a yard 
 and fine merino wool advanced to I3.00 and 
 I4.00 a pound. 
 
 In the year of 18 10 a party of Rhode 
 Island capitalists purchased the land belong- 
 ing to the Blodgett Estate at Moosup, 
 Connecticut. 
 
In 1816 a factory was built, which after 
 three years spent in developing and improv- 
 ing the necessary facilities, became a mill for 
 the manufacture of broadcloth. 
 
 The story of this mill covers the history 
 of several generations and is typical of the 
 growth of the woolen industry in this coun- 
 try. 
 
 The plant today contains not a stick nor 
 a stone of the original buildings, and in its 
 modern construction and equipment bears 
 no resemblance to the original structure. 
 
 The Moosup is one of the smallest of 
 the American Woolen Company's plants. 
 
 In 1824 a mill was built at Dover, N. H., 
 which carried on a business of carding and 
 cloth dressing, its product being changed in 
 1832 to the manufacture of flannels. 
 
 The mills comprising this plant were built 
 and rebuilt during a period of fifty odd 
 
years, always increasing in size and capacity. 
 
 Today, known as the Sawyer Mills, they 
 constitute one of the finest plants in the 
 country for the manufacture of fancy woolens. 
 This was the earliest established plant for its 
 particular line in the American Woolen 
 Company organization. 
 
 The process of manufacturing worsted 
 cloths for men's wear was not begun in this 
 country until just prior to i860, when the 
 Washington Mills is credited with produc- 
 ing the first worsted suitings. 
 
 This plant was begun in Lawrence, 
 Massachussets, in 1845, ^"^ ^^^^^ became 
 the largest in the world for its class of 
 goods. 
 
 A company was chartered in that year 
 under the name of the Bay State Mills, with 
 an authorized capital of ^1,500,000. 
 
 Although the construction was begun in 
 1 845, it was not until three years later that 
 
the first wheel was set in motion and the 
 production of several varieties of goods be- 
 gun. 
 
 Most popular of its earlier fabrics was the 
 Bay State Shawl which attained to a national 
 reputation. 
 
 Significant of the popularity of this pro- 
 duct was an inquiry concerning these fabrics 
 received by the American Woolen Company 
 within the past year, after a lapse of fifty 
 years. 
 
 Like the other plants of early inception 
 the " Bay State Mill " was several times 
 built and rebuilt and was finally equipped 
 for the production of cloths for men's wear. 
 
 Today they are known as the Washing- 
 ton Mills of the American Woolen Com- 
 pany and constitute the largest men's wear 
 worsted plant in the world. 
 
 The floor space of these mills is equal to 
 about thirty acres, and the annual produc- 
 
tion is about 12,000,000 yards of worsted 
 cloth, double width. 
 
 Under Mr. William M. Wood's manage- 
 ment, the Washington Mills successfully 
 competed with foreign manufacturers and 
 checked the importations of clay worsteds. 
 
 In the same year of 1845 a plant 
 was founded in the town of Hudson, Massa- 
 chusetts, which in 1899 became a part of 
 the American Woolen Company, and has 
 under its management become the largest 
 mill in the world for the production of 
 men's wear woolen goods. 
 
 Like most of the large plants in this coun- 
 try, whose history extends over a considerable 
 period, the product of these mills during 
 their development was much diversified. 
 
 The original mill — the nucleus of the pre- 
 sent plant — was a small wooden building de- 
 signed for the manufacture of carpets and 
 carpet yarn. 
 
Later this wooden mill was replaced 
 by a brick building and as the business devel- 
 oped other mills were added and the equip- 
 ment changed to produce cloths for men's 
 wear. 
 
 In 1 901 was begun the construction of a 
 building which contains under one roof the 
 largest floor space of any mill devoted to 
 the manufacture of woolen goods. 
 
 One can stand at an end of this building 
 and look down 690 feet of revolving shaft- 
 ing and flying shuttles. 
 
 This building alone contains about nine 
 acres of floor space and is fully equipped for 
 1,000 looms and their complement of other 
 machinery. 
 
 When one realizes how a century ago this 
 country was so subservient in this industry to 
 England and other foreign nations, it certainly 
 is a cause for pride to consider these two 
 
plants which surpass anything in the world 
 in their line of manufacture. 
 
 Like many another American industry, 
 woolen manufacture in this country has out- 
 stripped foreign competitors. 
 
 The machinery of American workmanship 
 is of a cleaner, neater, more efficient type 
 than the usually clumsy machines from the 
 English and Continental shops. 
 
 The operatives here are equally as skilled 
 and average on a higher plane of intelligence 
 than abroad. 
 
 Climatic conditions and facilities are un- 
 doubtedly superior in this country. 
 
 Added to these are the immense faciUties 
 afforded in the organization of the American 
 Woolen Company, whose mills include the 
 largest, best equipped and most modern 
 plants in the world. 
 
 With twenty-eight distinct plants (com- 
 prising some 147 separate factories) at its 
 
command, it can centralize and distribute the 
 different processes of manufacture in a way 
 possible to no other woolen manufacturers 
 in the world. 
 
 The American Woolen Company has a 
 capital of ^20,000,000 Preferred and ^30,- 
 000,000 Common Stock devoted to the manu- 
 facture of woolens. It has expended during 
 the past four years upward of ^6,000,000 
 from its earnings, in bringing the equipment 
 of its mills to the highest state of perfection 
 and efficiency. 
 
 With such a combination of mills and 
 capital it has been able to effect many econo- 
 mies and improvements in manufacture, not 
 otherwise possible. 
 
 The Company produces a large amount 
 of goods suitable for all classes. 
 
 Sixty thousand different fabrics and styles 
 are shown each year. 
 
Its finer cloths are unsurpassed in quality 
 and are distinctive and exclusive in style. 
 
 The Company buys direct its own raw 
 materials. It spins its own yarn, weaves its 
 own cloth and maintains one of the most 
 extensive selling organizations in the world 
 for the disposal of its fabrics direct. 
 
 There are imitations of American Woolen 
 cloths today just as there were several years 
 ago imitations of foreign cloths. 
 
 When an American considers the facilities 
 of this Corporation and the modern equip- 
 ment and extent of its plants, he may be 
 certain that he will obtain the best cloth 
 procurable at the given price if he demands 
 that manufactured by the American Woolen 
 Company. 
 
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 Assabet Mills 
 Maynardy Mass. 
 
From Wool to Cloth. 
 
 MERICAN Woolen Manu- 
 facturers obtain their raw ma- 
 terial partly in the United 
 States and partly from abroad. 
 Australasia, 4000 miles 
 nearer New England than London, is the 
 largest producer of the best wool — the 
 longest staple and the finest fibre — growing 
 about 500,000,000 pounds a year. 
 
 South America produces 510,000,000 
 pounds and North America 304,450,000 
 
pounds, of which the United States gave a 
 product last year of 287,450,000 pounds. 
 
 Europe gives the largest production in 
 quantity, but it is composed mostly of the 
 medium and lower grades, such as are used 
 in carpets. 
 
 The Australian clip is sold almost alto- 
 gether through public auctions which are 
 held primarily in the country itself. 
 
 The South American wools used by 
 American woolen manufacturers are largely 
 imported direct, although a part of the 
 clip is offered in the London and Liverpool 
 auctions. Several years ago the greater por- 
 tion of the South American clip was of fine 
 merino wool, but since the introduction of 
 cold storage on the carrying steamers, the 
 growers have changed their flocks to the 
 mutton producing animal which grows a 
 coarse wool. 
 
In the United States, which boasts about 
 39,000,000 sheep, the wool is frequently of 
 a very fine quality, some of it rivalling even 
 that of Australian growth. Among the finest 
 staples are those brought from Pennsyl- 
 vania, West Virginia and Ohio, the picklock 
 of the latter State comparing with the choicest 
 Port Phillip or Geelong, while the merino 
 of Vermont is among the finest in the 
 world. In fact the highly bred merinos 
 of Vermont form the basis for much of 
 the best Australian clips, Vermont rams 
 being sold for large sums to the Aus- 
 tralian growers. 
 
 All of these markets are most available to 
 the American Manufacturers. 
 
 When woolen manufacture first emerged 
 from the hearthstones, in our colonial history, 
 the great difficulty which confronted the 
 original workers was the lack of fine fleece 
 
Sorting and Grading 
 at the Assabet Mills 
 
wool. Several gentlemen early realized the 
 importance of establishing in this country a 
 flock of fleece producing sheep, and their 
 attempts at importing fine breeds formed the 
 basis of the present magnitude of this indus- 
 try. One gentleman was given by a friend 
 of his a fine merino ram. Not realizing its 
 importance from the wool standpoint, he 
 enjoyed its excellence as mutton, but when 
 he discovered it would cost |i,ooo to replace 
 the animal, he regretted his haste. 
 
 Sheep were imported from the best centres 
 in Europe ; some coming from Spain, others 
 from Flanders, until in the early part of the 
 last century the industry in America was 
 well established. 
 
 The centre of the wool trade in the United 
 States is, and always has been, Boston. 
 Here in the great storehouses can be seen 
 the wool brought from abroad and from the 
 
Western plains. The buying and selling of 
 the staple forms a distinct trade in itself and 
 constitutes by no means the smallest of New 
 England^s many industries. 
 
 Wool is brought to this market from the 
 West most frequently in the greasy state. 
 When it arrives at the mills the first process 
 consists of sorting it into different grades, 
 one fleece being separated often into fivQ or 
 more different qualities. 
 
 It is then cleansed — or scoured, as the 
 process is called. 
 
 This means the passage of the wool by 
 means of automatic rakes through the suc- 
 cessive bowls of the wool scouring machine 
 filled with warm soapy water, until it emerges 
 at the other end relieved of the animal grease 
 and dirt with which it may have been filled. 
 
 From the last bowl it is carried on an apron, 
 made of slats on chains, or is blown through 
 pipes into the drying machine where most 
 
of the moisture is removed, enough being 
 left in the wool to keep the particles from 
 flying while going through the carding pro- 
 cess which comes later. 
 
 In the manufacture of cloth from wool 
 there are two distinctive processes, that for 
 worsted cloth and that for woolen, the differ- worsteds 
 ence between the two being best described 
 by saying that the worsted fabrics consist of 
 yarns in which fibres of wool are laid parallel, 
 and the woolen cloths being composed of wooiens 
 yarn in which the fibres are crisscrossed. 
 
 It is obvious, then, that in the worsteds 
 only the long staples can be used, while in 
 the woolen the shorter fibres can be employed. 
 The difference is in the arrangement of the 
 fibres and to arrive at this, different processes 
 are necessary. 
 
 In the descriptions of manufacture illus- 
 trated herewith, there have been followed 
 
Carding 
 
 at the Assabet 
 
the methods in vogue at the American 
 Woolen Company's mills and particularly at jj^Q^gj.,, 
 the Washington and the Assabet plants. Methods 
 These two mills are respectively the largest 
 and best equipped plants for men's wear 
 worsted fabrics and men's wear woolen cloths 
 in the world and it is considered that their 
 processes are the most efficient and modern. 
 
 Considering first, the manufacture of wor- -Worsted 
 steds, the next process in order is card- Carding 
 
 rr^x 1 • r 1 • 1 J Straightening 
 
 ing. The wool is red mto the cards the fibres, 
 automatically and passed between leather 
 clothed cylinders, revolving in opposite direc- 
 tions, from which project the ends of many 
 small wires. These straighten the fibres 
 and deliver the wool in soft strands with the 
 fibres all laid parallel to one another when it 
 is taken off by the doffer comb and rolled into 
 balls of a thick, soft untwisted rope which is 
 called sliver. Eight or ten of these balls are 
 
Combing at the 
 Riverside Mills 
 
run into one and drawn out into smaller 
 
 compass through gilling machines. In this 
 
 process the wool is drawn by rollers between 
 
 bars filled with pins — called fallers — which, 
 
 moving slower than the wool, comb and draw 
 
 out the sliver, further straightening the fibres 
 
 and completing the preparation for the 
 
 combing process. The balls of wool are then 
 
 , , , , . , . , . , Combing 
 
 run through the combmg machme which re- -^ arming the 
 
 moves the remaining dirt and all the shorter .-Vf /«. 
 
 wool. 
 
 After passing through the combs the wool 
 is rolled into balls about a foot in diameter 
 and then appears as Tops. Another draw- 
 ing out process follows still further reducing 
 the number of fibres in the untwisted thread 
 but maintaining them in their relatively 
 parallel position ready for spinning. 
 
 In the first steps in drawing and spinning, 
 the sliver is conveyed into the drawing ma- 
 
 Tops 
 
Spinning 
 
 Making the yarn. 
 
 chines and during its passage through these 
 is drawn out with a slight twisting motion 
 again reducing the size. The actual spin- 
 ning consists of a continuation of this process 
 until the fibres are reduced to twisted thread, 
 generally fifteen turns to the inch. Two 
 threads are often twisted together and some- 
 times as many as four strands are made into 
 one thread. 
 
 Warp 
 
 Yarns running 
 lengthwise. 
 
 Filling 
 
 Yarns running 
 
 Dressing 
 
 Preparing yarn 
 for loom. 
 
 The next process is the preparation of the 
 yarn for weaving in which it is used in two 
 ways, as warp, which runs the length of the 
 cloth, and filling, which runs crossways of 
 the cloth. The warp threads are put on 
 large reels and from these are transferred to 
 a large roll which is called the warp beam 
 and holds all of the warp threads. The fill- 
 ing is put on shuttle bobbins which are 
 placed in the shuttle and are kept filled by 
 the weaver as the process requires. 
 
For the manufacture of woolen goods the woolens 
 shorter fibred wools are used and in certain 
 stages a different process is employed than 
 that with which the worsted materials are 
 treated. If the wool should contain burrs 
 or other vegetable matter it is dipped into a 
 bath of chloride of aluminum or a sulphuric Carbonizing 
 
 . , , _ Removing vege- 
 
 acid solution and afterward baked, which t^^ie matter. 
 carbonizes the foreign substance but does 
 not affect the animal fibres. There is also 
 employed a machine called the burr picker, 
 whose name implies its use. The wool is Picking 
 then ready for the picker which prepares mS?ed"iocks^ 
 
 r i ^^^ mixing the 
 
 It for the carding process. If the wool ^^°<=''- 
 is to be blended with other stock it is laid 
 upon the floor near the picker and mixed 
 with the other grades which are thoroughly 
 blended in their progress through the picker. 
 From the picker the stock is fed on to the Carding 
 cards automatically by a so-called " self thrfiLes!"" 
 
Mule Spinning 
 at the Assabet 
 
feed " which weighs it and spreads it on the 
 feeding apron from-^which it passes through 
 a series of cylinders covered with wire cloth- 
 ing, in connection with which there are 
 smaller cylinders performing similar work 
 called workers, fancies, strippers, doffers, etc. 
 This process delivers the wool or stock in 
 the form of numerous soft strands or threads, 
 graded in size according to the size thread 
 to be spun, on to spools with the required 
 number of strands on each spool. 
 
 It then passes to the spinning machine, or 
 mule, where it is spun into warp or filling Spinning 
 
 J • J nn\. ' ' C Making woolen 
 
 yarn as desired. 1 here are various sizes or yam. 
 these machines and the yarns are spun some- 
 times on paper cop tubes or in other cases 
 on bobbins. 
 
 The filling yarns go direct from the spin- 
 ning room to the weave room, as they are 
 used in the loom without further process. 
 
French Drawing 
 
 at the Washington Mills 
 
The warp yarns are spooled from the 
 bobbin on to dresser spools. A number of 
 these spools are assembled into a rack until 
 the required number of threads for a section 
 is obtained. The process of dressing con- 
 sists of winding it from these smaller spools 
 on to a large reel which stretches the 
 yarn evenly and from this on to a beam 
 which contains the number of ends required 
 for a warp — usually several thousand. To 
 prepare the warp for the loom there is what 
 is called the drawing-in process, which is Foiiowing*the 
 done by drawing the ends of the yarns 
 through the respective eye-lets of the harness 
 heddles. These frames, after being placed 
 in the loom, are raised or lowered in the 
 process of weaving by the loom mechanism 
 called the head motion, which allows the fill- j^^^^- 
 ing shuttles to pass above some threads Making the doth. 
 and below others following out the pattern 
 designed. 
 
 Drawing in 
 
Weave Room 
 
 at the Washington Mills 
 
The cloth leaves the loom in the form of 
 
 a cut or piece after it is woven the desired 
 
 length which varies according to the fabric. 
 
 It is then carefully examined for any imper- 
 
 r . , r 1 • 1 1 Burling and 
 
 rections that may appear, arter which the Mending 
 
 process of burling or mending is taken up, pe/fectiinl""' 
 knots being carefully removed and any 
 threads woven in wrongly, or other imper- 
 fections, taken out and sewn in by hand. 
 The employees engaged in this work become 
 most expert and are able to correct perfectly 
 by hand any imperfection which may occur in 
 the process of weaving, such as the breaking 
 of threads and similar unavoidable accidents. 
 
 The finishing process varies according to Finishing 
 the fabric being made. Broadcloths and 
 other face finished goods require much more 
 treatment than worsted cloths or fancy 
 woolens. The former are sometimes scoured 
 or cleansed in the washers before fulling and 
 
Burling, Mending 
 
 and Examining 
 
 at the Washington Mills 
 
often go directly to the fulling mill with- 
 out previous cleansing. 
 
 The shorter fibres in the woolen yarn 
 cannot be woven into so close or firm a 
 fabric as is possible with the long parallel 
 fibres in the worsted yarn and in order to 
 make a perfect cloth from the former it is puujng 
 necessary in many cases to felt the fibres Matting the 
 
 ■' ^ ' ^ ^ _ fibres together. 
 
 together by fulling or shrinking. This pro- 
 cess consists of running cloth through a full- 
 ing mill which subjects it while in motion to 
 great pressure, it being at the same time 
 moistened with a specially prepared soap. 
 This work felts or mats the fibres together, 
 making a firm and durable fabric. The 
 amount of shrinkage that will occur in the 
 various fabrics when subjected to the fulling 
 process is accurately gauged and full allow- 
 ance therefor is made before the cloth goes 
 to the fulling mill. In order to obtain a 
 
length say of fifty yards after the cloth is 
 fulled, some fabrics must come from the 
 loom sixty yards in length. Other woolens 
 shrink less. 
 
 After fulling, the cloth is thoroughly 
 washed and if any vegetable fibres remain it 
 is put through a carbonizing process. Ac- 
 cording to the finish desired, the cloth is 
 Napping or then napped or gigged. If a face or smooth 
 Raising the ends finlsh Is dcslrcd the cloth is first napped or 
 
 of fibres. . ... 
 
 gigged by the use of a wire napping machine 
 or a teasel gig. This process raises the ends 
 of the fibres on the face of the cloth. It is 
 afterwards sheared and pressed. The teasel 
 used in gigging the cloth is a vegetable pro- 
 Teasel duct in form somewhat the shape of a pine 
 pr^uS*^* cone. Invention has not yet discovered a 
 mechanical process which can entirely sup- 
 plant it. If a lustrous finish is desired the 
 
cloth is wound on copper cylinders and steam 
 forced through it at a high pressure. 
 
 The cloth now ready for coloring is put 
 into large dye tubs which hold six or more 
 pieces according to the weight of the ^bric 
 and contain the desired shades of colorings. 
 
 This process is descriptive of the so- Piece dyemg 
 called piece-dye fabric meaning that it is '^""^ 
 dyed after being woven. A cloth composed 
 of various colored yams, or as it is termed a 
 mixture, is treated differently, the stock 
 being dyed before the picking process or 
 immediately after scouring. In a worsted Sttckdyem 
 mixture the dyeing is done either while the 
 wool is in the slubbing — that is when it has 
 been subjected to the first combing process — 
 or the yam is dyed in the skein. 
 
 After being taken from the dve-vats the 
 cloth is passed to the dryers and subjected to 
 the several processes of dry finishing whidi 
 

 mi 
 
 Finishing 
 
 at the Washington Mills 
 
the various kinds of finish demand, the cloth 
 being steamed, brushed and pressed. It is 
 then submitted to another careful and rigid Examining 
 examination. If any imperfections or de- 
 fects appear which are not easily remediable 
 the cloth is rejected and graded as so-called 
 seconds. Then comes the measuring and 
 packing when the cloth finally is ready for 
 the market. 
 
National and 
 Providence 
 Worsted Mills 
 Providence^ R. I. 
 
HE American Woolen Com- 
 pany was formed in the early 
 part of 1899. The corpora- 
 tion has a capital of $50,000,- 
 000 and operates 28 distinct 
 plants comprising 147 buildings with a floor 
 space of 125 acres. 
 
 At the head of this organization is Mr. 
 William M. Wood, who has been the Com- 
 pany's treasurer and chief executive since its 
 inception. 
 
 The policy of the Company is the manu- 
 facture of a large amount of goods at a small 
 margin of profit, and with its 7,000 looms it 
 has facilities for producing the best cloth at 
 the least cost. 
 
The Company produces a great many 
 yards of cloth, but its product is much 
 diversified — as many as 60,000 different 
 fabrics and styles being shown each year. 
 
 Standing as it does at the very head of the 
 woolen manufacturing industry in the world, 
 it produces goods within the reach of all 
 classes as well as cloth for the finest wear 
 which is unsurpassed at home or abroad. 
 
 American Woolen Company Properties 
 
 Washington Mills . . 
 Saranac Mills . . . 
 National & Providence 
 Worsted Mills . . 
 Fulton Mills . 
 Fitchburg Mills 
 Beoli Mills 
 Valley Mills . 
 Riverside Mills 
 AssABET Mills . 
 Sawyer Mills . 
 
 Lawrence, Mass. 
 Blackstone, Mass. 
 
 Providence, R. I. 
 Fulton, N. Y. 
 Fitchburg, Mass. 
 Fitchburg, Mass. 
 Providence, R. I. 
 Providence, R. I. 
 Maynard, Mass. 
 Dover, N. H. 
 
Bay State Mills . 
 Beaver Brook Mills 
 Vassalboro Mills 
 Puritan Mills 
 Anderson Mills 
 Kennebec Mills 
 M ANTON Mills 
 Anchor Mills 
 Burlington Mills 
 Chase Mills . 
 Brown Mills . 
 Ray Mills . . 
 Weybosset Mills 
 Baltic Mills . 
 Moosup Mills 
 Lebanon Mills 
 Prospect Mills 
 Globe Mills . 
 
 Lowell, Mass. 
 Lowell, Mass. 
 North Vassalboro, Me. 
 Plymouth, Mass. 
 Skowhegan, Me. 
 Fairfield, Me. 
 Manton, R. I. 
 Harrisville & Pascoag, R. I. 
 Winooski, Vt. 
 Webster, Mass. 
 Dover, Me. 
 Franklin, Mass. 
 Providence, R. I. 
 Enfield, N. H. 
 Moosup, Conn. 
 Lebanon, N. H. 
 Lawrence, Mass. 
 Lawrence, Mass. 
 
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