Identifier: newenglandmagaziv37bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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Marsden Jasiel Perry, born poor, of pioneer parents, is president of the Union Trust Company, organizing genius of Rhode Island public-service corporations, and owner of the Central Railway of Georgia jointly with Oakley Thorn, of New York. He never held a political office, but has been mentioned for United States Senator. He has the finest collection of Shakespeariana in America The States Leading Industries The principal industry of Rhode Island, in the number of people employed and the alue of product, is the manufacture of woollen goods. The woollen-mills, inclu-ding those which make worsteds, employed,according to the last census bulletin, 19,399people, of whom 9,582 were listed as menover sixteen years old; 7,984, as women 146 NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE
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Statue to Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, in Roger Williams Park, Providence over sixteen years; and 1,833 as childrenunder sixteen years. The capital investedwas nearly $47,000,000; the number of es-tablishments, thirty-two; the wages, nearlyten millions; the value of products, a littleabove $52,500,000. Cotton manufacturingruns a close second to woollens. The valueof cotton-mill products in the same year wasover $30,000,000, and the wages nearly eight millions. Foundry and machine-shop prod-llucts rank third in the list, with 9,294)employees, and an annual output worth jnearly $16,500,000. Providence is the chief jcentre of the jewelry trade of the United)States. With Attleboro, the near-by city inMassachusetts, it produces more jewelrythan any other section of the country. The6,475 workers employed in the jewelry ; WHATS THE MATTER WITH RHODE ISLAND? 147 trade of Rhode Island in 1905, the latest-ear for which figures are obtainable,arned $3,181,597 in wages and turnedmt a

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