The Wellington, North Adams.

There is little to be compared between the meagre facilities and crude productions of 1831 and the costly equipments and fine dress fabrics turned out by the Arnold and the Windsor Print Works to-day. The former concern, founded by that energetic and enterprising trio, Harvey, Oliver and John F. Arnold, has grown to be an immense establishment with its print works and its cotton mills for supplying print cloths. Under the watchful care of its president, A. C. Houghton, and its treasurer, William Arthur Gallup, it never ceases to grow and keep abreast of the times in its productions. The Windsor Company, the successor of the old Freeman Print Works, is a most progressive concern, which Mr. Levi L. Brown of Adams was largely interested in founding and which, under the management of Colonel John Bracewell, formerly of the Cocheco Print Works of Dover, New Hampshire, has taken a position among the foremost of the printing establishments of the country.

The manufacture of shoes was begun in North Adams, in a very humble way, in 1843, by Edwin Childs and David C. Rogers. There are to-day in North Adams six shoe factories; and about twenty-five hundred of the inhabitants are employed in this industry. The Millards, the Cadys, George W. Chase, W. H. Whitman, J. M. Canedy and Calvin T. Sampson were the pioneers in the shoe industry the latter bringing North Adams to the attention of the whole country when, in 1870, after a long struggle with labor organizations, he imported seventy-five Chinamen to do the work in his factory, the first introduction of Chinese cheap labor into the East.

There is little room to speak of the woollen industry, of which Sanford Blackinton and the Braytons were aniong the pioneers, nor of the gingham business, started by Sylvander Johnson. The early iron industry departed long ago; but it lived long enough to do one signal service to the country and the world, -for there is a well founded tradition that the iron of which the first ironclad, the Monitor, was built was dug at the foot of Greylock and melted into pigs in North Adams.

The same thrift and progress that characterize North Adams is found in the mother town of Adams to-day. The factories and houses have pushed out in all directions from the little centre of long ago. A beautiful town hall has taken the place of the old town building on the Howland place, the cause of so much dissension seventy years ago. A fine memorial building, the corner stone of which was laid by President McKinley (for the chief magistrate comes to Adams