He was possessed of a handsome person and pleasing manners, and was a general favorite in the
factory. Nevertheless, as this young man was in the eye of the law not a man, but a thing, all these superior qualifications were subject to the control of a vulgar, narrow-minded, tyrannical master.
I happened to arrive at the first
factory just as the dinner hour was over, and the girls were returning to their work; indeed the stairs of the mill were thronged with them as I ascended.
The Manufacturer, seeing that he could get no labour for a long time and finding the times pretty hard anyhow, burned down his shoe
factory for the insurance, and when the strikers wanted to resume work there was no work to resume.
"No; but the
factory is only a part of the machinery of the system.
The
factory hands and others followed behind, talking and shouting.
It must ha' been here, because here's the house with the o'erhanging window--I know that--it's just the same; but they've made this new opening; and see that big
factory! It's all gone--chapel and all."
After much deliberation, the Captain took twelve Sandwich Islanders on board, for the service of the
factory, should there be one in existence, and proceeded on his voyage.
Maggie Toole, on account of her dull eyes, broad mouth and left- handed style of footwork in the twostep, went to the dances with Anna McCarty and her "fellow." Anna and Maggie worked side by side in the
factory, and were the greatest chums ever.
'I must kiss the hand,' said she, 'that has worked in this fine
factory for a dozen year!' And she lifted it, though he would have prevented her, and put it to her lips.
Over the eternal collars and cuffs in the
factory Maggie spent the most of three days in making imaginary sketches of Pete and his daily environment.
But only ten days after she had joined, Marija's canning
factory closed down, and that blow quite staggered them.
The
factory workpeople had preceded me by nearly an hour, and the mill was all lighted up and in full operation when I reached it.