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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 1 1 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 2: early political action and military training. (search)
men and children as well as men, were engaged in daily labor in mills whose machinery was driven by what was then the largest improved single water power in the country. This city had also a singular peculiarity regarding the conduct of its operations. All the capital employed, with the exception of the merest trifle, was owned by non-residents. The management of that capital was in the form of several large corporations, in each of which was a very considerable community of Mrs Blanche Butler Ames. From a photograph. stockholders. The business affairs of these productive establishments were carried on precisely alike. The bells of each rang their laborers in and out of the mills; called them to arise in the morning and take their breakfast by candle light, save in the very longest days; rang them to take their supper at half-past 7 in the evening by such light as might be at that hour. An intermission of thirty minutes only was allowed for dinner. By means of carefully