Through the
points in which this arc cuts the radial lines already drawn, a new
series of verticals is passed, which will divide another portion of A
C as required, and by repeating this process the spacing of the whole
neck may be effected by a diagram of reasonable size.
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GLOVE MAKING.
Glove making is almost a century old in this country, having been
begun in the neighborhood of Gloversville and Johnstown, N.Y., about
1803. Until 1862 the manufacture of gloves in Fulton County, although
even then the chief manufacturing industry, was of comparatively small
importance. Gloversville and Johnstown were then quiet villages of
from three to four thousand people. The flourishing establishments of
to-day, or such of them as then existed, were small and comparatively
unimportant. In 1862 the stimulating influence of a high protective
tariff showed itself in the increased business at Gloversville,
Johnstown, and the adjoining hamlet, Kingsboro. These became at once
the leading sources of supply for the home market gloves of a medium
grade. The quality of the product has steadily improved, and the
variety has been increased, until now American-made gloves are
steadily driving out the foreign gloves.
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