Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1896 — The Workingman’s Town. [ARTICLE]

The Workingman’s Town.

The working man’s town is the name that is very appropriately given to St Etienne, In France, for it seems quit* three-fourths of its 133,000 inhabitants derive their support from the mine, ths gun factory, the foundry and the loom, Of this large body" of wage-earners by far the most intelligent are the weavers, numbering about 30,000. Of th« 18,000 looms in St. Etienne, the greatei number are owned by the individual weavers and worked by hand In theii own homes. W’hile it is apparent thal the recent inventions for the transmission of power by electricity will short, ly effect an alteration in the methods, it is not thought that it will change the location of the work to any appre clable extent.