stones (a back-breaking operation, apparently, in the attitude of laundresses bent over an eternal washboard), are all highly entertaining.  In the store-rooms we see the handsome sheets of morocco, including the kangaroo skins from Australia, perforated here and there with the hunter’s shot, and distinguishable by the enormous flap which has, in the creature’s life, encased the tail.  Among them all the little orphaned kid skins, clothed in mourning colors and so soft and small, look very innocent and interesting.  The distinguishing claim of Wilmington is that of having been the pioneer to introduce machinery into this as into other kinds of business.  Several kinds of labor-saving apparatus are explained to us, and the foresight in building the apartments so that the skins travel from stage to stage with the least possible lifting is pointed out.  These economies are said to be unmatched in the world.  In this manufacture the relations of employers with employed, and amongst each other, would appear to be particularly happy.  The morocco-makers of Wilmington seem to believe that worth makes the man, that readiness to do a favor to fellow-manufacturers is what shows the true “grain,” and that “the rest is naught but leather and prunello.”  In dealing with their men, Messrs. Pusey, Scott & Co. have kept up the best relations, and have solved the difficult, the crucial problem in these latitudes, of inducing whites and negroes to labor side by side at the same task in harmony.  We believe that this one fact alone, if we were able to develop it eloquently, would be found to stamp the character of the principals with the best traits of benevolence, tact and sense.  Mr. Warner, our guide through the premises, concludes the exhibition by showing us a curious set of great books in the counting house, where the foreman of each department records his answer daily to a list of printed questions, stating his figures, his ideas, reports, suggestions and complaints.  This diurnal inquisition, which morally gives ventilation to the whole establishment, and relieves difficulties at their start, seems to be another indication of an enviable relationship, keeping up an excellent, old-fashioned sympathy between employers and operatives.

From morocco-dressing to carriages, which are curtained and cushioned with morocco, is not a difficult step.  La Bruyere, who wrote a whole book without making any transitions, would have passed without effort from the establishment of Pusey, Scott & Co. to the coach-factory of McLear & Kendall.  It should be premised that coach-building is another of the very special successes of Wilmington.  She produced last year an amount, in cash value, of carriages greater than her iron ships, greater than her cotton fabrics, being one million four hundred thousand dollars.  The engraving shows the outside magnitude of McLear & Kendall’s factory, the largest in the city, but cannot show the curious effect of the great show-room,