How They Lived in Hampton: A Study of Practical Christianity Applied in the Manufacture of Woollens

The author suggests that Essay on the Christian relations of the capitalist and the workman will be read more broadly if it is presented in a narrative form. It must be said that the details related to the manufacturing business have the credibility of a well-known and successful manufacturer of woolen products. The author himself was a man who, in 1873, was invited by the owners of three different woolen factories to take them and proceed with the proposed plan. Hampton was a small factory town with one woolen factory, in which about sixty thousand dollars were invested. The village was beautiful - quadrangular and clear in plan, as I should have done it - but with obvious conveniences for workers and working women. Lines of maples of about twenty, or rather, less, obscured the streets, perhaps grew slightly near the facades of houses. The houses were not blocks. They were separated from each other, and each house had at its disposal, so to speak, no less an acre of land than a home garden. As the author walked around the village and promoted his research into the back alleys, he noticed that in many cases the plots were associated with the back plots, so that these gardens were significantly larger than an acre. The mill was near a village street, next to the Beaver Brook, which had been blocked off to form a waterfall that would provide electricity. The church, town hall and school building looked out on three sides to a small public square, planted with trees and flowers, in the middle of which there was a fountain.