RATED the petition, has heard many complain of the long
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Mr.. s. P. ADAMS, member Of the House from Lowell
said he worked in the machine shop and the men were
as intelligent as any other class, and enjoyed as good
health as any persons who work indoors the air in the
shop s as good as in any shop about $50 hands work
there about half dozen of whom what called ten
hour men they all would be ten hour men they could
get as good pay.


The only witnesses whom the committee examined.
whose names were net on the petition, Mr. Adams
and Mr. Isaac Cooper, member OF the House from Lo-
WELL and who has worked in the Lawrence
cotton mills for nine years his evidence was very full
he gave his opinion that the girls in the mills enjoy
the health the that they rise early 60
bed early, and have their meals regular In has room
there 60 girls and since 1887 has known OF only one
girl who went home and died He does net hnd
that those who stay the longest in The mill grow scky
and week. The heated ny steam pipes, and the
tempera Of tho rooms regulated by thermometer
II he believes in all the mills The Ieat OF the room
varies from 50 TO 65 degrees.


During our short stay in Lowell we gathered many
facts which deem Of sufficient importance to state IN
this report; and irst, in relation to the


Hours OF LABOR.


From Mr. Clark, the agent of the Merrmack Corpora.
ton we obtained the following table OF the time which
the mills run during the year


Begin Wo,k -From ls May to 3st August. at o'clock.


From ls September to sOh April, as soon as they can
Breakfa, lst November TO 2sh February, before


goiag 70 work. From st March to 3lst March, at rs


O'clock. From Let April TO 10th September mt


O'Clock. From 10th September to 3is October, at "a


o'clock. Return in hall an hour.


Dinner.-Through the year at l23 o'clock. From LIST
May to 3lst August, return in as minutes. From LIST


September to s0h April, return in 80 minutes.
Quit Work.-Frem lst May to 3lst August at O'CLOCK


From ls September to 18th September, at dark. From
20.h September to 10th March, at u o'clock. From
2O,h March to sOth April, at dark


Lamps are never lighted on Saturday evenings. The
above is the time which is kept in all the mills in
Lowell, with slight difference in the machine shcp
and 1t makes the average daily time throughout the
year. drumming the mills, to be twelve hours and ten
minutef.


There four days in the year which observed
holidays. and which the mills put in mo-
tion. These Fast Day, Fourth of July, Thanks.
giving Day, aud Christmas Day. These make one day
than is usually devoted to pastime in any other
place New England. The following table shows the
average hours per day, throughout the year. In
the IoweIl Mills