Excerpt from Adam Clarke, a Story of the Toilers: Being a Narrative of the Experiences of a Family of British Emigrants to the United States in Cotton Mill, Iron Foundry, Coal Mine, and Other Fields of LaborI have sought, in the following story, simple in its plot, but dealing with some prominent incidents of recent and current American history, to present a true picture of the conditions of labor in the United States. I have taken a respectable British family, a widowed mother and sons and daughters, all brought up in habits of industry and thrift, and traced them through years of faithful effort in various fields of toil. The technical features of the work have been carefully studied. I got up at mid night in my hotel in Pittsburgh to go into the roll ing-mills and learn to describe their operations in language that would be correct as well as intelligible. The story of the great Pittsburgh riots I obtained from the lips of former Mayor McCarthy of that city, and from others who took an active part in the terrible episode. A long period of service as a newspaper man in New England gave me an opportunity to become thoroughly acquainted with the cotton mills. For information as to Pennsylvania coal mines and the scenes of the Coeur d'Alene, I have had to depend on the usual sources of public information, and I have spared no effort to be accurate.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.