Prices per lb in each Year of some Colonial, Foreign and English Wools, also of Alpaca and Mohair.
Material. 1874.' 1880. 1885. 1890. 1895. 1900. 1901.* 1902." 1905. Port Philip— Greasy . Adelaide-— Greasy . Cape— Greasy Buenos Aires—Greasy . ft British Wool . . . Alpaca m 33-35 13-15 12H4I 22-14 I8-I3J 141-27 16-13 12I-16 151-19 13J-16 Mohair .... 35-45 27-35-21 14-19 14-30 20I-17 19-17 15 1 Year of the highest values of wools ever reached within recent times. • Years of the lowest values of wools ever reached within recent times.
Summary of Woollen and Worsted Factories and of Persons employed in the same in the United Kintiom.
1867 1874. 1885. 1889. 1901. 1904. Factories Rag grinding machines . Woollen carding sets Worsted combing machines . Spinning spindles . Doubling spindles . Power looms .... Children (half timers) Persons working full time — Males Females .... 2.649 1,038 6455.879 519.629 H8.875 33 54 94.8i8 134.368 2,617 1.276 5449495 558.914 140.274 38416 106,005 135.712 75» 5.375.102 769492 139.902 24.636 2.517 5.604535 969.812 131.506 22940 120441 158.175 7.475 102,876 149558 2.382 900 6,700 2.924 5.625477 1.059.049 104.514 Summary of Exports of Wool, Wool Waste, Sous, Tops, Yams and Fabrics from (he United Kingdom.
1840. 1882. 1890. 1900. 1907. British Wool . . Foreign and Colonial Waste .... Noils . . . . Tops . Worsted Yarn . . Mohair, Ac. Yarn . Woollen Yarn . . Cloths . . . . Apparel 5.000,000 2,000,000 264,100,000 20340.300 S.752,200 1.992400 £18.768,634 £1 .380.000 19,500,000 342,200,000 2.397.6CO 10,234,700 9,016,000 39.510,100 12,959.600 , 1 .572.700 £20418482 £1,700,000 24,900,000 I97.5oo.ooo 1.593100 7,897400 28,031,200 36.075.900 10,397,700 1,088.300 £15.682.154 £1.700,000 34^500^000 314,200,000 o.937.ioo 12.689,700 35.580,000 55.52 1. Too 17,782,800 2,576.100 £22,153,680 £2.550.546
WOOLLETT, WILLIAM (1735–1785), English engraver, was
born at Maidstone, of a family which came originally from
Holland, on the 15th of August 1735. He was apprenticed
to John Tinney, an engraver in Fleet Street, London, and studied
in the St Martin's Lane academy. His first important plate
was from the "Niobe" of Richard Wilson, published by Boydell
in 1761, which was followed in 1763 by a companion engraving
from the "Phaethon" of the same painter. After West he
engraved his fine plate of the "Battle of La Hogue" (1781),
and "The Death of General Wolfe" (1776), which is usually
considered Woollett's masterpiece. In 1775 he was appointed
engraver-in-ordinary to George III.; and he was a member of
the Incorporated Society of Artists, of which for several years
he acted as secretary. He died in London on the 23rd of May
1785.
In his plates, which unite work with the etching-needle, the dry-point and the graver, Woollett shows the greatest richness and variety of execution. In his landscapes the rendering of water is particularly excellent. In his portraits and historical subjects the rendering of flesh is characterized by great softness and delicacy. His works rank among the great productions of the English school of engraving. Louis Fagan, in his Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of William Woollett (1885), has enumerated 123 plates by this engraver.
WOOLMAN. JOHN (1720-1772), American Quaker preacher, was born in Northampton, Burlington county; New Jersey, in August 1720. When he was twenty-one he went to Mount Holly, where he was a clerk in a store, opened a school for poor children and became a tailor. After 1743 he spent most of his time as an itinerant preacher, visiting meetings of the Friends in various parts of the colonies. In 1772 he sailed for London to visit Friends in the north of England, especially Yorkshire, and died in York of smallpox on the 7th of October. He spoke and wrote against slavery, refused to draw up wills transferring slaves, induced many of the Friends to set their negroes free, and in 1760 at Newport, Rhode Island, memorialized the Legislature to forbid the slave trade. In 1763 at Wehalooaing (now Wyalusing), on the Susquehanna, he preached to the Indians; and he always urged the whites to pay the Indians for their lands and to forbid the sale of liquor to them.
Woolman wrote Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes (1754; part ii., 1762); Considerations on Pure Wisdom and Human Policy, on Labor, on Schools and on the Right Use of the Lord's Outward Gifts (1768); Considerations on the True Harmony of Mankind, and How it is to be Maintained (1770): and A Word of Remembrane and Caution to the Rich (1793}; and the most important of important of his writings, The Journal of John Woolman: Life and Travels in the Service of the Gospel (1775), which was begun in his thirty-sixth year and was continued until the year of his death. The best known edition is that prepared, with an introduction, by John G. Whittier in 1871. The Works of John Woolman appeared in two parts at Philadelphia, in 1774-1775, and have been republished; a German version was printed in 1852.
WOOLNER, THOMAS (1825-1892), British sculptor and poet, was born at Hadleigh, Suffolk, on the 17th of December 1825. When a boy he showed talent for modelling, and when barely thirteen years old was taken as an assistant into the studio of William Behnes, and trained during four years. In December 1842 Weolner was admitted a student in the Royal Academy, and in 1843 exhibited his "Eleanor sucking Poison from the Wound of Prince Edward." In 1844, among the competitive works for decorating the Houses of Parliament was his life-size group of "The Death of Boadicea." In 1846 he had at the Royal Academy a graceful bas-relief of Shelley's " Alastor." Then came (1847) " Feeding the Hungry/' a bas-relief, at the Academy; and at the British Institution a brilliant statuette