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Johnstown & Gloversville railway (connecting at Fonda, about 9 m. distant, with the New York Central), and by electric lines connecting with Johnstown, See also:

Amsterdam and See also:

SCHENECTADY

Schenectady. The city has a public library (26,000 volumes in 1908), the Nathan Littauer memorial See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital, a See also:

state armoury and a See also:

FINE

fine See also:

government See also:

BUILDING

building. Gloversville is the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

GLOVE (O. Eng. glof, perhaps connected with Gothic lofa, the palm of the hand)

glove-manufacturing centre in the See also:

UNITED

United States. In 1900 Fulton county produced more than 57%, and Gloversville 38.8%, of all the See also:

leather gloves and mittens made in the United States; in 1905 Gloversville produced 29.9% of the leather gloves and mittens made in the United States, its products being valued at $5,302,196. Gloversville has more than a See also:

SCORE (O.E. scor, from sceran, to cut, notch, cf. " shear ")

score of tanneries and leather-See also:

FINISHING

finishing factories, and manufactures See also:

FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur goods. In 1905 the city's See also:

TOTAL

total factory product was valued at $9,340,763. The extraordinary localization of the glove-making See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry in Gloversville, Johnstown and other pfi,rts of Fulton county, is an incident of much See also:

INTEREST

interest in the economic See also:

HISTORY

history of the United States. The industry seems to have had its origin among a See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony of See also:

PERTHSHIRE

Perthshire families, including many glove-makers, who were settled in this region by See also:

Sir See also:

William See also:

Johnson about 176o.

For many years the entire product seems to have been disposed of in the neighbourhood, but about 1809 the goods began to find more distant markets, and by 1825 the industry was firmly established on a prosperous basis, the See also:

trade being handed down from See also:

FATHER

father to son. An interesting phase of the development is that, in addition to the factory See also:

WORK

work, a large amount of the industry is in the hands of " See also:

home workers " both in the See also:

TOWN

town and See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country districts. Gloversville, settled originally about 1770, was known for some See also:

time as Stump City, its See also:

PRESENT

present name being adopted in 1832. It was incorporated as a See also:

VILLAGE

village in 1851 and was chartered as a city in 189o. GLOW-See also:

WORM

WORM, the popular name of the wingless See also:

FEMALE

female of the See also:

BEETLE (O. Eng. bityl; connected with " bite ")

beetle Lampyris noctiluca, whose See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of emitting See also:

LIGHT

light has been See also:

FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

familiar for many centuries. The luminous See also:

ORGANS

organs of the glow-worm consist of cells similar to those of the See also:

FAT (O.E. fdett; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vet, Ger. Fett, &c., and may be ultimately related to Greek Irian, and =apos, and Sanskrit pivan)

fat-See also:

BODY

body, grouped into paired masses in the ventral region of the hinder abdominal segments. The light given out by the wingless female See also:

INSECT

insect is believed to serve as an attraction to the flying male, whose luminous organs remain in a rudimentary See also:

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition. The See also:

COMMON

common glow-worm is a widespread See also:

EUROPEAN

European and Siberian insect, generally distributed in See also:

England and ranging in See also:

Scotland northwards to the See also:

Tay, but unknown in See also:

Ireland. See also:

EXOTIC (Gr. EWTIK6s, foreign, from few, outside)

Exotic See also:

SPECIES

species of Lampyris are similarly luminous, and light-giving organs are present in many genera of the See also:

FAMILY

family Lampyridae from various parts of the See also:

WORLD

world. Frequently—as in the See also:

south European Luciola italica—both sexes of the beetle are provided with wings, and both male and female emit light. These luminous, winged Lampyrids are generally known as " See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire-flies. " In See also:

correspondence with their power of emitting light, the See also:

INSECTS

insects are nocturnal in See also:

HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit.

Elongate centipedes of the family Geophilidae, certain species of which are luminous, are sometimes mistaken for the true glow-worm.

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