Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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into duck then it waB shipped out and then lampwiek depart-
ment went down.
Now, William E. Hooper also made mailbags for the govern-
ment - c mas mailbags for years they made canvas bags and
that was made over in their concrete buildings. I never
worked over in that part, but I been through there because
my job weighing up I would lot of times have an hour, an
hour and a half with no work to do. And I would go around
the mi31 as long as I kept my work up and the boss didn't
bother me, And I worked there then and in 1919 the war
was over and that's when I left the mills.
But when I was a boy, speaking of the mills, on account
of the transportation, the mills had large tube - four,
five, six of them running from all the mills - Meadow Mill,
Clipper Mill, even down to Mt. Vernon; although Mt. Vernon
did have a railroad siding for the bales to come in at that
time. And there was a bridge there right below where Falls
Road and coming down from Hampden and Falls Road the mills
come together. That's where they brought the
Clipper Mill and Meadow Mill and Drufd Mill and Park M i l l
and Woodberry Mill all had these blowers; where they could
blow it instead of having to haul the bales with the wagon;
saved them time. They were up for many years.
Of course then as modern transportation trucks and
stuff come in, why - and the mills started to close - why
they tore them all down and hand them the other way. And
in Mt. Vernon mill they got permission to cross Jones Falls