Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

LEWIS ;099 I:2:35
needed water for steam and race. One race they had the dam:
I' don't know if it's still standing back of Park Mill up
there - that's where the water was diverted and come around
into Meadow Mill. And they had one up above there where it
came down into that m ill . . . Park M ill, came into that
and that was diverted up near the trestle, where the Penn-
sylvania Railroad trestle, Then the one that back
of Milford Mill there come down to Meadow M ill. There was a
pool over there that water coming in they could run it back
over the falls. But that run on down to Clipper Mill, supp-
lied water for Clipper Mill - for their toilets and their
machinery. Then down at Mt. Vernon that dam is
practically washed out in there that's where their water was
diverted and went in.
And the power was all made down in the lower Mt. Vernon
Mill and the belt that formed the power up upper Mt. Vernon
Mill crossed Falls Road. You know that mill where we was in?
That's upper; the lower was down below and they had a big belt
that went across the road up there. A11 the way up at that
mill and turned the wheels up there and run the machinery up
there.
Harvey: Well, when I asked why you think they had the mill
out here, do you think they'd have had them if they hadn't
been making money off people working for them7
Lewis: Well, the mills . . . w ell, any company goes in
business is going to make money. The difference in our
country and Russia is that you've got the ability to do