Making Whips

The broom factory and whip factories under the management of Messrs. Weaver & Bardall, are conducted upon the same principles. Here, however, the smaller and weaker of the prisoners, who could not stand the heavier labor, are employed. Each room has the appearance of a busy hive of bees. The long benchers in the whip factory are filled with men and boys, who are kept busy at making whips of all kinds, from the "dog whip," destined to fill the delicate hand and taper finger of the Boston belle, as she fastidiously glides along the fashionable promenades of the city of "Culcha and Baked Beans," accompanied by her skye terrier or her more hydrophobic spitz, to the long cattle whip of the cowboy on the Texas plains. Whips in all stages of composition, from the thin strips as long as one's hand to the finished oiled and varnished whip, ready to ship, are constantly going through process of manufacture.