[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] is that of extracting the wool from rags, so that it can be used again. It was begun on Nepperhan Street, but in 1877 it was moved to Chicken Island in a building leased of Edward Underbill. This was burned in 1881, causing a loss of four thousand dol-lars. The present factory, on Bridge Street, near Ludlow Station, was then built and occupied. It employs from twelve to fifteen hands. There is in the State but one other establishment of this kind, and that is located at Little Falls. The New York Plow Company. — The business from which this has grown was started at Peekskill by Messrs. Minor & Horton as far back as the year 1826. In 1863 that business fell into the hands of the Peekskill Plow Company. This afterwards con-solidated with the New York Plow Company, which had then been recently started at Newark, N. J., and the business was transferred thither. The works there having been burned, the business >vas removed to Yonkers in 1878, where the large building on Vark Street, between Riverdale and Hawthorne Ave-nues, previously used by the Clipper Mowing-Machine Company, was secured and occupied till 1882. Then the business was removed to its present location at the foot of Vark Street. The foundry here is eighty by one hundred and fifty feet, the forge-shop forty-two by two hundred and ten feet and the pattern-