Here is a view of a highly specialized industry that has come to center in and about Troy, New York. It is the making of linen collars. The girls in the left-hand row in the center of the scene are folding the collars. The ones on the right-hand side are ironing the collars after they are folded. The processes involved in collar making are very simple. The collar factory buys its linen in the open market usually. This raw stock is shipped to them in the bolt. It goes to the cutting room where it is fashioned in the proper form. Then it goes to the sewing room, and then to the room that you see here. The finished collars are then ready for packing in cardboard boxes. These boxes are packed in larger wooden boxes, called crates, and are sent to the wholesaler or the retailer. The collars are of various shapes and designs. Usually, one department in every large collar

factory has its special artists who make up shapes which they think represent the best style. You will notice, too, that most collars are stamped as three-ply or four-ply. This means that there are three or four thicknesses of linen used in the making of that particular collar. The standard collar that men generally wear is four-ply. The linen collar industry is a fine example of the centering of an industry in one place without any particular reason for its being there. Troy makes four-fifths of the country's supply of collars. There is no special reason for this except that the industry began here. Troy is 6 miles north of Albany on the Hudson River. It marks the end of the tidal flow in the Hudson. It is connected with the Great Lakes and Canada by the Erie and the Champlain Canals. It is a city of over 75,000 population.