I think you are asking about the mills and if so children are small and could fit under the machines while it was running. So, instead of turning off the machine to clean out the fluff and floss from spinning the cloth a child was sent under to clean it out. Many died in this task.
William Talbott Childs has written: 'John McDonogh, his life and work'
Childs Frick died in 1965.
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