the gap between rich and poor was great,both in incom and in the nature of their clothing,equipment and pattern of life.at a time when the dollar was so big that,5000 a year was an inviting sum tooffer to head of an insurance company,there were merchants in the seaside cities who were making hundreds of thousands a year,one Bostond merchant is said to have cleard 100,000 from one voyage of one of his ships .not only was such a man rich -with of course no incom tax to pay-but his wealth was instantly apparent to anybody who saw him and his lady in the street.you could tell a distance of 50 paces that their clothes were quite different in material and cut those of ordinary folk