r«rrsw»i*. •-tijiasrffWBMwnaB**: ,T i came plain as daylight to her. Thenl THE OLD PRINTING PRESS. but it is not equal to that of the sea islands, nal roll from the scutching machine that takes testing of thread is one of the most important ganization, one thousand three hundred and ambition stepped in. Heretofore her sum i, i a the cotton from the bales, only that now it is which istlie finest in the world. The first bag features in its production, and it would surprise From the AustralasianTypographical Journal. ninety-seven members have* been relieved, Soft and delicate as is possible to conceive, efforts had been mainly directed to I the ladv who sews day after day with and twenty-four deaths have occurred in the A song to the Press, the Printing Press of thissea island cotton of the crop of 1876 was eighing only one hundred and forty-live Clark's "O. N. T." Spool Cotton, to know by Of the g«od old-fashioned kind, copying in her room such pictures as society. The reason that the receipts for 1874 purchased by the Clark Thread Company at fifty grains to the yard, nine inches wide. It now what patient and cousttnt care the perfect uidl87Gare hss than usual, is because the Kre the giant machine, with its pulse of she could possess herself of. Now cents per pound. The inland eotton is not a ifoes in rolls to a wonderful little machine, smoothness and regularity of the thread was fund had reached the maximum of $1,CO0^ steam, however, as the fine summer weather used in the manufacture of thread, being too French invention, first introduced in this lilbows it out of mind. secured. It is now taken to the hank winding and payments were stopped. The following How, and Where it It Made—The| was at hand, she concluded to work country by the Clark Thread Company. It is department aud wound upon large bobbins, very interesting table snows the amount received In the days of yore short in the fiber. On these sea islands were Clark Thread Company—Largest from nature. So, taking her material refined carding machine, the product of and oat from 1870 to 1878 incluve: when it is ready for the last wind upon paid Our lathers hoar the richest planters of the South in have wrought which is as much superior in fineness to the By Lis sturdy limbs the spools, from which it is taken by the consumers she would sally forth on these bright Works in the Hew World- large carders just described as the most elegant for its thousand uses of necessity and Of iron or oak,.' THE OLD SLAVE DATS, days into the woods and sketch whatever silk goods Yean. r- i U His spoke Acres of Splended Buildings—Forests are to boy's Payment*. teachings utility, from tying the rag on the whittled many of them having as high as six hundred of beauty in nature she could tl,504.28 1870.... ....#1,742,34 The burning thought. language oi and bloody finger, to the delicate embroidery of Wonderful slaves, and compared with whom the feudal THE COARSEST COTTON CLOT*. 1871.... Gnd. The exercise and the occupation 2,247.95. of the wedding garment. 2,010.82 lords of England were children in luxury, Pr«»! ia combing maeftine, and 872.... A song to the Press, the Printing It called the French ,.... 2,114.42 1,704.88 conjointly, brought roses to her cheeks Machinery. THE SPOOLING DEPARTMENT. 1873 As the carriage rolls merrilly along, hospitality, and elgeance. But to-day all i is only used by the best thread makers, as it 2,381.57 1,742.01 and a bright sparkle to her eyes. His pulls Iteme, 1874.... 856.60 stout sides groan, as the bar is very expensive and while it makes the The spooling room is a busy place, where 1,595.39 changed. Those vast estates are out np into One bright sunny afternoon, as she spools of 1875 1,511.01 Keeping time to *he pressman's song. thread superior in quality, it adds twenty per thread of all sizes and colors by tens 1,624.75 small plantations, many of them owned by sat busily engaged sketching in the wet Sheet cent, to the cost of manufacture. Six of the 77.04 Ana the crisp, of thousands are wound every day, two liun the negroes, who now call no man master. woods she heard alow whistle—a little dred yards on every spool. The self-acting 187$ 953.31 1,751.9-t On its errand fleet rolls of webbing are now past together through n n the combing machine between two rollers, and spooling machine is a marvelous piece of mechanism. By anxious hands is sped, familiar ballad. Peering through the I Th0 rTOCeSS 01 MamifaCtUTfiJ seMOU's product, some They briuK iu thelr Total Though oit elsewhere combed by innumerable steel teeth to the fineness The spools are placed in an iron ....$£2,523.34 #11,936.52 foliage,she perceived, in the direction h™™ om. i«— times on a mule, and again in large quantities. It may sorrow bear, of gossamer and the thinness of a spider's gutter by the operator, when the machine picks Balance in treasury Jan. l, 1877, $986.82. from which the sound proceeded, a printer bread. Brokers on the ground or at the landings It brings to the web. It passes on, is gathered into one soft them up, puts them 011 a shaft eight at a time, man approaching with a portfolio buy and pay the negroes for their cotton, often round "sliver" again, goes through rollers winds the thread upon them at the rate of "o. HOW CLARK'S N. T." SPOOL COTTON ORIGINATED Then to the Press—the old Printing I here's under his arm and carelessly I once more, when it is coiled into cans as before, three thousand revolutions per minute, cuts a dviding the money according to the labor Press! Down It lie Cotton Fields—The Employees* with a loss of twenty per cent, on the little slot in the edge of the spool, catches the swinging a stout cane. He was walking performed in raising the crop. Some lease Until within a few years, the great difficulty Though his days be numbered now, material which composed the web when it was thread in it, nips it off, drops the spools full carelessly but sturdily towards Societies—The Clark to be overcome in the introduction of sewing laurel leaves A loud heart weaves, of the HOM the lands of the former owners, but the old put on the French machine. It is a texture of thread into boxes below, picks up eight machines, was the objections made by manucturers her when, raising his cudgel, he made A garland to deck his brow state of things is dun clar' gone." This Company—1 €rand Relief Society—Employees' so fine and soft that one cannot but wonder more empty spools, places, winds and drops and operators to the then popular Though the giant machine a dash at the ground with it, striking trade and traffic, it may be fairly expected, how it bears its own weight. After the last them as before, and never makes a mistake. threads. The complaints were so loud and Centennial With us puls& 01 steam, about a yard from where she sat. process, six of the slivers are again put through The machine, which is used In this country will in a few years largely increase the wealth well founded that the sale of sewing machines decay Has doomed his form to the drawing frame making one sliver 110 larger only bv The ('lark Thread Company, was exhibited Excursion—The Renowned Then raising himself up, lifting his I was greatly impeded on account of the impossibility and intelligence of the race in those localities. His stout old frame than any of the six frore. which it was drawn. by them at the Centennial, and. with hat he said with a gentle but manly of obtaining a thread adapted to their Eureka Club From our shall claim hearts Then six of these last are put through the same their magnificent case of goods was one of the THE SEA ISLAND COTTON use. Mr. George A. Clark, appreciating the voice "My dear Miss, I am extremely Remembrance for many a day. process reducing them in size six times, and great attractions among the many wonders of and Thistle brings treble the price of inland. An acre difficulty, introduced into the American market —GEORGE W. SOMEBVILLE. happy that I should have interrupted adding that to the length. This is repeated the exhibition. From the department, spooling the now famous Clark's "O. N. T." Spool will produce in the neighborhood of three Band. your occupation just as 1 did, or his three times, and each time they are coiled into the spooled thread is taken to Cotton, all numbers being six cord, from 8 to SOI.TinG THE PROBLEM. hundred and fifty pounds of seed cotton, which and cans. The last sliver is the same size snakeship," pointing to the snake to 100, which m^t the demand, did away with all THE WAKEROOH, weight as when the process began, although when ginned weighs about sevent-live pounds, which he had just dealt such a powerful complaints, and long since established its reputation doubled four hundred and thirty-five thousand, where the beautiful containing the little lable BY FRANK LARCH. or one to five. The negroes without doubt will as the best thread in u. e for st-wing and fatal blow, "would have done I four and fifty-six times. hundred The name, number, etc., of the thread, is put 011 machines or hand sewing. To Mr. George A, "To know what this life's struggle eventually grow all the cotton, as nol one in so much more effectually than I have, last cans to are now taken by girls. The quickest of them will put labels MANY INTERESTING PARTICULARS. Clark belongs the credit of being the first to five of the northern men, have thus far succeeded is all for, is more than I can fathom," and perhaps for a longer time." Sure I on the ends of nine or ten thousand in a day, supply those fine qualities of Six Cord S(.ool THE FIRST 8LUBBIX0 FBAHB, in their attempts. Let the reader remember said Ella Murray to her friend, Fanny enough. There lay beside her the all of which have to be moiftened by the Cotton with wliicli his name is associated. from which cans they are passed through rollers, that we have not looked at a single piece tongue, placed on the spool, and tli^n struck venomous reptile which would in an The thread is used and recommended by the Bonsall. "You know, my dear Fanny, then twisted to about the size of a lead with the hand to paste it. Some of these girls of machinery yet, and then calculate the number agents of the Sincer, Wheeler & Wilson,"Grover instant more have sprung upon her I have now been out of school two pencil, wound on bobbins, all by the same wf rk about as quick as lightning. After ticketing, & Baker, Domestic, Howe, Florence, of people and the amount of wealth these years and over, and it almost seems as |and stung her perhaps to death. machine. From this they go to the second [From the Essex County Press, Newark, N. J.] the spools of thread are put into boxes of Weed, Wilson, Bices, Remington, Secora The whole occurrence .. works employ and produce, before we reach if life had no object. I see people stubbing frame, where one hundred and two transpired in one dozen each. They are then ready for Home, Lathrop, and other sewing machine At the foot of Clark street, in the Eighth fact01j the'mi the commorce spindles on each machine are winding yarn I such an incredibly short time, that packing. About twenty-five thousand fret of around me in poverty and distress, companies. The superior quality of Clark's ward of the city of Newark, on the banks of enjoyment sup- from two hundred and four bobbins, which umber per month is cut at the mills in Michgan, Ella could hardly realize the danger O. N. T.'' Spool Cotton goon secured for it an struggling for a bare existence. And and manufactlinsB| all find to the Passaic, occupying several acres of ground,| ,s came from the first slubber, two threads being to the various lengths required, and all immense sale, but with the great popularity when they have attained a good po- I from which she had been rescued. ])]y The clark Thread Corapany works and wound upon one spool. The next or intermediate that is done here is to put the boxes together. of the goods came also counterfeits, which si tion in society, accumulated a for-' Gradually, however, the whole aito X"h ^IL"7X°.1wL? I?" b'°.omand maj slubbing machine winds upon one A private wire runs from the works in Newark made it necessary for the manufacturers to came to her and rendered her her speech tune and accomplished the objects for I camn to her and rendered SDeech-1 I unplucked, the coal miner may starve on a hundred and seventy-six spools, from three to the New York officn, and the line is kept adopt a trade mark for their own and the ated the largest thread works in the new world, I bed of black diamonds, the sails on the rivers hundred and fifty-two bobbins, which came which they strove, they seem no happier—indeed, I less. busy 111 orders and transmitting messages Sending public's protection, and now upon every from the second slubber. The next and last employing about fifteen hundred hands and I be spread to the breeze no more, and the lathes of the company. In the short time we "I fear, Miss," said the gentleman, genuine spool of their thread is the follow5*g: less happy than when is called the roving machine, and fills two were there several large orders came in from 'you intend to faint and that would to paying out everv two weeks from sixteen to I in a hundred shops de left to rust in silence, they were in the heat of the battle. hundred and forty spools, which come from different parts of the country, and among them "0. N. T." There is father, for instance. Why, my mind be quite as disastrous as a twenty thousand dollars in wages, to be dis-1 The manufacture of Clark's Spool four hundred ana eighty bobbins, from the were some from Maine, Texas, California, Wisconsin, only a few years ago, he was comparatively tributed by the employees among I Cotton embraces the islands of the sea, aud intermediate slubbing machine. By this repetition I snake bite." different Oregon, etc. The Clark Thread Company of doubling and twisting the yarn is last This had the elfect for which it was sends out annually, vast quantities of poor, and it was as much as classes and occupations in tho city, and from I penetrates the bowels of the earth, utilizing becoming strong and hard. We now follow show cards, calendars, etc., some of which are he could do to pay for Ed's and my I intended and brought Ella at once to fifteen to twenty thousand per month to other I treasures of wealth on every hand, enrichparties the yarn called "roving" to the self-acting magnificent specimens of the lithograpkki and schooling. lie constantly complained her senses for she had begun to feel here, who, in various ways, are con-1 *nS au^ blessing mankind at every step, from "mule,".which makes eight hundred and forty printers' art. very weak, as very "plucky" women of the cost and seemed to be always in I nected with this vast establishment. Although I womb of ages to the spiudles of Newark, threads of yarn from sixteen hundred and every This trade mark is familiar to mer do alter the danger is all past. "I 'm I I eighty bobbins. Tlii3 wonderful machine, IS THIS A FAIR COUNT? trouble over the expenses of his family. having the largest pay roll of any employers We examine into the immediate chant in the United States, and all who have now "O. N. T." two of which are operated by one man, draws ever tried the genuine Clark's Having now acquired his fortune, sure, sir, I cannot find words to thank I New Jersey, and contributing more to thelsourc®3 the power which drives the endless The number of feet of draft which one n out the yarn and twists it from sixteen hundred Spool Cotton, continue to use it. he seems to be still more unhappy you for your timely assistance, and a of I ynac^1'ner7 of pound of cotton undergoes is one trillion, seven I welfare and prosperity the city than all its this vast hive of industry, with ana eighty spools, when it comes away, hundred and seventy-two billion, three EMPLOYEES AT THE CENTENNIAL. than of old. I'm sure I cannot its sixty miles of belting and about seventy slight shudder ran through hei ^frame and on its return winds it on eight hundred financial institutions combined, we hear less in hundred and twenty million, six hundred and A scene again flashed cops (spools) making the last number of thread noticeable feature of The Clark Thread solve the problem. And Ned. too. He I as the whole I this world of wealth makers ImUes PiP6 for heating purposes, of steam thirty-five thousand, six hundred feet, or stated the ne of am. We now come to Company has always been their thoughtful his 111 figures, 1,772,320,635,600, a distance of haslnnshed education, beenad-throughhermind. than of some second-class money lending WE ENTEB THE ENGINE HOUSE, and considerate Httention to the* welfare and THE THREAD MILL, 335,477,682 miles. The following demonstrates mitted to the bar and is now working "No thanks are necessary, I didl would be useless f0r larSe eno«Sh for ordinary factory, itself jleasure of their employees. The Centennial It which is a distinct and independent department. the apparently incredible statement: day and night, to do what To amass |simply what any one should dp and 11 *^oad street. Here is .Wty production of human brain Exhibition afforded an opportunity for its The cotton yarn comes here, and first The web of cotton from which this immense a fortune as his father did before him. am very glad to have come in time. I practical illustration, which should not pass goes to the cop winding machines, where it is length of thread is drawn, is forty inches wide. the varied industries which have entered intolau(^ hrawn. In the presence of this monster, While he is not exactly unhappy, he see you are sketching. I, too, am an unnoticed in this article. Desiring to give all with its majestic tread, one feels his own insignificance run from the cops, through delicate balances, It goes to the carder, wnere it is drawn to their operatives an opportunity to witness the appears to be anything but contented, artist, and should be glad to compare the production of Clark's "0. N. T." Spool over soft felt ground, upon bobbins, two 4xli!0, equal to 4S0 feet. Then the drawing and frailty. This vast piece of machinery, great Exhibition at Philadelphia of what the and looks upon life as a perpetual notes with you." Cotton, which is sold by every merchant dealing frame increases it to 480x6, equal to 2,880 the threads together upon one. From the cop moving silently, save the sharp click nation had accomplished during the first hundred struggle, which it certainly is to him." Indeed, sir, I'm no artist. I was winding department, the bobbins go to the lapper 2,880x2 #, equal to 6,480 the comber in dry goods, fancy goods, hosiery, motions I years of its existence in industry and art, of the improved steam cut-offs, is equal in power draws it out to 6,480x26, equal to 168,480 then slinging department, where the two threads "Ella,'" exclaimed Mrs. Murray, entering simply amusing myself and should be etc ,in the United States, and contains two the company planned and carried to complete to the combined draft of six hundred horses, it goes to the first head drawing frame where that were run together on the spool, in the cop tne neat and tastily-furnished sorry to have you even look at the result." success a monster excursion to Philadelphia, Lundred yards of that indispensable article, 168,480x6 is equalto 1,010,880. winding department, are twisted or spun in and is two engines in one, usually termed a pailor, "why are you not dressing for which embraced their fifteen hundred employees, strong, smooth, and beautiful. It is made| one thread. The thread, as it is unwound, double engine. The fly wheel traveling at the with invited guests, members of the tea Here it is nearly three o'clock With that rare delicacy and tact THE SECOND DRAWING FBAXE runs through water, and rapidly over glass up of press, and the mayor and Common Council of rate of forty-eight revolutions per minute and and our friends will be inhere by four. which some men possess in so eminent guides, and the bobbin which receives it revolves multiplies the last length by six again, making the City of Newark. Some idea of its extent carrying three huge belts on its surface, each NEARLT FORTY-TWO MILLION DOUBLINGS, five thousand times per minute, twistting Go at once girls, and dress, instead of a degree, he passed at once from the 1,010,880x6 equal to 61)65,280, which repeated may be gained when it is known that fortyfive two feet wide, is seventy-eight feet in circumference, hundreds of threads 011 each machine. lounging your time away." subject saying, as Ella rose and gath on the third drawing frame makes a length of railroad coaches were employed for their and yet is so fine as to be hardly visible a ftw| After being twisted two threads together, making twenty-five feet in diameter, and 6,065,280x6 equal to 36,391,6S0 feet. Now accommodation, and the cost fortrrnsporatka It is hardly to be wondered that Ella ered up her materials, "If you do not inches from the naked eye. The immense capital one hard thread, three of the latter are weighs thirty tons or sixty thousand pounds. comes the first slubbing frame where 36,391,680x5 admission, entertainment, etc., exceeded si* should fail to solve the problem of object I will accompany you through again run together on a bobbin, the same as in invested in The Clark Thread Company's! is equal to 181,958,400 the second slubber thousand dollars. But this lar^e sum is small The shaft is fourteen inches in thickness, the life's object. Many older and wiser this piece of woods that no more the first cop winding department. Three of Works, and the vast volume of business,| 181/(68,400x4 equal to 818,812,800 the compared with the unalloyed pleasure whicll double cylinders are twenty-six inches in these are now twisted together, making six heads have labored at this same question snakes shall fall in love with you." intermediate slubber 181,958,400x6 equal to was afforded the grand army of industriom amounting to several millions per annum, ex- diameter, with condensers and a stroke of five strans, and without ever arriving at a solution. She laughingly permitted him to accompany 4,612,876,800 kthe finishing thread winding people who find employment at the Clnrlc tending to every part of the United States, isl Mr. and Mrs. Murphy were honored feet They were bnilt hy Corli3Sf in 1874 THE PBOCESS OF TWISTIXGF THEM machine makes the total length of the thread Thread Company Works in Newark. The her,chatting pleasantly meanwhile, one of the principal sources of Newark's pros-l Qne jjie three belts on the flywheel is one 4,612,876,800x6 equal to 29,477,260,800. Now Common Council 1 passed and caused to be citizens of the town of S ,havo not only through the woods but is exactly the same as the one last described. 0 it goes on bobbins to the "mill" where 29,477,260,800x9 beautifully engrossed and presented to the perity. What it is, and the blessings which I hundred and fifty feet in length. But even It is known as the finishing twisting department. o °ven up to the very door-step. Just ing acqiureu a lair oomptw ..i( gives us 272,664/62,400 feet. We Company, a series of resolutions from which, flow from it, are not realized by one in a thou-1 tliis double monster could not run the works, When the thread comes from the finishing as they were eiiulTlf^the front gate then multiply the last number of feet, which for" lack of space, we copy only the following world's goods some years previous to twisting department, it is inspected sand of the people who dwell within the soundl it has a big twin brother, and together they states the total length of one pound of cotton extract: the time spoken oi Thev had done Ned came in, having returned Trorhlr .. with the greatest care, by skillful persons, and drawn into thread, by the length of the original Resolvea, That we witnessed with great satisfaction Notwlfbs'anfe,$e £?r hours on their endless his office. Seeing the stranger with™ their tower bell. put through several tests before passing the their whole duty toward their two web, which is six and a half feet, and have the kindness and attention shown by reeling department, to be wound in skeins for amount of monay which the establishment vasl journey, and never getThey are wonto children, Ned and Ella, so far as their Ella he was inclined to scowl at him at the total as stated before 272,664,662,400x6 the officers of this Company to their fif tee® the bleach house. The machines in this de pour into the hands ef every merchant andl ders of power and elegant workmansliTp, knowledge of that duty could reach first and then a sudden smile illuminated feet, making a grand total of 1,772,320,635,600 hundred working people, and the evideiil paiV.V.int are very curious, and daily turn out trader in the city, as events have shown, thel thy of a visit from any one wants to see the his whole face. Approaching feet. The cotton, when finished as yarn, good feeling that exists l)e ween them recoup* They had provided tliem with excellent vast quaritiu-A% °f thread, which is packed, and has heen doubled six million nine hundred nizing t'.tat when labor and canital thna haw. him he extended his hand, exclaiming, first thing which the City Fathers did whenl educations and a fair station in BIGGEST PAIS OF TWINS given a through ticket to u«. and sixty-seven thousand two hundred and nii»nize, prosperity must ensue. life. Ned was working his way up in Why,Charley Gaines,where the deuce nouses. They measure ofif the thread into these works were being erected, was to tax hel jersey. They are supplied with steam jn New ninety six times (6,967,296), in passing Kes-'lved, That the location of the CLAISE skeins of an exact length and size, and when his profession and Eila—veli, she was did you drop from I thought you bricks and material not yet shaped into buiid-1 from nine immense tubular boilers and four through the different processes. When tinyarn in our city, with their immense THREAD COMPANY they have reeled off just the light amount of doing absolutely nothing. Having tin were millions of miles away in sunny ngs. It was on a par with the intelligence and large upright boilers, Corliss' plan. They is made into six cord finished thread, works, and their artny of operative®, varn, always stop, and unlike some kind of ished his education, the necessities of Italy studying art and basking in the the above number of doublings have been has proved a vast benefit, and that Newark Is appreciation of the consume twenty-five tons of coal per day, yarners, they never forget to tell the same multiplied by six, making a total of 41,803,762 and should be, justly proud of her manufactures her position did not require from her smiles of those pretty models we read story without variations. Again, after coming which will give some idea of the amount of REAL BOCRCES OF WEALTH, doublings. Now divide the total draft. on which her growth ana prosperity any labor, nor had she ever been from the reels, about." I steam necessary to drive the immense estabI ii ust ever depend, and that this municipality 1,772,327,632,600, by the total doublings, ana usually exhibited by the average politician. taught, to do any. Here was the true "So I was, Ned, but I have returned lisliment. Besides these there are three or- should foster and encourage by every proper if the work is correct, we shall have the total THE THREAD IS CARBFTLLY INSPECTED, Had it been some trust company or cttrb-. ... cause of her inability to solve the and am now basking in the smiles of number of feet of yam in a pound of cotton, means their establishment and success. stone broker that asked exemption, it wouldldinary sized engines, made by Watts, Campprobably the work employing several girls, who take all great problem. She had no object in this little artist whom I discovered which is 254,337 feet. But there has been 20 Resolutions of thanks to the Company were bell & Co., of Newark, in different parts of the rough and imperfect thread from the jer cent, loss in the manufacture, which must also passed by the employees. life, and her parents had failed to teach have been granted. Some idea of among the faries in yonder wood. hanks. After this second inspection, we find the works, making seven in all, a grand total ie added, making a total of 305,254 feet of he value of these works to the community her any except the usual one of marrying, Here followed an explanation of it next in the bleach house. The bleach and THE EUREKA BOAT CLUB AND THISTLE BAND. of nearly fourteen hundred horse power. The yarn for a pound of cotton of 120 hanks of may be had by an illustration of a thing which which is taught to most girls of what had occurred and then an introduction dye houses are among the most interesting departments young mountain of coal, which looks enongh 840 yards each, enough to reach from New The now famous crew, which came so near of this vast establishment, although the present day. Unfortunately however, of Ella to her quondam friend might really happen at any time. The Clark York to Trenton, a distance of sixty miles. winning the prize against the world, at the to last the whole city a year, is rebuilt by two not the most agreeable The progress in wash Thread Company employ, as stated, abont fif- Ella was rather peculiar, and which was almost unnecessary as they Centennial International Regatta last Aucust, hundred and fifty ton boat loads, at brief in ing machinery, that is here exhibited, would MACHINE AND CABINET 8HOPS, B«X FACTORY is from The C-ark Thread Company's Works was unable to persuade herself that had become quite well acquainted during teen hundred persons, paying out to them six-1 tervals. make our grandmothers think that the millenium AND PRINTING HOUSE. principally. It Itas a list of thirty-five actire any one oi the many gentlemen who their walk. Then followed an invitation teen to twenty thousand dollars every two I MANUFACTRIJSO THE THREAD. had come. The baby washer, as we call and about forty honorary members. It is the were callers and visitors at the house The Clark Thread Company do all their for Charley Gaines to step in it, of this concern, is rather a large child weeks. These hundreds of hands pay out to the mixing champion crew of the Passaic, and has beat*n The cottovi is brooght in Mes printing and litkographing at the works here. whose place and uses will appear later. After would make for her such a husband and take tea with them, at which the that money to the butcher, the baker, the gro-1 oms, when it is examined and placed in the celebrated Atlantic crew of New York. r0 Four printing presses are kept running all the the thread is sent from the inspection de as would render her life a happy one. story was again repeated and a fresh ...... They won the first heat on Monday, Ansmst 38, cer, the clothier, the dry goods merchant, and I bins, according to the different grades, ready time, and in the lithograph department one partment to the bleach and dye houses, it volley of thanks poured out bv Mr. andl ah 1876, at Philadelphia, beating the Dublin attd In theirown room Fanny, who was Who have anything to sell get a part of itlfor the scutching machines, which open and steam press and six or'eight hand lithograph unpacked, counted and put into large tanks, LS Argonauta crews. Un the second day they Mrs Murrav I in direc.ly indirectly.I an old schoolmate and intimate friend some wav, either or the material, cleaning it from the dirt presses are continually employed. In both immense loads at a time, and boiled by steam were beaten by the celebrated awrwycks, juiB. aimidj. I ii-i'j-i i jw .land sand it contains in Le bale. After going departments the practice of the "art preserva of Ella's, resumed the conversation It becomes almost unnecessary to fol-1 for several oat the hours, which takes dirt trom their hands it goes to pay debts, meet I jjrou„h ke scutching machine, it comes out of Albany, by only six seconds, the Beavorwycks tive" is in the highest style. Orders for the and which had been interrupted by Mrs low the thread of these lives much fur-1 ju obligations and fill the channels of trade withl he shape of a roll, like wall paper, com- winning the'ehampionship of the world paper box department in the one item of Murphy. "I know, Ella, why you are ther. Charley Gaines soon discovered I anbl CLEAXS1T PERFECTLY. on the last day, the Newark boys of The Clark that circulating medium called money, parativelv soft, white aud clean. It i'J, how- straw board are given as high as eighty to one that Ella was sadly in need Of instruc-1 Which to blood the hn«| Thread Company coming very close to tlte unable to solve the problem, because is business, what is to ev^ really in a ye^ rough state, compared It is then put through washings oft, and pre hundred tons at a time. n the machine with the fineness ana perfection that is to be championship of the world. you have begun at the wrong end of tion and, as he was spending the sum-1 stem, it pow-| parations wonderful and curious. The water shop a large number of men are employed in mansy giving life, animation and the best In the The Thistle Band, one of i-eached. Several of these scutching machines used, we judge, would have increased the flood making new machinery and keeping in repair life. You have commenced at the idle mer in that part ot the country, he I er. Suppose to night those works were State, is organized from the employees of t.lfe are running continually, and their sound is just about enongh to have lifted Noah's ark the vast quantity in use in the various depart end and should be just now at the in took upon himself the duties of in company and plays tor all the many excursions like the roar of a lightniug express train, as it from the snag on Mount Ararat. Some of the ments of the works. The cabinet factory DESTROYED BY FIRH dustxious end. Work, and work alone and festivals of the employees, besides answering structor. Not many months had whirls past the platform where vou stand. wasli tubs are of stone, and all are on a s ale turns out about two hundred cabinets per day. outride calls when made. They accompanied will set you right." They are fully insured. The Clark Thread I The first scutcher is fed with the bale cotton elapsed before he began to instruct equal iu magnitude to any of Col. Seller's The bobbins, etc., used in the mill are made the Eurekas to Philadelphia, and also "But what need have I to work?" Company receive their insurance in cash froml a* hopper which lets it through into schemes for 'making millions. The loads of Ella in the art of which nature implants rfvtn here. In fact about all the Clark Thread Company employees .. ,, I knives set large rollers, which revolve with he grand excursion of the 1 thread are.put in ana taken out of boilers, rin go outside for is the raw material. They replied Ella. "Father has money much knowledge in the youthful their underwriters. They say to themselv s I force, and lightning speed, pick- year, to the Centennial last and always play of k emeIldoug sers, washers, dryers, and half a dozen other manufacture all they use, except a few the enough and does not need any help breast. So that during the Christmas Business is dull, sales are uncertain, profits I jj_ cotton into small pieces, and passing at the regattas in which the Eurdltas take all processes by machinery. Then after all more or intricate patented machines. from me." part. holidays, when Fanny came to act as are small, the future is unknown, and onrl it by suction of air, on to other rollers, betaxes this, it goes right back to those huge "That is true, but work does not are lieavv- The vast business requires!t' een which it goes, and comes out in the THE CLARK HOSE COMPANY. bridesmaid for Ella, she was confidentially steam boilers, and the samething is done THB 7TBW YORK HOUSE. over again. The dry roomis heated One of the best organized and equipped fire mean simply doing something which attention and persistent energy. We will|s'-aPe 01, 'aP .*n Four informed by the latter through a close a At No. 400 Broadway, corner of Walker St., a 'u „„.v„ lot these rolls are then placed upon a machine by seven thousand five hundred feet companies in the city of Newark is.the "Clark brings coin into your purse, my desr New York, is the splendid marble building of mixture of tears and smiles that, not take this money and rebuild these works, jie firgt, and run together through the Hose Company," organized May 15th, 1S69 01 steam pipe, and can be regulated to any de George A.Clark & Brother, the selling ajreats It means a persistent effort to accomplish "though the work had not profited her bnt adopt the plan pursued by most moneyed process of There are twenty members, employees of the sired temperature. After leaving the reeling of The Clark Thread Company. The entire some particular thing. It may a dollar, it had gone far towards solv men, viz.: goto Washington, buy government factory, brave, active men, trained by frequent department, the thread that is to be colored live stories of their magnificent place, are fitted PICKING AND BBATIXQ AND CLEANING, —TiPt $1 ou. a dollar but it will practice to their duty, and proud of ing the problem for her." goes to the dye bouse, and that which is to remain bonds, bring them home, put them in a tin up with every facility possible tor the i I when it comes out again in the same shape as white, to the bleach house. In the dye uieir company and outfit. Their equipment certainly go far"towards solving tnat prompt transaction of their immense business. box, pay no taxes, and sit down to take °i I be,ore, rolled to exactly the thickness which house is the patent dyeing machine, used only is as follows: Two hose carriages with Notes Ladies. for problem for you ease, eat, drink and be merry, with no thought I jt desired to make the "silver" from which It does the work far better than wrenches, bars and axes, carrying seven hundred to dye black. ended. The How Bo You Your Books? litre the conversation Keep of carp, supported in luxury without risk, bylth* thread yarn is to be spun. What a "sil Gray cloth dolmas will be the fashionable by hand and is equal to the labor of more than and fifty feet of hose on reels, and two tea drinking and entertaining were the interest on our bonds, paid by taxation of I ver" is will be learned further on. The mathe a wrap for spring. dozen men. pipes with extra nozzles. They also command "We believe that there is a considerable gone through with. But 'all through producing classes." Can any man calcu-N^ so delicately set that it regulates the nine hundred feet of hose with pipes and noz White bonnets, either of felt or ALL COLORS 09 THREAD i -J i t.- i thi knessof the web or lap to withm half an in proportion of men -engaged zels in twenty-one different stations, in and the evening Fanny's words would recur are made, and the quantities of soaps, dye plush, are among the latest importations. late the widespread rum which would follow I jn five weighing only feet, ouliCej a we around the factory, 0110 Cameron fire pump business—men who know how to buy to Ella and set her to thinking. Even stuffs, and other material of the kind used, are such a calamity and course of action by thel twelve to eighteen ounces. After being put one Worthington, one Watts & Campbell, anc goods, and can make a good sale of the immense. Eighty thousand gallons of water at the time of their retirement,though The Cloisonne enamel so sought after Clark Thread Company It would be incal-l through three scutching machines in this way one Blake pump, oue hundred and seventy are consumed daily in the bleach house alone same—who do not understand the details j^thing was said a^out it. the words, culable. All those people who earned money and coming out wUh eight thicknesses^of web eight filled buckets in their proper places in articles of virtu, is now used for and one of the Artesian wells of The Clark of keeping accounts. These men %t may not profit you a dollar, but it throughout the works, sixteen hand pumps jewelry. to purchase what they Thread Company has a capacity of one bun goon, year after year, without this sprinklers in all the rooms of the cotton mill fti 11 certainly go far towards solving The new Princess dresses are made be addad to the list dred and fifty thousand gallons per day. This the packing house, the machine and carpenter knowledge, content if they find enough fer iat problem for you," would ring in is a remarkable well, sixteen feet deep and with square trains and entirely without olamor for work or bread. Misery, want, cbnes, f)r:.wing Frames, Lappers, and Comb snops and the drying rooms. There are money in tli&ir drawer or at the bank eight feet in diameter, of which Professor ears and were ever present. The in» Machines, a perfiiet labyrinth of belting, drapery. also sprinklers in the two top floors of the Maynard, the New York chemist, said it produced to meet their bills. But, when you ,»ext day was set for the termination eys and machinery, the noise of which is thread mill and in the warehouse, and there, The newest percales are in India designs the purest water he ever saw. It makes Bat thisl talk to them about a balance would be the fruit of such a course. hJf: tne rear of many waters mingled with the are thirty-five fire plugs or hydrants 011 the pre of Fanny's visit and she departed. and dark colors, like those seen a man thirsty to look at it, and is absolutely is exactly what has been done throughout thel clatter of a thousand wheels. One of the sheet, they immediately show a lamentable mises. Regular meetings are lit Id on the Then Ella was more than ever lowspirited free from any particles of matter, by chemical in cashmere shawls. second Monday in each month, and practice ignorance of the rules by country, and explains why one in twelva iii| arge rolls of on and lonesome. Still she pon test. The tnread is blued a big scale, Glasses are now made of frosted last scutching machine is placed on a carding is had every two weeks. Examination of all Newark are to-day supported by the city. which it should be made. Such ignorance which gives that handsome tint so greatly ad deied on those word: "It may not mtrhhe, which takes and runs it glass, in antique forms and patterns, the valves, hydrants, pumps and other equip mired by the ladies. Then it is committed to may be very well when trade is The productive capital of the country, which Srofit you a dollar," etc. Suddenly ments takes place on the first of each month the monogram being in color. BETWEEN THE TEETH the tender mercies of the baby washer, which Iwpft flush and the skies are bright employed our now idle millions, has been put! and a minute report of the exact condition reaking from her usual reverie one Bangle-rings, made of five or six are cruel, and goes through it ten times. The when the screw of hard times is applied, into government bonds, and appalling destitu-| aT1(i small cylinder, for the position and effectiveness of the fire service a day, she exclaimed, "I'll try—I'll see baby is built like an ordinary washing ma narrow gold rings held together by made to The Clark Thread Company. they are like a captain of a rudderless tion and want are on every hand, and increas-l ?/_draw,n^1°1ui!^ chine, but each of the rollers weighs a thou if Fanny is right." Rising, she donned one long clasp, are the novelty for tin xi i. ..I them parallel or in the same line of direction, as ship, who does not know when sand pounds, and the thread passes through ing at a fearful rate. Labor is the source of all I jso t0 remove the small pellicles or motes her street dress and started for THE CLARK THREAD COMPANY RELIEF SOCIETY ger rings and a the water into the washer or how the rudder was lost. Partners :i nuga. I wealth and prosperity, and there is no lossl which may have escaped the action of the the business street of the town. She One of the best and most beneficial organi C® SCariS^ave as Strings tor gqaai go on drawing out money for personal useu^ to that which follows enforced idleness! scutching machine. After being treated in THEY HOP AND JtJMP zations which constitutes a part of the system Slurchased an easel, some colors, some opera hats, attached in such a manner and ponnd bnt it does the and care of the Clark Thread Company for expenses, exceeding in amount tjjye of the producing classes. There is no musicl^1'3 Coffer takes the web with antics queer, a or ushes and the various materials used as to form a cape at the back of the a I from the small cylinder, which is now deli- their employees, is the Relief Society. It was business thoroughly. This was formerly done profits of the business, but they fail tb e A gauze. artists in their work. She had always so full of joy and peace and good will to men,I }g gathered up and passed bonnet. organized January 22d, 1870, for the purpose cat0 and by the old fashioned pounder and barrel see that this excess diminishes the possessed a taste for art and had as the song of labor and the music of machine through a small hole, sav half an inch in size Honey-combed toweling is made up in which our grandmothers used to set us at of providing a fund for the relief of those capital of the concern. A and form .^j^isea this as her work. When once ry. Better far that all other songs be hushed,I after which it is coiled in a revolving can when we were boys, before going to school in who might, by accident or sickness, be incapacitated handsome quilts by being worked in a partnership, and put in $15,000 each. and every note be stilled, rather than those I The whole process is one of wonderful deli^ the morning. Then it is arawn through the from sustaining themselves. All had made up her mind, Ella was diamond patterns of floral designs in If each draws out $2,500 for living expenses rinser, which is a simple and novel machine the employees of the company must be mem n the person to turn back. At first .„dt. them we now introduce pink, blue or amber wools continually supplied with pure Artesian well bers of the society, and each receives assis during the year, there must be jjlu found herselt beset by difficulties Unbleached muslin is the latest novelty I contains ninety thousand square teeth to a ON THE DOCK water. The thread passes over a roller into tance when needed, from the fund, according a profit of $5,000 made by the business I flei knowledge was meager, and she TM n fM.TV f^rn. 1 —i. «„Q|footiora Mai oi fo,ir million one hundred for bedroom window curtains, the water, comes up again over another roller to the amount paid in, which must be at least in order to keep tho capital at its original of The Clark Thread Company, Whioh I ^nd eighty-six thousand. On the carding mahundred ilad a few facilities for overcoming then down into the water, and up and down one cent per week, but no one is permitted to instead of chintz or cretone. It is feet long, is a mountain of two orlchine is a Ihtle joker that works like some old figures. If the profits fall below pay in an amount which would draw, in case $he obstacles in her path. But resolutely and out and in, and out and up over the reels trimmed with Turkey-red cotton or three thousand tons of coal, drawn out of boats I man, raising tlie wire covered flats from the boxes on wheels, from which it is of sickness, more than half their average the amounts drawn out the capital is into jjreat and steadily she pursued her blue, or yellow. at the wharf by a donkey engine, and thel '-h'' carder which it cleans, and throws put into a large water extractor, a perforated weekly wages. Every cent paid in draws diminished by whatever that difference rfclan. She drew and painted a certain hollow cylinder, revolving several thousand seventy-five cents per week. The Clark bales of cotton find their way from the same| may be. This is simplicity itself, and ftUd C0ar8tt A New York lawyer says that nol number of hours each day, and permitted times a minute, and then it is transported to Thread Company contributes five dollars per wharf to the brick house, for the storage of °ntW i it requires no special education to understand 8,x of nothing to interfere with her man can make a will which can stand week to the fund without cessation, but all the drying room. In this way five hundred that precious material, one pound of which! it. Therefore, if a business T1S *ANS CALLED CARD SLIVERS, others cease their contributions when the un an attack from another lawyer and two heads can be rinsed in four minutes which work, as she called it. Iler mother will make one hundred miles of thread, con-l in which the roll is wound are now taken to expended balance in the treasury reaches fifteen man understands how such a sheet used to take an hour and a half. After the or three dissatisfied heirs. Let's all| laughed at her and her father sneered, hundred dollars. When the fund is reduced taining abont forty-two million doublings.! ®notlnr machine called a Drawing Frame and thread has come eat of the drying room, should be made, he has no excuse for die bankrupt. while Ned took her part and insisted to seven hundred dollars, payments The mind cannot grasp the numerical fact. IT™, not knowing just how he stands. COLORED OR USCOLORED, upon it that "Ell is a trump, and will There is a thirty-thousand dollar I .I so light, that when they are passed together are renewed. The payments into the treasury 4 But four grades of cotton are ordinarily nsedl through a hole and made one, they fall into it to it is counted some day be a great fellow goes the warerooms, where average about nine months in the year tomb in Greenwood. A stone-mason I The New York Graphic infers In the of Clark's O. N. no manufacture T."l another silver and are then larger tban one and pat in to out preparatory We hope that this humane and systematic organization packages be given One by one the minor difficulties made it. In the outskirts a pauper| when some Rhode Isiand men want w Spool may find many imitators among Cotton, and known as Sea Island Cot-| of the six from which it was made, although to being wound upon spools for the market. were overcome, a result which perseverence lies under a rose-bush. God made it. good, hearty laugh, atfr the manufacturers of Newark and throughout indulge in a ton." This come3 principally from south|^iey hjive aot yet been twisted at all. Four- The thread having reached this stage of never fails to produce Why are a whale and a pond lily I .. I teen of these cans fnH of sh vers are placed at Hie country, who read this article. The rom from ear to ear, t'^ey have to step oatside perfection, has become very valuable ar n Carolina and is grown on (the small islands 1^ "Lspyer" and run between two rollers the which Gradually many of things pany pays'interest at seven per cent on the come looked after with the greatest care. 7&i alike! Tk*y both to surface the Status along the ooMt. Considerable is raised on the making iew web nine inches wide and I a hal: in the trearary, besides their five direct it to different departwents and money at first appeared to be mysterious be-1 to blow. its peninsulas and around the bays and inlets, tttlck, wh ch comes oriel' an inch out like the 1 note its aim, quality, etc. inspection The