The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1848-12-14

are completing u subterrsncsn canal. 10 or.
der to multiply the manufacturing facilities
Of the place. This canal Inns three distinc,
chambers. which are arched over with
heavy brick masonry, aud goes the whole
length Ut Moody street. The extent to
winch this new power will add to the
wealth ct Lowell, cannot he estinsted.---
As 10 tho means 10 work with, nature hat
yielded oil her powers TO enterprise, and q
river has here been drawn aside to minis
ter to at the altar OF industry. These facts
may I've rs new to many readers Of the
Waterman, rs they were to me, and write
them nst as they struck my mind in all
their freshness. And here nav remark
that only nine miles from this very place
is another, destined 10 be scarcely les,
wonderful, ] mean Lawrence, where by
digging an expensive canal, the same iacil
tiles for manufacturing have been gained
My time forbade my going to visi. il, which
was great disappointment.
As had made such active cxer,ions II
gain access to the Carpet Mills. spen,
most of my time there. Nv guide fret
showed me into tho building Just erected
to enlarge operations in the carpet manu-.
fnciurc. This room ] should suppose il
300 feet long by 100 wide. When rooted
and floorod, the Company gave on, invita-.
tons for small dance bv candlcIight. The
company amounted 10 the pleasant parlor
full Of 5000, and nj one time the band was
giving out music for no lcss than one hun
bred cotillnn sets nh the floor nj once
Now. my dear sir. On not want TO unhinpc
your steady head by dancing, nor enconr-
age your readers TO dance. but we some
times nre compelled to illustrate the good
by the bad. And besides ii you can 40
heartily forgive Martin Van Buren, his
past sins on slavery. YOU can forgive any.
thing, and | therefore ask YOU Just to ima-
Cinc one hundred sets of waivers nyinr
rapid as cotton jennies, into oil the wheel
lngs and contortions, aud devious circles 10
DC 'hongh, OF, nil oh one floor, with room
enough left ON the sides and in the spaces
Tor near 5000 spectators. ltissn immense
room, soon to ie appropriated To the more
profitable occupancy Of power looms
They have space sufficient Cor no less than
30 looms, which they are now putting no
fast re- possible. They have now fifty
power Icons in operation. and weavc 1850
yards 81 carpet day. and when the whole
work is finished they expect to turn "a
each dny 5000 yards.
We passed from this into ANOTHER build
ing. The first room we entered il devoted
to the making ri rugs which j. done bv
hand looms. They now make .,090 rugs
Year. on seven looms ior the ;us,ed rug
and three for the c,,eneil rig. Tho Grst
kind Is made according to pattern. and
the wages Of the weaver nre graduated by
his skill and guickness. The pattern hangs
before him. md hc selects and inserts the
various co!ors. lie then cuts them of with
shcnrs and drives il together b. a beam
just MS in M ordinary loom.
The choneil rug excited nv wonder ms
much rs anything | saw. The wnrp is
placed in the loom Just rs in tie ordinary
weaving. md the wonder CONSISTS in hay.
ing the filling so distributed that when pls
ced IN tho warp and com.ei UP. il make.
those beautiful figures we sce in these rugs
This leads me to speak of the loom in
which they weave these filings for this
specie. Of rug. ] suppose j. is nj lcas,
eight feet wide. Tho warp is very lone
and So inserted that il can be Gu, up length
wise into separate strips for use. Now the
coIors are SO distributed bv the weaver nc
cording TO the mos, exact patterns. tina;
these strips when woven into the rugs
will naturally arrange themselves into flow
ers. and vnrious beautiful fgnrcs. lIow
they do il. cannot tell, but there it wn.
before my eyes, and ] must believe. A,
tho RUG weaver sends his shuttle through
he uses comb TO bring the tuft up ant
then beats il together by the driving beam
II is work of wonders. and could the olt
Greek. prnising the skilful women Of bis
day, have seen what saw at Lowell, hs
he would have forgotten the praises Of III,
lair ornarnentcrs with needles. in the sur
passing mncheery which Yankee has 10
vented to weave ornaments bv machinery
and 10 grind out most superb flowers b,
water. trust TO be excused the hyperbol
ical language, when ] snv that a visit Il
that single room il sufficient reward Il
induce man who has not seen tho like e
60 from Cincinnati 10 Lowell.
But in the room, below this VIC found the
real power looms. The patterns for the
figures in the carpet are made in paste
board, in holes. and the warp and filling
arc SO managed by machinery through the
patterns, that the loorn drives ahead and
makes the carpet itself. A girl stands a,
each loom to mend broken threads and fiji
the shutt'cs, otherwise the thing does liz
own business. and ~ ! saw the flowers and
figures Of varioos kinds wrought out with
tho most beautiful ACCURACY. aImos,
Al.