The eastern clarion. [volume] (Paulding, Miss.) 1837-1863, 1859-08-03

renee of such calamity are now observed
and one of the sheds contains fire-enrine
purchased for the exclusive use Of the
firm in case of fire, while the buildings
are amply supplied with tire-buckets.
THE STEAM RooM-The steam engine
of the establishment is also in a basement
room, and is of one hundred horsepower
1t drives all the steam machinery of the
various buildings with which its appara-
tus is connected. Adjoining is the steam
boiler room.
THE PLANNING SHOP FOR HATs.-In this
department the fur hat bodies formed,
but still in the rough state, are subjected /
to the scalding operation. Six sets of .
planking kettles were in active operation |
when we entered this subterrene and vap-
orous abode of skillful and industrious
mechanics. about fifty or sixty opera |
tives of all kinds are employed in this |
building.)
The CoLORING SHOP.-ln this place,
which is in the basement. there were, in !
all, seven large coloring kettles-four of |
copper and three of wood. The largest |
is capable of holding, at one time, five
hundred hats the smallest seventy-two.
The hats receive, on an average, from six
to ten dips, according to the quality or
shade required dip lasting half an hour |
A black hat requires eight or ten hours of |
immersion. In this dingy laboratory are |
prepared and bestowed those innumera- |
bic shades and colors which diversity the |
appearance of the head coverings of man. |
The hues are indeed countless in this
Here also we noticed an invention for |
washing hat bodies adopted and contrived |
by one of the members of the firm. This |
vast hat washing apparatus is worked by |
steam, and ordinarily washes, in three |
clean waters, hot and cold, in twenty-five !
minutes, .ttty dozen hat bodies, and is capa-
| BILE of achieving much more. The water
used is Passaic. An immense water tank
| occupies a large part of the coloring shop,
in one corner, and in another is the Gas
| Apparatus, by which the firm manufac-
ture all the gas required in all their build
| ings, supplying three or four hundred
| lights.
Other apartments in this building are
variously known as the Shaving Room,
Singeing Room, Stiffening Room Fur Dry
| ing Room, and the Steaming Room and
| in all of these, as indeed throughout the
mandatory, we remarked the adroit
| prompt and an fat manner in which the
| throngs of artisans performed their chO-
sen prrts. We have had the pleasure Of
| visiting many large manufactures in diff
| terent parts of the country, and we take
| pleasure in this opportunity for saying
that we have never met with body of ar
tisans less exceptionable than these, in
department, or apparently taking more
| pride in their ayocatiOn they thus evin-
| cling the presence ofan esprit da corps, which
Is indispensable to excellence in any art
and which generally denotes the posses
sion of that excellence.
Passing into another building, we found,
upon the
FIRST Floor, the fur and silk finishing
room, with fine room adjoining, for the
heating Of irons red hot, fiery succession
Of which are constantly called for by the
as constantly replenished stock Of goods
to be finished in this manner.
SECOND FLooR.-This floor is exclusively
appropriated for the finishing, and in this
and the other rooms in the building,
about sixty workmen are at present en-
gagged.
THIRD FLooR.-The operation of silk
body ironing is entirely carried on in this
shop, the heated irons furnished from the
flues below.
FOURTH FLooR.-The whole of the loft is
set apart for the packing and storing Of
goods in cases.
Crossing over to the middle brick bull
, ding. which Is five stories high, we took a
cuTSOry glance of each section, everywhere
, finding something novel and interesting,
and everywhere becoming impressed with
the number and intricacy of the details
OF the business, and the magnitude of its
amount.
FIRST FLooR.-Here are two spacious
wool hat finishing rooms, a wool hat dry
ing room, and the machine shop, where is
repaired and built the machinery of the
whole concern.
SECOND FLooR.-The curling room for
giving every requisite bend to the hat
brims, is located here: also the inspecting
and packing room, the silk cutting room,
? and a variety of minor store rooms.
; THIRD FLooR.-Upon this floor there are
t three fine trimming rooms, where one
hundred and fifty girls are at present en-
7 ! gagged in the delicate finishing depart
= ments Of lining, banding, tipping and bind
I ing hats.
e FOURTH FLooR.-Here is a spacious straw
: hat room, at certain seasons crowded with
: various descriptions Of straw hat and cap
/ goods; cap room, and a tip-prnting
n room, in which are used four printing ma
/; chimes of various sorts
e FIFTH FLoOR.-Here is an immense wool
!, dyeing room, lined with racks from floor
1 to ceiling laden with the soft. warm, and
;, light material; and at hand are two vast
h water tanks, provided in case of fire on
G this floor.
= The next and last of the building which
we entered for inspection, was the front
t, building, tive-story brick structure like
:. the last.
Is FIRST FLOoR.-This comprises the gen
z eral packing room of the whole factory
I; and from hence continually pour food
q of packages destined for the warehouse il
New York, and ultimately for all parts o
z this country and for distant foreign parts
M SECOND FLooR.-Cutting and storing
,s rooms with two roomy and commodiOu
: counting offices embrace the whole of thi
section.
ol THIRD FLooR.-The apartments associa
n ted on this loft are a trimming room 70
At wool hats, and smaller one for silks
n broadcloths, and other requisite piec
of goods used in making caps, trimmings
bindings, tips, etc.
a. FOURTH FLoOR.-This is used solely as
le wholesale store room for full packages G
IA finished goods.
: FIFTH FLooR.-Immense piles of hug
sd bales of wool encumbering this apartmen
denote it to be the great wool storing rooI
ne of the factory.
n From perusal of what we have thu
"a noted down, the reader may gather goo
"a conception of the giant trade carried o
..e by the house of Duryee, Jaques & Co,
IA Chambers street. Their operations, natl
y rally are not so unrestrained as usual, oy
III ing to the yet unrestored iullness of II
-. tides of trade but their staunch and Ion
renowned establishment is still steadi
lS conducted upon plan of great magnitud
'l- with undated credit. ard still sustain
=" that undoubting confidence in the min,
m Of the monetary and commercial comm
eH ,It nifty, which was early acquired by the no
GU ored founder of their house, and whiC
- by their manufactures and their bargain
m ,on they have won and enjoyed themselves