The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-12-28
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OLD CRG'ES.

metropolis in search of ''old cloe' s." ''any
old hats, and, in fact, Of any cast-oif and
apparently useless articles of wearing ap.
parel. A writer III CasscWS Magazine in.
| forms lis what becomes OF the old clothes in
| London. We have no 'Uld Clothes FIX
change but, from casual observations in
certain portions Of our city. we conclude
that We have that which answers the same
purpose, and that the gradutious downward
and upward uf the cGst.oH clothing of New
\ ork do not materially differ from those OF
the London Article.
Nv hon we consider the quantities OF
clothes Persons of even moderate means
throw aside Us too shabby to wear in the
| course of the rear--wh hat shabby waiStcontS,
| shrunkcu WOODEN trowSers, old sacks, ier.
seys. ETC., are gladly disposed of Hne way
or the other-it must be evident that in the
aggregate the quantity of oar worn Out cloth
ing must be enormous. it passes away from
| our sight and we fancy that We see it no
more. But the thoughtful man naturally
asks himself what becomes of it. Passing
along Hound51th the other day, | received
an answer TO this question by coming across
the Cd Clothes Exchange, where they arc
| sold by auction.
MANY of the garments here sold are con
verified 10 fresh uses. The first object of the
purchaser is TO see If the garment eau be
revived and sold once more as all article Of
| dress. Ii is therefore carefully 'clobbcred,
! or mended, supplied with fresh gloss. and
| in this improved condition Is re'eXpurted.
A vast quantity of old clothes find their way
! across the channel TO Ireland. aud this ac
counts for the fact we so often notice, that
| The Irish peasant, when III Ordinary dress, il
always to be seen in swallow tailed coat
Of the past generation Black clothes, if
! they can afford the amount of good cloth,
| are made into waIstcoats: but even if there
| is only q very little that is uuworn, it is pnr.
| chased 10 be cut up and made into caps, for
which there is a great market in France.
There are very useful persons connected
with this Exchange. whose Office careful
| households sometimes anticipate these are
the transiators. 'Snch persons will turn
! about a coat while il is being offered by the
auctioneer, and reckon it up in n moment.
| The skirts, which we never in decent life
wear out, will cut up into suit for little
Tommy, the sill; with which it is lined will
do to line caps, the other parts will make
jackets, ind the scraps will yet 60 for caps.
| There are female as well rs male trpnslators
and revivers these will be found searching
over the female half Of the market looking
over the old silk clothes, old crnolines, un
der garments, etc. anxious to see what they
can restore to the wardrobes Of the working
classes once more. Old silks cannot be
made useful, as the old cotton goods are J.,
the paper.makcr; but q purpose has at
length been found for them-shredded very
ine they ara used to stuff what are termed
! bed improvers.' Old boots and shoes,
central mart, and having been disposed of
are revived and sold once more"
SHoEpY.
"Having traced old clothing from the
wardrobe 10 the barrow Of riie castermonger
and the bag of the jew, from thence to the
gentler attentions of the reviver and the
translator, we must still further pursue them.
Re.worn by the lowest class of the popula.
ton, too bad oven for the bcggur, broken
into pieces far beyond the clobbercr to re.
pair, it is vet far from becoming so Door II
thing that it has reached the ultimate DIES.
tinntion Of oil mundane thiugs--the earth.
Indeed. having descended us low as it pos.
siblv could in the social scale, a turn of for.
tune suddenly turns it up again. We have
all heard Of devils dust. which Mr.. Fer
| rand made such an optcry about IN Parha-
nent some years ago; we'll, tins devils dust
arose from machine Invented for the pur.
pose of grinding up old wooden fabrics, and
converting them into rungo and shoddy.-
Mr.. Samuel Juht. one OF the largest firms
in this trade mt Bailey. in Yorkshire, the
cnpilal OF the shoddy trade, gives very
curious account of these machines. He
says: The prinuip pa! part OF q rag machine
| is the swift, Ur revolving cylinder, set with
! iron.to0lhcd plates somewhat like the dol.
| fling plates. One Of these. swifts contains
from ten TO fourteen thousand teeth. accord
| ing as it is coarse or fine the coarser-se
| Swiits are set grind soft rags--namrly.
stockings, flannel, carpet. etc. into shoddy
the fner set ones to tear cloth rags into
| mungo. 10 the unlnitiatel It r,nst be
surprising 10 see the rags suddenly trans
| formed into fibrous wool ana IL is III this
! process Of grinding that the apparent i'm
| possibility OF making old rags into new
| cloth vanishes away, Tor those persons who
arc otherwise unable to form an idea how
the rag is 10 he n,etamorphosed into cloth
| can, when it is asslnilaed into wool in its
| form and condition, at once see the solution
of the supposed difficulty TO these tooth.
ed wheels there come..ll the cast. off clothes,
not only of Englisl.me'I, and lrishmen, aud
| Scotchmen. bat Of the whole of Europe.
| To Bailey and the surrounding towns worn.
out clothes fnd their ultimate way, and
| there rise again from their ashes; and so
| important has become this manufacture, that
this little town, which in 1S41 only mum
bered seven thoueapd persons, has now
doubled lis population. The wool that is
returned TO the WOODEN manufacturer from
these sources is equal to many millions of
| necces and the result is, that while nearly
every article Of commerce, on account Of
the DEAFNESS Of living, has increased in
value, clothes have been for years growing
cheaper. Europe sends her cast of genil
ity of mothe eaten coats, frowSy jackets.
worn out linen, offensive cotton, and old
worstcd stockinga-this is their last destina
ton, in a manufactured form. Reduced TO
ilaments and greasy pulp by nighty>toothod
cylinders, the much ,vexed fabrics re enter
lie in the most brilliant FORMS FROM solid
pilot cloth 10 silky mohar and glossiest
tweed. Thus. the tail coat rejected by the
Irish peasant, the gaberdine too foul for the
polish beggar, arc turned again to shiung
uses, re appearing, it may be, IN the lus
trous paetot of.the sporting dandy, the del.
icate riding habit of the, Bclgrayian belle,
or the sad sleek garment of her confessor.
''But, says the reader, what becomes of
shoddy and mungo made cloth, of which
there must ultimately be as mach rs there
originally was of cloth made direct from the
fleece? WelI.,hen, when it is worn out in
his form, it is very valuable as MANURE
The grease it may have contracted renders
it very valuable fertilizer when, however,
it is very rich in this substance, it is put into
a press, and the oil is extracted from it; it
is not very pleasant TO smell, but it makes
very good oil for luhricating machinery
Even then the pressed rag is valuable. and