The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-04-23

mNOlNnA CnnHIuHINllONh vi NhnN mtDIliIlthlI
appliances large capital, intimate division of
labor aud operaHOns Of nam faoture on a
scale 90 i~ntnense as to oyerwhelm all ofdi-
naty conception.
THE OFFICES, AND THEREIN Az INCIDENT.
The counting rooms occupy the second
story Of tho block on Washington street, op-
posite the factory and are spacious, we'll
furhished, we'll Lighted rooms, in which a
force Of ook-leepera and CLERKS are tn4iy
at work. Here we frbt meet TIC gentleman
ly and u~naHsuming proprietor, and as we sit
eonVersing with hum, VIC arc eye witnesses
TO q little transaction worth recording. Our
readers are probably aware that within a
few weeks the New York journals have been
engaged in one Of their periodical sensation
al cruhades against dealers Of eh0rt-Weights
and adulterated goods. We atu not aware
that any such charge was made against the
Rabbit productions, ancrR which, besides
soap and soap-poNdtit-a and concentrated
,potash, are also saleratus, cream ltattsf, SAL
44A soda, super-carba soda, yeast powder and
Lion coffee, articles In common use, and most
liable TO be adnlterated or sold at short
III. weight. Such a charge against the Rabbit
goods would, to u.s. be unworthy Of crodence,
Shi ib bGr o sn,s iSns9 . nst 4S y ge sa dsi n st the o f6S
dercd the proprietor an,brder 70 the amount
Of several thousand dollars for Cream Tartar,
-- upon the condition that IL be put up in thhs-
teen ounce packages, instead of one pound.
flt This proposition. was promptly declined, and
the Californian departed IN deep disgust
This incident Bpokea volume concerning the
integrity of both goods and proprietor.
Accompanied by Mfr. Babbitt, We made q
tour through
NTHE GREAT ESTABLISHMENT.
The motive power of the factory is gem
Grated in the basement, four steam boilers,
one OF five hundred, one of two hundred and
fifty, and two of sixty horse power each being
required to drive the machinery, heat the
buildings and Tor other purposes Of manufac-
ture, the frat mentioned one IL ono Of Riots
patent safety toilcrs, Of peculiar c%onsiruc-
ton. These furnish steam to no lesa than
thirteen engines, the largest Of which is a
beautiful Corliss Of ono hundred aud twenty
five horse power. Water IL pumped into
large reservoirs at the top Of the building.
and there are many extensive and unusual
appliances nocessitatod by the Immense
scale upon which affairs proceed here, as
will be seen when we speak Of the soap max
ing. Three OF Otis steam elevators distrib-
ute the raw materials 10 the various stories
and bring away the manufactured articles.
steam pipes extend beneath the pavement
TO the building on the opposite side of Wash
ington street, which constitutes an impor-
tant portion Of th9 factory Between two
and three bundled hands find employment
in the various departments.
Among the interesting branches of manu-
facture is that OF
sALERATUs.
An article in such common use in tho domos.
tic economy as to mako IL of the greatest
importance thRtit be wholesome and pnre.
The soda ash OF which II Is made is first
treated with water in a large closed iron
tank; the solution is then drawn into the
capitalization rooms OF which there are two
each twenty-five by ninety feet, around these
rooms are placed tiers Of many hundreds, of
queer looking iron kettles into which the 80.
ia solution runs and where II rcmains until
IL becomes perfectly solid crystals, looking
much like cakes OF ice. Those beautiful
cryatals are then broken up and in another
department are ground to powder in burr
stone mills, then put into boxes two inches
deep and six feet square and placed in the
carbonizing rooms. There are ak of these
rooms and the boxes are piled up in tiers, six
hundred boxes in a room and subjected To
the influence Of purified carbonic acid gas
guNn NLa panNarfaI IA Ff11v shnpog1 M.
great skill and watchiulness displayed in this
department; the perfection Of the manufac-
ture and the absolute purity Of the materials
have rendered competition with the well
known "Babbitts Saloratus' almost impos-
sible.
Another important a%rticlois the
"sTAR YEAST POWDERS"
and its relation to human comfort; its time
saving as well as hygenic qualities entitle it's
inventor 10 the name Of beneflctor. II h
well-known that in tho use OF ordinary yeast
a considerable portion of the sacchaTinS and
~nutritiye properties Of flour arc destroyed in
tho generation ofcarbonic acid gas. by the
use Of this chemical yeast no fermentation
takes place In the -four Itself, and the bread,
when made, contains only flour, water and
common salt; II Is not only more digestiblo,
palatable,. and more quickly. made, but by
It's use a barrel of flour viii make twenty
pounds more bread than by the use of ordf-
nary yeast. Az the materials of which the
chemical yeast is made are not readily por.
ishable, II will keep in any climate, aud is
invaluable at sea and on our Western plains.
In the department. where saleratus, yeast
powders, &c, are. made up into packages,
irom thirty TO forty mon aud from twenty to
thirty girls are employed. The dexteTity
which they acquire In weighing, wrapping
and closing the various packages, would be
incredible to those who have never export
enoad how mechanical the movements OF
tho arms and fingers, by long practice, may
become.
ing tho busiest season, are frequently turn
ed out. .Lb
though each large and important enough to
be considered q manufacture by itself, are
completely dwarfed by the grand proper
tons OF his
MANUFACTURE or SOAP.
Conveniently located near the centre OF
p this great pile of buildings, standing on
massive foundations of brick aud stone, and
towering thence until their tops reach the
fifth story, are FIVE enormous cylinders oi
iron, each about fifty feet in circumference,
and each holding about Jioe htGidbed h0usdlt
pounds OF soap. These are
THE SOAP KETTLES,
and they are the largest in The world One
thinks in vain Of something with which Il
compare them, but standing at the top, there
was no difficulty in comprehending thel
huge Dimensions; Fall into that f%our-storl
iron cylinder, and you would need a hool
and ladder company TO rescue your remains
II would take considerable of a life-bOat Il
live in that ocean Of boiling soap The sa
ponaciOus pillows rise and fallin great swells
now sondiLg up a spray OF soap and steam
and now t~umbling in breakers against iroI
shores.
'Iike a sea that Is lab'ring tho birth ofA seat
To fall therein would DO to "suffer a sea
change" into something erasiye-to OK
perience a metempsychosis into hard soap
These kottles arc made of boiler iron
and are heated by coils ofrsteam pipe, O
which some four thousand feet are required
To I'll such enormous caldrons as these b.
any ordinary method would require weeks o
time. Ingenious provision has therefor
hapn mada for dOinp tbia nXDp1iiiaualV and
easily by the potent aid of steam. And her
II Is necessary to be disburdened OF a con