Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-09-15
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
From Chicago 20 the Esst-Uartford-
New JsngIaEd - Rockville Sewing
Silk-Hoyv Made Bedding Bros. a.
Co.-East and West-New YOI K.

were no railways in the West, save the wood
en- corduroy over otherwise impossible mo-
rasses, and the trip from Buffalo around the
lakes occupied from four to five days. Now,
/ steppe q into Pullman Silver Palace car At
the Michigan Central Depot III Chicago, and
passing over the Michigan Central and Great
Western Roads, with a smooth, gliding mo-
tion in sixteen hOnrs l found myself At Sus-
pension Bridge, with the choice of two routes
before me to New York. The Michigan Gen.
trail and the Great Western Roads are IN ia
most perfect condition, and unsurpassed for
speed, safety aud comfort by any roads IN
the country. Ii IL the only direct route 10
Suspension Bridge and Niagara FailF, and
has this great advantage, that you can take
Pullman Silver Palace sleeping car in CHI
cago and ride, without change OF car, 10
Rochester, where YOU can take the Erie. or
the New York Central and Hudson River
Roads to New York. The long services as
General Passenger Agents Of Henry G. Went
worth, Of the Michigan Central, and y. Wal
lingford of the Great Western, are the best
certificates of the character of these agents,
and OF tue stable manas cement OF these rail-
ways.
Passing over the New York Central in the
night, reached
HARTFORD,
ria Springfield, at l ?. II. This city, next TO
Providence, contains more wealth IN proper
ton to it, numbers, than any city in the
Union. The census shows its population to
be less than 40, O00. Life aud FIRE Insurance
Companies here have levied tributes upon
all parts of the country, and they display
their wealth here-as elsewhere-in the cree
tion OF costly and magnificent buildings.
NEW ENGLAND
looks to me ga of yure, except that her bills
seem rounded, smoothed aud softeucd. Her
chief source OF prosperity is III her manuTae
lures. Every stream Of water, with fall
enough to turn water wheei, is used 10
drive machinery. And flourishing critics have
sprung up, within few years. by the msg'c
power OF the skilled workers IL cotton, wool,
silk, brass, iron, tin and wood. But l was
most interested IN the growth OF
ROCKVILLE,
8 manufacturing town, sixteen miles cast of
Hartford, connected with the Hartford X
Providence railroad by 3 branch railroad
some four miles long. Twenty years ago II
was a small hamlet with 2 mill or tive, and
few inhabitants. Now 1t has 5000 inhsbit-
ants, with all the appointments OF a city
gas, wster-woTks, opera house, banks,
churches, schools, &c. 1t nestles IN rayine,
creeping up the hills onto the tabie-land on
either side Of the stream whose motive pow
ef has created II, and overlooking the Con-
necucut valley. There are many fine resi-
dences here, in picturesque situations, end
magnificent landscapes are seen from the
higher portions of the town. Above the city
is the great reservoir, very deep, seyerai
miles long, and capable of supply ing water
for the CITY and sixteen manufa ctoTies-al
grouped within the space of 5000 yards-for
six weeks-were the river shut of from II, and
furnishing the best water power in tie state.
From the re scrvOir TO the lower mill is fall
Of $50 feet, the lowest fall at any mill being
Is feet, and the highest Al feet. Here are
silk cotton, wooden, thread, envelope, and
gingham mills-the latter being the only
mill in this country using six-shuttle looms
and abe 70 run Elk colors al once. They
make over a hundred varieties of plaid.
But WAS more interested in the process oil
making
SEWING SILK.
and as it is not familiar to most newspaper
readers, | will try to describe 1t so that they
can understand il.
The raw silk is imported from China and
Japan, in large skeins, which have been
wound by the natives Of those countries
where labor Is chesp-from cOcoons, fifteen
or twenty threacs-more or less into one.
Three kinds OF raw silk are used. The best
is Tsatlee, OF twenty cocoon threads. TAy-
sam is the next quality and Carton is the
poorest. The better kinds are chiefly used.
the raw silk is first put into a strong sou-
ton of soap and water twelve hours. then
put on reels and wound into bobbins, IS on
machine, of which there are thirteen IN n
room. Then the thread from these bobblns
is run into similar bobbins between two steel
knives to clean il and make il even. Then
five bebblns are wound Into one, on doGb
ling machine, so constructed that If one
thread breaks the machine stops BY repeat
ing the process thirty threads are sometimes
combined in one. The bobbins are then put |
on a spinning machine and twisted, the spin
die rev diving Sc 900 times g minute. Then
they are put on the doubling machine again
and three threads combined ID one, and then
brought back TO the twisting machine and
twiste the opposite way. The bObbins are
then placed in 4 trough, so that the lower
side is IL water, ard wound thence on TO |
wooden cylinder nearly foot thick, and from !
this into similar cylinder, called a stretch |
er, which revoiyes one-sixth faster thSa the |
other. increases the length OF tho thread
one-sixth and makes 1t smooth and even. II
is the run into bobbins again, and then reel |
ed into hanks $50 yards long. 1t is now
II ansferred to the dye-hcuse, boiled in soap |
suds, which takes out the gum and reduces
tho weight one-fourth. Then ii is washed !
clean, and that TO be cosored black i |
put in a bath of nitrate of iron, washed !
again, put in a bath of clutch to give |
it body, then dyed with logwOOd and |
soap, washed and sOftened with slight soap
bath, dried, and twisted, paid in hanks with |
wooden lever which is called ss-yipeinr - |
For colors-s hundred or more-different |
processes are required. These hanks are
then wound into bobbins, then into spools, |
weighed, labeled, put up, dozen spools in |
box, ard 764 boxes IL a shipping case, ready |
for the market. All the processes are per- |
formed by skilled hands with the greatest |
care and precision. 1t takes about month |
from the time the raw silk goes into the mill /
before ii is finished ready for sale.
The principal silk mill here, located near |
the outlet of the reservoir, and always sup
Piled with clear water, belongs to
BELDING BROS q co.
1t ia a substantial brick building, four stories
high, with stone basement, l25 feet long by
= fa<af 10 x--ff, xrs,s L.
costing, with the machinery, S125, 600. The
water wheel which drives this machinery is
80 feet in diameter and cost nearly $1,000 |
The Dye House boiler is of GO horse power
They also have weaving room whore they
make the finest sashes Il takes $4,000 To l.
silk week. costing from 81. TO SO so a
pound. They employ 200 operatives, and run
without intermission from sun to sun. They
also have the products of three mills-which
they Vi, tualiy ruin Mansfield, Conn, and
sell noarly million dollars worth Of sewing
silk a year. Mr.. A. N. Belding
has the management of the mills
at Rockville. The firm have three Wholesale
houses, managed, one at 325 Broadway. New
York, by III. MI. Bedding and @. d. Wood; one
w. Bedding; and one at Sc and So Wabash ay-
enue, Chicago. by III. II. Boiling w. A. Stan.
ton and III. e. Allen. They have earneT the
reputation OF making the best sewing silk in
the country, and have taken precedence OF all
by adhering infexibly to three
rules, VIZ: by selecting the best stock, using
the best skill and machinery in working it,
and always representing their goods to be
precisely what they are, in me asure. weight |
and quality. There are no ''dead-beats' in
the firm. They are all live men, understand
their business thoroughly, and attend to it.
and have worked their way from small be-
ginnings to the front rank of manufacturers,
and wholesale dealers of sewing
silk aud machine twist in the country. The
Chicago house sells twice many goods az !
III the other silk houses in Chicago, and has
greatly increased its trade in the last two
7ears, till it now extends al over tho North .
vest.
EAST AND WEST.
In travelling ut the east notice that the :
abroad accommodations are far inferior to !
he so in the west. / saw no railway coaches
pal to those in the west, and no sleeping
,ars equal to those of the Pullman Palace
Sleeping Car Company. But
NEW YORK
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