The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16

pension Bridge, WITH the cnClce OF TWO routes
before me to New York. The Michigan Cen
trail and the Great Western Roads are IN tn
most perfect condition, and unsurpassed for
speed, safety and comfort by any roads IN
the country. II is the only direct route to
Suspension Bridge and Niagara FGile, aud
has this great advantage, that you can take
a Puiimsn Silver Palace sleeping car IN Ohl-
cage and ride, without change OF car, TO
Rochester, where you can take the Eric: or
the New York Central and Hudson River
Roads to New York. The long services as
General Passenger Agents OF Henry q. Went
worth, Of the Michigan Genital, and A. Wal
lingfOTd. OF the Great western, are the best
certificates of the character of these agents,
and of the stable management OF these rail-
ways.
night, 1 reached
HARTFORD,
uid Springfield, at l P. III. This city, next to
Providence, contains more wealth IN proper
ton to its numbers, than any city in the
Union. The census shows its population to
be lees than 40 Doc. Life and Fire Insurance
Companies hero have levied tributes upon
all parts of the country, and they display
their wealth here-as elsewheTe-int the cree
ton Of costly and magnificent buildings.
NEW ENGLAND
looks to me as of yUre, except that her hills
seem rounded, smOOthed and sOftened. Her
chief source of prosperity is in her msnufac
lures. Every stream of water, with fall
enough to turn a water wheel, is used 10
drive machinery. And Furnishing cities have
sprung I'D, within a few years, by the magic
poWer of tho skilled workers III cotton, wool,
silk, brass, iron, tin and wood. But 1 was
most interested in the growth OF
ROCKVILLE,
a manufacturing town, sixteen miles east OF
Hartford, connected with the Hartford <
Providence railroad by a branch railroad
some four miles long. Twenty years ago 1t
was q small hamlet with q mill or TIVE, and
few inhabitants Now it has 5000 inhabit-
ants, with all the appointments OF a city
gas. water-works, opera house, banks,
churches, schools, &c. It nestcs III a r2ylEe,
creeping up the hills onto the tableJand on
either side OF the stream whose motive pow
Ell has created 1t, and overlooking the Con-
necticut valley. There are many fine resi-
dences here, in picturesque situations. and
magnificent landscapes are seen from the
higher portions OF the town. Above the city
is the great reservoir, very deep, several
miles long, and capable of supplying water
for the city and sixteen manufactories-au
/ grouped within the space of 5000 yards-fOr
six weeks-Yere the river shut of EOml II, and
furnishing the best water power in tie state.
From the reservoir to the lower nIli ls & fail
of $50 feet, the lowest fall at any MIL being
IS feet, and The highest Il feet. Here are
silk, cotton, wcOlen, thread, envelope, and
llEudm HllLS-lLG AdiltT U6AuS tut CITY
mill in this country using six-sbutt!e looms
and able to run six colOrs at once. They
make over q hundred varieties Of plaid
But I was more interested in the process OF
making
WING SILK.
and rs it is not familiar to most newspaper
readers, I will try to describe 1t so that they
can understand It.
The raws six is imported from China andt
Japan, in large skeins, which have been
wound by the natives Of those countries
where labor Is chcay-frCm cOcOons fifteen
or twenty threads-more or less-intc one.
Three kinds Of raw six are used. The best
is Tsatlee, Of twenty cocoon threads. Tay-
ssam is the next quality and Carton is the
poorest. The better kinds are chiefly used.
The raw silk is first put into a strong sOlu-
ton of soap and water twelve hours, then
put on reels and wound into bObbins, 50 on a
machine, Of which there are thirteen in q
room. TEen the thread from these bobbms
is run into similar bobbins between two steel
knives to clean it and make il even. Then
i've b9bblns are into one. on q doub
llng machine, so constructed that IL one
thread breaks the machine stops. By repeat
ing the process thirty fhreads arc sometimes
combined in one. The bobbins are then put
on q spinning machine and twisted, the spin
die revolving sc, 900 times a minute. Then
they are put on the doubling machine again
and three threads combined II one, and then
brought back to the twisting machine and
twisted the opposite way. The bObbins are
then placed in a trough, so that the lower
side Is IL water, and wound thence on to a
wooden cylinder nearly a foot thick, and from
THE into a similar cylinder, called a stretch
er, which revolYeS one-slXth faster than the
other, increases tic length of the thread
one-SiXth and makes 1t smooth and even. Il
is then run into bobbins again, and then reel.
ed into hanks $50 yards long. 1t is now
II transferred to the dye-house, boiled IN soap
suds, which takes out the gum and reduces
the weight one-fourth. Then it is washed
clean, and that TO be colored black Is
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 a
wooden lever. which is called 'swinging."
For colorE-a hundred or mOre-dfferent
are required. These hanks are
wound into bObbins, then into spoOlz.
weighed. labeled, put up, a dozen spoOls IN a
box, and 764 boxes IN a shipping case, ready
for the market. All the processes are per .
By skilled hands with the greatest
care and precision. 1t takes about q month 5
from the time the raw silk goes into the mil !
before it is finished ready for sale. !
The principal silk mill here, located near /
he outlet Of the reservoir, and alWays sup :
7lied with clear water, belongs to :
ELDT BROS & co. }
It is a substantial brick building, four stories
with stone basement, lbs feet long by 6
. feet wide with 9 wing 20 by 50 feet, and
with the machinery, $125,090 The
vater wheel which drives this machinery Is
feet in diameter and cost nearly $1,000.
The Dye House boiler is Of GO horse power q
also have a weaving room where thew o
make tue finest sashes. Il takes S75, 600 to IL
took their mill, and they use 1 600 lbs of raw q
ilk q week, costing from $3.50 TO S105 % a f
They employ 200 operatives, and run 2
Without lntermisslOn from sun to sun. They o
lso have the products of three mills-which ti
hey virtually Tun-in Mansfield, Conn. and z
ell nearly q million dollars worth OF ssWinr G.
ilk a year. Mr.. A. n. Bedding a
as the management of the mills G.
Rockville. The firm have three wholesale a
ouses, managed, one at 325 Broadway. New "
lork, by II. III. Bedding and q. D. Wood: one c,
20 West Fourth street, Cincinnati, by d. g
7. Bedding; and one at Sc and SIS Wabash av- A
nue., Chicago. by 81. H. Belding w. 4. Stan. b
In and II. @. Allen. They have earned fbel -
Of making the best sewing silk in O
lie country. and have taken precedence of all ~
'mpetitors by adhering infiexibly to three "
lleg, viz: by selecting the best stock, using
10 best skill and machinery in working il, :.
Id always representing their goods to be ~
what they are, in measure, weight. 40
I'd quality. There are no ''dead-beats" in ~
le firm. They are all live men, understand -
business thoroughly, and attend 70 if De
- --hS hOAACo ~ hAN AAOAL ZIG bC-l =
to the front rank OF manufacturers ls
and wholesale dealers Of sewing "a
* and machine twist in the country. The ~
llcGgO house sells twice as many goods as y,
the other silk houses in Chicago, and has -
eatly increased its trade in the last two "a,
ars, till it now extends al over the North A.
ao
EAST AND WEST. -
travelling az the east I notice that the 20
lroad accommodations are far inferior to en-,
1se in the west. 1 saw no railway coaches m
lsl TO those in the west. and no sleeping
s equal to those Of tho Pullman Palace {
epDpg Car Company. But ad'
NEW YoRR
the great metropolitan city OF the New l
rid. Here are felt the vital pulses Of En-
de and commerce.. The hurry. and bustls 9th
activity, and enterprise, and eager pur- r.
of wealth and pleasure which character \
Chicago are here quickened and intonsi- We
YICTon. ~