The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-08-19
Our Philadelphia Letter.
PHILA.. Pa, Aug. 10, 1877


the hemp body of wide floor oil cloth
this loom has a peculiar shuttle motion
called Il" POSITIVE" and is the inven.
tion an d patent of James Lyall,o of New
York City. The capacity of this loom
per day of 10 hours is 30 yards running
length, the width or distance the shut
tie travels ut each pick II yards,
picks per inch, running 81 picks per
inmate. Deducting reasonable time for
stoppage, this shows that the shuttle
carriage travels not less than 63 miles
day. This improved loom is also
shown weaving corsets, on loom,
also weaving seamless grain bags and
wide sheetngs. And | am further inn
formed that it is successfully used in
weaving wire and hair cloth. Centen-
nial visitors should make note of this,
and not fail to pay the looms a visit,
for it will amply repay them, both in
their rapidity of motion and beauty of
mechanical workmanship.
Four badly whipped men were taken
to our hospitals during the past week,
and each man had been thrashed by his
wife. Now this thing must be stopped,
even ii we have to call out the army
and navy to suppress it.
When you are at the Centennial be
sure and pay the glass factory visit.
If the day is hot, so much the better,
for after seeing how the glass makers
manage to live let alone work, in front
or near the seething furnaces, you will
not complain of the heat outside, III
warrant, if it should be 1909 in the
/ shade. Look at this perspiring work.
man carrying long rod with mass of
red not glass upon its end, which he
marriages to keep from dropping off by
twiring the rod round and round until
| he has it directly over the mould or
shaper, when another workman takes a
pair of shears and cuts off what Is re-
quired, the rest of the heated compound
is then thrown into u tub of water by
the man of the rod. After pressure,
from a punger is put upon the mould,
wait and see what you will see when
the mould is opened, mt it fine look
ing glass | don't mean a glass to look
in, but Il fine glass to drink out of, ah
I'm to hasty, the glass is not finished
| yet, for when taken from the mould or
Shaper it is thrown into box of sand,
then comes along little boy who takes
the glass between the prongS Of long
iron fork and thrusts it into furnace
for anneaIing, when it is taken out
don't accept 1t, should the small boy Of
fer it to you, for the chances a"e one in
a
drop it Immediately if not sooner. See
that fellow with the long iron tube in
his mouth | watch how he is blowing
up a bottle. is he not human bellows q?
Never mind ! that's the way he earns
his daily bakers bread and butter, and
if he is q blower he is useful and
peaceful member of Society. Glass is
he Z made int. all kinds of articles use.
ful and ornamental aud you can pur
chase most anything from a full set of
glass ware to u bottle for the ba0ie,--
paragOriC. Think of the glass workers
the very next time you put your noses
inside your crystal gODlets and qnaf
the refreshing ice water or the acidlOus
lemonade, ave ! think of them and
thank your lucky stars that you are not
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the year anyway.
In addition to her exhibits in the
Main and other buildings, Spain has a
building in the western part of the
grounds, all to herself ! took a ram .
BILE through it the other afternoon and
was well pleased with my visit and the
sights | saw. There may be seen fine
photographs of some of the fair0st and
most beautiful senoratas of sunny Spain,
models of grim looking castles and
forts, figures of officers and soldiers
uniformed aud armed according to the
various branches of the Spanish service.
Good, trusty- looking Toledo blades are
here, such as we have often read about,
for their fame is world, wide. l noted
other "blades" in this building whose
eyes were dark as night, and hair to
match. "Is'nt he lovely % remarked
young lady to her fair companion, as
they turned their glances toward a fine
looking blade-an Oflicer-Of the Span,
ish army. l blushed for LIy sex--when
| found the remark was not intended fol
me. OF all the things Isaw in this depart.
, ment, piece of rattan five hundred
, and fifty feet long pleased me the most
, | stood and gazed upon it in silent awe
for several minutes, what recollection,
, OF school-boy days il brought to my
. mind, indeed it made me quite sad, thel
> l braced up and happy idea occurred
to me. i thought what a ice thing
that rattan would be for some Univer-
a sity OF College Professor to have five
f hundred and fifty feet, only think of it
a what labor it would save in castigating
. unruly members of the different classes
Why, five hundred and fifty feet cOulC
. be measured out on the College campus
: and five hundred and fifty feet o
scholars could be marched out, and will
i the five hundred and fifty feet of rattal
q the most muscular of the Professor
could whip or cane the boys at one an,
the same time. Early application shoul'
n be made If this rattan is wanted in il
d entirety, otherwise it may be bought b.
% some speculator and cut up into sec
tions for individual use.
x Saturday next and the Saturday fol
a lowing August 10Th and Goth, the rat
a. of admission to the Centennial will b
N a twenty-five cents.
d The COrliss engine made its milliontI
D revolution some weeks or so ago, bu