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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-03-29
4 BL-fCk MIN GRIDC4LLY TURN
ING H!ITE

Last Saturday afternoon We saw quite
a curiosity on the street in the shape of
a human being, who, fifteen years ago,
was well-developed negro. black as the
ace O. spades, Int who is fast becoming
2 white man, as lar as the color OF the
skin goes. The person we speak OF was
In keckuk about three years ego, and at
that time began TO show evidence OF
changing color, his arms and part of his
body being white IN spots. Since that
time Inc transformation has been gradu-
ally going on, and his appearance now
is more white than black. His cheeks.
chin. cars, hands, and part Of the neck
are now white. The black skin peels off
IN scales. Gl.ti IN another three years he
v-lH,-with the exception OF his wool.
which is as kinky as an Africans, be al
Whit. He was talking OF locating here.
his present residence being YYnrsaw.-
heoAt,k Constitution.
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TIE OLD SLAVE DAYS,

many Of them having as high as six hundred
slaves, and compared with whom the feudal
lords of England were children in luxury, hos
ritsEty and elegance. But to-day all is changed
Those vast estates are cut up into small pIanta-
items, many of them owned by the negroes,
who now call no man master. They bring, in
their seasons product, sometimes on a mule
and again in large quantities. Brokers On the
ground or at the landings buy and pay the ne
sroes fer their cotton. often dividing the money
according to tbs labor performed IN raising the
crop. Some lease the land of tbs forrser OWL
ers but the old state of things is .sdun clar'
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Il Frog HoIf-Woy.

Il Frog Half Hay.
QEag, quog, quog, quog!
A very unmusical note,
This eminent basso, Mr.. Frog,
Has surely cold in his throat.
But he does his best, with good intent,
The little, speckled man,
For every frog must sing in Lent
AS loud as ever he can.
Quog, quog, quog, quog.
When the morning sky is red,
He sits on the slippery, NOISY log,
With the rushes over his head
He does his best, with a good intent,
The little, sprawling man,
For every frog must sing in Lent
As loud as ever he can.
Olire Il. Bddsaoorth, in March Nursery.
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say 60 now he is out of hearing, that such
mean-looking little flies should have
lamps to carry, while we butterflies, who
would light up so beautifully and are SO
much superior to them, should be obliged
to do without.-1f7.s. Il. ~. Diaz.
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STARVATION AND CRIME

would be the fruit of such course But this
is exactly what has been done throughout the
country and explains why one in twelve in New
ark are to-day supported by the city. The pro-
ductive capital of the country, which employed
our now idle millions, has been put into Gov
eminent bonds and appalling restitution and
want are every hand, and increasing at a
fearful rate. Labor is the source of all wealth
end prosperity, and there is no loss equal to that
which follows enforced idleness of the produc-
ing classes. There is no music so full of iov
and peace and good will to men as the song of
labor and the music of machinery. Better far
that ell other songs be hushed and every note
be stilled, rather than those, and to them we
now introduce the reader
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ON THE DOCK

of The Clark Thread Company, which is five
hundred feet long, is mountain of two
or three thousand tons of coal, drawn out
of boats at the wharf by donkey engine,
and the bales of cotton find their way from
tie same wharf to the brick house for the
storage of that precious material, one pound
of which will make one hundred miles of
thread, containing about forty-two million
doublings. The mind cannot grasp the
numerical fact. But four grades of cotton
ordinarily used in the manufacture of
Charks 80. n. T." Spool Cotton, and known
as Sea Island Cotton" This comes prin-
cipally from South Carolina, and is grown
on the small islands along the coast. Con-
Il .erable is raised on the peninsuias and
around the bays and inlets, but it is not equal
to that OF the sea islands, which is the finest in
the world. The first bag of this sea island cot
ton Of the crop of 1876 was purchased by the
Clark Thread Company at fifty cents per pound.
The inland cotton is not used in the manu-
facture of thread, being too short in the fiber.
On these sea islands were the richest planters
OF the South in
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OLA 1H KS
"O.N.T." SPOOL COTTON.
How and Where it is Made...The
Clark Thread Company.-.Largest
Works in the New World.
Acres of Splendid Build
ings...Ferests of Won
derful Machinery.
The Process of Manufacture.
Down In the Cotton fIeids.-.The
Employees Societles---The
Clark Hose Company---A
Grand Relief Socis(y---
Employees Centen-
NAL EXCURSION
The Renowned
Eureka Club
ard Thistle
Band.
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4 12SKEE III trance. who was sup
posed TO be dead, was laid on lee, but
li.e awoke and startled his watchers by
yelling: Why don't you keep up
better fire -
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BIGGEST PAIR OF TWINS

in New Jersey. They are supplied with steam
from nine immense tubular boilers and four
large upright boilers, Cor7iss' plan. They con-
sumo twenty-five tons of coal per Gay, which
will give some idea of the amount of steam
necessary to drive the immense establishment.
Besides these there aFe three ofdi;efy=sized
engines made by Watts; Campbell & Co., of
Newark, in different parts of the works, making
seven in all, a grand total of nearly fourteen
hundred horsepower. The young mountain &C
coal, which looks enough to last lie whole city
a year, is rebuilt by two hundred and fifty ton
boat loads. at brief intervals.
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THE FfTTE or CNNDYN ENyS

| It is not enough that food should con-
tain elementary principles III the proper
quantity to render 1t really nutritious
there must also be a supply of condG-
ments These have been compared to
oil IN q machine, which neither makes
good the waste of material nor supplies
motive power, yet causes it to work bet
ter they render essential service in the
process of nutrition, though they are
not themselves able to prevent the waste
OF any part OF the body 4 dietary de
prived of condiments, a mere mixture of
alimentary principles without taste or
smell, is uncomfortable, and causes nausea
and vomiting. It is not until condi-
ments are added to aliInent that it reau
becomes food. Continents Lave en- i'm
portant influence upon the process of
digestion and nutrition. The mere fiobt
or thought of a savoy dish "1lakes the
mouth water that is, makes tic sail
vary glands pour out their secretion CO.
piously, which is an important stage in
digestion, especially for certain articles
of food.
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NEARLY FoRTY-rwo MILLION DoUBL1NGs,

and yet is so fine as to be hardly visible few
inches from the naked eye. The immense CAPT
tai invested iii This CLARK Thread C6mpaHAA's
Works, and the vast volume of business, amount
ing to several millions per annum, extending to
every part of the United States, is one of the
principal sources of Newarks prosperity. What
it is and the blessings which flow from it are
not realized by one in a thousand of the people
who dwell within the sound of their tower bell.
Notwithstanding ths laFge ameuht Of money
which the establishment was to pour into the
lands of every merchant and trader in the city,
as events have shown the first thing which the
City Fathers did wlen thess works were being
erected was to tax the bricks and material not
yet shaped into buildings. 1t was on a par with
the intelligence and appreciation of the
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MANY INTERESTING PARTICULARS.

[From the Essex County Press. Newark, n. j.
At the foot Of Clark street; III this Eighth
ward of the city of Newark, on the banks of the
Passaic, occupying several acres of ground.
upon which are buildings the flooring of which
measures nearly eight acres; arb sittiatGd tho
largest thread works in the New World, en-
ploying about fifteen hundred hands and pay
ing out every two weeks from sixteen to twenty
thousand dollars in wages, to be distributed by
the employees among different classes and occu-
pations in the city. and from fifteen TO twenty
thousaiid PEI month 10 other parties here, who.
in various ways, connected with this vast
establishment: Although having the largest
payroll OF any employers In New Jefsey; and
contributing fnore to the welfare and prosperity
of the city than all its financial institutions
combined, we hear less in the newspapers Of
this world of wealth-makers than of some
second-class money-lending shop on Broad
street 1t would be useless FOR any one to at
tempt to trans IS their source all the varied in
dustries which have entered into the produc-
ton of Clarks go. N. T." Spool Cotton, which
is sold by every merchant dealing in dry goods,
fancy goods, hosiery, notions, ETC., in the Uni
ted States, and contains two hundred yards Of
that indispensable article, strong, smooth and
beautiful. It is made I'D OF
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The cotton is brought in bales to the mixing
rooms; when it is examined and placed in bins,
according to the different grades, ready for the
scutching machines, which open and beat the
material, cleaning it from the dirt and sand it
contains in the bale. After going through the
scutching machine, it comes out i'll the shape
of roll, like wall paper, comparatively soft,
white and clean. 1t is, however, really in
very rough state compared with the fnoness
and perfectctt that is to bs reached. Sc, eral
of these scutcLing machines ale running con-
tinually, and their sound is Ike Inc roar of
lightning express train it whirls past the
platform where you stand. The first scutcLsr
is fed with the bale cotton from hopper which
let's it through into knives set in large rollers,
which rovolvo with tremendous force, and
lightning speed, picking the cotton Into sr1all
pieces, and passing it by suction of air on to
other rollers, between which it goes and comes
cut in the shape of web or clap" in large
rolls. Fotlf Of these Tolls afe then placed upon
machine like the first and run together
through the same process of
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AaRA
/GL--.CA
tGEiknj
N9,&I

The trademark is familiar to every F1crchaI;
III the United States, and all 40 have. evc.
tried The 60. uI.e Clark E. o. y. Z. S;Ioo! 20;
ton continue "a il
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PICKING IND Essr1Ne AND CLEANING.


when it comes out again in the same sfapS "a
before, rolled to exactly the thickness which it
is desired to make the silver" from which the
thread yarn is to be spun. What q ''sliver' is
will be learned further on. The machine is so
delicately set that it regulates the thickness of
the web or lap to within half an ounce, in a
web of five feet, weighing only twelve to
eighteen olirees: After being PITT through
three scutching machines in this way aid COM
ing out with eight thicknesses of web or lap
similar to that produced by the first process, it
is ready for the carding machines. This de-
partment is filled with Carding Machines,
Drawing Frames, Lappers, and Combing Ma
chimes, a perfect labyrinth of betting, pulleys
and machinery, the noise of which is like The
roar OF MANY waters mingled with the clatter
of thousand wheels. One of the large rolls
of web or lap that came from the last sGlitcling
machine is placed on a carding machine, which
takes and rams it
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ThE two hottest days ever known in
Australia were the 18th and 10th o: Jam
uary, when the thermometer registered
103 degrees in the shade at Melbourne.
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TIE coARsEsr COTTON CLOTH.

1t is called the French combing machine and
is only used by the best thread-lnakers. as il is
very expensive and, while it makes the thread
superior in quality, ii adds twenty per cent. to
the cost of manufacture Six of the rolls Of
webbing are low passed together through the
csrnIiBg machine between two rollers, and
eoIabed by innunlel able steel teeth to the fine
ness of gossamer and the thinness of SPIDERS
web. 1t passes On, Is gathered into one soft
once u,ore wt,cI, It Is cii- into cans as before.
with loss Of twenty per cent. the material
which composed the web when i WAS put On
the French machine. It Is q texture 50 fine
and soft that one cannot but wonder how it
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C. N. u.

WHEE WRITING 10 ACyctss..s-.. =
In this paper. - - --A@<@s
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BETWEEN THE TEETH

of large and small cylinder for the purpose of
drawing out the entangled fbers and laying
them parallel or in same line of direction and
also to remove the small pelicles or notes
which may have escaped the action OF the
scutching machine After being treat ed in this
way, conlber or doffer takes the web from the
small cylinder, which is now delicate gauzc
and 1t Is gathered up and passed through
small hole, say half an inch III size, after which
it is coiled III revolving can. The whole pro-
cess is one of wonderful dclicacy, the material
being fuely worked that breath of air
would break it. This card contains ninety thou
sand square teeth to a foot, OF a total OF four
million one hundred and eighty-six thousand.
On the carding machine is little johsr that
works like some old man. raising TIE rire-coy-
cred flats from the teeth of the carCie1 which
it cleans, and throws off the particles of dirt
and coarse cotton left on them. Six of the
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TIE M.REEOCE.

where the beautiful little label contSiuiag the
uame number. etc, Of tie thread, is pnt o. by
girls The quickest of them viii put labels on
the ends OF nine or ten thousand IN ? day, ali
OF which have to be moistened by the tongue.
placed on the spool, and then struck with the
hand to paste it. Some of these girls week
about as quick lightning After iicketlnG,
the spools of thread are put into boxes Of one
dozen each. They are then ready for packing.
About twenty-five Thousand feet of lumber Per
month Is cut at the mills, in Michigan, to tie
various lengths required. and all that IS done
here is 10 put the boxes together A private
wire runs from the works in Newark to the Ncw
York Office, and the line is kept busy IN sending
orders and transmitting messages of the COM
parv. In the short time we were there several
large orders came Ii from different parts Of tho
country, and among them were some from
Maine. Texas, California, Wisconsin, Oregon.
ETC. The Clark Thread Company sends ont I'll
.lllalfy vast quantities of show cards, calendars,
etc some of which magnificent specimens
of the Itlographic and printers art
Is THIS Fab COUNT?
The number OBJECT of draught "hich one pound
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TIN CANS, CALLED CARD sLIyEEs,

in which the roll is wound are now taie:l to
another machine called a Drawing Frame and
run together into one ~ silver" These six are
so light that when they are passed together
through hole and made one, they fall into
another silver and are then no larger than one
of the six from which it was made, although
they have not yet been twisted at all. Fourteen
of these cans full of sli7ers are placed at the
q Lapper" and run between two rollers, making
4 new web nine inches wide and half an inch
thick, which comes ont like the original roll
from The scutcbing machine that takes the cot
ton from the bales. only that now il is soft and
delicate IS possible to conceive weight only
one hundred aJ31 forty-fiye grains to lie yard,
Inc inches wide. It goes in rolls To a
wonderful little machine, French invention,
first introduced in this country by The Clark
Thread Company. Il j. 2 refined cardiiIg rla-
line, the product Of which i as much superior
ia fineaess TO the large carders just described
a tie most elegant six goods are 70
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coLoEED OR UNCoLoRED,
THE sPooLING DEPARTMENT.

The spooling room is a busy place, where
spoos of thread of all sizes and colors by te:s OF
thousands are wound every day, two hundred
s sfns 4n Spo niece Of eeaRis The
spools are placed in an iron gutter by the oper-
ator, when the machine picks them up, puts
them on q shaft eight at time, winds the
revolutions per minute, cuts q little slot in the
edge of the SPOOL catches the thread III it, nips
it off, drops the spools full of thread into boxes
below, picks up eight more empty spools,
never makes mistake The machine. which is
used in this country only by The Clark Thread
Company was exhibited by them at the Gotten
NAL. and, with their mag nifcent of goods,
was one OF the great attractions among the
many wonders of the exhibition From the
spooling department, the spoiled thread is
taken TO
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gone" This trade and traffic, it may be fairly
expected, will in few years largely increase
the wealth and intelligence of the race in these
looaJitfno
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WE ENTER TIE ENGINE HOUSE,
itself large enough for an ordinary factory
Here is a mighty production of human brain
and Drawn. In the presence of this monster,
with its majestic tread; ons f@sls his own insig
nifcance and frailty. This vast piece of ma
chinery, moving silently, save the sharp click
of the improved steam cut-off5, is equal in
power to the combined draught of six hundred
horses, and is two engines in one, tstially termed
q double engine. The fiy-wheel, travelling at
the rate of forty-eight revolutions per minute
and carrying three huge belts on its surface,
each two feet WIDE is seventy-eight feet in cir
conference, twenty-five feet in diameter, and
weighs thirty IONS, OF sixty thousand pounds.
The shaft is fourteen inches in thickness, the
double cylinders are twenty-six inches in dame
ter, with condensers, and stroke of five feet.
They were built by Corliss, i'll 1874. One of
the three belts on the fy-wheel is one hundred
and fifty feet in length. But even this double
monster could net run tlis works. It has big
twin brother, and together thy uavel every
day for ten hours on their endless journey, and
never get tired. They are wonders of power
and elegant workmanship, worthy of visit
from any one who wants to see the
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lClal -;"--''If
Balance in treasury Jan. 1. 1877. $685. s.
HOW CI.ARK's go. n. t." SPOOL COTTON ORIGIN
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of cotton undergoes is one trillion, seven hun,
dred and seventy-t7ao billion, three hundred and
twenty million, six hundred and thirty five
thousand six hundred feet OIL, Isl ated In figures
1.772 800, 635, 600, distance of 335, All, 5S2}4
miles. The following demonstrates the APP
parently incredible statement: The web of
cotton from Which tile immense length of
thread is drawn is forty inches vide. 1t goes
to the carder, where it is drawn to 4x120 equal
to $50 feet. Then the drawing frame increases
it to 4S0x6. equal to 1850 the lapper 2, SS0x2I,
equal to $3.50; the comber draws it out to
G. 48Ox26, equal to 16S, 480; then it goes to the
first head drawing frame, where 168, 4S0x6
equal 10 ;a19,Ss0.
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the work employing several girls, who cut all
the rough and imperfect thread from the
Eaftkd: Aftst this second inspection, We find
it next ii tliG beaF1 ltrtsF+ 1ie b!eaei: and dye
houses are among the most iili5;fsstitss 4;part-
ments of this vast establishment, although not
the most agreeable. The progress in wash
ing machinery, that is here exhibited, would
make our grandmothers think that the m:llel-
ium had come. The baby washer, as we call it,,
of this concern, is rather Of large child, whose
place and Uses viii appear later. After the
threed Is Gent from the inspection department
to tt5 bfEs&t ord ay' i,g!isss, 1t Is t,npagke
at time, and boiled by Steam for scYgtal hours,
which takes out the dirt and
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gone." This trade and traffic. it may be fairly
expected, will in few years largely increase
the wealth and intelligence of the race in these
localities.
THE SEA ISLAND COTTON
brings treble the price OF inland, and ranges
from thirty to ninety cents per pound, accord
ing TO grade. An acre will produce in the
neighborhood of three hundred and fifty
pounds of seed cotton, which when ginned
weighs about seyenty-five pounds, or one to
five: The negroes; without doubt, will event.
ually grow all the cetten, as not one in five of
the Northern men have thus far succeeded Ia
their attempts. Let the reader remember that
we have not looked at a single piece of ma
chinery yet, slid then calculate the number of
people and the amount 6f wealth these works
employ and produce, before we reach the fac
tory. The sail, the mine, commerce and manu-
features, all find employment to supply The
Clark Thread Companys works, and when
they stop the cotton may bloom and fall IN
plucked, the coal miner may starve on a bed of
black diamonds, tbs sails on the rivers be
spread to tie ifGczU no inors; and tbs lathss
in hundred shops be left to rust in silence.
The manufacture of Clark's g o. n. T." cotton
embraces the island of the sea and penctrates
the bowels of the earth, utilizing the treasures
of wealth ON every hand, enriching and bless
ing mankind at every step, from the womb of
ages to the looms ef Newark. We will now
examine into Tie Immediate s9tifees Of the
power which drives the endless machinery of
this vast hive of industry, with its sixty miles
OF betting and about seventy miles of steam
pipe for heating purposes.
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bears its own weight. After the last process
six of the slivers are again put through the
any of the six from which it Is drawn.
Then six of these last afe put through the same
process reducing them in size six times, and
adding that to the length. This is repeated
three times, and each time they are coied into
cans. The last silver is the same size and
weight as when the process began, although
doubled four hundred and thirty-five thousand
four hundred and fifty-six times. The last
cans are now taken II
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The number of feet of draught nhich ore pound