The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-03-23

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acfe will produce In ihe neighharh00d ~
three HUNDRED and 6hy pounds If 'ced
cotton, which when ginned weighs abOut
seventy FIVE pounds, NJ Nv ~ five. The
negroes without doubt will eventually
grow all the cotton, ~ not n IN five ~
the NOftiieu men have thus faf succeed
al In their attempts. Let the reader re-
member chat we have not looked nj q sin
Gle piece VI machinery yet, and then cal
culate the number Of people aud the
amount Of wealth, these works employ
and produce, before we reach the factory.
The sail the mine, commerce and manu-
features, al find employment to supply
The CLARK Thread Company works, aud
when they stop the cotton may bloom
and fall unplucked, the coal miner may
starveon a bed Of black diamonds, the sails
on the rivers he spread to the breeze no
more. and the lathes in q hundred shops
be left 10 rust in silence. The manufac-
ture of Clark's go. n. r." Spool cotton
embraces the islands Of the sea and pen
etrates the bowels Of the earth, utilizing
the treasures of wealth On every
hand, enriching and blessing mankind
at every step, from the womb OF ages to
the spindles at Newark. Wewill nowex-
anime into the immediate sources of the
power which drive the endless machin-
cry of this vast hive Of industry, with its
sixty miles of betting and about seventy
miles of steam pipe for heating purposes.
WE ENTER THE ENGINE HOUSE,
itself large enough for an ordinary iac-
tory. Here is a mighty production Of
human brain and Drawn. In the presence
of this monster, with its majestic tread,
one feels his own insignificance and frail-
ty. This vast piece of machinery, NOV
ing silently, save the sharp click of the
improved steam cut-offs, is equal in pow
er to the combined draft of six hundred
horses, and is two engines in one, usually
termed a double engine. The fy-wheel,
travelling at the rate of forty-eieht revo-
lutions per minute and carrying three
huge belts on its surface, each two feet
wide, is seyenty-eight feet in circum-
ference, twenty-five feet in diameter,
and weighs thirty tons or sixty thousand
~ M ,LoFt IL fnI rtaaD iDphps in
thickness, the double cylindersar are twenty
six inches in diameter, with condensers,
and astroke of five feet. They were built
by Corliss, in 1874. One of the three belts
on the fy.whecl is one hundred ard fifty
feetin length. But even this double mon
ster could not run the works. 1t has a
big twin brother, and together they travel
every day for ten hours on their endless
Journey, and never get tired. They are
wonders of power and elegant workman
ship, worthy OF a visit from any one who
wants to See the
BIGGEST PAIR OF TWINS
in New Jersey. They are supplied with
steam from nine immense tubular boilers
and four large upright boilers, Corliss
plan. They consume twenty-five tons O
coal per day, which will give some idea o
the amountof steam necessary to drive thu
immense establishment. Besides thes'
there are three ordinary sized engines
made by Watts, Campbell & Co, of New
ark, in different parts of the works, max
ing seven in all, a grand total of nearl!
fourteen hundred horse power. Ih'
Young mountain of coal, which look
enough to last the whole city a year, i
rebuilt by two hundred and fifty ton boa
loads, at brief intervals.
MANUFACTURERS THE THREAD.
The cotton is brought in bales to thu
mixing rooms, when it is examined ant
placed in bins, according to the diferen
grades, ready for the scutching machines
which open and beat the material, clean
ING it from the dirt and sand it contain
in the bale. After going through thu
scutching machine, it comes out III th'
shane of a roll, like wall paper, compare
tivelv soft white and clean. 1t Is, how
ever, really in a very rough state, com
pared with the fneness and perfection
that is to be reached. Several OF thes
scutching machines are running continu
ally, and their sound is like the roar OF
lightning express train, as it whlrls pas
= the platform where you stand. The hrs
scutcher is fed with the Jale cotton iron
, a homer whichIetsit throughinto knive
, set in large rollers, which revolve wit.
tremendous force, and lightning speed
nickinc the cotton into small pieces, an
: passing it by suction of air, on to othe
I rollers, between which it goes and come
f cut in the shape of a web or LAP.
large rolls. Four of these rolls are the
placed upon a machine like the first an
ran together through the same processc
[ PICKING AND BEATING AND CLEANlN'
when it comesou t again in the same snap
n as before, rolled to exactly the thlcKne'
' which it is desired to make the silver
from which the thread yarn is to be spuI
. Whats "sliver" is will be learned furtht
4 on. The machine is so delicately set ths
II regulates the thickness of the web
Ian to within half an ounce, IN a web
h FIVE feet, weighingon twelve to eightee
ounces. After being put through thrt
scutchinp machines in this way and con
10 ing out with eight thicknesses of web
lap similar to that produced by the hr
process, il is ready for the cardlng m
chimes. This department is filled vii
i. Carding Machines, Drawing Frames, La
" pers, and Combing Machines, a perieI
labyrinth of betting, pulleys and machi
erv, the noise of which is like the roar
is many waters mingled with the clatter
If a thousand wheels. one of the lar
n rolls of web or lap that came from the la
n scutching machine is placed on a cardli
ir machine, which takes and runs it
k BETWEEN THE TEETH
a. of a large and small cylinder for the pa
le pose of drawing out the ~entangled fbe
1t and laying them parallel or in the san
ID line of direction and also to remove Il
lr small pellicles ormotes which may havet
lc caped the actionof the scutching machin
oil After being treated in this way, a com
..~ doaor tobas ,be weh from tha sms