The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-21

tuition and want ore on every hand, and in.
creasing at fearful rate. Labor is the source
OF all wealth and prosperity, and there IS no
loss}eoual to that which follows enforced idle.
ness Of the, producing classes. There IS no
music so full OF joy and peace and good will to
men rs the song Of labor and the music OF ma.
chinery. Better far that all other songs be
hushed and every note be stilled, rather than
those, and to them we now introduce the
ON THE DOCK. T.
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 the
same wharf to the brick house, tor the storage
of that precious material, one pound of which
will make one hundred miles of thread, con-
tanning about forty two million doublings.
The mind cannot grasp the numerical fact.
But tour grades OF cotton are ordinarily used
in the manufacture of Clark's 80. N. T."
Spool Cotton, and known as "Sea Island Cot
ton" This comes principally from South
Carolina and is grown ON the small islands
along the coast Considerable is raised on the
peninsulas 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 cotton OF the crop OF
1876 was purchased by the Clark Thread Com
pany at fifty cents per pound. The inland
cotton is not used III the manufacture OF
thread. be ing too short in the fibre. On these
sea islands were the richest planters OF the
South in
THE OLD SLAVE DAYS,
many OF them having as high as six hundred
slaves, and compared with whom the teuda
lords of England were children in luxury,
hospitality, and elegance. But to-day all is
changed. Those vast estates are cut up into
small plantations, many OF them owned by
the negroes, who now call no man master.
They bring in their seasons product, some
times on mule and again in large quantities
Brokers on the ground or at the landings,
buy and pay the negroes, tor their cotton,
often dividing the money according to the
labor performed i'll raising tho crop. Some
lease the land Of the former owners, but the
old state of things is "dun clar' gone" This
trade and traffic, it may be fairly expected, in
3 few years largely increase the wealth and
Intelligence of the race in these localities.
THE SEA ISLAND COTTON
b,ings treble the price OF inland. An acre
will produce in the neighborhood Of three
hundred and fifty pounds of seed cotton, which
when ginned weighs about seventy five
pounds, or one to five. The negroes without
doubt will eventually grow all the cotton, as
not one in five of the Northern men have thus
tar succeeded in their attempts. Let the read
or remember that we have not looked at a
single piece of machinery yet, and then cal
culate the number OF people and the amount
Of wealth, these works employ and produce,
before We reach the factory. esail the mine,
ment to supply The Clark Thread
Company's works, and when they
stop, the cotton may bloom and
fall unplucked, the coal miner may starve on
a bed OF black diamonds, the sails on the
the lathes in hundred shops be left to rust
in silence. The manufacture of Clark's co.
N. T." Spool Cotton embraces the islands OF
the sea and penetrates the bowels of the earth,
utilizing the treasures OF wealth on every
hand, enrlching and blessing mankind at
every step, from the womb Of ages to the
spindles OF Newark. We will now examine
into the Immediate sources 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.
We ENTER TIE ENGINE HOUSE,
itself large enough tor an ordinary factory.
Here is mighty production of human brain
and Drawn. In the presence of this monster,
with its majestic tread, one feels his own in
significance and frailty. This vast piece OF
machinery, moving silently, save the sharp
click of the improved steam cut-offs, is equal
in power to the combined draft of six hundred
horses and is two engines in one, usually term
ed double engine. The fly-whecl, travelling
atthe rate OF forty-elght revolutions per min
Ute and carrying three huge belts on it's
surface, each one tw. feet wide, is seventy
eight feet in circumference, twenty-five teet
in diameter and weighs thirty tons or sixty
thousand pounds. The shalt is fourteen
inches in thickness, the double cylinders are
de.sers, and stroke offve feet. They were
built by Corliss, in 1874. One of the three
belts on the hy-wheel is one hundred and
fifty feet in length. But even this double
monster could net run the works. It 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 ofpower and elegant workmanship,
worthy of visit from any one who wants to
see the
BIGGEST PAIR or 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 OF coal per day.
which will give some idea Of the amount ol
steam necessary to drive the immense estab-
lishment. Besides these there are three or.
binary sized engines, made by Watts, Camp.
bell, 4 Co., of Newark in different parts ofthe
works, making seven in all, grand total O