The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-29

where 36,391, 680x5 il equal to 1871 1855, 400;
the second slubber 1Sl, 968, 400x4N equal to
SIS, Sl2, 800; the intermediate slubbsr 49,
96S,4OOx6 equal to 4,612,S76, 800; the finish.
lsssg ss Of the thread 4,si2 s76, sO1S equal to
%, Az, 26O, 800. Now 1t goes on bobbins to |
the "mili" where 29,477, 260, S00x9A gives
us 272 .664. 662, 400 feet We then multiply
the last number of feet, which states the
total length of one pound OF cotton drawn
into thread, by the length OF the original
web, which is six and half feet, aud have
the total as stated before 272, 664, 662, 40Ox6H
feet making grand total OF 72,32o,63o,'
600 feet. The cotton, when finished as yarn,
has been doubled six million, nine hundred
and sixtyse ven thousand, two hundred and
ninety.six times (6,967,296 in passing
through the different processes. When the
yarn Is made into six cord finished thread,
the above number Of doublings have been
multiplied by six, making total OF Al $685.
762 doublings. Now divide the total draft,
LIZ, 1870, $50, 800, by the total doublings, and
II the work is correct, We shall have the
total number of feet of yarn in a pound OF
cotton, which is 254, 1897 feet. But there has
been 20 per cent. loss in the manufacture,
which must be added, making total OF
| 305, 254 feet of yarn for q pound OF cotton,
or 100 hanks Of $40 yards each, enough to
reach from New York to Trenton, a distance
OF Sixty miles.
MACHINE AND CABINET SHOPS, BOX FAC
| TORY AND PRINTING HOUSE.
The Clark Thread Company do all their
printing and lithographing at the works here.
Four printing presses are kept running all
the time, and in the.lithograping department
one steam press and six or eight hand litho.
graph presses are continually employed.
| In both departments the practice of the art
preservative" is in the highest style.
Orders for the paper box department in the
one item of straw board are given as high
as eighty to hundred tons at time. In
the machine shop large number of men are
employed in making new machinery and
keeping in repair the vast quantity in use in
the various departments of the works.
The cabinet factory turns out about two hun.
dred cabinets per day. The bobbins, ETC.,
used in the mill are made here. In fact
about all The Clark Thread Company 60 out
side for the is the raw material. They man
ufacture all they use, except few OF the
more intricate or patented machines.
THE CLARK HOSE COMPANY.
One of the best organized and equipped
fire companies in the city of Newark, is the
"Clark Hose Company" organized May
Is, 1869. There are twenty me mbers, EN-
trained by frequent practice to their duty
and proud of their company and outfit
Their equipment is as follows: Two hos
carriages with wrenches, bars and axes
carrying seven hundred and fifty feet o
: hose on reels, and two pipes with extra no2
, zles. They also command nine hundred fee
of hose with pipes and nozzles in twenty
one different stations, in and around the fac
. tory, one Cameron fire pump, one Worth
ington, one Watts & Campbell, and on
Blake pump, one hundred and seventy.eigh
, filled buckets in their proper places through
= out the works, sixteen hand pumps, sprinh
: lers in all the rooms of the cotton mill, tn
: packing house, the machine and carpente
!, shop, and the drying rooms. There ar
also sprinklers in the two top floors OF tn
thread mill, and in the warehouse, and Their
are thirty.fve fire plugs or hydrants on tn
9 premises. Regular meetings are held on tn
!, second Monday in each month, and practic
t is had every two weeks. Examination of al
h valves, hydrants, pumps, and other equip
8 ments, takes place on the first OF eac
!. month, and minute report Of the exaC
!. condition, position and effectiveness Of III
!, FIRE service is made to The Clark Threa
; Company.
{ HOW CLARK's go. N. T." SPOOL CoTTo
ORIGINATED.
y Until within few years, the great diff
e Guilty to be overcome in the introduction {
g sewing machines, was the objections mad
y by manufacturers and operators to the the
Q popular threads. These complaints were
h loud and well founded that the sale of sew
3. ing machines was greatly impeded on a
6 count of the impossibility of obtaining
a thread adapted to their use. Mr. George
IS Clark, approaching the difficulty, intr
duced into the American market the no
famous Clark's 80. N. T." Spool Cotton, a
numbers being six cord, from to 100, whic
e met the demand, did away with all cor
y plants. and long since established its rep
r. tation as the best thread in use for sewir
It machines or hand sewing. To Mr.. Georf
u A. Clark belongs the credit of being ii
n first to supply those fine qualities or 81
T. Cord Spool Cotton with which his name
D associated. The thread is used and recon
a mended by agents of the Singer, Wheeler
'r Wilson, Grover & Baker, Domestic, How
T, Florence, Weed, Wilson, Blees, Remington
q SecOr, Home, Lathrop and other sewing mi
s, chine companies. The superior quality
E Clark's 40. N. T." Spool Cotton soon s
': cured for it an immense sale, but with Il
a great popularity of the goods came al
q. counterfeits which made 1t necessary f
ID the manufacturers to adopt a trade mai
" for their. own and the public's protectio
1t and now upon every genuine spool of the
e | xhxaoJ &, tha f,IIouip0.