The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-03-29

York to Trenton, a distance Of sixty miles.
MACHINE AND CADINETsHoPs, box FACTORY
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 lithograph depart
ment one steam press and six or eight hand
Autograph 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 one hundred tons at a time. In the
machine shop a large number of men are EN-
ployed in making new machinery ana keep
ing in repiar the vast quantity in use in the
various departments OF the works. The CAB
met factory turns out about two hundred
cabinets per day. The Dobbins, etc, used IN
the mill arc. made here. in fact abeut all the
Clark Thread Company go outside for IS the
raw material. They manufacture all they
use, except Il 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 me
"Clark Hose Company" organized Mayl5th,
1869. There are twenty members, employees
Of the factory, brave active men, trained by
frequent practice to their duty, and proud
of their company and outfit. Their equip
ment is as follows: Two hose carriages with
wrenches, bars and axes, carrying seven nun
dred and fifty ieet of hose on reels and TWO
pipes with extra n0zzles. They also COM
mand nine hundred feet OF hose with pipes
and nOzzles in twenty.one different stations,
in and around the factory, one Cameron hre
pump, one Warrington, one Watts& Camp.
bell, and one Blake pump, one hundred ana
seventy.eight filled buckets in their proper
places throughout the works, sixteen hand
pumps, sprinklers in all the rooms OF the
cotton mill, the packing house, the machine
and carpenter shop and the drying rooms.
There are also sprinklers in the two top
floors of the thread mill and in the ware
house, and there are thirty-fve fire plugs or
dydrants on the premises, Regular meetings
are held on the second Monday in each
month, and practice is had every two weeks.
Examination of all valves, hydrants, pumps
and other equipments takes place on the first
of each month, and a minute report OF the
exact condition, position and effectiveness
of the fire service is made to the Clark
Thread Company,
THE CLARK THREAT COMPANY RELIEF So
CIETY.
One Of the best and most beneficial organ
~i2atiOns which constitutes a part of the sys'
TEN and care of the Clark Thread Company
for their employees, is the Relief Society. 1t
was organized January 22d, 1870, for the pur-
pose of providing a fund fol the relief of those
whG might, by accident or sickness, be in
capacitated from sustaining themselves. All
the employees of the company must be men,
bers OF the society and each receives assistance
when needed, from the fund according to
the amount paid in, which must be at least
one cent. per week, but no one is per-
mitted to pay in an amount which w0ul"
draw, in case OF sickness, more than h II
their average weekly wages. Every cen,
paid in draws seventy.6ve cents per week.
The Clark thread Company contributes five
dollars per week to the fund without cessa-
ton, but all others cease their contributions
when the un%eSpendcd balance in the trensu.
ny reaches fifteen hundred dollars. When
the fund is reduced to seven hundred dollars
payments are renewed. The payments into
the treasury average about nine months in
the year. We hope that this humane and
systematic organization may find many imi-
tatOrs among the nufacturers of Newark
ana throughout the country, who read this
article, The company pays interest at seven
per cent. on the money in the treasury, be-
sides their five dollars perweek into he fund.
Since its organization one thousand three
hundred and ninety-seven members have
been relieved, and twenty.four deaths have
occurred in the society. The reason that
the receipts for 1874 and 1876 are less than
usual is because the fund had reached the
maximum of $500, and payments were
stopped. The following very interesting Ia
BILE shows the amount received and paid out