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

all theroagh and Imperfect t n !. Cd fromSthe
hanks. Alter this second ins pet Ind
dye houses are among the most Interesting
departments OF the y vast &establtlh-
ment, although not the most agreeable The
progress in washing machinery that is here
exhibited, would make our grandmothers
think that the millsainm had come The
rather a large child whose place and uses will
appear later. After the thread is sent from
the inspection dcpar tment to the bleaoh and
dye houses, it is unpaoked, counted and put
into large tanks, immense loads at time, and
boiled by steam tor several hours, which takes
out the dirt and &3 }5s$% W "a
CLEANS IT PERFECTLY.
1t is then put through washings oft, and
preparations wonderful and curious The
water used, we judge, would have increased
the flood Just about enough to have lifted
Some of the wash tubs are OF stone, and all are
on a scale equal in magnitude to any of Col.
Sellers schemes for making millions. The
loads of thread are put in and taken out OF
| boilers, rinsers, washers, dryers and halt
dozen other processes by machinery. Then
steam boilers, and the same thing is done
over again. The dry room is heated by seven
thousand five hundred feet of steam pipe, and
can be regulated to any desired temperature.
After leaving the Keeling department, the
thread that is to be colored goes to the dye
| house, and that which is to remain white, to
| the bleach house. In the dye house is the
patent dyeing machine, used only to dye
black. It does the work far better than by
hand and is equal to the labsr of more than a
| dozen men.
ALL COLoRs or THREAD
are made, and the quantities OF soaps, dye
stutfs, and other material of the kind used are
immense. Eighty thousand gallons of water
are consumed daily in the bleach house alone,
and one Of the Artesian wells of the Clark
Thread Company has a capacity of one hun
is remarkable well, sixteen feet deep and
eight feet in diameter, of which Professor
Maynard the New York chemist, said it pro-
duced the purest water ne ever saw. It makes
a man thirsty to look at it, and is absolutely
free from any PARTICLES OF matter by chemical
test The thread is blued on big scale which
gives that handsome tint so greatly admired
by the ladies. Then it is committed to the
tender mercies of the baby washer which are
cruel, and goes through this ten times. The
baby is built like all ordinary washing machine,
but each of the rollers weighs thousand pounds
into the washer
| THEY HOP AND JUMP
and pound with antics queer, but it does the
business thoroughly. This was formerly done
by the old faslioned FOUNDER and barrel which
our grandmothers used to set US at when We
We're boys, before going to school in the morn-
ing. Then it is drawn through the rinser,
which is simple and novel machine contin-
uallY supplied with pure Artesian we'll water.
The thread passes over a roller into the water,
comes up again over anotherroller, then down
| n md oVol costa
in, and out and up over the reels into the great
boxes on wheels from which it is put into a.
large water extractor, perforated hollow CYL
inder, revolving several thousand times per
minute, and then it is transported to the dry
ing room. In this way five hundred heads can
an hour and half. After the thread has come
out OF the drying room
I coLoRED or uNcoLoREp,
Lit goes to the warerooms, where it is counted
and put in packages to be given out prepar-
market. The thread having reached this
stage OF perfection, has become very valuable
and is looked after with the greatest care
Tickets direct it to its different departments
and denote its size, quality, etc. The inspec-
ton and testing OF thread is one of the
it would surprise the lady who sews day after
day with Clark's 20. N. T.''Spool Cotton, to
know by what patient and constant care the
perfect smoothness and regularity of the
thread was secured. It is now taken to the
hank winding department, and wound upon
large bobbins, when it is ready for its last
wind upon the spools, from which it is taken
by the consumers tor it's Thousand uses of
necessity and utility, from tying the rag on
the boys whitfield and bloody finger, to the
delicate embroidery Of the wedding garment.
THH spooLING DEPARTMENT.
The spooling room is a busy place, where
spools of thread of all sizes and colors by tens
OF thousands are wound every day, two hum
dred yards on spool. The self-acting spooling
machine is a marvellous piece of mechanism
The spools are placed in an iron gutter hy the
operator, when the machine picks them up,
puts them on a shaft eight at time, winds
the thread upon them at the rate of three
thousand revolutions per minute, cuts little
slot IN the edge OF the spool, catches the
thread in it, nips it of, drops the spools full
OF thread into boxes below, picks up eight
them as before, and never makes mistake
The machine, which is used in this country
only by The Clark Thread Company, was ex-
hibited by them at the Centennial, and with
their magnificent case OF goods, was one OF
the great attractions among the many Won
ders of the exhibition. From the spooling
department, the spoiled thread is taken to
THE wARERooM,
where the beautiful little label containing the
name, number, etc, Of the thread, is put on
by girls. The quickest OF them will put labels
on the ends OF nine or ten thousand in q day.
all of which have to he moistened by the
tongue, placed on the spool, and then struck
with the hand to paste it. Some OF these
girls work about as quick as lightning. After
ticketing, the spools OF thread are put into
boxes OF one dozen each. They are then
ready for packing, About twenty-five thous-
and teet OF lumber per month is cut
lengths required, and all that is done
/ here is 10 mt the boxes 10