The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-30

dollars every two weeks. These hun.
dreds OF hands pay out that money to the
butcher, the baker, the grocer, the elothier
the dry goods merchant, and all who have
anything TO sell get part of it in some
way, either directly or Indirectly. From
their hands it goes to pay debts, meet OBJ
/ legations and fill the channels of trade
with the circulating medium called
money, and which Is to business what
blood is to the human system, giving il
! life, animation and power. Suppose to-
! night these works were
DESTROYED BY FIRE.
/ They are fully insured. The Clark Thread
/ Company receive their insurance in cash
I from their underwriters. They say tc
| themselves; " Business is dull, sales are
uncertain, profits are small, the future i,
unknown, and our task are heavy. 1.-THE
vast business requires close attention and
1 persistent energy. We will not take thi,
/ money and rebuild the works, but adopt
/ the plan pursued by most moneyed men
viz: go to Washington, buy government
bonds, bring them home, put them in d
/ tin box, pay no taxes, and sit down to
| take our ease, eat, drink and be merry
with no though of care, supported in lux
ury without risk by the interest on our
bonds, paid by taxation OF the producing
classes" Can any man calculate the wide
spread ruin which would follow such q
/ calamity and course of action by The
/ Clark Thread Company 1t would be
/ incalculable. All those people who earn
ed money to purchase what they wanted
to buy, would be added TO the list OF
paupers who to-day clamor for work OF
( bread. Misery, want,
STARVATION AND CRIME
would be the fruit of such a course. But
F thisisexactly what has been done through
out the country, rnd explains why one in
twelve in Newark are to-day supported by
the city. The productive capital Of the
country, which employed our now idle
millions, has been put into government
bonds and appalling restitution and want
are on every hand and increasing at fear
full rate. Labor is the source Of all wealth
and prosperity, and there is no loss equal
cotton, which when ginned weighs about
seventy five pounds, or one to five. The
negroes without doubt will eventually
10 thatwhich follows enforced idleness Of
the producing classes. There is no music
50 full OF Joy and peace and good will to
men a the song of labor and the music Of
machinery. Better far that all other
songs be hushed and every note be stilIed
rather than those, and to them we now
introduce the reader.
on THE DOCK
of the Clark Thread Company, which i,
five hundred feet long, is a mountain oil
two or three thousand tons of coal, drawn
out OF boats at the wharf by a donkey en-
CINE and the bales of cotton find their
way from the same wharf TO the brick
house, for storage of that precious ma
terial, one pound of which will make one
bundled miles of thread, containing about
forty-twO million doUblings The mind
cannot graspthe numerical fact. But fOur
grades Of cotton areOrdinarily used in the
manufacture of Clark's GO. T." Spool
Cotton, and known as 20 Sea Island Cot
ton" This comes principally from South
Carolina and is grown on the small Is
lands along the cost. Considerable is
raised on the peninsula and around the
bays and inlets, hut il 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 pur-
chased by the Clark Thread Company at
fifty cents per pound. The inland cotton
IS not used in the manufacture OF thread
being 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 a. high as six hun
dred slaves, and compared with whom the
feudal 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, sometimes on a mule
and again in large quantities. Brokers,
on the ground or at the landings, buy
and pay the negroes for their cotton, often
dividing the money according to the
Inexperienced in raising the crop. Some
lease the land of the former owners, but
the old state of things Is "dun clar gone. 3"
This trade and traffic, it may be fairly
expected, will in few years largely in
crease the wealth and intelligence of the
race in these localities.
THE SEA ISLAND COTTON
brings treble the price of inland. An
acre will produce in the neighborhOOd of
three hundred and fifty pounds of seed
grow all the cotton, As not one in five of
the Northern men have thus far succeed
ed in their attempts. Let the reader re-
member that we have not looked at a sin
gle 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.
The sail, the mine, commerce and manu-
features, all find employment to supply
The Clark Thread Company works, and
when they stop the cotton may bloom
and fall unplucked, the csal miner may
starve on a bed of black diamonds, the sails
on the rivers be spread to the breeze no
more, and the lathes in hundred shops
be left to rust in silence. The manufac-
ture of Clark's 20. \. T." 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 spin
dies at 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 THE ENGINE HOUSE,
itself large enough for an ordinary fac
tory Here is n mighty production Of
human brain and Drawn. In the presence
one feels his own insigniticance and frail-
ty. This vast piece of machinery, NOV
ing silently, save the sharp click of the
improved steam cut-ofis, is equal in pow
er to the combined draft of six hundred
horses, and is two engines in one, usually
termed double engine. The fly-wheel,
travelling at the rate of forty-eight revo-
lutions per minute and carrying three
huge belts on its surface, each two feet
wide, is seventy-eight feet in circum-
ference, twenty-five feet in diameter,
and weighs thirty tons or sixty thousand
pounds The shaft is fourteen inches in
thickness, the double cylindersare twenty
six inches in diameter, with condensers,
and a stroke offive feet. They were built
by Corliss, in 1874 Oneof the three belts
on the fly-wheel is one hundred and fifty
feet in 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 aud 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 OF
coal per day, which will give some idea of
the amount of steam necessary to drive the
immense establishment. Besides these