Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-03-24
CLARRS 0. Mt" SPOOL COTTON
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Unread Company LnrgCSt W"rL" In
ihr NrW W orId-ACTPE ~ Spleen.
did buildings Forests Of
Wonderful Machinery.
The Process of Manufacture,
Duwnin tia cotton Fields Eulpi"Ncs
societies Tine Clark Hose Company
Grand Relief society -Em-
pIOSpS' Centennial ENcnr.
sion The EenUW ned
Eureka club AVID
Thistle Band.
ANyNrEEESTING PARTICULARS.

From the G-.r, County p,,, Newark, N.l.
At the foot Of Clark street, in the Eighth
ward Of the city ofNewark, On the banks
Of the pasSaic, occupying several acres of
ground, upon whichar buiIding8the floor
ingso of which measure nearly eight acres,
are situated the largest thread works in
the New World, employing about fifteen
hundred hands and paying out every two
weeks from sixteen to twenty thousand
dollars in wages, to be distributed by the
employees among different classes and oc.
equations in the city, and from fifteen to
twenty thousand per month to other par
tieshere, who in various waysarc connect
ed with vast establishment. Although
having the largest pay roll OF any EN-
ployers in New jersey, and contributing
more to the welfare and prosperity of the
city than all its financial institutions
combined, We hear less in the newspapers
of this world of wealth makers than OF
some second class money lending shop
on Broad street. 1t would be useless for
any one to attempt to trace to their
source all the varied industries which
have entered into the production OF
| Clark's SO. y. IT, Spool Cotton, which
is sold by every merchant dealing in dry
goods, fancy goods, hosiery, notions, etc,
in the United States, and contains two
hundred yards of that Indispensable ar
ticle, strong, smooth and beautiful. 1t
is made up Of
NEARLY FORrN-TWOMIlLION ~DOUBLINGS,
and vet is 20 fine as to be hardly visible a
few inches from the naked eye. The i'm
mense capital invested in the Clark
Thread Company's Works and the vast
volume OF business, amounting to several
millions per annum, extending to every
part OF the United States, is one Of the
principal sources of Newark's prosperity
What it is and the blessings which flow
from it, are not realized by one in a thou
sand Of the people who dwell within the
sound of their tower bell. Notwithstand
ing the large amount of money which
the establishment was to pour into the
hands of every merchant and trader IL
the city, as events have shown, the frs
thing which the City Fathers did wher
these works were being erected was to ta>
the bricks and material not yet shapec
into buildings. 1t was on a par with The
intelligence and appreciation Of the
REAL SOURCES OF WEALTH,
usually exhibited by the average pOliti
clan. Had it been some trust company o
curbstone broker that asked exemption
it would probably have been granted
Some idea Of the value OF thee works t.
the community may be had by an illus
tration of q thing which might reall.
l happen at any time. The Clark Threa'
Company employ, as stated, about fl
( teen hundren persons, paying out t
them sixteen to twenty THOUSAND
. dollars every two weeks. These hun
t drcd, of hands pay out that money to tn
% butcher, the baker, the grocer, the clOthiel
1 the dry goods merchant and all who hay
+ anything to sell get a part Of it in som
way, either directly or indirectly, FrOr
i their hands it goes to pay debts, meet oil
legations and Gil the channelsOftrade wit
+ the circulating medium called none.
and which is TO business what blood is t
the human system, giving it life, animl
ton and power, Suppose tonight thos
works were
DESTROYED BY FIRE.
e They are fully insured. The Clark Threa
G Company receive their insurance in cas-
! from their underwriters. They say I
e Themselves Business is dull, sales al
e uncertain, profits are small, the future
4 unknown, and our taxes are heavy, I'll
o vast business requires close attention an
persistent energy. We will not take th
money and rebuild the works, but adoI
l. the plan pursued by most moneyed mel
:, viz 20 to Washington, buy governmel
d bonds, bring them home, put them
a tin box, pay no taxes, and sit down
take our case, eat, drink aud be merr,
with no thought Of care, supported in In.
ury without risk by the interest on OF
bonds, paid by taxation of the producer
classes" Can anyman calculate the wild
Is spread ruin which would follow such
o calamity and course of action by I'll
1t Clark Thread Company? 1t would
!, incalculable. All those people who ear
ed money to purchase what they wantt
Is to buy, would be added to the list
paupers who to-day clamor for work
1t bread. Misery, want,
y STARVATION AND CRIME
d would be the fruit Of such a course. b,
.e t~hisisexactly whathas been done throug
a out the country, and explains why one
5, twelvein Newark are to-daysuppOrted
,, the city. The productive capital of tt
Is country, which employed our now id
millions, has been put into governme
'e bonds, and appalling destitution and wa
le are on every hand, aud increasinga a a lea