The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-03-22
The Process Of Manufacture.


MANY INTERESTING PARTICULARS.
From the Essex County Press, Newark, N. j.
At the foot of Clark street, in the Eighth
ward of the city of Newark, on the banks of the
Passaic occupying several acres of ground
upon which are buildings the flooring of which
measures nearly eight acres, are situated the
largest thread works in the New World, en-
ploying about fifteen hundred hands and pay
ing out every two weeks from sixteen to twenty
thousand dollars in wages, to be distributed by
the employees among different classes and occu-
pations in the city, and from fifteen to twenty
thousand per month to other parties here, who,
in various ways, are connected with this vast
establishment. Although having the largest
payroll of any employers in New Jersey, and
contributing more to the welfare and prosperity
of the city than all it's financial institutions
combined we hear less in the newspapers of
this world of wealth-makers than of some
second-cass money-lending shop on Broad
street. 1t would be useless for any one to at
tempt to trace to their source all the varied in
dust1ies which have entered into the produc-
ton of Clark's 90. N. T." Spool Cotton, which
is sold by every merchant dealing in dry goods,
fancy goods, hosiery, notions, etc, in the Uni
ted States, and contains two hundred yards of
that indispensable article, strong, smooth and
beautiful. 1t is made up of
NEARLY FoRTY-Two MILLION DouBLINGs,
and yet is SO fine as to be hardly visible few
TIA
tai invested in The Clark Thread Companys
Works, and the vast volume Of business, amount
ing 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 i'll a thousand of the people
who dwell within the sound of their tower bell.
Notwithstanding the large amount of money
which the establishment was to pour into the
hands of every merchant and trader in the city,
as events have shown, the first thing which the
City Fathers did when these works were being
erected was to tax the bricks and material not
yet shaped into buildings. 1t was on par with
the intelligence and appreciation of the
REAL SOURCES OF WEALTH,
usually exhibited by the average politician.
Had it been some trust company or curbstone
broker that asked exemption, it would proba-
bly, have been granted. Some idea of the value
of these works to the community may be had
by an illustration of thing which might really
happen at any time. The Clark Thread Com
pany employ as stated, about fifteen hundred
persons paying out to them sixteen to twenty
thousand dollars every two weeks. These hun
dreds of hands pay out that money to the
butcher, the baker, the grocer, the clothier,
the dry-gOods merchant, and all who have any
thing to sell get part Of it i'll some way, either
directly or indirectly From their hands it
goes to pay debts, meet obligations 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 it life,
animation and power. Suppose tonight those
works were
DESTROYED BY FIRE.
They are fully insured. The Clark. Thread
Company receive their insurance in cash from
their underwriters. They say to themselves
Business is dull, sales are uncertain, profits
are small the future is unknown and our taxes
are heavy. The vast business requires close
attention and persistent energy. We will not
take this 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 tin box, pay
no taxes, and sit down to take our ease, eat,
drink and be merry, with no thought of care
supported in luxury 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 a calamity
and course of action by The Clark Thread Com
pany? It would be incalculable. All those
people who earned money to purchase what
they wanted to buy would be added to the list
of paupers who to-day clamor for work or
bread Misery, want,
STARVATION AND CRIME
would be the fruit of such a course. But this
is exactly what has been done throughout the
country and explains why one in twelve in New
ark are to-day supported by the city. The pro-
ductive capital of the country, which employed
our now idle millions, has been put into Gov
eminent bonds, and appalling destitution and
want are on every hand, and increasing at
fearful rate. Labor is the source of all wealth
and prosperity, and there is no loss equal to that
which follows enforced idleness of the produc-
ing classes. There is no music SO full of joy
and peace and good will to men as the song of
labor and the music of machinery. Better far
that all other songs be hushed and every note
be stilled, rather than those, and to them we
now introduce the reader.
ON THE DoCK
of The Clark Thread Company, which is five
hundred feet long, is a mountain of two
or three thousand tons of coal, drawn out
of boats at the wharf by donkey engine,
and the bales Of cotton find their way from
Abo coYoo xuhorf tO tho hYiolr borco FOR fbo