The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-03-23
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~ he fOtof CLARK stfcct,n the Eighth
ward ~ the city " Newark ~ the hunks
IT the pastaic, occupying several sores ~
ground upon which afe buiIdiugsthe 1O0r.
ings NJ which measure nearly eight acres,
ere situated the largest thread works In
the New World, employing about fifteen
hundred hands and paying out every two
weeks from sixteen 10 twenty thousand
dollars in wages, 10 be distributed by the
employees among different classes and OC.
cupations in the city, and from fifteen 10
twenty thousand per month TO other par
tieshere, who in various waysare connect
cd " ith this vast establishment. Although
having the largest pay roll OF any em-
ployers in New jersey, aud 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 go. n. r." 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 FORTY-TWO MILLION DOUBLlNGS,
and vet is so 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 n 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. Netwithstand-
ing 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 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 or
curbstone broker that asked exemption,
it would probably have been granted.
Some idea of the value OF these works to
the community may be had by an illus
tration of a thing which might really
happen at any time. The CLARK Thread
Company employ, as stated, about hf-
teen hundren 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 clothler,
the dry goods merchant, and all who have
anything to sell get a part OF it in some
way, either directly or indirectly. From
their hands it goes to pay debts, meet OBJ
legations and fllthe channelsoftrade with
the circulating medium called money,
and which is TO business what blood is to
the human system, giving il life, ANNA
ton and power. Suppose tonight these
works were
DESTROYED by FIRE.
They are fully insured. The ClarkThread
Company receive their insurance in cash
from their underwriters. They say to
themselves business is dull, sales are
uncertain, profits are small, the tuture 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 60 to Washington, buy government
bonds, bring them home, put them IN
a tin box, pay no taxes, and sit down &c
take our ease, eat, drink and be merry
with no thought of care, supported III lux
ury without risk by the interest on oul
bonds, paid by taxation OF the producing
classes" Can any man calculate the wide
spread ruin which would follow such {
calamity and course of action by Tit
Clark Thread Company? 1t would b.
incalculable. All those people who earn
ed money to purchase what they wanted
to buy, would be added to the list o
paupers who to-day clamor for work O
bread. Misery, want,
STARVATION AND CRIME
would be the fruit of such a course. Bu
this sexactly whatha a been done through
out the country, and explains why one il
twelve in Newark are to-day supported b,
the city. The productive capital of tn
country, which employed our now i'd
millions, has been put into government
bonds, and appalling restitution and wan
are on every hand, andincreasinga at a feal
full rate. Labor is the source of all wealt
and prosperity, and there is no loss equs
to that which follows enforced idleness
the producing classes. There is no musi
so full of joy and peace and good will I
men as the song of labor and the music {
machinery. Better far that all othe
songs be hushed and every note be stilleC
rather than those, and to them we no
y introduce the reader.
ON THE DOCK
of the Clark Thread Company, which
r five hundred feet long, is a mountain
5 two or three thousand tons of coal, draw
= ont of boats at the whsrfby a donkey Ell
cine. and the bales of cotton find the
l Tway from the same wharf to the brio
house for the storage of that precious m;
9 terial, one pound Of which will make or
n hundred miles of thread, containing bor
forty.two million doublings. The MIN
$ cannot grasp the numericalia fact. But lot
/, gradeso of cotton are ordinarily used in til
7 manufacture of Clark's "O.N.T." Spo'
Cotton, and known as "Sea Island 20
o ton" This comes principally from Soui
Carolina and is grown on the small |
= lands along the coast. Considerable
d raised on the penipsulas and sround Il
bsys and inlets, but it is not equal
d that of the sea islands, which is the fine
y in the world. The first bag of this :
island cotton OF the crop of 1876 was pu
chased by the Clark Thread Company
!, fifty cents per pound. The inland oott
h is not used in the manufacture Of threa
n being too short in the fibre. On the
Ie sea islands were the richest planters
IF the South in
N THE OLD SLAVE DAYS,