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

machine, used only to dye black. 1t does The
work far better than by hand, and is equal to
the labor OF more than dozen men.
Iaat ALL coLORs OF. THREAD w., -.r-rn,
are made, and the quantities of soaps, dye
stuffs, 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 Artesan wells of The Clark
Thread Company has a capacity of one hundred
and fifty thousand gallons per day. This is a
remarkable well, sixteen feet deep and eight
feet III diameter of which Professor MAYNARD,
the New York chemist, said it produced the
pureSt water he ever saw. 1t makes man
thirsty to look at it, and is absolutely free from
any particles of matter, by chemical test. The
thread IS blued on pig 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 it ten times The baby is built like an
ordinary washing machine, but each of the
rollers weighs thousand pounds, and as the
thread passes through the water 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-fashioned FOUNDER and barrel which
our grandmothers used to set us at when we
were boys, before going to schoolin the morning.
Then it is drawn through the rinser, which is
simple and novel machine, continually sup
piled with pure arteslan well water. The
thread passes over roller into the water, comes
up again over another roller, then down into
the water, and up and down, and out and in,
and out and up over the reels into great boxes
on wheels, from which it is put into large
water extractor a perforated hollow cylinder,
revolving several thousand times per minute,
and then it is transported to the drying room.
In this way five hundred heads can be rinsed in
four minutes. which used to take an hour and a
half. After the thread has come out of the
drying room, .s.~ neaf a.s
CoLoRED OR UNcoLoRED,
it goes to the warerooms, where it is counted
and put in packages to be given out prepar-
atory to being wound upon spools for the
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 it's different departments and de-
note its size, quality, etc. The inspection and
testing of thread is one Of the most important
features i'll it's production, and it would sur
prise the lady who sews day after day with
Clarks go. N. T." spool cotton to know by
what patient and constant care the perfect
smoothness and regularity of the thread was
secured 1t is now taken to the hank winding
department and wound upon large bobbins,
when it is ready for it's last wind upon the
spools, from which it is taken by the consumers
for 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.
THE SPOOLING DEPARTMENT.
The spooling room is busy place, where
sp00ls of thread of all sizes and cOlOrs by tens of
thousands are wound every day, two hundred
yards on spool. The sef-acting spooling ma
chine is q marvellous piece OF mechanism. The
spools are placed in all iron gutter by the oper-
ator, when the machine picks them up, puts
them Oh shaft eight at time winds the
thread npon them at the rate of three thousand
revolutions per minute, cuts a little slot in the
edge of the spool, catches the thread in it, nips
ittotf, drops the spools full of thread into boxes
below, picks up eight more empty spOols,
places. winds and drops them as before, and
never makes mistake. The machine, which is
used in this country only by The Clark Thread
Company, was exhibited by them at the Centen-
NAL, and, with their magnificent case of goods,
was one of the great attractions among the
spooling department, the spoiled thread is
taken to "s
THE wAREROoM,
where the beautiful little label containing the
uame, number ETC., of the thread, is put Oh by
girls. The quickest of them will put labels on
the ends Of nine OF ten thousand in a day, all
of which have to be 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 thousand feet of lumber per
month is cut at the mills, in Michigan to the
various lengths required, and all that is done
here is to put the boxes together. A private
wire runs from the works in Newark to the New
York office, and the line is kept busy in sending
orders and transmitting messages Of the COM
pany. In the short time we were there several
large orders came in from different parts of the
country, and among them were some from
Maine, Texas, California. Wisconsin, Oregon,
etc. The Clark Thread Company sends out an
nllally vast quantities Of show cards, calendars,
etc., some Of which are magnificent specimens
of the photographic and printers art.
is THIS A FAIR COUNT?
Thenumber of feet of draught which Onenound
of cotton undergoes is one trilliOn, seven hun
dred and seventy-two billion, three hundred and
twenty million, six hundred and thirty-fiye
Thousand, SIX hundred feet, OF, stated in figures,
1.772, 320635, 800, distance of 335, AT, 1928
miles. The following demonstrates the aD-
parently incredible statements The web Of
cotton from which this immense length of
thread is drawn IS forty inches wide. 1t goes
to the carder. where it is drawn to 4x120, equal
to 480 feet. Then the drawing frame increases
it to 480x6, equal to 1850 the Iapper 2, S80x2I
equal to $3.50; the conber draws it out to
6,480x26, equal to 1853, $50; then it goes to the
first head drawing frame, where 1853, 460x6
"nual to 1,010.880. 4a
THE SECOND DRAWING FRAME
multiphes the last length by six again, making
1,010,88Ox6 equal to 6,065, $50 which repeated
on the third drawing frame makes a length of
6065, 280x6 equal to 36, 1891, $50 feet. Now comes
the first slubbing frame, where SO, 391 ,680x5 is
equal to 181, 959, 400 the second slubber 49,
968, 4O0x415 equal to 818, 812, 500; the interme-
date slubber 1871, 958 4OOx6 equal to 4612, $780,
800 the finishing thread winding machine
makes the total length of the thread T. 912,8 76.
S00x6 equal to Is, AT. 260, 800. Now it goes On
bobbins to the " min, where 29, ATT, 900, 900x9I
gives us 272, 664, 1852, 400 feet. We then multi
tiply the last number of feet, which states the
total length of one pound of cotton
drawn into thread, by the length of the original
web, which is six and half feet, and have the
total as stated before, 272 G64 &c., 4O0x619 feet,
making grand total of 1,772, 1916, 635, 900 feet.