The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-03-29
CLARK'S o. N. T." SPOOL COTTON.
How. and where II In Madeline Clark
Thread Company Largest Worhsin
the New World-Acres Oi Spleen.
did buildings Forests Of
Wonderful Machinery.
The Process of Manufacture.
Downiu we Cotton Fields The EmpioS"s'
SOcieticS-Thc CInrL Hose Company
A Grand Relief Sociriy-Em-
pioycs' Centennial ENcur-
NiOn-Thc Renowned
Eureka Cub aud
Thi,IIc Rand.
MANYlNTERESTING PARTICULARS.

From the E..ox county Press, Newark, N,Jl
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 whicha are buildingsthc floor
ings 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
ticsherc, who in various waysare connect
ed with thisv 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
source all the varied industries which
have entered into the production OF
Clark's 90. 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
ticIe, strong, smooth and beautiful. 1t
is made up Of
NEARLY FORTY-TWO MILLION DOUBLINGS,
and yet is 50 fine as to be hardly visible Il
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 il and the blessings which flow
rom 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 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 or WEALTH,
usually exhibited by the average politi-
clan. Had it been some trust company or
curbstonc broker that asked exemption,
it would probably have been granted.
SOM, ilna nI iln ,ultn al iItn,n ,V,rEu in.
the community may be had by an illus
tration OF II thing which might really
happen at any time. The Clark Thread
Company employ, rs stated, about fiji.
teen hundrcn persons, paying out to
them sixteen to twenty thousand
dollars every two weeks. These hun.
drcds OF hands pay out that money to the
butcher, the baker, the grocer, the ciotlicr,
the dry goods merchant and all who have
anything to sell get II part OF it in solne
way, either directly or indirectly. From
their hands it goes to pay debts, meet OBJ
legations and fill the cha~nnclsottradc with
the circulating medium called money,
and which is to business what blood il to
the human system, giving it life, ANNA
ton and power. Suppose to-nlghu these
works were
DESTROYED BY FIRE.
They are fully insured. lhc Clark Thread
receive their insurance in cash
t ON their underwriters, They say to
business IL dull, safes 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 moneycd men,
viz 90 to Washington, buy government
bring them home, put them in
| tin box, pay no taxes, and ait down to
take II case, eat, drink aud be merry,
with no thought OF care, supported in lux
lry without risk by the interest on our
paid by taxation of the producing
Can any man calculate the wide
spread ruin which would follow such Il
and course of action by The
Clark Thread Company? 1t would be
Incalculable. All those people who earn
I'd money to purchase what they wanted
to buy, would be added to the list of
paupcrs who to-day clamor for work or
bread. Misery, want,
STARVATION AND CRIME
would be the fruit of such Il course. But
.thisisexactIy what has beendoncthrough
cut the country, and explains why one 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
and appalling dcstitution and want
are on every hand, ndincreasingat IL fear
full rate. Labor is the source OF all wealth
and prosperity. and there is no loss equal
to that which follows enforced idleness OF
the producing classes. There is no music
50 full Of joy and peace and good will to
men ~ the song OF labor and the music OF
machinery. Better far that all other
songs be hushed and every note be stillcd,
than those, and to them we now
introduce the reader.
on THE DOCK
,fthe Clark Thread Company, which is
i've hundred feet long, is Il mountain of
.wo or three thousand tons of coal, drawn
nut Of boats ut the whariby a donkey en-
line, aud the bales OF cotton find their
way from the same wharf to the brick
Iouse for the storage ofthat precious ma
erial, ono pound of which will make one
undred miles Of thread, containingabout
prty. two million doublings. The mind
nnnot grasp the numerical fact. But four .
radcs0fcotton are ordinarily used in the
manufacture of Clark's CONT" Spool
and known as "Sca Island Cot. ,
IN" This comes principally from South
and is grown on the small is ;
lnds along the coast. Considerable IL ,
aised ON the penipsulas and around the '
'ays and inlets, but it is not equal to ,
hat OF the sea islands, which is the finest {
n the world. The first bag Of this sea t
cotton of the crop of 1876 was pur- c
ilascd by the Clark Thread Company at
fly cents per pound. The inland cotton O
, not used in the manufactured thread, t
eing too short in the fibre. On these "
"a islands were the richest planters of "
he South in ca