The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-03-29

used, are immense. Eighty thousand
gallons OF water are consumed daily in
the bleach house alone, and one of the
Artcsian wells of The Clark Thread Com
pany has a capacity of one hundred and
fifty thousand gallons per day. This is a
remarkable well, sixteen feet deep and
eight feet in diameter, of which Professor
Maynard, the New York chemist, said it
produced the purest water he ever saw.
1t makes a man thirsty to look at it, and
is absolutely free from any particles OF
matter, by chemical test. The thread is
blued on Il big scale, which gives that
handsome tint so greatly admired by the
ladies. Then it is committed TO the ten
der mercies of the baby washer, which
are cruel, and goes through it ten times.
The baby is built like the ordinary wasl.-
ing machine, buteach Of the rollers weighs
a thousand pounds, and rs the thread
passes through the water into the washer
THEY HOP AND JUMP
and pound with antics queer, but it does
the businessthorougnly. Thiswasf former
ly done by the old fashioned FOUNDER and
barrel which our grandmother used to
set us at when we were boys, before going
to school in the morning. Then it is
drawn through the rinser, which is a
simple and novel machine, continually
supplied with pure Artesian well water.
The thread passes over a 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 over
the reels into the great boxes on wheels,
from which it is put into a large water
extractor, a perforated hollow cylinder,
rcyolvingseveral thousand timespe min
ute, and thenit is transported to the dry
ing room. In this way five hundred heads
can be rinsed in four minutes which used
to take an hour and Il half. After the
thread has come out of the drying room,
COLORED OR ~UNCoLORED,
it goes to the warcrooms, where it is
counted and put intopackages to be given
out preparatory to being wound upon
spool8 for the market. The thread hay
ing reached this stage of perfection, has
become very valuable and is looked after
with the greatest care, Tickets direct it
to its different departments and denote
its size, quality, etc. Tito inspect
ion and testing OF thread is one Of the
mostimportant features in its production,
and it would surprise the lady who sews
day after day with Clark's 80. n. IT,"
Spool Cotton, to know by wbatpaticntand
constant care the perfect smOothness and
regularity OF the thread was secured. tits
,,,ur inl..,, o., tbn hu,ly mitlip,, la,,nrt
ment and wound upon large bobbins, when
it is ready forts last wind upon thespools,
from which it is taken by the consumers
for It's thousand uses Of necessity and util-
ity, from tying the rag on the boys whit
tied and bloody finger, to the delicate en-
broidcry of the wedding garment.
THE spooLING DEPARTMENT.
The spooling room isabusy place, where
spools OF thread of all sizes and col0rs by
tcnsofthousands are woundcveryda two
hundred yardson aspool. The seli.acting
spooling machine is a marvellous piece Of
mechanism, The spooIs are placed in an
iron gutter by the operator, when the ma
chine picks them up,putst them on a shaft
cightatatime, windsthe thread uponthcm
at the rate Of three thousand revolutions
per minute, cuts a little slot in theedge of
the spool, catches the thread in it, nips it
off, drops the spools full of thread into
boxes below, picks up eight more empty
spools, places winds and psthcm as be-
fore, and never makes mistake. The ma.
chine, which isuscdi in this
TheClarkThread Company was exhibited
by them at the Centennial, and with their
magnificent case OF goods, was one of the
great attractiOnsamOngthem many wonders
of the exhibition. From the spooIing de-
partment, the spoiled thread is taken to
THE WATERFRONT,
where the beautiful little label contain
ing the name, number, etc, of the thread,
is put on by girls. The quickest of them
will put labels on the ends of nine or ten
thousand in u 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 spooIs of thread are put into boxes
of one dozen each, They are then ready
for packing. About twenty-five thousand
leeG OF lumDer per nionIh Is cut at the
mills, IN Michlgan, 10 the various lengths
required, anu all that IS done here Is to
put the boxes together A private wire
runs from the WORKS IN Newark to the
NorK \ ork ONCE, ana the line IS kept
busy IN sending orders and transmitting
messages OF the company In the short
we were mere several large orders
came IN from different parts OF the coun- +
Try, ana among them were some from t
Nla'hc, leHas, oalilorhla, Nlsc0nsln, ,
oregon, etc. Inc LARK Thread Compa- I
ny sends out annually vast quantities of :
show cards, calendars, etc, some OF which |
ire magnificent specimens of the litho- i
and printers art. =,
Is THIS A FAIR COUNT? {
The number OF feet OF draft which b
me pound OF cotton undergoes is one C
%rillion, seven hundred and seventy-two S
three hundred and twenty mil. n
ion, six hundred and thirty-five thou =
and, six hundred icet, or stated in "