Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-03-24
Total .....$12, 923.34 81, 936. so
llance in treasury Jan. 1. 1877. SN96- 50

HOW CLARK's 90. n. T." SPOOL COTTON
ORIGINATED.
Until within few years, the great diff
Guilty to be overcome in the introduction of
sewing machines, was the objections made
by manufacturers and operators to the then
popular threads. These complaints were
so loud and well founded that the sale of
sewing machines was greatly impeded on
account Of the impossibility of obtaining
thread adapted to their use. Mr.. George A.
Clark, approaching the difficulty, intro
duced into the American market the now
famous Clark's 90. n. T." Spool Cotton, all
numbers being Six Cord, from Sto 100 which
met the demand, did away with all COM
plants, and long since established its repu-
tation as the best thread in use for sewing
machines or hand sewing. To Mr.. George
A. Clark belongs the credit of being the
first to supply those fine qualities OF Six
Cord Spool Cotton with which his name is
associated. The thread is used and recon-
mended by agents of Singer, Wheeler &
Wilson, Grover & Baker, Domestic, Howe,
Florence, Weed, Wilson, Blees, Remington,
Secor, Home, Lathrap and other sewing ma
chine companies. The superior quality of
Clark's 40. N, T." Spool Cotton soon se-
cured for it an immense sale, but with the
great popularity Of the goods came also
counterfelts which made it necessary for
the manufacturers to adopt a trademark.
! for their own and the public's protection,
and now upon every genuine spool of their
thread is the following:
This trademark is familiar to every mer-
chant in the United States, and all who
have ever tried the genuine Clark's CONT"
| Spool Cotton, continue to use it,
EMPLOYEES AT THE CENTENNIAL.
A noticeable feature of The Clark Thread
Company has always been their thought
full and consderate attention to the welfare
and pleasure OF their employees. The Gen.
tennial Exhibition afforded an opportunity
! for its practical illustration which should
not pass unnoticed in this article. Desiring
to G i've all their operatives an opportunity
to witness the great Exhibition at Phila-
delphla of what the nation had accomplish
ed during the first hundred years of its eX-
istence in industry and art, the company
planned and carried to complete success y
monster excursion TO Philadelphia, which
embraced their fifteen hundred employees,
with invited guests, members of the press,
and the Mayor and Common Council of the
City of Newark. Some idea of its extent
may be ined when it is known that forty
five railroad coaches were employed Tor
their accommodation, and the cost Tor
j.. transportation, admission, entertainment,
ETC., exceeded six thousand dollars. But
this large sum is small compared with the
unallOyed pleasure which was afforded the
grand army of industrious people who find
employment at The Clark Thread Com
panv Works in Newark The Common
Council passed and caused to be beautifully
ngro'sed and presented to the Company,
series of resolutions from which for
lack OF space we copy only the following
extract:
Resolged, That we witnessed with great satsfac-
ton the kindness and attention shown by he off,
Gers of this Company to their fifteen hundred work.
ing people and the evident good feeling thai exists
between them recognizing that when labor and
capital thus harmonze prosperity must ensue.
ResOlged, That he location of the CLARK THREAD
COMPANY in our city, with their immense works,
and their army of operatives, has proved vast
benefit, and that Newark is and should be, justly
proud of her manufacturers on which her growth
and prosperity must ever depend and that this
municipality should foster and encourage by every
proper means their establishment and success.
Resolution of thanks to the Company were also
passed by the employees.
THE EUREKA BOAT CLUB AND THISTLE
BAND.
The now famous ew, which came so
near winning the prize against the world at
the Centennial International Regatta last
August, is from The Clark Thread Com
pany's Works principally. 1t has list of
thirty-fve active and about forty honorary
members. 1t is the champion crew OF the
Passac, and has beaten the celebrated
Atlantic crew Of New York. They won
the first heat on Monday, August 2Sth,
1876, at Philadelphia, beating the Dublin
and Argonauta crews On the second day
they were beaten by the celebrated Beaver
wycks, of Albany, by only six seconds, the
Beaverwycks winning the championship of
the world on the last day, the Newark boys
of The Clark Thread Company coming very
close to the champ ionship of the world.
The Thistle Band one of the best in the
State, is organized from the employees of
the company and plays for all the many ex-
cursions and festivals of the employees, be-
sides answering outside calls when made.
They accompanied the Eurekas to Phila-
delphia, and also the grand excursion Of
the employees to the Centennial last year,
and always play at the regattas in which
the Eurekas take part
THE NEW YORK HOUSE.
At No. 400 Broadway, corner of Walker
, street, New York is the splendid marble
building of George A. Clark & Brother, the
selling agents of The CLARK Thread Com
pany. The entire five stories of their mag
, nifcent place are fitted up with every faci,-
ity possible for the prompt transaction OF
} their immense business.
1t requires a great deal of poetry to
gid the pill of poverty, and then it will