The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-22

the "mill" where 29, Az ,260, ,s00x9L gives
us 272, ,664. .662, 400 feet. We then multiply
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 272 664, &C., ,400x64
feet making a grand total of 1,772, ,32O, ,6S5!-
600 feet. The cotton, when finished as yarn,
has been doubled six million, nine hundred
and sixty.seven thousand, two hundred and
ninety-six times $685., ,296) in passing
through the different processes: When the
yarn is made into six cord finished thread,
the above number of doublings have been
multiplied by six, making total of Al, $685.
762 doublings. Now divide the total draft,
1,772, ,320, ,655, 900, by the total doublings, and
if the work is correct, we shall have the
total number of feet of yarn in pound OF
cotton, which is 254, 1897 feet. But there has
been 20 per cent. loss in the manufacture,
which must be added, making a total of
305, ,254 feet of yarn for a pound of cotton,
or 120 hanks of $40 yards each, enough to
reach from New York to Trenton, a distance
of sixty miles.
MACHINE AND CABINET SHOPS, BoxFA
TORY AND PRINTING HOUSE.
The Clark Thread Company do all their
printing and lithographing at the works here.
Four printing presses are kept running all
the time, and in thelithegraping department
one steam press and six or eight hand litho-
graph presses are continually employed.
In both departments the.practice of the " art
preservative" is IN the highest style.
Orders for the paper box department in the
one item of straw board are given as high
as eighty to a hundred tons at a time. In
the machine shop large number of men are
employed in making new machinery and
keeping in repair thevast quantity in use m
the various departments of the works.
The cabinet factory turns out about two hun
dred cabinets per day. The bobbins, etc.,
used in the mill are made here. In fact
about all The Clark Thread Company go out
side for the is the raw material. They man.
ufacture all they use, except few of the
more intricate or patented machines.
THE CLARK HOSE COMPANY.
| One of the best organized and equipped
fire companies in the city of Newark, is the
"Clark Hose Company" organized May
| Is, 1869. There are twenty me mbers, EN-.
| ployees of the factory-brave active men
trained by frequent practice to their duty,
| and proud of their company and outfit.
Their equipment is as follows: Two hose
carriages with wrenches, bars and axes,
carrying seven hundred and fifty feet OF
hose on reels, and two pipes with extra noz'
zles. They also command nine hundred feet
of hose with pipes and nOzzles in twenty
one different stations, in and around the fac
tory, one Cameron fire pump, one Worth
| ington, one Watts & Campbell, and one
Blake pump, one hundred and seventy-eigh
filed buckets in their proper places through
out the works. sixteen hand pumps, sprink
| lers in all the rooms of the cotton mill, thu
packing house, the machine and carpenter
shop, and the drying rooms. There are
also sprinkiers in the two top floors of tn
thread mill, and in the warehouse, and ther
are thirty-fve fire plugs or hydrants on tn
premises. Regularsmeetin are held on tn
second Monday in each month, and practic
is had every two weeks. Examination of al
valves, hydrants, pumps, and other equiv
ments, takes place on the first of eac
month, and a minute report of the exac
condition, position and effectiveness of tn
fire service is made to The Clark Threa
Company.
HOW CLARK's go. n. T." SPOOL CoTTo
ORIGINATED.
Until within a few years, the great diff
Guilty to be overcome in the introduction G
sewing machines, was the objections mad
by manufacturer and operators to the the
popular threads. These complaints were S
loud and well founded that the sale of sew
ing machines was greatly impeded on a.
count of the impossibility of obtaining
thread adapted to their use. Mr.. George
Clark, approaching the difficulty intr'
duced into the American market the no
famous Clark's 40. N. T." Spool Cotton, a
numbers beingsix cord, from to 100, whie
met the demand, did away with all ccr
; plants, and long since established its rep
tation as the best thread in use for sewir
machines or hand sewing. To Mr.. Georf
A. Clark belongs the credit of being tt
first to supply those fine qualities of 81
Cord Spool Cotton with which his name
associated. The thread is used and recon
, mended by agents of the Singer, Wheeler
1 Wilson, Grover G. Baker, Domestic bow
> Florence, Weed, Wilson, Blees, Remington
Secor, Home, Lathrop and other sewing m,
chine companies. The superior quality {
!, Clark's so. N. T." Spool Cotton soon 81
l cured for it an immense sale, but with th
great popularity of tho goods came ais
! counterfeits which made it necessary fl
the manufacturers to adopt trade mar
for their own and the public's protectio
and now upon every genuine spool of the
thread is the following: