The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-23

machine, used only to dye black. It does the
work far better than by hand, and is equal to
the labor OF more than dozen men.
ALL coLoRs OF THREAD
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 Artesian wells of The Clark
Thread Company has 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 il produced the
pnrest water he ever saw. Ii makes man
thirsty TO look at it, and is absolutely free from
any particles of matter, by chemical test. The
thread is blued on a big scale, which gives that
handsome tint 80 greatly admired by the ladies.
Then it is committed to the tender merces 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 a Thousand pounds, and as the
thread passes throug IA the water into the washer
THEY HOP AND JUMP
and pound with antics queer, but ii does the
business tho IDHghly. This was formerly done
by the old-fashioned FOUNDER and barrel which
our grandmothers used to set MS ut when we
were boys, before going to school in the morning.
Then it is drawn through the rinser, which is
n simple and novel machine, continually sup
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
OIL wheels, from which it is put into large
water extractor, 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 i'll
-four minutes which used to take an hour and a
half After the thread has come out Of the
drying room,
coLoRED OR UNCoLoRED,
il goes TO the warerooms whore 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 IL
looked after with the greatest care. Tickets
direct it to its different departments and de
note its size, quality. etc. The inspection and
testing of thread is one of the most important
features i'll its production, and it would sur
prise the lady who sews day after day with
Clark's 80. n. r." 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 its 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 sPooLISG DEPARTMENT.
The spooling room is busy place, where
spools Of thread Of al sizes and colors by tens OF
thousands are wound every day, two hundred
wards on spool. The sclf-acting Fpooling ma
chine is a marvellous piece Of MechailSm. Ihe
spOols are placed in an iron gutter by the oper-
ator, when the machine picks them up puts
them on shaft eight ut a time, winds the
thread upon them at the rate of three thousand
revolutions per minute cuts q little slot in tue
edge 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 drops them as before, and
never makes mistake. The machine, which is
used III this country only by The Clark Thread
Company, was exhibited by them at the Centen-
NAL, and, with their agniicent case of goods,
was one of the great attractions among the
many wonders Of the exhibition. From the
spooling department, the spoiled thread is
taken "
THE wAREROoM.
where the beautiful little label containing the
uamc, 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 day, all
of which have to be moistencd by the tongue,
placed on the spool, and then struck with the
hand 10 paste 1t. Some OF these girls work
about as quick rs lightning. After ticketlng,
inc spoons VI llntuN llllt mo boAto VI Nlc
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. 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
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etc. The Clark Thread Company sends ont AT
nually vast quantities OF show cards, calendars,
etc. some OF which are magnificent specimens
OF the photographic and printers ant.
Is THIS A FAIR COUNT?
The number of fee: of draught which one pound
Of cotton undeTgoes is one trillion, seven hun
dred and seventy-two billion, three hundred and
twenty million, six hundred and thirty tive
thousand six hundred feet, or, ated in figures
LIP, 800. 635, 800, distance of 335, Az. 1928
miles. The following demonstrates the ap-
parently incredible settlement: The web of
cotton from VII ch this immense length of
| thread Is drawn Is forty inches wide. 1t goes
! TO the carder. where il is drawn 10 4xl2O, equal
/ TO 4S0 feet. Thsn the drawing frame increases
it TO iSOx6, equal to 2,S5O the apper 2.SS0x2h,
/ equal to 6.4s0; the cnmtcr draws it ont to
/ 6.4SOX26, equal 10 1853. $50; then il gocs "a the
first head drawing frame, where 16S, 4S0x6
'"ual TO 1,0l0.SS0
THE SECOND DRAWING FRAME
multiplies the last length by six again. making
! loo, SS0xG equal tn 6,065, $50 whicll repeated
on the third drawing frame makes n length Of
Goes, 2S0x6 equal to 36,39l, $50 feet. Now comes
the first subling frame, where SO 1891 6S0X5 ia
equal to ISL, 95S, 400; the second slubber 49,
| 9jS, 400x419 equal to 1882 800 the interme-
date slubbor 49, 95S, 400x6 equal to 4,612, $780,
i, 500 the finishing thread winding machine
makes the total length of the thread 4.912, S76
s00x6 equal to 20, AT. $50, 500. Now it goes OF,
Robbins to the "miA, where 20. AT, 900 S00x91
! gives us 272, ga. $50, 400 feet We then multi
! tiply the last number of feet, which states the
total length OF pound of cotton
drawn into thread, by the length of the original
web, which is six and half feet. and have the
total AZ stated before, 272,664. 662 4OCxGlS feet
making grand total OF LIP, 800, 635, 600 feet
The cotton. when finished AZ yarn, has been
doubled six million. nine hundred and sixty
seven thousand, two hundred and ninety-six
times(6 1867 1850, in passing through the differ
ent processes. When the yarn is made into six
cord finished thread, the above number of
doublings have been multiplied by six. making
a total of Al, 800, 1852 dOublings. Now divide
the total draught. 772 327 go, 800 by the total
/ doublings, and. if the work is correct. we shall
have the total number Of feet of yarn in