The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-03-22

ton drawn into thread by the length of the
original web, which is six and half feet
and have the total as stated before, Dr.
Dos, 90, 4oox63 feet making grand total of
LIZ, 81, 635, 800 feet The cotton. when
finished as yarn, has been doubled six mil
hon, nine hundred and sixty.seyen
thousand. two hundred and ninety-six
times (6,9o4, 296), in passing through the
olfferent 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, 1903, 762 doub-
hnss Now divide the total draft: liz
52',o336p, by the total doublings, and if
the work IS correct. we shall have the total
number of feet of yarn in pound of cot
ton, which is 254, 337 feet. But there has
been 20 per cent. loss in the manufacture.
winch must be added, making total of
$50 "a feet OF yarn for pound of cotton,
/ or I'D hanks af $40 yards each, enough to
/ reach from New York to Trenton, dis
lance of sixty miles.
MACHINE AND CABINET SHOPS, BOX FACTORY
AND PRINTING HOUSE.
/ The Clark Thread Company do all their
priRting and lithogrsphirg at the works
mere. Four printing presses are kept run
nlng All the time, and in the Autograph de-
fartnent one steam press and six or eight
hand hthosraph presses ale continually en-
pioyed. In both departments the practice
OF the art preseIvative" is in the highest
/ style. Orders for TIE paper box department.
IN tue one Item of straw board are given as
! high as eighty to one hundred tens at a
time. In the machine shop large number
OF men are empioyed in making new ma,
! chlnefy ana keeping in repair the vast
/ quantity in use in the various departments
OF the works. The cabinet factory turns
out about two hundred cabinets per day.
The boooins, etc, used in the mill are made
here. In fact about all the Clark Thread
| Company go outside fer is the raw mate
rial. They manufacture all they use, ex-
cept few of the more intricate or patented
machines.
THE CLARK HOSE COMPANY.
One of the best organized and equipped
tire companies in the city of Newark is the
CLARK Hose COMPANY" organized Nav
10, 1869 There are twenty members EN-
pioyes of the factory, brave, active men,
| trained by frequent practice TO their duty,
and proud of their company aud outfit
Their equipment is as follows: Two hose
carriages with wrenches, bars and sxes,
carrying ssvel 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 rozzles in TWEEN
| ty-one different stations, in and around the
factory, one cameron tire pump, one
Worthington, one Watts & Campbell, and
one Blake pump, one hundred and seventy
/ eight hllei buckets in their proper places
! throughout the works, sixteen hand pumps.
| sprinkler5 in all the rooms of the cotton,
mill, the packing house. the machine and
carpenter shop and the drying rooms. There
sre also spriDklers in the two top floors of
the thread mill aud in the warehouse, and
| there are thirty-hve fire plugs or hydrants
on the premises. Regular meetings are
held on the second Monday in each month
and practice is had every two weeks. Ex-
animation of al valves, MIGRANTS, pumps
and other equipments takes place on the
hrst OF each month, and minute report
of the exact condition, position and effect
lVeness of the ire service is made to the
Clark Thread Company.
TIE CLARK THREAD COMPANY RELIEF SOCIETY.
One of the best and most beneficial or
CARNATIONS which constitutes part of the
system and care Of the Clark Thread Com
pany for their employees, is the Relief So
ciety. 1t was organized January 22d. 1870
for the purpose of providing fund for the
relief OF those who might by accident or
sickness, be incapacitated from sustaining
themselves. All the employees of the COM
pany must be members of the society, and
each receives assistance when needed, from
the fund according to the amount paid in,
WHICH must De at least one cent Der week
but no oneis permitted to pay in an amount
which would draw, in case of sickness
more than half their average weekly wages.
Every cent paid in draws seventy-fve cents
per week. The Clark Thread Company
contributes five dollars per week to the fund
without cessation, but sll others cease their
contributions when the unexpended balance
in the treasury reaches fifteen hundred dol
lars. When the fuud is reduced to seven
hundred dollars, payments are renewed.
The payments into the treasury average
about nine months in ths year. We hope
that this humane and systematic organjza.
ton may find many imitators among the
manufacturers of Newark and throug bout
the country, who read this srtice The
company pays interest at seven per cent. on
the money in the treasury besides their five
dollars per week into the fund Since its
organization one thousand three hundred
and ninety -seven members nave been re-
lieved, and twenty-four deaths have occur
red in the society. TIE reason that the re-
ceipts for 1874 aud 1875 are less than usual
is because the fund has reached the maxi
mum of $500, end payments were stopped.
The following very Interesting table shows
the amount received and paid out from 1870
to 1876 inclusive: