The Osceola times., 1877-03-24
MANY INTERESTING PARTICULARS.

From the Essex County Pcs. Newark, Nj.
At the foot Of Clark street In the Eighth
ward OF the city of Newark, on the banks
Of the Psssaic, occupying several acres Of
ground upon which are buildingsthe floor
ings OF which measure nearly eight acres
are situated the largest thread works in
the New World, employing about fifteen
hundred hands and paying out every two
weeks from sixteen TO twenty thousand
dollars in wages, to be distributed by the
employees among different classes and oc-
equations in the city, and from fifteen TO
twenty thousand per month TO other par
ties here, who in various ways are connect
ed " 18th this vast establishment. Although
having the largest pay roll Of any EN-
ployers in New Jersey, and contributing
more to the welfare and prosperity Of the
city than all its financial institutions
combined, we hear less in the newspapers
of this world of wealth makers than OF
some second class money lending shop
on Broad street. II would be useless for
any one 10 attempt to trace to their
source all the varied industries which
have entered into the production OF
Clark's 40. n. T." Spool Cotton, which
is sold by every merchant dealing in dry
goods, fancy goods, hosiery, notions, etc,
in the United States, and contains two
hundred yards of that indispensable ar
ticle, strong, smooth and beautiful. IL
is made up of
NEARLY FoRTy-TwO MILLION DO UBLINGs,
and yet is 20 fine as to be hardly visible n
few inches from the naked eye. The i'm
mense capital invested in the Clark
Thread Company's Works and the vast
volume Of business, amounting TO several
millions per annum, extending 10 every
part OF the United States, is one of the
principal sources of Newark's prosperity.
What il il and the blessings which flow
from it, are not realized by one In thou
sand of the people who dwell within the
sound of their tower bell. Notwithstand-
ing the large amount of money which
the establishment was to pour into the
hands of every merchant and trader in
the city, as events have shown, the first
thing which the City Fathers did when
these works were being erected was to tax
the bricks and material not yet shaped
into buildings. 1t was on par with the
intelligence and appreciation of the
REAL SOURCES OF WEALTH,
usually exhibited by the average politi-
clan. Had 1t been some trust company or
curbstone broker that asked exemption,
it would probably have been granted
Some idea of the value OF these works to
the community may be had by an Illus,
tration of thing which might really
happen Mt any time. The Clark Thread
Company employ. as stated, about if
teen hundren persons, paying out to
them sixteen TO twenty thousand
dollars every two weeks. These hun
dreds of hands pay out that money to the
butcher, the baker, the grocer, the clothier,
the dry goods merchant, and all who have
anything to sell get part OF it in some
way, either directly or indirectly. From
their hands 1t goes TO pay debts, meet OBJ
legations and fill the channels ftrade with
the circulating medium called money,
and which is to business what blood is to
the human system, giving it life, ANNA
ton and power. Suppose tonight these
works were
DESTROYED ny FIRE.
They are fully insured. The Clark Thread
Company receive their insurance in cash
from their underwriters. They say to
themselves Cuisines is dull, sales are
uncertain, profits are small the future is
unknown, and our taxes are heavy. The
vast business requires close attention and
persistent energy. We will not take this
money and rebuild the works, but adopt
the plan pursued by most moneyed men,
" ~ Ia. h,,x
bonds, bring them home, put them in
a tin box, pay no taxes, and sit down to
take our case, eat, drink aud be merry,
with no thought of care, supported in lux.
ury without risk by the interest on our
bonds, paid by taxation of the producing
classes" Can any man calculate the wide
spread ruin which would follow such
calamity and course of action by The
Clark Thread Company II would be
incalculable. All those people who earn
ed money TO purchase what they wanted
to buy, would be added to the list of
paupers who to-day clsmor for work or
bread. Misery, want,
STARVATION AND CRIME
would be the fruit of such a course. hut
thisisexactly what has been done through
out the country. and explains why one in
twelyein Newark are to-day supported by
the city. The productive capital of the
country, which employed our now idle
millions, has been put into government
bonds, and appalling restitution and want
are on every hand, and increasing at a fear
full rate. Labor is the source of all wealth
and prosperity, and there is no loss equal
to that which follows enforced idleness OF
the producing classes. There is no music
go full Of joy aud peace and good will to
men as the song of labor and the music of
machinery. Better far that all other
songs be hushed and every note be stilled,
rather than those, and TO them we now
introduce the reader.
on THE DOCK
of the Clark Thread Company, which is
five hundred feet long, is mountain of
two or three thousand tons of coal, drawn
out Of boats at the wharfby a donkey en-
CINE, and the bales of cotton find their
way from the same wharf to the brick
house for the storage of that precious ma
terial, one pound of which will make one
hundred miles of thread. containing about
forty.two million doublings. The mind
cannot grasp the numerical fact. But four
gradesof cotton are ordinarily used in the
manufacture Of Clark's CONT" Spool
Cotton, and known as "Sea Island Cot.
ton" This comes principally from South
Carolina and is grown on the small is-
lands along the coast Considerable is
raised on the penirsulas and around the
bays and inlets, but it is not equal to
that of the sea islands, which is the finest
in the world. The first bag Of Wig lea
island cotton of the crop of 1876 ~ira r
chased by the Clark Thread Cater said