Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-03-24

patent diving machine, used only to dye
black. 1t does the work far better than
by hand, and is equal to the labor OF more
than a dozen men.
ALI COLORs OF THREAD
are made, and the quantities Of soaps, dye
stuhs, 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 Com.
pany has a capacity Of one hundred and
hny thou,and gallons per day. This lisa
remarkable well, sixteen feet deep and
eight feet in diameter, of which Professor
MAYNARD, the New York chemist, said 1t
produced the purest water he ever saw.
il makes a 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 10 greatly admired by the
ladies. Then it is committed to the ten
der mercies of the baby washer, which
are cruel, and goes through it ten times.
The baby is built like the ordinary wasl.-
ing machine, buteach of the rollers weighs
a thousand pounds, and as the thread
passes through the water into the washer
THEY nor AND JUMP
| and pound with antics queer, but 1t does
the businessthorougnIy. Thiswasfsrmer
" done by the old fashioned FOUNDER and
barrel which our grandmother used to
set lis at when we were boys, before going
to school in the morning. Then it is
! drawn through the rinser, which Is a
simple and novel machine, continually
supplied with pure Artesian well water,
The thread passes over 4 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 over
the reels into the great boxes on wheels,
from which it is put into a large water
extractor, a perforated hollow cylinder,
rcyolvingseyeral thousand times per min
ute, and thenit is transported to the dry
ING room. In this way five hundred heads
can be rinscd in four minutes which used
to take an hour and a half. After the
thread has come out Of the drying room,
COLOREp OR U~NCOLORED,
it gOes to the warerOoms, where 1t IL
counted and put into packages to be given
out preparatory to being wound upon
spools for the market. The thread hay
ing reached this stage of perfection, has
become very valuable and is looked after
with the greatest care. Tickets direct it
to its different departments and denote
its size, quality, etc. TIE inspect
onand testing Of thread is II of the
mostimportant features in its production,
and it would surprise the lady who sews
day after day with Clark's go. \. T.'
Spool Cotton, to know by what pa%tientand
constant care the perfect smoothness and
regularity of the thread was secured. Its
now taken to the hank winding depart
ment and woundupon large bobbins, when
it is ready FORTS last wind upon thespools,
from which it is taken by the consumers
I, for its thousand uses of NECESSITY and utiI,
ity, from tying the rag on the boy whit
tied and bloody finger, to the delicate en-
broidery of the wedding garment.
THE SPOOLING DEPARTMENT.
The spooling room sabusy place, where
spools Of thread of all sizes and color1 by
/ tensotthousand are woundevery day two
hundred yardsonaspool. The sell-acting
spelling machine is a marvellous piece OF
l mechanism. The spools are placed in an
iron gutter by the operator, when the ma.
chine picks them up,put1them ON a shaft
eightatatimc, windsthc thread uponthem
e at the rate of three thousand revolutions
per minute, cuts a little slot in the edge Of
r the spool, catches the thread in it, nips it
D., off, drops the spools full of thread into
/. boxes below, picks IN eight more empty
r spoOls, places winds and dropsthcm as be.
fore, and never makes a mistake, The ma,
chine, which susedinthi country only by
e TheCIarkThreadCompa was exhibited
! by them at the Centennial, and with then
Il magnificent case OF goods, was one of the
+ great atJractionsamongth emany wonder,
Of the exhibition. From the spooling de
partment, the spoiled thread is taken tl
II THE %wAREROoM,
Y where the beautiful little label contain
ing the name, number, etc, of the thread
l. is put on by girls. The quickest of then
will put labels on the ends of nine or ter
is thousand in day, all of which have to bC
moiStened 10y the tongue, placed on thC
d spool, and then struck with the hand t
y paste it, Some of these girls work abou.
as quick as lightning, After ticketing
the spo9.S of thread are put into boxe,
d of one dozen each. They are then read,
for packing. About twenty-five THOUSAND
feet of lumber per month is cut at The
mills, in Michigan, to the various length,
d required, and all that is done mere is tC
:, put the boxes together. A private wirt
l. runs from the works in Newark to the
N Nork York office, and the line is KEEP
e. busy in sending orders and transmitting
Re messages Of the company. In the shorI
I, time we were there several large order
D. came in from different parts OF the coun
Z try, and among them we're some from
lie Maine, Texas, California, Wisconsin
4, Oregon, etc. The Cluk Thread Compa
'r ny sends out annually vast quantities q
g. show cards, calendars, etc, some OF which
are magnificent specimens of the lit q
N graphic and printer art.
70 Is TINS A FAIR COUNT
The number Of feet Of draft whicI
one pound Of cotton undcrgoes is on
'p %trillion, seven hundred and scyentv.tw
re billion, three hundred and twenty mil
Is, lion, six hundred ami t@hirty.hve tho,
sand, six hundred teet, or stated i
figures, I,772,S20, t&5,600, Il distanc
e. nc QQS NJ rQOI lila, III, Iu..