The Osceola times., 1877-03-24
Eighty Thousand

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the bleach house alone, and one Of the 4
Artesisn wells of The Clark Thread Com.
pany has capacity of one hundred and 4
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 purest water he ever saw.
1t makes man thirsty TO look at il, and
is absolutely free from any particles OF
matter, by chemical test. The thread is
blued on big scale, which gives that
handsome tint 80 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, but each Of the rollers weighs
a thousand pounds, and rs the thread
passes through the water into the washer
THEY HOP AND JUMP
and pound with antics queer, but II does
the business thoroughly. Thiswas fsrmer.
ly done by the old fashioned FOUNDER and
barrel which our grandmother used to
set us at when we were boys, before going
to school in the morning. Then il is
drawn through the rinser, which is q
simple and novel machine, continually
supplied with pure Artesian well water.
The thread passes over a 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 1t is put into a large water
extractor, a perforated hollow cylinder,
revolving several thousand times per min
ute, and then ii is transported to the dry.
ing room. In this way five hundred heads
can be rinsed in four minutes which used
to take an hour and half. After the
thread has come out of the drying room,
CoLoRED OR UNCoLoRED,
it goes TO the warerOoms, where II is
counted and put into packages to be given
out preparatory to being wound upon
'spools for the market. The thread hav-
ing reached this stage of perfection, has
become very valuable and is looked after
with the greatest care. Tickets direct il
to its different departments and denote
its size, quality, etc. TIE inspect
ion and testing of thread is one of the
most important features in its production,
and it would surprise the lady who sews
day after day with Clark's go. n. T."
Spool Cotton, to know by what patient and
constant care the perfect smoothness and
regularity of tie thread was secured. It'll.
now taken TO the hank winding depart
ment and wound upon large bobbins, when
1t is ready forts last wind upon the spools
from which it is taken by the consumer,
LOT its tfiousanu uses oi Necessity anu u'il
Ivy, from Tying tne rag on ,he BOY = WHIT
,ieo ana pioody hhgeI'to the deiicate EN-
proiuery OF tne weouihg garment.
THE sPooLING DEPARTMENT.
The spooling room Isl busy place, where
spools OF thread OF all sizes and colors by
tensot thousands are wou ndeyery day, two
hundred yardson aspool. The self-acting
spelling machine is marvellous piece o.
mechanism. The spools are placed in ar
iron gutter by the operator, when the ma
chine picks them up,puts them on a shaft
eighta time, winds the thread uponthem
at the rate of three thousand revolutions
per minute, cuts little slot in the edge Of
the spool, catches the thread in it, nips il
of, drops the spools full of thread into
boxes below, picks up eight more empty
spools, places. winds and drops them as be-
fore, and never makes a mistake. The ma
chine. which is used in hisceuntry ONLY by
TheClark ThreadCompany was exhibited
by them at the Centennial, and with their
magnificent case of goods, was one of the
great attractions among the many wonders
of the exhibition. From the spooling de.
psrtment, the spoiled thread is taken to
THE WATERFRONT,
where the beautiful little label contain.
ing the name, 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
mOistened by the tongue, placed on the
spool, and then struck with the hand Ia
paste it. Some of these girls work about
as quick as lightning. After ticketing,
the spools of thread are put into boxes
OF one 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. A private wire
runs from the works in Newark to the
Nork York office, and the line is kept
busy in sending orders and transmitting
messages of the company. In the short
time we were there several large orders
came in from different parts OF the coun-
try, and among them were some from
Maine, Texas, California, Wisconsin,
Oregon, etc. The Clark Thread Compa-
ny sends out annually vast quantities of
show cards, calendars, etc, some of which
are magnificent specimens of the litho-
graphic and printers art.
Is THIS A FAIR COUNT?