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

trIoll llic L<SntA SOuuLy freeS, NEWARK, n. j..
At the foot of Clark street, in the Eighth
Ward of the city of Newark, on the banks of
the Passaic, occupying several acres of
ground, upon which are buildings the floor
ings of which measures nearly eight acres
are situated the larges. thread works in the
New World, employing about fifteen hun
dred hands, and paying out every two weeks
from sixteen 10 twenty thousand dollars in
wages, to be distributed by the employees
among different classes and occupations in
the city, and from fifteen to twenty thou
sand per month to other parties here, who,
in various ways, are connected with this
vast establishment. Although having the
largest pay roll of any employers in New
Jersey, and contributing more to the vel
fare 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
leading shop on Broad street. 1t would be
useless for any one to attempt TO trace to
their source all the varied industries which
have entered into the production of Clark 8
- .. 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 article, strong, smooth
and beautiful. 1t is made up of
NEARLY FoRTY-Two MILLION DoUBLINGs.
and yet is 80 fine as to be hardly visible a
few inches from the naked eve The i'm
mense capital invested in The Clark Thread
Companys Works and the vast volume of
business, amounting to several millions per
annum, extencing to every part of the
United States, is one OF the principal sources
of Nexark's prosperity. What it is and the
blessings which flow from it, are not real
lied by one in a thousand of the people
who dwell within the sound of their tower
bell. Notwithstanding 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 a
par with the intelligence and appreciation
of the
REAL SOURCES OF WEALTH
usually exhibited by the average politician.
Had 1t been some trust company or curb
stone broker that asked exem ption, it would
probably have been granted. Some idea of
the value of these works to the community
may be had by an illustration of a thing
which might really happen at any time
The Clark Thread Company employ. as
stated, about fifteen hundred persons. nav
ing out to them sixteen to twenty thousand
do liars every two weeks. These hundreds
OF hands pay out that money to the butcher,
the baker, the grocer, the clothier, the dry
goods merchant, and all who have any-
thing to sell get part of it in some way,
either directly or indirectly. From their
hands it goes to pay debts, meet obligations
and I'LL the channels of trade with the cir
Culating medium called money, and which
is to business what blood is TO the human
system, giving it life, animation and power.
Suppose tonight those works were
DESTROYED BY FIRE.
They are fully assured. The Clark Thread
company receive their insurance in cash
rom their underwriters. They say to
themselves: Business is dull, sales are
uncertain, profits are small, the future is
unknown, AID our taxes are heavy. The
vast business requires close attention and
energy. We will not take this
money and rebuild the works, but adopt
The plan pursued by most moneyed men.
viz: go to Washington, buy government
bonds, bring them home, put them in tin
oox, pay no taxes, and sit down to take our
ease, eat, drink and be merry, with no
thought of care, supported in luxury with.
1ut risk by the interest on our bonds. paid
oy taxation OF the producing classes" Can
any man calculate the wide spread ruin
which would follow such a calamity and
course OF action by the Clark Thread
company? 1t would be incalculable. All
nose people who earned money to purchase
What they wanted to buy, would be added
o the list of paupers who to-day clamor for
work or bread. Misery, want,
STARVATION AND CRIME
would be the frrlit of such a course. But
his is exactly what hiss been done through
'ut the country, and explains why one in
welye IN Newark are to-day supported bv
he city. The productive capital of the
country, which employed our now idle mil
ions, has been put into government bonds,
md appalling restitution and want are on
very hand, and increasing at fearful rate.
Iabor is the source of al wealth and pros
'erlty, and there is no loss equal to that
which follows enforced idleness of the pro-
lucing classes. There is no music SO full
# joy and peace and good will to men as
he song of labor and the music of machinery
Setter far that all other songs be hushed
nd every note be stilled, rather than those,
nd to them We now introduce the reader.
ON THE DOCK
r The Clark Thread Company, which is
I've hundred feet long, is mountain of two
r three thousand tons of coal, drawn ont
f boats at the wharf by a donkey engine,
no the bales of cotton find their way from
he same wharf to the brick house, for the
forage of that precious material, one pound
# which will make one hundred miles of
bread, containing about forty-two million
oubIings. The mind cannot grasp the
umerical fact But four grades of cotton
re ordinarily used in the manufacture of
lark's 30. N. T." Spool Cotton, and known
paiy f 1odan so Geo 1arolna and is grown
4 the small Islands along the coast. Con-
derable is raised on the peninsules and
round the bays and inlets, but it is not
quail to that of the sea islands, which is
he finest in the world. The first bag of this
ca island cotton of the crop of 1876 vas
purchased by the Clark Thread Company at
fly cents per pound. The inland cotton is
lot used in the manufacture of thread being
90 short in the fiber. On these sea islands
Tere the richest planters of the South in
THE OLD SLAVE DAYS,
many of them having as high as six hum
red slaves, and compared with whom the
eudsl lords of England were children in
luxury, hospitality and elegance. But to-
lay all is changed. Those vast estates are
ut up into small plantations, many of
hem owned by the negroes, who now call
10 mau master. They bring in their sea-
on pIOHUCl, sometimes on mile ana
gain in large quantities. Brokers on the
ground or at the landings, buy and pay the
legross for their cotton, often dividing the
money according to the labor performed in
aising the crop. Some lease the land of
he former owners, but the old state of
hings is dun clar' gone" This trade aud
raffic, it may be fairly expected, will in
ew years largely increase the wealth and
Intelligence of the race in these localities.
THE SEA ISLAND COTTON
brings treble the price of inland. An acre
will produce in the neighborhood of three
hundred and fifty pounds of seed cotton,
which when ginned weighs about seventy
i've pounds, or one to five. The negroes
without doubt will eventually grow all the
,ottoD, as not one in five of the Northern
men have thus far succeeded in their at
empts. Let the reader remember that We
nave not looked at single piece of machin-
ny yet, and then calculate the number of
people and the amount of wealth, these
works employ and produce, before We reach
he factory. The sail, the mine, commerce
md manufactures. sill find employment to
Iupply The Clark Three d Company's works.
md when they stop the cotton may bloom
nd fall unplucked. the coal miner nav
tarve on the bed of black diamonds, the
'ails on the rivers be spread to tue breeze no
move and the Ia fhcs in, hr,nSro5