The Russellville Democrat., 1882-11-23
MELRoSE COTTON MILL.
Arrival of Skilled Mechanics to Place the Machinery and Start the Hum of the
 Spindles.
What has been done Since the Last Issue Of the Democrat.

MT. Harry White, who represents Smith, Beggs and Ranken, the larg est and most extensive engine build CTS west of the Alleghanies, arrived
 fast Thursday from St. Louis, to
 make all the steam and water con
 nections and start the mammoth 120 horse power engine, which is the
 make of the above named firm, and
 which IS to drive the gin, pumps, and all the machinery in the Melrose
 Mills. Mir. White is as atfable and pleasant as the engine is beautiful and neat; and thinks he will have everything complete and the engine running by to morrow.
 Mr. NJ. F. Carr, who is an old cot ton mill man, and whose knowledge of cotton cards and cxpertness at clothing them is equaled by few in the New England States. arrived on
 the Stli inst, from Bnstol. and IS
 buslly cnga2ed in clothing the cards for the company. It is quite a job to clothe a card, though, to see Mir. Carr at work, it looks easy, and by
 long practice his tack hammer has
 acquired the accuracy and regulari-
 ty at most of machinery. There are
 twenty-two card sheets to the cylin-
 der and it requires one hundred and
 four tacks to the sheet. The card
 sheets are leather strips about three
 feet long, the width of the cylinder, and six inches wide, with very small steel wires bent in the shape of a staple and driven through the leath- CT strips from the under side, thus leaving the ends projecting above like needles which are bent about half way their length so as to rep resent the broken back of the letter "k. These steel wires are put in. to the card sheets by machinery, all being regular and smooth, and about as far apart as the teeth Tn comb. Mr. Carr will probably re. main and take charge of the carding departmen: in the mills.
 Mr. Joseph Nelson, who repre- sents the Bridesburg Mamufactur- ing Company, of Philadelphia, and whose make of machinery is largely used in the Melrose Mills, arrived on the 18th inst, from Philadelphia, and is as busy as bee connecting the cards, railway heads and draw. ing frames, and putting up the spin ming frames. He is a thorough me chanic, and to see him with his coat of in five minutes after ne entered the building, hard at work, convinc- es one at once that he understands his business, and is all of what we truly term and love to see-a man. The Brilesburg Manufacturing Com pany is well represented by Mir. Nel- | son, and, with such men connected | with any enterprise, we don't wonder at it's success.
 Mr Nelson speaks in glowing terms of the building, and says the | floor is the best he ever laid ma chinery on. Of the half dozen mills in Philadelphia, besides great many in Georgia and some in Texas. he does not remember of a single floor that can compare with this one, some of the spinning frames requir. ing only the thickness of a single piece of pasteboard to make them perfectly level. This compliment coming from such high source is a big feather in the cap of Mir. Thom. as Cox, who is the contractor and builder of the Mills. But he de- serves it, as all of his work is equal. y as good in proportion as the floor.
 Mir. John Riley, who is an expert ,nced cotton mill man from the Brownsville mills in Tennessee, is assisting MT. Nelson, and will re- nain and occupy the position of brennan in the spinning department [ ,f the Melrose Mills. The Superin. endant, Mir. Haney, keeps Mr. Holmes, Mir. Bulger, Henry, Alex z Hull and Charley Vannus busy all | he time unlocking the machinery I nd assisting Mir Nelson and his l nen in placing and putting it up. ( ,ou may know they are all expert. a need, when they carry the label to | he ten thousand different pieces in a