The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-04
THE COTTON EXPOSITION.
An Interesting Account of the j. & T,
Goa" Firm, and their Exhibit at
Atlanta

ATLANTA.
ATLANTA, November S.-As the visitor
passes to the center of the main building of
the Cotton Exposition, his attention will
necessarily be attracted by the immense
sign OF the J d 2. Coats spool cotton dis
pay: The sign is composed OF over l6, 0C1
spools of thread Of every tint and shade,
Inc space OH, q p. Coats is at the entrance
rom the retunda to the east wing, and is
among the largest and most important
here, and cannot fail to interest the visitor
OF every class. 1t covers, properly speak
ing, the space occupied by the display from
the Smithsonian Institute sent down by
the State department, to make room for
which the agents of this firm kindly
yielded considerable area; retaining, how
ever, enough to make their exhibit one
OF the leading features of the Exposition.
no one sees tins we'll known name without
beng reminded of aud lang syne for. AS A
very old lady remarked few days since,
II have always used this thread, as did my
mother and grandmother before ME, and
every lady who gets sample SPOOL which
IS gwen to all who come, takes to her work
basket an already familiar visitor. The
question is daily asked the representatives
of this house: "Why have you come here
ut such great expense to show as some
thing we here in the South already know
as much about as any household article we
use?" The answer is made: 1--WE have re-
ceived many millions of dollars from our
southern customers, who have always
bought this thread in years gone by; we
have also expended millions in the purchase
OF your staple, and our feelings of irendli-
ness toward the great distinctively South
ern enterprise have been so warm since we
NJ Sat IL tl,.,t
mined to be among the earliest and most
extensive of its patrons. Another reason
for coming is that since the erection of our
American mills at Pawtucket, Rhode
Island, We are enabled, by closely watching
the markets to supply thread and match
co!ors for the ever-changing hues of fashion
that each season brings in dress fabrics.
This we can now do more promptly than
we possibly could have done in former
times, when we were exclusively importing
from our mills in Paisley, Scotland, as you
may see from these many 'ombre' shades
brought down to correspond with the re-
quirements ofthe day, up to the very open
ing of this Exposition. We have not come
here for any purpose of
RIVALRY OR COMPETITION
with thread makers, having reputation,
which is fully evidenced by the gold medals
taken at the Worlds Fairs at London, Phila.
delphia, Vienna and Paris but our display
is for exhibition only. 1t is for the people
to see what we have, and for them TO learn
our methods OF preparing our threads for
use.
SHORT SKETCH OF THE FIRM
This great house, now in its third genera
ton is not like other thread manufacturing
concerns 4 stock company; but it has
always been, and is now, = firm composed
of members of the same family, the present
head OF which is Sir Peter Coats, of Paisley
Scotland. who was knighted many years
ago by Queen Victoria in recognition of his
public spirit in giving to his native
city fine public library. There
are at Pawtucket five mills belonging
to this firm, the fifth Of which was
built this year, and is five hundred feet in
length, containing four floors besides the
basement, and having larger area of floor
space than any other thread mill in the
world. The name Of the original firm
which was established under the name of
j. 81 =. Coats, has never been changed, and
they are by far the most extensive spool
cotton manufacturers on the globe Besides
supplying about one-half Of all the six
cord spool cotton sold in the United States,
they have large agencies in London, Paris,
Vienna, st. Petersburg, Cape of Good Hope
China and various South American ports
The winding and iicketing machines eX-
hibitcd at Atlanta are the Inventions OF
Hezekiah Conant oil Pawtucket, r. l., who
is directly connected with the management
of the American Correspondence of
the Courer-Journal.