Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1885-07-30
HOW ROPE Is MADE.
The Wonderful improvements of the
Past Half Century.
From the Hanks to the Cable-0ne Girl
Now Doing the Work OF Eight Men
Making a Monster Gable,

FROM lne Hanks 10 lne OhDle-Une VIII
Now Doing the Work OF Eight Men
Making u Monster Cable.
Rope,making is not what it used to
be. Nowadays girl at a spinning
machine can do more work than eight
men could doin the old-fashioned way,
and where one man could comb one
bale OF hemp one machine can now
comb scyenty-live bales. The product
OF the largest rOpewalk IN the United
States is one hundred and fifty tons OF
rope and twnc a week, as compared
with sixteen tons when it was built,
lifty.siX years ago. This ropewalk is
in Bushwick, and in the half century
it has made the fortunes OF five men.
BuShwick was fifty years ago small
Long Island hamlet. To-day its
boundaries are merged into the East
crn District Of Brooklyn. Not many
wears ago grove surrounded the rope
walk. To-day it is surrounded by
dwelling houses. Fifty-livc years ago
four horses furnished the motive pow
cr. To-day a five hundred and fifty
horse power engine is taxed to do the
work. The long wcathcr-beatcu
strurturc. onn thons,pd ,ovon hundred
feet in lcnoth. h,s had tb, sane an.
pearancc for forty years or more. OF
all the men who have worked in the
rOpewalk, one man has lived to see
father, and sons nnss owov and IN
trnch orpndsnus haw IN m3kc ronc
IIn ia lam stewart tho .rrnrintorJnn,
Genial and active nIJ Gentleman
now ripbn. ynrrs nf ngo Far tiftv.fye
wears he has worlod iLnre Uc snvs
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