Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10

factories, and were apparently much I'M
pressed by some of the features they
witnessed.
HARTFORD, CONN, October 9.-The first
visit of the delegates to the Interna-
tionsl Congress to-day was at Worcester,
Mass, where Mayor Winslo, lockwood
Hoar, son Of the Massachusetts Senator,
members of the city government and 80
gentlemen of prominence in the town took
their places in carriages and drove with
them from the depot through and about the
city. The South American representatives
listened with some amusement to a state
ment that, within their view during part
of the drive. was factory in which hun
dreds of thousands of roller skates were be-
ing made for use in South America and
Australia, in which countries the craze at
present prevails in an acute form.
At exactly 10 o. clock the great train moved
out OF the depot, hundreds Of people lining
the way of its passage and the hats of men
and the handkerchiefs OF ladies waving q
goodbye. The weather conditions on this,
the seventh day of the journey, were perfect,
and the New England forests, Redeemed by
the autumn frosts, upon each stage of the
journey supplemented with their beauty the
interest of the trip.
VISITING THE FACTORIES.
On their arrival at Willimantic the visit
ors were conducted by the local Committee
of Reception to the chief mill of the Will
mantle Spool Cotton Company, which is
deemed one of the most complete and health
full in the world. The building of one story
in height lighted from above and at the
sides, covers 81 acres of ground, and in it is
employed large number of the !, 800 opera
tives working the entire plant.
They are chiefly young women and the
delegates we're told that their average earn
ings were S. per week, and that they live
mostly at boNe. The atmospheric condi-
tions for the proper making of thread are
those in which vegetation best thrives. and
at the entrance, under the glass of the roof,
were palms, banana trees, and other tropic
vegetation, the sight of which was greeted
with pleased surprise by the delegates.
The tour of the works was necessarily
rapid, but the evolution from raw cotton to
the boxed product ready for market was
seen and explained. A definite idea of
what is accomplished in one day by the
countless whirling spools and spfndles of
the entire works was furnished to the dele
gates by the statement that the daily pro-
duct of thread is IA, 900, 900 feet, which is
equal to single thread 300 miles long.
A NEAT SOUVENIR.
As each excursionist left the works neat
little box containing one spool of fine
thread was presented as a souvenir of the
visit With the Reception Committee were
Governor Bulkely and United States Sena-
tor Hawley. The train arrived at South
Manchester, Conn.,, at about 1:30 o'clock.
The little time allotted to South Manchester
was devoted to the Cheney Silk Mills,
where plushes, forentines, plain silks. dress
goods, etc., are produced.
In great hall samples Of all the various |
goods were displayed. Said Minister Ara |
gon. of Costa Rica: "Do all the people of |
your country know of this great producing |
of silks?" He was told that doubtless |
millions of Americans did not know that |
silks were largely produced here. The visitors |
saw 1000 employees at work at $45, 900
month in wages, the work of whose hands |
aggregates an annual output of 81, 000, 900.
Leaving the silk mills each excursionist |
received silk American flag, about by 8 |
feet square. manufactured in the mills in |
spected. Again mounting to the train the |
last stage of the days journey was begun, |
and was closed when the party reached |
at $3.50 o'clock. Here the party |
was divided; one part went over local |
route of sightseeing and the other over an |
other route.
WHERE GUNS ARE MADE.
The first, with General Hawley, the Vice |
President and Manager Hall, of the Colt |
Armory Works, went to the shops of that |
The visit there might be briefly |
as round of wonderment and |
amazement on the part of the foreigners ard |
most of the Americans in the party. DR..
Gatling, the inventor of the rapld-fring |
gun that bears his name, was present also. |
The delegates were led over 300 acres COW
cred by the works.
The 81, 900 machines employed in making |
arms, graphophones, printing presses, type
writers and engines were seen in operation
under the hands Of 1000 men, whose
monthly payroll is $4,000. In an open
court the Colt rifles firing 10 shots in sec
onds were discharged by DR.. Amador, from
General Hawley and others,
while the Gatling gun of ten tubes was op-
Grated at the rate OF 1900 shots per min
ute. This discharge was at q target, several
of the foreigners turning the crank by
which the tubes are emptied, DIR. Gatling
the loading. Said one of the
Southern delegates:
'Our visit is not in keeping with this ex-
hibition. 1t is for war, while we are for
peace"
But this gun is peace-maker," return
ID DIR. Calling"
ONE CAUSE FOR WONDER.
At another place the other division Of
delegates saw how bicycles are made. They
some surprise at learning that the
iteel tubes which form the frame work are
made in England, as, after what they had
seen, they were prepared to believe that