Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-10-02

dclphia has monopoly in the manufac-
ture OF the best balls-the Sl.5O official
sort--and this plant employs, year In and
year out, 1850 hands, and It makes year
in and year out l,2O0 dozen balls day
Thus its annual output is close upon 5,OOl,-
900 basoballs wear.
The method of making all those balls
a glimpse at the inside Of the big, i've
story red brick baseball factory with It's
1850 young men, young girls and boys al
works. interesting.
The first room. This room is the wind.
ing room. This room is as big as a con
cert han. and running up and down it IN
straight lines are machines, each about
the size Of child.
Before each machine boy sits, He
has on his right and on his left a wooden
shelf Upon the right hand shelf are
balls of the purest Para rubber. one-inch
In diameter and he takes up these balls,
one at a time ana puts them IN the ma
chine.
The machine winds about them, more
regularly than hands could do, very
strong and pure quality of wooden yarn
of blush hue. the yarn Is OF the thick
ness that is called four-py, II is about
as thick, that Is, as straw. After enough
rubber center to make a bali two inches
I'm diameter, the machine stops Of It's own
accord. an dthe' mop removes the little
ball and places II on the shcI upon his
left Then he puts In the machine an
other Para rubber Conterpiece, and the
instrument begins again to wind its WOOL
en- yarn about the rubber, This boy ana
the machine make, between them, little
balls, half rubber and half yarn, two
inches In diameter That Is their whole
Inn NM
work with u clock-like regularity in the
big room.
There are half dozen smaller boys who
20 To and fro with baskets, gathering
up the two-lnch balls as they are finished.
These boys take them TO a young, man
over In one corner, young man called
clipper"
The Upper stands beside vat, the size
Of the bathtub. that Is filled with mud
as thin and colorlcss as water-a nuld
that resembles wafer precisely. In this
vat he dips the balls and then stands
them aside for httle while TO dry. The
weak-looking fluid Is in reality a very
powerful plastic composition which IN
sures to the balls a permanent round
ness. which prevents them from ever be-
ing las the phrase Isl batted out Of shape.
The balls now go To 10 other boys AT 80
other machines. These machines are IKE
the first ones, only they are differently
regulated. Thy wind upon the balls
second inch of finer wooden yarn-trst
three.ply blue and then a three-ply white
yarn-lnd the balls are dipped again m
the strong cement and, after second
drying they are ready 10 be covered
Their covers are made Of an alum
tanned horsehidc that Is as soft and white
as the gloves men wear at night with
their evening clothes. This hide Is nearly
one-eighth OF an inch thick, one horse
supplies onlyl is bah covers, for only the
strongest and best portions of each hide
are used.
AS the hide comes 10 the factory from
the tanners II ~ knee-sakd. TO knee
stake n hide Is 20 get all the stretch. all
the elasticity. out OF Il, a robIs young
man lays II across an upright plank, or
stake. that Is knee high. and he draws II
hard as he can: he stretches It TO It's ut
most limit Were h hes not knee.stakcd
In this way he covlrs made from them