The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-24

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 wells bored in De yards to furnish wa ter for the triplicate industry.
 Some figures about the institution have their own interest. The plant has for instance 120.000 square feet of floor space. The bleachery has ca- pacity of 250,000 yards of cloth a month. The capacity of the dye works is even larger for through the dye
 works one and quarter million yards of cloth passes each month. The works require the daily labor of some 12d men.
 The pungent odor of acids greets the strangers nostril when he first enters this unusual plant. The smell of the acids give him his first impression. The next and central impression of the whole works is the rapidity with which It's work is accomplished. Like all other forms of industry in recent years machinery has come more and more into use and hand work has been pressed more and more into subordi- nate place.
 Here in the bleachery they handle cotton cloth by the bolt And they handle scores of bolts of cloth at the same time. The lower floor of the bleachery is festooned with white cloth and no unit of the festoon stands still. A score of bolts is being changed from one set Of vats on one side of the house to set of vats on the other side. Another score is being transferred from the lower to the upper floor of the building. Each bolt is being rolled and unrolled by machinery with twen- ty yards of space between the two rolls.
 The machinery is run upon the plan of the old wooden towel rack. There are belts, wheels and pulleys to fur uish the power and wooden rollers to guide the winding and the unwinding of the flying cloth. A bolt of cloth un- wound is dumped by the machine into q vat for treatment with acid or lime. It is seized by the roller machinery, stretched across the room and wound around hot cylinder to be dried and finished off.
 Two widely different machines here in a way illustrate the diversity of this institution. The first machine is put there to take the nap from the cotton cloth. This Is done when an especially fine finish is wanted for the whiter and smoother bleachings. The machine Is fitted out with series of big cylinders heated red hot The cloth does not touch these cylinders but in unrolled bolts it is drawn rapid " over the red hot cylinders almost touching them. The little fuzzy or nap left on the goods by the machin- cry of the cotton mill vanishes In smoke.
 Some of the Machinery.
 The second machine, a few feet away has an exactly opposite purpose. It Is installed to put an additional nap up- on the cotton goods It's object is the making of canton flannel, the wide in- crease of nap on one side of the cotton fG af educated teeth that bites into every quarter of an inch of the cloth and fills the room with flying bits of cotton goods. The cotton cloth as it invari. ably does in this institution, no matter how it is handled, runs over the ma chine in bolts, emerging on the other side as the finished article of canton flannel for trade and commerce.
 But the main purpose of the Lanett plant is the bleaching of cotton goods. The primary treatment of the goods Is with a sort of lime solution. The cloth is next given a bath in big yats filled with acids
 This acid bath is the crucial period with the cotton cloth in It's passage the bleachery. It is a delicate operation and one that must be super intended and directed by men who know their business thoroughly, men who are experts in their line. Various acids are used in the solution which is 70 largely instrumental in bronzing a glossy whiteness to the cotton cloth Large stone and iron vats are called nto requisition for the making of the acids.
 The preliminary and the important 'tages In the bleaching of the cloth is irst the lime bath, second the boiling n large kettles and third the acid bath. Tn this latter process the goods are 'un from one acid jet to another. Com lleting the rounds of the necessary lcid administration the cloth is thrown nto a washing machinery. For 1t is most important when the acids have their great work of whiten- ng the cloth that the traces of the lcids should be removed from the 10th flores. Otherwise 1t might rot or become affected in some other deleto- 'ious way.
 This having been completed the lamp cloth Is placed in the starch man. sle where 1t is stiffened and made eady for the last stage, which is ad- ninistered on the dry cans. The dry ans are cylinders made hot by steam which dry out the cloth and make it eady for the market. There are a lumber of other articles of manufac- ured goods which are given the final tages of this work, towels being an xample without having to go through he preliminary bleaching process.
 The process of dying cloth in whole ale quantities is simpler and much less ostIy. In the Lanett works every hade of coloring that can be put upon otton goods is administered. Most of he goods dyed are ducking and drill ng goods which are made Into overalls r khaki uniforms for the soldiers of he United States army.
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