The Newtown bee., 1909-04-30

Hese Co., after years of exp irienee | . the construction of hose, deVelope
 his new loom for weaving the mucI . coveted circular W0yer, eabIe twillel
 fire Lose fabric, Every one know
 from personal experience with wear
 Ing apparel that tWilled Pl 'th wear
 better than any other, 20 that the i'm,
 poftanee Of MT Gillesple's invention
 can he 'eatllV appreciated, Ily Lhil Improvement in fire hose be at 0nce
 secured eompaclness, pliability. in-
 creased HfenGlh and durability. This
 lnfenilG genus, h0WeVe", could not
 rest even at this, for he realized that
 the work cf the iiremer was made
 ardnous by the twisting or kinking
 of the fire hose in service. To over
 cone thls wa hard problem. but
 by ihdomltable perseverance Mir
 Gillespie made q discovery which, in
 It's way, may be compared with the
 accomplishment ot the wizard" F. n-
 son in sending two telegraphiC mes-
 sages over the same wire. each in the
 opposite direction: for Mir Gillespie
 succeeded In dey!slng n loom in which
 :he shuttleS virtually m in an oppo-
 rite direction bt Ihe same time: thus
 in ply hose, and independently in a
 jacket hose, the tll'er strands and the
 twill fut run right and left alter
 nately, each redt cing the tendency
 of tho other to twist or kink, This
 marvellous process Is termed balance
 weaving. The advantage of a cable
 twllled balanced hose was quickly
 appreciated Gnd marked new era in ruDber-lined cotton hose over the old style rubber and feather. Still Mr| Gillespie kept his inventive wits in action, and 1t was destined that he should make an even greater discov- cry and ore which wCuld fairly revoluti0hi2e the fire hose industry. One great objection urged against all | cotton hose, was its liability 10 ab-
 sorb moisture, necessitating the con-
 struction of drying towers, at an eX-
 pcnse that many towns did not care to incur. To construct q fabric hose. then, thar wOrld not aheCrb moisture Wa: the all absorbing problem. While
 the cabling process had reduced the liability of the fabric to soak water to a minimum degree, it could not justly be claimed that plain white cotton hose could be waterproof, evenI th0Iei' H raa, be cained to be anti treated. All plain white cotton hose must be dried immediate y after use, MT Gillespie was alive to the importance of finding some T. or' cess whereby cotton yarn could ! be so treated as to be absolutely i W lterprOof for the construction of If nose fabric. Fortunately, his active q cram was tacked witl ample capital. f. md he was therefore enabled to pur- C 'ue his experiments at pleasure. . Every formula known to chemistry, lu md even tanning was tried, to find q hat the use of such treatment was la le 'tructive to the fiber, changing its h nature so as to impair it's strength d md durability, and therefore i'm W in it's application to cot k on hose; so what was thought atlp he start to be an easy problem h proved to be yeyatious one, and MT W Gillespie almost despaired of success, q lntil enc day he sought relaxation D t the village ccbbler's, in his native n own of Warwick, N. Y, at whose D hrine the geniuses and philosophers d f the town were wont to congregate. u 'rnA ably conversation Jagged on this a ventful day, for Mr Gillespie must il ave been unusually reflective while
 this "mender of bad soles'' F yax his thread and ply his needle. C ike flash the idea came to him. al [e had solved the problem! He tt -ould make fire hose of waXed ends nj le same as used by the shoemaker p nd harness maker. So it was that to le idea suggestd in that humble nj obbler's shop,4~led to experiments al lat afterwards blought about the tu ,lution of the problem of how to IT ake a waterproof fab:ic for fire nu )se. The use of wax alone was not in but by the combination an
 wax and liquefied Para gum, a DO eating compound was produced, ov hich is absolutely without fault. in
 constructing wax and gum treated me bber Tired cottOr fire h2"e, each ia, )er of cotton is thoroughly satu- pl( ted with melted wax and para gum tn, 1lch, when woven into the fabric, pl( cdnces a hose absolutely mper- col ous to the absorption of moisture, m, d will rot therefore Hrii:'C% CT rot gel ax and gum treated hose, such as toy is, may be initiated, but it is an ce1 solute i!npossibility for any other loo to make an exact re- Lis CdTcticn. lint The Fabric Fire Hose COmpany's ma 9cialty is the manufacture, under his te1rs, of a distinctive character of ma 9 hose possessing qualities of para the ,unt value. The first important ius vantage we claim is the absolute
 terproof quality of our cotton fab - This is accomplished by running
 h thread of cotton through mix Ec e of melted wax and gum; these EE 'era fikres are collected into ks ands, thoroughly twisted and 1An ,led, becoming practically a col