The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-24
NEW LEXINGTON MILL STARTS
REVOLUTION IN TEXTILE TRADE
Advance Agent OF Greatest Industrial Development
SCUM nas Ever Dreamed of-Makes Cotton Mill
Trade Fundamental Adjunct to Big Business

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m authority to create a mill |
OF THIS character the Erlangers have
served the whole textile trade OF the
Worlu, Tor M~ontcastle is a biz man
ana ne mad but n requirement when
ne put this job in Sirrine's hands
Snow me- he demanded OF every
man VINO came TO him To recommend
an ldea or a bit of machinery or any
thihS else suggested for the new mill.
Beginning at The Bottom.
Shrine commenced the thing at the
bottom and built upward. The ouar-
ter OF a square mile of land given by
folks as q site was sur
Veyed, and the mill settlement was
planned as a community. Shrine fig
urea that the efficiency Of human la
Dor depends on the condition of the
laborer. SO he planned accommodate
uons for the workers. That meant
a model village. A model village re-
qulres all of the conveniences and ia
c%ilities. Shrine included in his sur
vey a church, school house, homes for
fve or six hundred people, a play
room for children, play grounds. a
scnool teachers home, a building for
nurses, for the children are to be
cared for by nurses and by play
teachers and by every agency that can
make them more efficient human
creatures.
He planned the public utilities for
the community, water. sewers, cleo
trio light, and he has made what is
said to be the best lighted little town
IN the State, even though it joins the
bigger town of Lexington. Streets
have been made, almost a hundred
houses have been built SO far, and
every one of them has water, sewers
and light.
The plans not only counted on the
present mill, but every thing has
been calculated on the basis of a pos
sible expansion, and in hat event
the town can enlarge to several hun
dred houses with all of the necessi-
ties for a town Of that size, and it
Will be found to nave ample provis-
ions for everything as they become
desirable.
The style Of the community build
ings is wholesome. You do not see
a row of houses in which every one
is like all the rest. Here at the Err
LANCER mill is an individuality. The
town is designed after one h~armoniou:
general plan. but it is not a tune al
played on one string. Neither is i
a mistaken patriarchal institution liks
the model town at Pullman, Illinois
Here the people will have a voice
in affairs as they have in any OtheI
town in the State. It is a model tow
only in providing for the cotton mil
people an attractive and modern plac'
to live that they may be contented
thrifty and efficient.
Community Planned First.
!, Mr.. Shrine planned his community
Then he planned his cotton mill. Th
site is level. So he arranged hi
schedule for the cotton bale to arriv
+ on the train, and go to the warehouse
; From there it starts out on a journe
that involves the least possible move
, ment. Lost motion Of every sort
, avoided. When the cotton has eT
: tered the ard room it is on a tri
that means go steadily ahead tOwar
. a box in which it is to be shipped t
I the factory where it is cut up int
!, clothing.
j The buildings were considered frol
y the point of efficiency. 1t was nf
:. asked how much the building WI
u cost, but how great an efficiency WI
: they give on the money put I'M
: them?
Light is a great factor in a cote
mill. To get the greatest amount
y light windows were introduced libe.
5 ally. Then the windows having pr
e viled for light the next step was
e see that the light should be refecte
all over the mill instead Of absorb
by dark orner Accordingly corne
e and obstacles were dispensed with
far as possible. For that purpose II
u ceilings are not supported by rows
posts and beams that make dal
shadows above. In the Erlanger mil
the ceilings are reinforced concret
Iv clean white on the surface, free fro
o unevenness, and the light is refiect'
l. downward to every chin on II
floors. In lighting his job Mr.. 81
J. rine has achieved a triumph. h
g not of particular value for mere
ID aesthetic reasons, but in making e
mill efficient it is of great cons
t. quence.
la Putting the supporting posts out
a commission was another Valuat
achievement. 1t costs North Caroh
IN mills thousands of dollars a year
re Get around posts day after day.
the ErIanger mill every aisle Is op
from end to end, and you can go doN
Il the row between the looms with
a. danger of humping into a machiI
ne q post or a belt, with the full knov
n as 11,t tho Inferior OF the null