Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-02-25
SEEING PLYMoUTH.
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which carried us out some distance
TO . Rope-making establishment sit
uaied on the bay. Here we we're ia
ken into the plant and shown how
they twist rope. They have whats
called Rope-Walks. Long flcm
stretches like a long mill. This one
was about half a mile long. The
rope is started at each lend with
strands Of the hemp or sisal wound
off of large spools. These strands
are run out on little cars propelled
by electricity. Each car is fixed up
with places on it like q cross-arm OF
a telegraph pole TO engage tie
strands. The cars 60 slowly from
end to end Of the long rope-walk.
Then the winding begins and is done
by machinery at each end. They
wind several smaller strands AID get
a fair size rope. Then several OF
these ropes are taken and put to.
gether in other tracks and wound
into large size ropes until great
hawsers or cables are wound. There
are little cont'ivances along at places
to hold the rope as it winds up of
the floor being braces on SIDE OF
posts After the rope or cables are
wound to completion-and there are
expert men at each end watching till
the right moment comes o stop the
work and they seem 10 know iutui-
tiveiy when this is-thty are coied
and sewn into the sack bundles Tor
shipment, Its an interesting oper-
alton aud u party enjoyed it great
ly. After seeing about all of it we
we're hustled away to the hill over
looking the factory where the
PLYMOUTH CoRDAGE COMPANY
which is the name of the concern,
has a fine dining-halI and where we
were Hospitality served a fine lunch
con on the cafeteria order, likely
familiar to each reader, where you
march by single and are supplied
with a waiter, silverware, plate, nap-'
kin, etc. and then go past the food
and are served portions of any that
YOU like. We were asked to come
back If we did not get enough rs
they wanted TO show. US how their
employees we're ted. The company
had been running about a hundred
years and never had any labor trou-
bic we we're told as their policy to-
wards their employees had always
been of the kind that made for con-
tentment.
After the feed the party boarded
the waiting street cars and were set
down in the city at the
pfLGRr HALL
Into which we go on courtesy OF the
management and view the many in
terestirg relics and trinkets there
preserved. Chief among these are:
the sword of Miles Standish; the
chair of Elder Brewster aud other
furniture brought over in the May
flower; the charter to the Colony
signed by the King CT ENGLAND; the
massive Bib of the Mayflower par
ty. The latter is in an iron safe
which is only opened on special &C.
casions and it slides out in a glass
case. This is to preserve it against
encroachment of the light and other
Exposure. The Charter is hung on
the wall but enclosed in a glass
frame. There is a garment OF the
baby born on the Mayflower. There
are many types of Bibles of quaint
print and typs of the early days
Also spoons and other siIverware of
the time and from the collection Of
some OF the Mayflower pilgrims
themselves. Most of these smaller
objects are in glass showcases with
labels telling their history. There
is the usual run OF collection OF In
dian beads, bows, arrows, m%occasins
tomahawks, etc. We go downstairs
and ia a sids-room are shown the
frame OF a RECONSTRUCTED wooden
ship or bark which was Wrecked of
the Massachusetts coast shortly af,
ter this Plymouth COLONY was esfab-
lshed. The lecturer tells as thai
this was a small English ship whici'
was stiIl smaller than the Mayflower.
Tho relatiua sizes and haina