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wtcnr.n aimke. Aimce i» k curious study to s student of the human. Hhc dresses gorgeously, s different set of jewelry with everydress, hosiery that costs ten to fifteen dollars the pair, and shoes with heels that make you wonder how aho balances herself upon them. Hhc has a full bust, ami round, while arms, bare to the top, and hands which look as though they had once,'hut not lately, known work or worker; but her faco is wonderful—It is ugly, yet she makes it fascinating. Hhc can look mnro wickedness than auy other women could talk, and seems to be very incarnation of attractive sin. No one could ever think of her ns having once been a baby, and held in a mother’s lap, nr lieurd lullabies from a mother's lips. OUVK Isioan Is astonished at the i|uiokne«nol a young girl in Isnnlon who has remarkable gifts of clairvoyance. Olive took out of her pocket (look a Chinese coin that she had obtained In Han Francisco and handed it to tho father of the little girl; he stood in the nudience while the daughter remained on the stage. "What is this Louie? 1 * asked the man. "A coin, papa," an swered the littlo girl. "What sort of a coin?” "Foreign coin, papa." “Can you toll mo what country i tVame from ?” "China, papa,” she replied, without a pause. Olivo Login was surprised that the man should know the coin, even when ho held it in his hands and in spected it, for Chinese coins are not so common in London as they are in Han Francisco. The social feature ol tho Orange forms, in reality, its chief glory, and from this source alone may wo look for the best results. CLARK’,] "0. H. V_SPOOL COTTON. lion, mill Wlirrr II In Hmlp Tkr I'lnrk Thrrnsl torn pun.v -1. nr I Work* In thoftfrn Wnrlil-Aprpa orNpIrn- <IM IliillslInKM k or«*«la ol 4 Wonderful vfni-hliire.i. The Process of Manufacture. Down litlhr Colton Hrl(li-Tlir i:m|tlo.r<-»' Nni’lrllt'* Tin* Clark Hour Compnii.s A Ui-nnd llrllrf Noelct,?- Kin* (Vnlrnnlnl lixriir* •Inn Thr KenoNurtl r.iiifka Club mid TIiImIIi* llnntl. M.VSV IM KlIHHTINd I’AKTICl'I.AItH. t'rcni Ills K.., \ I'ounlr Pn». N.*«rk. N..I. At thol'ootof Clark street,in the F.ighth w ard of the city of Nowark, on the banks ol tho I’assnic, occupying several acres of ground,upon which arelmlldings tho Hoor- uigsof which measure nearly eight acrea, are aituateil the largcat thread worka in the New World, employing about flfteou hundred hands mid paying nut every two weeks from sixteen to twenty thousand dollars ill wages, to bo distributed by the employee among different classes nr.d oe- cupatfoimin fhe city, and from fifteen to twenty thousand per month to other par- lies here,who in various ways areconncct- od with this vastcalablishmont. Although having tho largest pay roll of any em ployers in Now Jersey, and contributing more to the welfare and prosperity of the city than ail iis financial institiitiona combined, we hear ieHs in the liewapapors of this world of wealth makers than of some second clans money lending simp on Broad atroel. It would be useless for any one to attempt to trace to their source all the varied industries which have entered into the production of Clark's " (). N. T.” Spool Cotton, which is sold by every merchant dealing in dry goods, fancy goods, lioisery, notions, etc., in tho Cnited] Btatca, and contains two hundred yards of that indispensable ar- liclo, strong, smooth and beautiful. It is ninde up of NEARLY KORTY-TWO MILLION DOURLING6, and yet. in so line as to be hardly visible a few l nob oh from tho naked eye. The im mense capital invested in the Clark Thread Company's Works and the vast volume of business, amounting to several millions rer annum, extending to every part of the United States, is one of the principal sources ol Newark’s prosperity. What it is and the blessings which flow from it, are not realized by one in a thou sand of the |ioople who dwell within the soundoi their tower bell. Notwithstand ing the large amount of money which the establishment was to pour into the bunds of every merehaut and trailer in the city, as events have shown, the first thing which the City Fathers did when these works were being erected was to tax the bricks and material not yet shaped into buildings. It was on a par with the intelligence and appreciation of the REAL SOUttCES OK WEALTH, usually exhibited by the average politi cian. Had it been some trust company or curbstono brviker that asked exemption, it would probably nave been granted. *»mo idea of the value of these works to the community may lx* had by an illus tration of a thing which might roallv happen at any time. The Clark Thread Company employ, as states!, about fif teen hundred person-, paying out- to tiuun sixteen to twenty thousand dollars every two weeks. These hun dreds of hands pay out that money to the huieher,the baker, t he grocer,theelothier, the dry goods merchant .and nil who have anything to sell got a part of it in some way, either directly or indirectly. From their bauds it goes to pay debts, meetob ligations ami fill the cuaunels of trade with the circulating medium called money, and which is to business what blood is to the human system, giving it life, animation and power. Suppose to- i night these works were DEfcTROYED BY KIRK. They are fully insured. The Clark Thread ( ompauy receive their insurance in cash from their underwriters. They say to themselves; ** Business is. dull, sales arc uncertain, profits are small, the future is unknown, and our task are heavy. ^The v :i-*t business requires close attention anil 1*•' i'i« *>t enoiY\. We will not take this money and rebuild the works, but adopt the plan puntued by moat moneyed men, viz: go to Washington, buy government bonds, bring themliomc, put them in a tin box, pay no taxes, and Hit down U> take our eaae, eat, drink and be jmerry, with no though of care, supported In lux ury without risk by tho intercut on our bonds, paid by taxation of tho producing clause*. Can any man calculate the wide spread ruin which would follow such a calamity ami course of action by The Clark Thread Company? It would l>e incalculable. All those people who earn ed money to purchase what they wanted to buy, would Ik* added to the lint of pauper* who to-day clamor for work or bread» Misery, want, HTARVATION AND L'lllMI? would be the fruit of hucIi n course. But this inexactly what has been done through out the country, rnd explains why one in twclvo in Newark are to-day suppor^d by the city. The productive’capital of the country, which employed our now idle millions, has been put into government bonds,and appalling destitution and want are on every hand,and increasing at a fear ful rate. I aibor is tho source of all wealth and prosperity, and there is no loss equal to that which folldwA enforced Idleness of the producing classes. There is no music M) full of joy and peace and good will to men as the song of labor and the music of machinery. Better far that all other songs lie hushed and every note be stilled, rather than those, and to therfi we now introduce the reader. ON THE DOCK of the Clark Thread Company, which is five hundred feet long, is a mountain of two or three thousand tons of coal, drawn out of boats at tbe|wlmrf by a donkey en gine, and the bales of cotton find their way f rom tho same wharf to the brick house, for storage of that precious ma terial, one nounu of which will make one hundred mflesof thread, containing about forty-two million doublings. The mind cannot grasp the numerical fact. But four grades of cotton areordinarily used in tho manufacture of Clark’s “O.N.T.” Spool Cotton, and known as “Sea Island Cot ton.” This eomoH principally from South Carolina and iK grown on the small is lands along the cost. Considerable is raised on the peninsula and around tho bays and inlets, hut it is not equal to that of the sen islands, which isth - finest in the world. Tho first hag, of this sea island cotton of the crop of 1876 was pur chased by the Clark Thread Company at lilty cents per pound. The inland cotton is not used in tlio manufacture of thread, being too rhort in tho fibre. On these sea islands were the richest planters of tho South in THE Ol,l> SLAVE DA YH. many of them having as high as six hun dred slaves, and compared with whom the feudal lordsof Fngluud were children in luxury, hospitality and elegance. Hut to-day all is changed. Those vast estates are cut up into small plantations, muny of them owned by the negroes, who now call no man master. They bring in their season's product, sometimes on a mule and again in large quantities. Brokers, on tho ground or at the landings, buy and pay the negroes for their cotton,olten dividing the money according to tho labor performed in ruining the crop. >omo lease the land of the former owners, hut the old state of things is “dun elar gone.” This trade and traffic, it may be lairly expected, will in a few years largely in crease the wealth and intelligence ol the race in those localities. THE SKA ISLAND COTTON brings treble the price of inland. An acre will produce in the neighborhood of three hundred and fifty pounds of seed cotton, which when ginned weighs about seventy-live jammls, or one to five. Tho negroes without doubt will eventually grow all t ho cotton, as not one in five of the Northern men have thus far succeed ed iu their Attempts. Let the reader re member that we have not looked at a sin gle piece of machinery yet, and then cal culate tho number of people and tho amount of wealth, these works employ and produce, before we reach the factory. The sail, the mine, commerce and manu factures, nil find employment to supply The Clark Thread t 'ompuny’s works, and when thoy stop the cotton may bloom and fall uiiplmked, the coal miner may starve on a bed ot black diamonds, the sails on tho rivers be spread to the breeze no more, and the lathes in a hundred shops ins left to rust iu silence. The manufac ture of Chirk’s “O.N.T.” Spool cotton embraces the islands of the tea and pen etrates the bowels of the earth, utilizing the treasures of wealth on every hand, enriching and blessing mankind at every step, from the womb of ages to the spin dles at Newark. Wo will now examine into the immediate sources of the power which drives the endless machinery of this vast hive of industry, with its sixty miles of beltiug and about seventy miles of steam pipe for heating purposes. WE ENTER THE ENiilNE HOUSE, itself large enough for an ordinary fac tory. Here is a mighty production of human brain and brawn. 1 n the presence of this monster, with it* mnjes’.ic trend, one feels his own insignificance and frail ty. This vast piece of machinery, mov ing silently, save the sharp click of tho improved steam cut-oils, is equal in pow er to tho combined draft of six hundred horses, and is two engines in one, usually termed a double engine. The fly-wheel, travelog at the rate of forty-eight revo lutions per minute and carrying three huge belts on its surface, each two feet wide, is seventy eight feet in circum ference, twenty-five feet in diameter, and weighs thirty tons or sixty thousand pounds. The shaft is fourteen inches in thickness, the double cylindersnre tweuty- six inches in diameter, with condensers, and a stroke of five feet. They were built by Corliss,in 187-t. Oneof the three belts on the fly-wheel is on© hundr. 1 and fifty leet iu length. But even this double mon ster could not run the work- it has a big twin brother, and together they travel every day for ten hours on th ir endless journey, and never get tired. They are wonders of power and elegan ; workman ship, worthy of a visit from any one who wants to see the BIGGEST PAIR OK TWt.VS in New Jersey. They are supplied with steam from mne immense tubular boilers and four large upright boilers, Corliss’ plan. They consume twenty-live tons of coal per day, which will give*some idea of the amountof steam necessary to drive the immense establishment. Besides these there are three ordinary sized engines, made by Watts, Campbell & Co. of New ark. iu different parts ot the works, mak ing seven in all, a grand total of nearly fourteen hundred horse jxiwcr. The young mountain of coal, which looks enough to last the whole city a year, is rebuilt by two hundred and fifty ton boat loads, at brief intervals, MANUFACTURING THE THREAD. The cotton is brought in hales to the mixing rooms, when it is examined and placea in binjt, according to the different grade*, ready for the scutching machines, which open and beat the material, clean ing if from the dirt and sand it eon tains in the bale. After going through the scutching machine, it conies out in the shape of a roll, like wall paper, compara tively soft, white and clean, it is, how ever, really in a very rough state, com pared with the fineness and perfection that is to be reached. Several of these scutching machines arc running continu ally, and their sound is like the roar of a lightning express train, as it whirls past the platform where you stand. The first scutcher is fed with tho bale cotton from ahopper which letsitthrough into knives set in large rollers, which revolve with tremendous force and lightning speed, picking the cotton into xmull pieces, and passing it by suction of air, on to other rollers, between which it goes and comes out in the shape of a web or “lap,’ in large rolls. Pour of these rolls are then placed upon a machine like the first and run together t hrough the same process of KICKING AND HEATING AND CLEANING, when itcomosoiitagainin the same shape as before, rolled to exactly the thickness which it is desired to make the “sliver” from which the thread yarn is t« be spun. What a “sliver” is will bo learned further on. The machine is so delicately set that it regulates tho thickness of the web or lap to within half an ounce, in a web of five feet, weighing only twclvo to eighteen ounces. After being put through three scutching machines in this way and com ing out with eight thicknesses of well or lap similar to tlint produced by the first process, it. is ready for the carding ma chine. This department is filled with Carding Machines,Drawing Frames, Lap- )ers, and Combing Machines, a perfect abyrintliof belting, pulleys and machin ery, the noise of which is like the roar of many waters mingled with the clatter of a thousand wheels. One of the large rolls of web or lapthatcame from tho hist selltching machine is placed on a carding machine, which takes and runs it BETWEEN THE TEETH of a large and small cylinder for the pur pose of drawing out the entangled libel's and laying them parallel or in the same lino of direction and also to remove the small pelliclesor motes which may have es caped the'aetionof the scutching machine. A-tter being treated in this way, a comb er or doffer takes the web from the small cylinder, which is now a delicate gauze ; and it is gathered up and passed through a small hole,say hall an inch in size,after which it is coiled in a revolving can. The whole process is one of wonderful delica cy, the material being so finely worked that a breath of air would break it. This card contains ninety thousand square teeth to a foot, or a total of four million one hundred and eighty-six thousand. On tho carding machine is a Attic joker that works like some old man, raising the wire-covered flats from the teeth of tho carder, which it cleans, and throws ofT the particles of dirt and coarse cotton left on them. Hix of the TIN CANS CALLED CARD SLIVERB, ill which the roll is wound are now taken to another machine called a Drawing Frame and run together intoone “sliver.” These six are so light that when they are passed together through n hole and made one, they fall into another sliver and are then no larger than one oft the six from which it was made,although t hey have not yet been twisted at all. Fourteen of t hese cans full of slivers are placed at the “Lap- j>er”and run between two rollers,makiuga now web nine inches wide and half an inch thick, which comes out like the original roll from the scutching machine that takes the cotton from the bales, only that now it is soft and delicate as is possible to conceive, weighing only one hundred and forty-five grains to the yard, nine inches wide. It now goes in rolls to a wonder ful little machine, a l , ’reneili invention, iirvt introduced in this country by The Claik Thread Company. It. is a refined carding machine, the product of which is as much superior in fineness to the large carders just described as the most elegant silk goods are to THE COARSEST UOTTOX CI.OT11. It is called the French combing machine and is only used by the best thread mak ers, as it is very expensive and while it makes the thread superior in quality, it adds twenty per cent, to the cost ol man ufacture. Six of the to 1 Is of webbing arc now passed together through the combing machine between two rollers,and combed by innumerable steel teeth to the fine ness of gossamer and the thinness of a spider’s web. It passes on, is gathered into one soft round “sliver” again, goes through rollers once more, when it is coiled into cans as liefore, with a loss of twenty per cent, on the material which composed the web when it was'put on the French machine. It is a texture so fine and soft that one cannot but wonder how it bears its own weight. After the last process, six of the slivers are again put through the drawing frame making one sliver no larger than any of the six from which it is drawn. Then six of the*? last are put through the same process reducing them in size six times,and adding that to the length. This is repeated three times, and each time they are coiled into cans, the last Blivet is the same size and weight as when the prosess began,although doub led four kuuared and thirty-five thousand four hundred and fifty-six times. The last cans are now taken to THE FIRST SLURRING FRAME, from which cans they are passed through rollers, then twisted to about the sized a lead pencil, and wound on bobbins, all by the same machine. From this they go to the second slubbing frame,where ofle hun dred and two spindles on each machine are winding yarn from two hundred and lour bobbins,which came from the firstslubber. two threads being wound upon one spool! The next or intermediate slubbing ma chine winds upon oue hundred and sev enty-six spools, from three hundred and fifty-two bobbins, which came from the second slubber. The next and last is called the roving machine, and fills two hundred and forty spools, which came from four hundred and eighty bobbins, from the in termediate slubbing machine. By tli ia rep etition of doubling and twisting* the yarn is fast becoming strongand hard. We now follow the yarn called “roving” totheself- acling “mule,” which makes eight hun dred and forty thicads of yarn from six teen hundred and eighty bobbins. This wonderful machine, two of which are op erated by one man,draws out the yam and twists it from sixteen hundred and eighty spools, when it conies away, and on its re turn winds it on eight hundred cops (spools) making the last number of thread yarn. Wc now come to THE THREAD MILL, which is a distinct and independent de partment. Thecotton yarn comes herc.and first goes to the cop winding machines, where it is run from the cops, through del icate balances, over soft felt ground, upon liobbins, two threads together upon one. From the cop winding department, the bobbins go to the slinging department, where the two threads that were run to gether on the spool, iu the cop winding department, are twisted or spun in one thread. The thread, as it is unwound, runs through water, and rapidly over glass guides, and the bobbin which re ceives it revolves five thousand times per minute, twisting hundreds of threads on each machine. After being twisted two threads together,making one hard thread, three of the lat ter are again run together on a bobbin, the same ns in the first cop winding department. Three of these are now twisted together,Imakingsixstrand', and TUP. PROCESS OF TWISTING THEM is exactly the same as the one last de scribed. It is known sis tho finishing twisting department. When the thread comes from the finishing twisting depart ment, it is inspected with the greatest care, by skillful persons, and put through several tests liefore passing the reeling department to lx? wound in skeins for the bleach house. The machines in this de partment are very curious, and daily turn out vast ouantftiea of thread, which is meknd, and given a through ticxet to the deach and dye houses. They measure off the thread into skeins of an exact length and size, and when they have reeled off just the right amount of yarn, always stop, and unlike some kind of yarners, they never forget to tell the same story without variations. Again, after coming from the reels, TIIKTHRICAI) IHCAREFULLY INSPECTED, the work employing several girls, who take all the rough and imperfect thrend from the hanks. After this second inspec tion, we find it next in the bleach house. The bleach and dye houses are among llie most interesting departments of this vast establishment,although not the most agreeable. The progress in washing ma chinery, that is here exhibited, would make our grandmothers think that the inilicnium had come. The baby washer, as we call it, of this concern, is rather a large child, whose place and uses will ap pear later. After th© thread isspnt from the inspection department to the bleach and dye houses, it is unpacked, counted and put into large tanks,immense loadsal a time, and boiled by steam for several hours, which takesout the dirt and CLEANS IT PERFECTLY. It is then put through washings oft, and preparations wonderful and curious. The water used, we judge, would have increased the Hood just about enough to have lifted Noah’s ark from the snag on Mount Ararat. Some of the wash tubs arc of stone, and all are on a scale equal in magnitude to any of Col. Sellers’ scheme lor making millions. The loads of thread are put in and taken out of boilers, rinsers, washers, dryers,and half a dozen other processes by machinery. Then, after all this, it goes right hack to those huge steam boilers, and the same thing is done over again. 'I'he dry room is heated by seven thousand five hundred feet of steam pipe,and can be regulated to any desired temperature. After leaving the reeling department, the thread that is to be colored goes to the dye house,and that which is (• remain white, to the bleach house. In the dye house is the patent dying machine, used only to dye black. It does the work fur better than by hand, and is equal to the laborof more than a dozen men. ALL COLORS or THREAD are made,and the quantities of soaps,dye- stu I Is, and other material of the kind used, are immense. I’iglity thousand gallons of water are consumed daily in the bleach house alone, and one of the Artesian weils ol The Clark Thread Com pany has a capacity of one hundred and fifty thousand galllons per day. This is a remarkable well, sixteen feet deep and eight leet in dameter.of which Professor Maynard, the New York chemist, said it iroilueed the purest water be ever saw. t makes a man thirsty to look at it, and is absolutely free from any particles of matter, by chemical test. The thread is blued on a big scab', which gives that handsome tint so greatly admired by the ladies. Then it is committed to the ten der mercies of the baby washer, which are cruel, and goes through it ten times. The baby is built like the ordinary wash ing machine,but each of the rollers weighs a thousand pounds, and as the thread passes through the water into the washer THEY HOP AND JUMP and pound with antic* queer, but it does the business thoroughly. This was former ly done by the old fashioned pounder and barrel which our grandmother used to set us at when wo were boys, before going to school in the morning. Then it is drawn through the rinser, which is a simple and novel machine, continually supplied with pure Artesian well water. The thread passes over a roller into the water, comes up again over another roller then down into the water, and up and down, and out and in, and out and over the reels’! iu to the great boxes on wheels, from which it is put into a large water extractor, a perforated hollow cylinder, , revolving several thousand times i>er min ute, and then it is transported to the dry ing room. In this way five hundred heads can be rinsed in four minutes which used to take an hour and a half. After the thread has come out of the drying room, COLORED OR UNCOLORED, it goes to the warerooms, where it is counted and put iuto packages to be given out preparatory to being wound upon spools for the market. The thread hav ing reached this stage of perfection, has become very valuable and is looked after with the greatest care. Tickets direct it lo it? different departments and denote its size, 'quality, etc. The inspection and testing of thread is one of the most important features in its production, and it would surprise the lady who sews day after day with Clark’s “ O. N. T.” Spool Cotton, to know by what patient and con stant care the perfect smoothness and regularity of the thread was secured. It is now taken to the hank winding depart ment and wound upon large bobbins,when it is ready for its last wind upon thespools, from which it is taken by the consumers for its thousand uses of necessity and util ity, from tying the rag on the boy’s whit tled: and bloody finger, to the delicate embroidery of the wedding garment. TIIH SPOOLING DEPARTMENT. The spooling room is a busy place, where spools of thread of all sizes and colors by tensof thousands are wound every day, two hundred yards on aMpool. The self-acting spooling machine is a marvelous piece of mechanism. The sjiooIh are placed in an iron gutter by the operutor, when the ma chine picks them up, nuts them on a shaft elghtat a time, winds the thread upon them at the rate of three thousand revolutions per minute, cuts a little slot in the edge of the spool, catches the thread in it, nips it off*, drops the spools full of thread into boxes below,picks upeighior more empty spools, places winds and drops them as l»e- fore.and never makes n mistake. Ihe ma chine,which is used in thlscountryonlybv TheClark ThreadCoinpuny,was exhibited by them at the Centennial,and with their magnificent case of goods, was one of the great a ttractions among the many wonders of the exhibition. From the spieling de partment, the spooled thread is taken to THE WAHKROOM, where tho beautiful little label contain ing the name,number, etc., of the thread is out on by girls. The quickest of them will put labels on the ends of nine or ten thousand in a dav, all of which have to he moistened by the tongue,placed on the spool, and then struck with the hand to paste it. Some of these girls work about hh quick as lightning. After ticketing, the spools ol thread are put into boxe of one dozen each. They are then ready for packing. About twenty-five thousand fret of lumber jier month is cut at the mills, in Michigan, to the various length required, and all that is done heie ia to put the boxes together. A private wire runs from the works in Newark to the New York office, and the line is kept busy in sending orders and transmitting messages of the company. In the short time we were there several large order.- came in from different parts of the coun try, and among them were come from Maine, Texas, California, Wise Oregon, etc. The Clark Thread Compa ny sends out annually vast quantities of snow cards, calendars,*cte., some of which are magnificent 8|)ecimens of the litho graphic and printer’s art. IB THIS A FAIR COUNT? The number of feet of draft which one pound of cotton undergoes is one trillion, seven hundred and seventy-two billion, three hundred and twenty mil lion, six hundred and thirty-five thou sand, six hundred feet, or stated in figures, 1.772,1120,<;:{/>,(>0<), a distance of 335,477,582^ mile*. The follow ing demonstrates the apparently in credible statement : The web of cotton from which this immense length of thread is drawn is forty inches wide. It goes t<: the carder, where it is drawn to 4x120 equal to 580 feet. Then thedraw ing frame increases it to480x0, equal to 2,880; the 1 upper 2,880x2’,, equal to fi,480; the comber draws it out to fi,480x20, equal to 108,480; then it goes to tlie first head drawing frame, where 108,480x0 equal t< 1,010,880. THE SECOND DRAWING FRAME multiplies the last length by six again making 1,010,880x0 equal to 0,005,280, which repeated on the third drawing frame makes a length of 0,005 280x0 equal 30,891,080. Now comes the first slubbing frame where 30 391,080x5 isequal to 181.- 958,400; thesccond slubber 181,908,'400x 1' equal to 818,812,800; the intermediate slubber 181.958,400x0 equal to-l,612,870,. 800; the finishing thread winding machine makes the total length of the thread 4,- 912,870,800x0 equal to 29,477,260,800. Now it goes on bobbins to to the "mill” where 29,477,260,800x91 gives us 272, 004,002,100 feet. Wc tlien multiply the last number of feet which states the total length of one pound of cotton drawn into thread, by the length of the original web, which is six and a half feet, and have the total as stated before 272,004,002,- 400x0» feet, making a grand total of 1, 772,320,035,000 feet. The cotton, when finished as yarn, has lx*cn doubled si million, nine hundred and sixty-se^ en thousand, two hundred and ninety- six times (0.907,290), in passing through the different processes. When yarn is made into six cord finished thread,the above number of doublings have been inul fiplied by six making a total of 41,807,7r doublings. Now divide the total draft, 1 77/,327,632,000, by the total doublings,and i the work is correct, we shall have the total number of feet of yarn in a nouud of cotton, which is 254,337 leet. But there has I per cent.loss in the manufacture,whici he added, making a total of 306,251 feet of yarn for a pound of cotton, or 120 hanks 840 yards each, enough to reach from N York to Trenton, n distance of sixty mile! MACHINE ANIM'ARINRT SHOP, MOxV.U U examination of all valves, hydrants, pomps and other equipments take place oil the first of each mouth, auu a minute report of tbe exact condition, position and eflectiveneiw of the fire service is made to the Clark Thread Company. THE CLARK THREAD COMPANY RELIEF SO CIETY. One of Ihe best and most beneficial organ izations which constitutes n part of the sys tem and cure of the Clark Thread Company for their employees, is the Relief society. It organized January K2d, 1870, for the pur pose of providing a fund for the relief of those who might, by accident or sickness, be In- atpncitated from sustaining themselves. AU the employes of the company must be mem bers of the society,and each receive assistance hen needed, from the fund according to the amount paid in, which must be at least cent per week, but no one is per mitted to pay in an a mots', which would f sickness, more than half their average weekly wages. Kvery cent paid in draws seventy-five cents per week. The Chirk Thrend Company contributes five dollars per week to the fund without cessa tion, but nil others cen.se their contributions when the unexpended balance iu the treasu ry reaches fifteen hundred dollars. When the fund is reduced to seven hundred dollars payments are renewed. The payments into the treasury avenge about nine months in the yenr. Wc hope that this humane and syntemath organization may find many imi tators among the manufacturers of Newark and throughout the country, who read this article. The company pays interest at seven per cent, on the money in the treasury, be sides tin ir five dollars per week into the fund Since iu organization one thousand three hundred and nlne%'-seven members have been relieved, and twenty-four deaths have occurred in the society.* The reason that the receipts for 1874 anil 18.6 are less than usual is because the fund had reached the maximum of $1,500. uud payments were stopped. The following very interesting ta ble shows the amount received and paid out from 1870 to 1876 inclusive: Receipts. The IMUN rk Thrend Company do nil their ting and lithographing at the works here, lour print ing presses are kept running all the tune, and iu the lithograph department one steam press uud six or eight hand litho graph presses arc continually employed. In both departments the practice of the‘‘art preservative” is in the highest style, t >rders for the paper box department iu the on* item of straw board are given as high eighty to one hundred tons at a time. Iu the machine shop a large number of men a re em ployed in making new- machinery and keep ing in repair the vast quantity in use in the various departments of the works. The cab inet factory turns out about two hundred cabinets per day. The bobbins, etc., used in the mill are nude here. In fact about all the Clark Thread Company goes outside for is the raw material. They manufacture all tliev use, except a few ot the more intricate or patented machines. THE ( LARK HOSE COMPANY. One of the best organized and equipped fire companies in the city of Newark is the “Clark Hose Company,“organized March! 5th 1869. There are twenty members, employees of the factory, brave active men, trained by frequent practice to their duty, and prou’d of their company aud outfit. Their equip ment is as follows: Two hose carriages with wrenches,bars and axes, carrying seven hun- d and fifty feet of hose on reels anti two pipes with extra nozzles. They also com mand nine hundred feet of hose with pipes aud nozzles in twenty-one different stations, and around the factory, one Cameron fire pump, one Worthington, one Watts vt Camp bell, and one Slake pump, one hundred aud y-eight filled buckets in their proper places throughout the works, sixteen hand pumps, sprinklers iu all ihe rooms of the cotton mill, the packing house, tbe machine and carpenter shop and the drying rooms, j 1876.. Receipts. ..*1,712 31 .. 2,217.9.5 .. 2,123.42 . 2,381.57 859.60 53.31 Total.. Payment*. $4,604.28 3,010.82 1,704.88 1,742.21 1,595.59 1,024.75 1,751.94 111,! -$12,823.34 Bulauer in treasury Jan. 1,1877, $686,82. HOW CLARK’S “ o. N. T.” SROOL COTTON ORIGINATED. Until within a few years, the great dillicul- to to he overcome in the introduction of sew ing machines, was the objection made by manufacturers and operators iu the then pop ular threads. These complaints were so loud and well founded that the sale of sew ing machines was greatly impeded on ac count of the impossibility of obtaining a thread adapted to their use. Mr. Cleorge A. Clark .appreciating the difficulty,introduced into the American market the now famous Clark’s “O. N. T.” Hpool cotton, all numbers being six cord, from 8 to 100, which met the demand, did away with all complaints, and long since established its reputation ns the best thtead in use lor sewing machines or hand sewing. To Mr. (icorge A.Clark belongs the credit ol being the first to supply those fine qualities of Six Cord Spool Cotton w ith which his name is associated. The thread is used and recommended by ngents of the .Singer, Wheeler A Wilson, Grover A Baker, Domestic, 11 owe, Florence, Weed, Wilson, Bices,Remington, Sccor, Borne, Lathrop and other sewing machine companies. The su perior quality of Clark’s “ O. N. T.” Spool Cotton soon procured for it an immense sale, but wilh the great popularity of the goods came also counterfeits which made it neces- Mirv fur the manufacturers to adopt a trade mark for their own and the public's protec- unon every genuine spool of their thr Spoolt tried the tlie following: nark is familiar to every mer- il States, and all who have n tin u I 'lark’d j it. . N. T.” » of the I'YKKS AT THE • KNTENNJAL. able feature of the Clark Thread lias always been their thoughtful lernte attention to the welfare and Ir employees. The Centen nial Uxnibitiou afforded an opportunity for its practical illustration which should not pass unnoticed in this article. Desiring to give all their operatives an opportunity to witness the great Inhibition at Philadelphia of what the nation had .iccomplifllped during the first hundred years of ita existence in in dustry nnd art, the company planned and carried to complete success a monster excur sion to Philadelphia, which embraced their fifteen hundred employees, with invited guests, members of the press, and the mayor and Common Council ol the City of Newark. Some, idea of its extent may he gained when it is known that forty-five railroad coaches were employed for their accommodation.and the cost for transportation, admission,enter tainment. etc., exceeded six thousand dol lars. But this large sum is small compared with the unalloyed pleasure which was at' forded the grand army of industrious people who find employment at the Clark Thread Company works in Newark. ’Ihe Common Council passed and caused to be beautifully engrassed and presented to the company, a series of resolution from which for lack of lii'r in.t - ni t.xim-which In r growih ami preset!- 11y !im.t .'»rr Ji-pt-ic). nnd that this jaunieipahty BOAT (LIB AND THISTLE The now famous crew, which came so near winning the. prize against the world at the Centennial International regatta last August, is from The Clark Thread Company’s Works principally. It has a listot thirty-five active and about forty honorary members. It is the champion crew of the Passaic, and lias beaten tbe celebrated Atlantic crew of New York. They won the first heat on Monday, August 27th*, 1876, at Philadelphia, beating the Dublin and Argonauta crews. On the second day they were beaten by the cele brated Beaverw yeks, of Albany, by only six seconds, the Beaverwycks winning the championship of the world on the last day, the Newark boys of The Clark Thread Com pany coining very close to the championship of the world. The Thistle Band, one of the best iu the State, is organized from the employes of the company and plays for all the many excur sions and festival’s of the employees, besides answering outside nails when made- They accompanied ihe Eurekas lo Philadelphia, and also the grand excursion of the em ployees to the Centennial last venr, and al- way play at the regattas iu which the Eure- \as take part. THE NEW YORK HOUSE. At No. -400 Broadway, corner of Walker treet. New York, is the splendid marble building of George A. Clark A Brother, the selling agents of The Clark Thread Comba tive stories of their magnifi- t place are fitted up with every facil le two top p ogl ,j(,i e for tnfe prompt transaction of their house, and there are thirtv-tive fire plugs or i immense business. WK.TIXO TO AnTF.RT.SER*. are held on the second Monday in each \\ t ,imM*im} you hmu ihctaDvrUM-nH-iu mouth, and practice is had every two weeks. i u« ml* -v .v l .itf.