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In Our Cotton: Milt Determined to keep the Hagle Cot ton. Milis” ‘up to the Standard and in the van of improvement, Mr.Johnson has just put: Am two immense picker machines into the picker room: Heretofore the big chunks of cot ton head toihe ‘pulled to pieces and even 3 ‘the carrier that conveys it into the picker proper, keeping one hand constantly bungy at each machine and even then the work is not too well done. The new machine, called the auto matic feeder and preparer, and made by the *Ketaen Machine Company, Lowell, Mass., is attached to the ‘pick er’,now in the building. One man can feed four of those without any extra exertion, thus saving the time of three men. The cotton is fed into a great hop per, having an endless apron bottom and back. The cotton is carried up the apron to a cylinder above, which has rows of teeth. These teeth catch the cotton and tear it to piecee before it is allowed to pass into the picker. These preparing machines are a great addition to the work, as thhey put the cotton into the picker in the best possible condition, .Mr. John Hay ward of Lowell is here superintend ing the putting in of the machines he is quite a gentle ash to converse with. ~ He informs us that these machines are a new invention, and are meet ing with success wherever he is put ting them in. He has ‘been out for some months and is now on his s way home, stopping here_to put in: ‘Mr. Johnson’s machines. No one who has not been through the Eagle Cotton Mill. has any. idea of. the. immensity. of. this. great’ in dustry that raise our midst. ‘The picker room is.rear'y hg: en farice to this great establishment, the raw cotton starting in here, first through the preparing machiner as above described, then through the picker, and into the carding machine from which it emerges in the shape of a great thick sheet. From here it goes through an other machines, three of the corded rools ,being run into one. It is then run through an other machine coming out in a con tinuous string. A serie of these machines set in ‘a row, the sting of cotton from each being joined into one, stretched out and coiled up in great tin cane. ‘These strings are repeatdly run through machines, doubling or thrid ling them and drawing them out each time, until finally they are twisted into fine thread ready for the next room. Here they are laid on machines in prepared shape for weaving. From this, the prepared warpss is ran through boiling starch, around great heated drums, and are then ready for the looms, where they are wove into all the various brands of cotton cloth, taken into the shipping room, weighed examined stamped and pack ed ready to start out for all parts of the world. The mill is a veritable hive of in dustry, and with the multindnious machines in rapid motion it seems almost miraculous that many of the operators, some of them boys and girls, are not crippled. Yet we hear of but few accidents there, ‘Mr. Johnson is continually adding new machinery, replacing’ old with new, and filling up all available space last week be added ‘a car load of new looms, and intends putting in a lot more. Fortunate for “Madison ‘that the mill got’ into such hands, for Mr. Johnson will make it the successful ‘mill of the West.
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Madison Daily Democrat
Madison, Indiana, US
Mon, Nov 16, 1891
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