TO. 1. Tour book, giving routes, rates, complete list of hotels and boarding houses FREE. No. 2. The Connecticut River Valley. No. 3. Fishing and Hunting. No. 11. Central Massachusetts. Any of the above books will be mailed upon receipt of 2 cent stamp for each book; address Passenger Department B. & M. R.R., Boston. D. J. FLANDERS, Gen. Pass. & Ticket Agt. Advertisements on this Page Sell and Buy Mills and Machinery, find Men and Positions. DEMPSEY VS. DOBSON. I had begun to think it was time the cloture rule was applied to the debate on this subject. But I read what "K." had to say in regard to "rendering unto Cæsar the things that are Caesars," and about designers wanting to walk off with their pattern books, and then, casting my eye around my desk at home, I saw books of a similar nature which I claim I have not stolen, but are my own, which I formulated in my own spare time, some at home and some in the mill. When I got through at the mills where I used them, I felt I was "Cæsar," and therefore "rendered unto Cæsar the things that were Cæsar's." I was once employed specially to get out a lot of tables and other very useful statistics for the easy and ready reference for a few rooms in a cotton mill. I was hired and paid for that special job. In this case I was not "Cæsar." In the other case I was hired to run the rooms or mill, and when I formulated a series of tables so I could give my employers better satisfaction, so that when a change was required I could superintend the work of changing at once and not have set down to figure out speeds, drafts, twists, etc., and so long as I did what theyagreed to pay me for, I had done justice to them; anything more would have been "goodness" more than "justice." A designer is paid specially to get out designs for his employer; in that case the employer is "Cæsar." If I hire with a man that requires the result of my ingenuity after I leave his service, it ought to be so specified in the contract, as a commission agent or insurance agent gets commission on repeat orders or renewals. The books I got out for my own convenience are my own, such for instance as driving gears, twist gears, cylinder pulleys and rims, on mule work, in sets to arrange for various speeds of spindle twist per inch and carriage drafts, and so long as I run the rooms satisfactory to them, all right; when they have done paying me, my private, convenient formulas if you will are my own. A dyer is hired to dye the goods produced at the mill where he is hired. When the owner is not satisfied, and he does not wish to pay him any more, he has no further right to his private conveniences. All spinners do not use the same speeds, rims, carriage drafts, etc., alike, and in this much of the superiority of one man over another consists, therefore, part of his stock in trade,-private property. So all dyeing formulas for the same color or shade are not the same, and some dyers claim much saving to their employers on this account, the very bone of contention in this case, and certainly his own private property. -R. F. CALICO PRINTING IN ENGLAND. That part of Lancashire in the vicinity of Blackburn, England, is closely associated with the early development of the tinctorial arts as applied to cotton and other fabrics. Somewhere about the middle of the seventeenth century, one of the Peels, resident on a farm at Blackburn, did some printing on woolen cloth, by means of rude wooden blocks. It was about 1690, however, before calico-printing got itself placed among English industries, finding a home in the first place on the banks of the Thames. It was subjected to a good deal of harassment, in the form of prohibition and excise duties, and for some time was confined, as a privilege, to London and the neighborhood. However, in due season it was allowed a larger area, and found its way to Lancashire. It has been VOL. XXVI .stated frequently that the date was about 1764, and that the first printers were the Claytons of Bamber Bridge, near Preston. There is some obscurity as to dates, but almost contemporaneously with the Bamber Bridge printing runs the story of "Parsley Peel," and his famous pattern. Anyhow, through him calico got a footing in Blackburn, as it did in more recent years at Clitheroe through Mr. James Thompson, a famous printer in his time, who contributed a good deal to the literature of the art. Though it has now disappeared from both these towns, calico printing has developed elsewhere, until Lancashire has become the most important printing ground in the world, and is exceeded by none in quantity of production or beauty of expression. The old form of printing was effected by means of wooden blocks, upon which the pattern was cut. The printer had the cloth spread out before him on a board covered with a woolen blanket. Near by him was a woolen cloth stretched cna frame, and upon this cloth, by means of a brush, the coloring matter or mordant was spread. Upon this colored surface the pattern block was pressed, and then transferred to its place on the cloth, the impression being made by a stroke from a malle. Great skill was required by the printer, the success of his work depending upon delicacy of manipulation. About 1785 cylindrical printing was introduced, the pattern being engraved upon a copper roller, and block-printing slowly but gradually fell into disuse, and exists now only in exceptional applications of the art. A NEW FLEECING MACHINE. Mr. John McGinnis, superintendent of the Harder Knitting Co., Hudson, N.Y., after spending some time in experimenting and running for nearly a year a machine of his construction on the goods made by the Harder Co., he is ready to offer to manufacturers the "Little Hustler Fleecing Machine," which is confidently placed on the market as the best machine for fleecing either woolen or cotton knit goods. The McGinnis machine differs from all others now in use, in that it fleeces both sides of the goods at one operation, makes no streaks or bare spots and does not fleece one side more than the other. By the operation of the cards all foreign matter is removed, leaving an absolutely clean silken surface. The machine is very compactly built of the very best material, is easy of adjustment and all adjustments can be made while running. It is very simple and requires so little attention that one man can look after three without any trouble, so that it will do a great amount of work with little labor. One of the advantages of the machine is that each piece of cloth is handled separately, so that no time or material is lost by sewing ends together. All lint and flying particles are carried from the room and deposited in a bin or wherever it is desired. The work of the machine, which was built by Mr. McGinnis for use in the Harder mills, has been so satisfactory that he has made arrangements to put it on the market, and it can be sold at a price much less than any competing machine. LONSDALE, R.I., Aug. 16: The mills of the Lonsdale company started up today after one week's vacation given their 5,000 operatives. Since the shut down of the mill Lonsdale cottons have raised in price, one of its best known lines having been quoted at an increase of 12 per cent. |