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George A. Clark & Brother
| Name | George A. Clark & Brother |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Broadway 400 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Händler für Baumwollgarn |
| Anmerkungen | Adresse (um 1884): Fabriken in Schottland und in Newark, N.J., Hauptsitz in New York: No. 400 Broadway. Bezeichnet sich als "Hole Agents in America for dark's "O.N.T." Spool Cotton". |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 154] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1855 |
G. A. Clark kommt nach Amerika |
| 18.02.1878 |
Tod von G. A. Clark in Newark |
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Kommentar |
| Handel mit Baumwollgarn |
1884 |
[New Yorks great ind. (1884)] |
1884 |
[New Yorks great ind. (1884)] |
Vertreter |
| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | The name of Clark will ever be honored and distinguished in connection with the first production and subsequent magnificent series of developments of the now universally used cotton thread. The first cotton sewing thread was made by the late Mr. Peter Clark in Paisley, about 1812. Silk and linen thread had previously been entirely used iu sewing, but the Napoleonic Wars cutting off the supply of raw silk that came from Hamburg, Mr. Clark turned his attention to an efficient substitute, and found it in carefully spun cotton yarn. It was not at first by any means perfected, and yet its smoothness and reliability caused it to be preferred to linen thread, and from that date the progress in the perfection of its manufacture and its growing use continued to develop in a wonderful manner. The birth of Mr. George Aitken Clark in Paisley, Scotland, in 1824, was an important event for the world, as regards the inimitable degree of perfection to which he brought, during his active career, the art of thread-making. He was from his youth up identified with the business, and the latest and best parts of the immense system in Paisley embody his genius, while the perfection aud magnitude of the famous Clark Thread Works in Newark are entirely the outcome of his energy and genius. The first establishment of an American house in connection with the manufacture of cotton thread, in Paisley, took place in 1855, and from that day up to the present time it has met with a constant and representative degree of success. Mr. Clark came to America in 1855, and as the representative of the greatest thread-making firm in the world, turned his attention with a commendable degree of energy and enterprise to the supplying directly on these shores of what he foresaw would be the enormous demand for the finest qualities of thread, and within ten years' time had built up a trade necessitating the erection of the magnificent thread works at Newark, the finest and best equipped among the largest in America. Mr. Clark personally superintended their erection, and gave the closest attention to every detail, placing them on a firm basis of successful operation. Mr. Clark was not spared long, however, to continue his connectien with the great enterprise with which his name will ever be permanently linked. He died in Newark on February 18, 1878, at the age of forty-nine, deeply regretted hy a large circle of friends and acquaintances, and who has left behind him one of the most enduring monuments of his time. Succeeding to the active management of affairs his brother, Mr. William Clark, was fully qualified to discharge the onerous duties devolving upon him, and under his excellent commercial and-technical management the Clark Thread Company's Works were never so prosperous as they are to-day. The works are eligibly situated on the water front at Newark, possessing all the benefits accruing from direct rail and marine communication, and comprise a series of immense five-story buildings, specially erected and containing the finest equipment for thread-making purposes in existence. Some idea of the magnitude of the concern, and the extent to which the manufacture of the famous "O.N.T." thread is carried on, can he gathered when we state that a force of two thousand five hundred hands are employed, while at the Paisley mills in Scotland there are three thousand eight hundred. The firm of George A. Clark & Brothers are the sole agents in America for the celebrated " O.N.T." spool cotton, and occupy the entire five-story building No. 400 Broadway, twenty-five feet by one hundred in ?dimensions, where a very large and skilful clerical force is required to handle the enormous business centred hare, which is a feature in the city's staple commercial interests. The firm is represented by general agents in Philadelphia, Boston and San Francisco, and from the main house in New York sell to the trade direct and on an ever-developing scale of magnitude. Clark's "O.N.T." thread is now generally recognized as the best to use, because it is smooth, elastic, strong and of uniform strength, and is decidedly the best and most popular sewing thread of modern timee. To those who desire to read how the thread is manufactured our advice is to procure the elegant illustrated descriptive book published by the firm, which, under the title of "A Thread Mill Illustrated," is an ably written, entertaining and instructive work. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 154] |
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