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FINE FILLING.


have plenty of proper stock ahead of the machines. The


illustration shows a few styles of bobbins now being man­ufactured,


picked out at random from orders going through.


All bobbins are tested on spindles before shipment.


We make bobbins to fit all the regular trade spindles, and


the testing process has given us much interesting informa­tion


regarding the spindles themselves. No bobbin is ab­solutely


perfect, but spindles are constituted so as to accom­modate


themselves to minor imperfections in the bobbin.


Without going into detailed comparison, we may say with


certainty that the Draper spindle accommodates itself with


greater ease to variations in bobbin conformation than any


other that we know. This does not signify that we shall


work off more poor bobbins on the users of Draper spin­dles,


but it does mean that the users of Draper spindles will


have better running bobbins as a whole, in spite of the


changes occurring in the bobbins themselves after they are


soM.


It is always difficult to eradicate early impressions.


When we started the introduction of the Northrop loom


over ten years ago, we confined ourselves to prints and


sheetings, using bobbin filling and 2- harness equipment.


Many still think we are limited to medium or coarse filling,


plain goods, and the use of bobbins rather than cops. I


was in a weave room recently, however, in which over 800


Northrop looms were using cop fIlling, and none of the


looms 19unning with coarser than ) os warp or 60S fIlling.


Most of the yarn was of much finer grades, ' running as


high as 140S filling and 100S warp. One Northrop 100m


was equipped with a jacquard and several with dobbies.


Some of the looms ran very difficult weaves, having but 72


picks of 120S filling per inch. The percentage of seconds


was very low. The weavers were running from 12 to 16


looms each.


This is only one instance of such weaving. We have


hundreds of Northrop looms with jacquard motions, and


thousands with dobbies. Our latest looms are better fitted


for fIlle goods than ever before, as we have taken advan­tage


of the experience gained by the continuous sales and


the spreading use of the Northrop devices.


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Loons PER WEAVER.


Although we started several thousand Northrop looms


'" in 1895', of which a weaver easily ran 16, there are still


skeptics who do not understand, and will not believe, the


truth of the situation. An unknown English writer to the


" Cotton Factory Times" was recently quoted in an Ameri­can


trade paper as saying: " Ame1' 7: can lVorthrop weavel'S


a1' e said ( ou Amel't" cau aZlthority) to attend anytIling


. fr01ll eig- Jd to tll1' rty- two." The average reader would sus-pect


that the writer distinguished between American au­thority


and other authority; but we have a few clippings


from English papers which give English authority on the


subject, if American authority he not suffICient. I fIlld in


my scrap book that the" Blackburn Weekly Telegraph" for


March 29, I 9° 2, in an article headed, " What a B16rJtley


JJfall Saw i16 the Stales," stated: " From 1vhat he saw, an


average weaver 7vollld nll1 I6 looms." In the" Manches­ter


Guardian" for June 4, 19° 2, their special English cor­respondent


wrote from America as follows:


" For the 2000 lVortlwop loo, flts wIdell covel' the rest 0./


the/ loor there are IJ4 wea7( el's- a 16umbel' which £ veri­fied


by colt1dilIg the lIames ill the overseer's wage book.


Some 0.( the 1veave1' S a1' e 1' 1I1111inK 20 40- inch Northrop


looms each, othen I6, and a 1' 11lmbel' o./ learllers have I2


each."


In his ninth letter to the same paper the same corre­spondent


states:


"£ 11 one (!( the weaving- rooms here £ _ fo161Zd IOO


lVorthrop looms, all r1l1/ by mell, each 0./ whom, £ was


told, conld earll abo16t 42 shillillgs a week with hvellty


looms."


In his thirteenth letter he stated:


" 01le mall, 1vho was I'll 1Z11illg 24 looms, told me that


he conld earu $ I. J5 a day."


In his fourteenth letter he stated:


" JJfally 0./ tIle 7veavers were little mOl'e tlzall lean/ ers,


alld lzad 1I0t mOl'e than tell or twelve looms; othe1' s ' with


mOl'e experiellce had twice as mallY."


In his twenty- fifth letter he stated:


" Oue weavel' o.( tell nlus more Ihan twenty looms in


the United States."


In the " Blackburn Daily Telegraph" for Oct. 24, 19° 2,


a returned Englishman stated:


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