The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-05-26 00:00:00

SEWING MACHINES. ,

riIHE manner in which the decisions were
1 made at the Graid ma of Seeing machines,
held at Island Park, Nee York, in 1866, distinguishes
it as the only trial ever held in Whkh the verdict
depended, beyond all doubt, solely upon the capabilities
of the competing machines.

The judges- ;ere peculiarly competent, two of them
being engineers, and one a collar mono*, ono of
the engineers and the manapeturer bei Dewing
'Bambino experts. They tested the (tom mashises
In rawest to mob of all the team that together cos-
MOM* the elleieney wad -utility of • eawinpumeldno,
making im mediate sward of sop ority in respect to each
m, to U. presence of • lama concourse of spectators
to the trial.

The chum/ilea of the tests employed is eshibitod in
the repott from which we quote:

" In regard to the decisions of the judges upon the
several points, it may be remarked that dunng the
entire trial there wu scarcely an instance of difference
of opinion—as, Indeed, it was hardly possible there
could be, for the plan adopted was itself p surety both
of unanimity and • just decision ; the latter being, in
such a plan, neither more nor less than the practical
solution of a mathematical problem. For, by separat-
ing the reapective merits of each machine into elements,
or "print.." and subjecting each point separately to
the test of practical work done on each =whine in
presence of the judges, their decision upon each point
IVY reduced to the simple act of recording the feats
developed.

"For Instance: each contestant claims the most
elastic stitch. Then each is required to sew • sears,
side by side, on the bias of a piece of elastic cloth ;
and the judge takes the piece and stretches it length.
ways of the Name, till one seam breaks; he still con-
tinues the stretching, hot the other seam refuses to
break at all. However disappointed his ezpectations,
the jodige will hardly enter on the record that the broken
seam is the more elastic.

"Such were the tests, arid such the inevitable de-
cisions."

Attar a centeet of nearly seven hours, the Wilcox
and Gibbs was declared to be the best Sewing Machine.
The importance of this trial to the public is due to
the facts that the questions decided were such as admit
of absolute determination, and that the decisions were
approved by a multitude of disinterested witnesses.

The following is a summary of the decdsiona in favour
o/ the Wit.hcox and GIBBS
I. It lithe simplest.
2. It is the least liable to get out of order.
3. It lithe best made machine.
4. It is the cheapest.
5. It is strictly 'wifeless.
6. It works the easiest.
7. It works the fastest.
& It cannot be turned backward.
9. It requires the least mechanical skill to operate it.
10. It requires the least time and instruction to learn
to use it.
11. It lithe mod eertaia and reliable in operation.

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