The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-03-03
from late journal Of Commerce, which

pins used in this country were imported.
Now none are imported, except few
GermaH pinsfur the German population
of Pennsylvania. This wonderful change
has beon produced by concurrence Of
circumstances--tbe most prominent Of
which was the invention by Mr.. Samuel
Slucum, now Of Providence, of a PIN
making machine. far superior To any then
in use in England. This led to the es.
tabIishment Of pin-manufactory at
Poughkeepsie by Messers Slocum. Jill
son d Co. which. contrary To the general
expectation, was entirely successful, and
soon distanced foreign competition. Thus
things went on, until The pass0ge of Me
Tariff IF 1912, t0hich. by Increasing the
duty on Joreign pins. encouraged othey
parties IN this country TO engage IN The
business. Foreseeing this, the above
mentioned company-which was sue
ceeded by the American Pin Company
at 0nce reduced Mety prices 90 per cent.
and have since reduced them 10 per
cent. more. OF all the Pin Companies
which have been established or attempt
ed in the United States, only three are
known to exist at present. viz: the Amer
can Pin Co. (which has works both at
Poughkeepse and Waterbury. Conn
the Howe Co. Derby, Conn. and Messrs.
Pelton. Fairchi!d & Co. a; Poughkeep-
sic.
The quantity Of Pins turned out by
these establishments, especially the FIRST
two, is enormous. The statistics of one
of them, we have asceusined. are about
as follows: Per week 70 cases, averaging
ITO packs each, each pack contains u
papers, and each paper $50 pins. max
ing an aggregate of 80 .964 900 pins per
week. or 2,O7O. 10000 per annum. If
the products Of the other two establish
ments, and the small amount imported,
are together equal to the above, we should
have grand total of 4.l5S. 1886 900 pins
for the consumption in the United States
equal TO 200, on an average, for every
man, woman and child in the couniry-a
pretty liberal allowance, We think The
number of pin-making machines employ.
ed by the said company is about 80, and
Of work-people about 60. 1t would be
difficult to describe those machines so as
TO make their operation ineligible to
those who have not seen them in mhtioh.
We will only say that the wire which IS
TO be wrought into pins. runs from reel
like yarn, Into one of the machities, and
comes out at the other, not wire, but pins,
cut, pointed and headed, in the most per.
feet manner, at the rate of $50 minute.
! This is about the usual speed, but the ma
chinery is capable of being so adjusted
as to produce 300 minute. Being now
of a yellowish color, they are thrown
by the bushel, into kettles containing a
certain liquid, by which they are whiten.
ed, and prepared for sticking; i. e. for be.
ing stuck into papers, in rows, as they
are bought at the stores. This process Of
sticking is also performed by machine
invented by Mr.. Slocum. The narrow
paper in which the pins are stuck, i.
wound from reel, of any imaginable
length, and then cut off at uniform inter
walls. One sticking machine will stack a
, many pins as three machines can make
and three Of the former can be ATTENDED
/ by one girl.
A part of the pins of the American
; Pin Company are made OF American cop
per, obtained on the border of Lake Su
i, perior.
Reader! will you look again at the
| statements of fact we have placed in 1tal
: les. and then think of the representa-
lions of the nature and effect of Protec
: tive Duties by which Polk was lied int
/, the Presidency and the Tariff of 1874:
D overthrownl Take Slas Wright's Wa
:, terOwn Speech for example-and it is
y mild specimen of the manner in whic
d Loco -Focoism handled the Tariff questio
, and you there see it coolIy assumed a
: an indisputable axiom that wh "a pro
] lecture duty is imposed, on amy artit here
tof0Te in good part imported. the r : 9
/. that article TO our dOmestic consumers
: enhanced Of course. and by nearly or quit
S the increase of duty. 1t was i'll vain tina
: we urged that the fact was plainly otl
It erwise-in vain that we quoted day b
9 day from the Prices Current. shown
y that prices had actually often been re
d duced when our adversaries assume
a that they had. as matter of cousre, bee
!, raised in consequence of the increase
u duty. They took no notice of our denia
| out went on reiterating their detecte
e falsehoods. We published Wright's Wa
d er town Speech and exposed its essenti,
Y dishonesty; but none Of our opponent
y published our reply nor anything els
d calculated tv let their readers know thu
e the friends of the Tariff disputed the
!. fundamental assumption regarding Ii
/, effect of Protective Duties. Nobod
heard then from the Journal of Commerc
o that any American Manufactures we
i selling lower because of the Tariff of a
q But now that the contest is over that p
;. per admits the truth. Shall not truth |
e brought home to the general apprehel
/. sion2 The day of it's usefulness is NJ
d yet wholly bygone.
e Hoes PACKED IN CINcINNATr.-ln rt
II cent article we stated that the number {
J. Hogs packed in this city during the pres
= ent Sc ason, was at least 100000. Tn
II season was hot then closed. and we fin
ID the statement was under the mark. Tn
st number now packed says the Merchant