New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-11-10

the order that opening the boxes at the plan.
taton the distribution is made speedily and correctly
Orders for womens suits filled in the way.
A steom engine in the rear of the store and the
hum Of machinery overhead, sounding much like that
of cotton-m, though not loud, apprsed of the
origin of the clothing piled around 50 extensively be-
low. Going up stairs, we found onrself in a long
room, containing about fifty girls and women engaged
in the manufacture of coats and pants. There were
three ranges OF tables: those occupied by women in
lacking garments together before putting them into
the machine, and in trimming, buttoning, and but
ton-holing them after they had passed through the
machines. The central range Of tables numbered four
teen, each bearing one sewing machine and all pro-
PEELED by the steamshaft underneath. The shaft
nccted with each machine in such that the
starting, stopping, and graduation of speed all
effected by the pressure of the foot Of the Oper
atTe, leaving both hands free to manage the gar
mcnt. The process Of stitching very interesting
to behold. In turning the garment over Or changing
its position, the machine was brought to dead halt
in describing angles and curves, the speed moder
ated: and in the straight lines the stitching was
done with the rapidty Of lightning it being utterly
impossible to see the needle from the swifness of its
movements and the thread unwinding from the spool
with corresponding celebrity. .'"
| In this room, we were told that the fifty women
and the fourteen machines were capable Of turning
out six hundred pairs Of pants three hundred coats
| per diem. In back room, a number of men were en-
gagged in cutting out the garments. There at work
in the building, altogether about seventy persons and
besides these, about fifty are employed at their homes
in making shirts. With this extraordinary rapidity of
manufacture, Messrs. Heblard & Co. still find it i'm
possible to keep up with the orders that pour in upon
them. In few days, they intend puttingup i've ad-
ditional sewing machines, and they offer work to
everybody that will take it. As the business has in.
creased all along, it is still increasing and it is
already in contemplation to erect large factory in
the suburbs, and keep the building Canal street for
warehouse and store alone
The secret Of the Of this enterprise is the
strength durability and neatness of the garments
made, and the low price at which plantation orders
are filled. We therefore take pleasure in commencing
the Louisiana Steam Clothing Mandatory" tt
planters and all Others in want of coarse servlceat
clothing. 1t should be well patronzed not only be
cause it isa successful and praiseworhy example o
Southern enterprise but because it affords employ
ment and subsistence to upwards Of a hundred 200
families living in our midst.
We should state that the operatives in the factor
= are paid according to the work they do, and tina
those who are expert make very respectable wages
Asa fact worth stating, may mention that th
largest female wages in the establishment are mad
by qnadroon woman eighty years ofage, in workin
button holes. She is first to arrive in the morning
the last to leave in the evening, and raises be
spectacles from her work but to thread her needle