The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-04-08


of a
Visit to the Cincinnati Agency of
Singer & Co.'s Sewing Machines.
On Tuesday friend called on us and reques-
ted that we would accompany him to the Agency
Office of the above-named firm, at No. 8 EAST
Fourth STREET, that we might mutually have
the pleasure of witnessing the evidences which
there exist of the complete success of one of
the most important of the many inventions
which have been given to the world in these
latter days.
On ascending the stairs leading to the Show
room we were met by the enterprsing and in
telligent Agent, Mr. JAMES SKARDoN, who,
with that frankness and courtesy for which he
is noted, explained to US the modus operandi of
the machines, and further, gave us brief and
interesting history of their introduction into
this city, by himself, some seven and half
years ago.
SINGERS STANDARD SHUTTLE SEWING MA
CHINE, is the term by which those elegant and
useful inventions are usually designated. They
are the first practical Sewing Machines 'eork-
ing ,oih straight needle that have been intro
duced, and theypossess this important advantage
over every other invention of similar kind
that all sorts of work can be executed by one
and the same machine, whether the work be
linen-stitching, boot-siding, or any other kind
of sowing. A good deal has been written, as
we all know, about the various kinds of stitches,
such as "lock-stitches," and so forth but, we
hoI;aya thot fha truIh hos ara tb;, Son,o,rboI
more than dawned upon the public, that, not
withstanding all the stitching treatises of
| rival manufacturers, Singers Machines make
the most improved stitch which human inge-
| nuity has ever invented, and performs the
work perfectly, and with more rapidity than
| any other.
The Shtch!-Why, where's the necessity of
| explaining that, for there is not we'll dressed
gentleman in the city that has not some of the
| stitching performed by these machines on somo
part of his clothing, if not on every portion of
it., and probably on his CATERS too. Ladies'
CATERS are also pretty generally bound and
stitched by these machines.
| That these statements are not mere assertions,
will appear evident from the fact that SINGERS
SHUTTLE MACHINES are used in the work, shops
| of all those trades with the mechanical opera
ton of which sewing is in any extensive measure
connected: they are used in the work shops OF
hatters, cap-makers, tailors, boot and shoe
| makers, carriage e-trimmers, and others. Letit be
noted, too, that the manufacturers of heavy boots
and brogans are now included among the many
trades which derive advantage from SINGER
& Co.'s MACHINES, for, by an improvement in
the No. 2 SHUTTLE MACHINE, the two defects
complained of by those manufacturers-the
stitch not drawing sufficiently tight, and the
incapacity of the needle to carry coarse thread
have been triumphantly overcome.
The question, therefore, naturally recurs-If
| SINGER & Co.'s MACHINES do not make the
proper stitch, would they be so extensively
used in manufactures and in families as they
are?
Since the introduction of SINGER & Co.'s
| SEWING MACHINES into Cincinnati, by Mr..
| SKARDoN, the clothing business has advanced
more than four-fold. In 1852 the estimated
! value of the trade was placed at between five
and six millions of dollars, while to-day il
ranges between fourteen and fifteen millions
an advance which the increase of population
could not, by any stretch of fancy, be made tC
account for. Hence the Importance of these
celebrated machines, as the means of adding
materially to the trade, and consequently tc
the wealth of the Queen City of the West.
Among the many nymanufacturers who have beer
benefited largely by the employment of sINGEE
/ a. Co.'s MACHINES, we might mention one whose
place of business is not hundred miles dis
tant from Carlisle Buildings; and at the presen
time the same enterprising and prosperous cit
izen keeps in constant employment eleven o
these machines. There is another manufac
turer of our city, in another line of business
the clOthing-whose staff of running machine
numbers no fewer than hundred; and wheI
we tell our readers that one of these machines
worked by a properly trained hand, is capabl
of turning out one hundred and fifty vests
week, or binding one hundred and fifty pair
Of boots a day, they will then be able, in som
degree, to form an estimate of the immens
quantity of work one hundred can perform.
Il ms W IhO 4uosllOu VI pIOht W Do uoIlNe'
from the employment of SINGER & Co.'s Ma
CHIMES, much might be said, theoretically
pro and con but We have nothing to do wit
theories in such practical matter-nothin
but facts being admissible. Mr.. SKARDo
| mentioned several interesting facts respect4n
persons who had raised themselves from com
parative poverty to degree of independents
they had little dreamed of, when they mad
their first sacrifce-ther first hard pecuniar
effort-to procure machine. He further state
and this is view of the question whic
philanthropists will hail with delight-tha
| working g-women mako far better wages, and j
I | fewer hours, than by the use of the needle an
= thimble, so that Hoods "Song Of the Shirt"
not applicable to the operators on SINGER
Co.'s MACHINES. Before the introduction q
, SINGER K Co.'s MACHINES, sewing women, b
the closest application, for about fifteen or six
teen hours day, could realize no more tha
D from two to three dollars week. whereas