The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1865-01-18
Especial Correspondence Chicago Tribune.l
FROM NEW YORN

"A Great american hasiation--A Secing Machine Ere
ry Three Ainutes-The Wheeler q Wilson ManuEae.
turing Company.
New York, December 6, 1894.
New York, that loves excitement has had her fll Of
ate since the attempt to fire the hotels there has been
T. . luii. nave had trip into New England. have
tion neat and not little village with its iyceum its
steam hre department and artillery company, nine
nanared OF whose inhabitants have one common pur.
SUM- are on one pay roll and maintain all the best ad
luncts and appliances of New England life whc thev
blend their common labor and skin in the great manu-
iactury the heart and motor of the whole. The village
is an adjunct to Bridgeport Connecticut and the enter
prise is the Wheeler 4 Wilson manufacturing comnanr
Awaiting myself of leisure afternoon Mr. Perry Tie
gentemanly Superintendent and Secretary of the Co.
showed me through the premises and most intercst.
ing occasion it was The splendid pile of buildings en-
n H. Railroad side of quarter of a mile less Is feet
anu are hiied with costly machinery Looted down on
IN! numb nail as may say few figures to be ex-
panded into letter. they struck me as proof Of
Mat american invention has reached in this Queen Of
the sewing Machines. On tho whole I send you the
memoranda, and let each reader construct the mora
volumnous inferences for himself. There Is notbino
IKE hgures to prove point Figures will not lie
Here you have my facts in tabular form:
Capital employed - 81 OOo ono
Men employed. ...."......~..... go
Machines daily ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 200
Every threc minutes, .............
In arrear OF ORDERS. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5000
N"ihoef IN use, 10000
In excess OF any other 900 to 10000
sealnstress power, single machine. .."."..~. 10
10 do daily product"".-.... 1000
10 do total product, .......... 100000
IN other words this mandatory added to the in
dustral world tho effective force of one million sere,
hundred thousand seamstresses and is swelling that inn
mense number by adding two thousand per day. You
observe that except the approved careful estimate that
the wheeler Wilson Machine is equal to ten women
w ma. wonder the W. is famouss 1t has conquer
ea even British prejudice in its srongholds. Charles
Dckens himself has made it the subject of finely
turned article in Once Week. And the Thunderer..
the London Times itselfin exhaustive twocolum,.
ada-haii editorial covering the whole subject of Sew
the highest merit Of praise in these words: "The
wheeler Wilson Machine which is the one best colc,-
eeeo Jor honsetOtd teork makes the LOCK STITCH by
means OF a ROTATING HOOK"
1t is on its mission laborsayinp in nil narts NJ Tho
word-London, st. Petersburg Madrid Constantinople
Saicutta Cape Town--its agencies are everywhere
throughout the habitable globe wherever fabrics are
sewn into human apparel Its needle clicks through
the garments that defy the cold of the frozen ss
well as through the gossamer tissues of the people un
der the equator. ser ".
And all this result is based on the adoption of prn
cpie IN mechanics that stands the emblem of perfec
tlon In the circle, continuous motion in one direction
the ROTATING HOOK making the ftwothreadeii
Lock Stitch, wasting no time in vibrating or 'start
ana stop movement and wasting power to overcome
the inertia OF that ancient device The rotating hook
curved forenger of this steel needle-woman is always
pressed forward backward and is the secret Of
OF W. W. began his connection with sewing machines
with the vibrating shuttle principle. He abandoned
that principle and the change for the "whsel move
ment in one direction"-his exclusive invention
Wilson Sewing Machine which has, by its success vim.
dcaed his sagacity and this magnificent proof is re-
corded that, with product that gives perfect machine
every three minutes or twenty in hour, the w. &W.
are sui behind their orders. SnEx.
Be- MRS H. c. SCOTT Agent, McGresor, Iowa.