The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1865-01-25
Especial Correspondence Chicago Tribune.l
FROM NEW YORK.

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~ Three Ainntes-The Wheeler Wilson AanHfac
turing Company. s
New York, December q, 1864
New York. that loves excitement has had her fill OF
late Since the attempt to fire the hotels there has
= lull. have had trip into New England have
just looked in upon Characteristic American institn
tion neat aud not little village. with its lyccum its
hundred of whose inhabitants have one common pur.
suit pay roll and maintain all the best ad
tuncts and appliances Of New England life while they
blend their common labor and skill In the great
factury the heart and motor of the whole The village
adjunct to bridgeport Connecticut and the enter
Awaiting myself OF leisure afternoon Mr.. Perry the
gentlemany Superintendent and Secretary Of the Co.,
showed me through the premises and most interest
ing occasion it was. The splendid pile of buildings
close an entire quadrangle, with front tho Y.
N. Railroad side Of quarter Of mile less Is feet,
my thumb nail a. you may say few figures, to be ex-
banded into letter; they so struck me az proof of
what American invention has reached in this Queen of
the Sewing Machines. On the whole send you the
memoranda, and let each reader construct the more
voluminous inerences for himself There is nothing
like figures to prove point. Figures will not le.-
Here you have my facts in tabular form:
Capital 81, 900 900
Men employed, 900
Machines. % aas psodus 200
In aIrear Of orders, 80. 5000
Number in use,.........."......." ........ 10000
In excess of any other 600 to 10000
seamstress power, single machine. ""........ 10
do do daily product, ............ 1000
do do total product, .-.--.-... 100 900
In other words this mandatory has added to the in
dustrial world the effective force OF million
hundred thousand seamstresses and is swelling that
mense number by adding two thousand per day. You
observe that except the approved careful estimate that
sthe Wheeler Wilson Machine is equal to ten
q even British prejudice in its stsongholds. Charles
Dickens himself has made it the subject of finely
turned article in Once a Week. And the Thunderer-
the London Times. tsef-n ex haustve two-column-
andhaf editorial covering the whole subject of Sew
ing Machine from a humanitarian stand-po awards
the highest merit Of praise in these words: 1.-THE
Wheeler Wilson Machine which 10 the one best calcu-
lated for honsehold cork, makes the LOCK STITCH by
means Of ROTATING HOOK"
It 10 it, mission of aborsaving in all parts Of the
world-London, st. Petersburg, Madrid Constantinoplc
Calcutta, Cape Town-its agencies everywhere
throughout the habtable globe wherever fabrics
the that defy the cold Of the frozen zones
well as through the tissues Of the people
der the equator.
ali this result based on the adoption of prin-
ton In the circle, continuous motion direction
the ROTATING HOOK making the (two-threaded)
Lock Stitch, wasting no time in vibrating or "start
and stop movement and wasting power to overcome
the inertia of that ancient device The rotating hook
curved forehnger Of this steel needlewoman 10 always
pressed forward backward and is the secret of
her increasing popularity. In 1850, Mr. A. b. Wilson,
ofW. w, began his connection with sewing machines
with the vibrating shuttle principle He abandons
that principle and the change for the ''wheel
ment in one direotion'-his own exclusive invention
was made in 1851 and gave birth to the Wheeler
Wilson Sewing Machine which has, by its success vim
corded that, with product that gives perfect machine
every three minutes or twenty in hour the W. w.
arc still behind their orders. ~ SILsx.
~ MRS. H. G. SCOTT, Agent. McGresor, Iowa.