The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1865-01-07
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From New York.
4 Great american E,stitut,on-A Seeing
.Nuchins Erery Three -Ntnstes-Thc Wheel
er & Wuson Manufacturing Company-

| 4 Great American Mstitut,on-f Seeing
| .MIchine Erery Three -Ktnstes-7 TIE Whte!
er & Hiison Manufacturing Company-
New York Dec. {, 1854.
New York, that loves excitement, has had
her FIJI of late. Since the attempt to fire the
hotels there has been {. lull. have had a
trip into New England. / have just looked
in upon 4 characteristic American Institution.
\ neat and not little village, with its lyceum.
its post-otiice, its steam fire department and
artillery company, nine hundred Of those in
habitants have one common pursuit, on one
pay roll, and maintain all the best adjuncts
and appliances of New England VILLAGE life,
while they blend their common labor and
SKI in the great manufactory. the heart and
motor OF the whole, The village is an ad
lunct to bridgeport, Connecticut. the enter
rise is the Wheeler & Wilson manufacturing
company.
Awaiting myself eta leisGre afternoon. Mr..
Perry. the gentlenanly Superintendent and
Secretary ofthe Company, showed me through
the primises, and most interesting occasion
it was. The splended pile OF buildings en-
close an entire quadrangle, with front on
the y. \. and y. II. Railroad side of a
quarter of mile less fifteen feet. and are
filled with costly machinery. | lotted down
on my thumb nail. as YOU may say icw
figure. to be expanded into 4 letter: they 50
struck me as proof of what American inven-
ton has reached in this Queen Of the Sewing
, Machines. On the whole ! send you a
memoranda. and let each reader construct
the more voluminous differences for himself
There is nothing like figures 10 prove a point
Figures will not lie. Here you have my facts
in tabular form:
Capital employed. ...S! ,0Oc,G0O
Men employed ..... 800
Acres in mandatory premises. .
Machines, daily product. 200
Every three minutes. ...........
In arrear Of orders. 5000
Number IN use: 5000. -. !.o.goO
IL excess of any other. 60 900 TO 100000
seamstress power, single machine. 10
:. - daily products.-... 1000
- :. total products. zoo. 600
IN other words this mandatory has added
70 the industrial world the effective force OF
one million Seren hundred housrnd seam
stresses. and is swelling that immense mum
Der by adding two thousand per day. You
observe that | except the approved careful
estimate that the Wheeler & Wilson Machine
is equal to ten women. What wonder the ".
d ". is famous? 1t has conquered even
British prejudice in its s,rongholds. Charles
Dickens himself has made it the subject Of a
/
the Thunderer-the London Times, itself-in
an exhaustive two column and halt editor
ial covering the whole subject OF Sewing Ma
chimes, from humanitarian stand point,
awards the highest merit of praise in these
words TIE Wheeler & Wilson machine
which is the one best caiculated for household
cork makes the Lock STITCH by means Of Il
ROTATING HOOK"
| It is on It's mission of labor-saviug in all
parts of the world-London, st. Petersburg,
! Madrin, Constantinople, Calcutta. Cape town
its agencies are everywhere throughout the
habtable globe wherever fabrics are sewn m
to human apparel. Its needle clicks through
the garments that defy the cold Of the frozen
zones, as well as through the gossamer It's
sues Of the people under the equator.
And all this result is based on the adoption
of a principle in mechanics that stands as the
emblem of perfection in the circle, a con-
hnuoos motion IN one direction, the ROTAT-
ING HOOK making the (two-threaded) Lock
Stitch wasting no time in vibrating or start
and stop" movements, and wasting no power
to overcome the inertia of that ancient device,
The rotating hook, curved forefnger of this
Steel needie-woman is always pressed forward
never backwards, and is the secret of her in
creasing popularity In 1850 Mr.. A B. Viii
son, of W. 4 W, began his connection with
sewing machines with she vibrating or shuttle
principle. He abandoned that principle,
and the change for the wheel movement in
one direction''-his own exclusive invention
was made in 1851, and gave birth to the
Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine, which
has BIZ its Success, vindicated his sagacitv,
and this magnificent proof is recorded that,
with a prodact that gives a perfect machine
in thr e minutes, or twenty in an hour, the
the w. & W. are still behind there orders.
SILEx.