The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-03-23
THE WHEELER g. WILSON MANU.
FEATURING COMPANY.

New York, that loves excitement, has had her I'll
oflnte Since the attempt to FIRE the hotels, there
has been lull. have had "trip into New En- gland.
have Just looked in upon characteristic American
institution neat and not little village, with its y
ceum, its post office, It's steam fire department and
artillery company nine hundred of vhoseinhabt
ants have one common pursuit, arc on ono payroll,
and maintain all the best Sljuncts and appliances of
Now England village life, wbcthcy blend their com
mon labor and skill in the great manufactory, the
heart and motor ofthe whole. The village is an ad-
iunct 10 Bridgeport Connecticut, and tho enterprise
Is the Wheeler& Wilson Manufacturing Company.
AvalI.ng inysclfofa leisure afternoon, Mr.. Perry,
the gnntlenlnly superintendent and 'retnry Ofthc
Company, showed me through the 'emises, andN
most interesting 0ccaslosit was. The splendid pile
ofbnillings enclose an entire quadrangle with q
frolt on the n. Y ~ II. liaIlrOad side Ola quarter
Oi milo. loss hneen feet and ar. filled with costly
machinery OttOd down on my thumb-nail, NJ you
may say, fcG figures, TO be expanded into aiettcr
they struck me as II proof OF what American
invention has reached in tins queen of sewing ma
chimes. I'm the whole, send you the mcmOrnnda;
and lot tho reader cOnstructSnOre vOnminOus mter-
encnE for himself There is nothing like figures to
prove point. Figures will not lie. Here you have
my facts ~ tabular form:
tHpitA employed. 600 zoo
Men employed 900
Machine, 4" " proinct............ cts...... 200
Every three S.......".........".."......."
I'm arrears of oraers ,,.,..... 1000
Number IN use. 17Ot0O
In excess Ofany other 900 to l2JU 900
Soamstress power, single machine..""..... 10
" d,liy product , ~ 2C0O
total produrt......"."..... l,7W,nW
In other words, this nlanuimtDry has added to tn"
industrial world the effective force Of l7W0O scaD-
siressc', and is swelling the immense number by ad-
ding 2,Ompcr dgy fon observe that acccl the mp
proved careful estimate that the Whoclcr& Wilson
mach ne s equal n ten women. What wonder the
". n W. is iamousl It has conquered even British
prejudice in it, strongholis. Charles Dickens hnl-
sell has made II the subect Of ailney turned article
in Once Week And the Thundcrer--the London
Tmrsitsef-inan exhaustive two columns and a half
editorial, covering the whole subject Cf sewing ma
chimes, from Humanitarian standpoint, awards the
highest merit o praise IN these words 'lhe wheel
or Wilson machine, which is the one best cnlrula-
ted for household work, makes tho LOCK STITcH, by
means Ofa NOT TArfSG HDoK.'
II Is ON its mission oflehor saving in nparts rthe
wQrli-Lonion. st. Petersburg, Madrid, ConytNnt-
n0plc, C1lcntta, Cape fownts agencies are every.
where thronghopi The hahtabe globe, whcrevcr Glh.
rics are scwn into human apparel it, needle clicks
through tho grmcnS that defy the cold Of the frozen
zones, ms well Ms through the summer tissues Of the
people nlnr the CquatCr.
And all this results based on the adoption Of n
prnciplein in mechanics that stands ~ the emblem oi
perfection in tho crc,'d eoRiHOts motion IL one d.
rcciion, the rotating hook making the tw0thrcalcd
llo'kNtitch, wasting no time in vlbratn gnr "Start
AMI stop movement, andwlst ng no power to over
come tho inertia OF TINT ancient device. The rOtA-
ting hook, curved iorenger of this steel nnelcwOm-
an, H. always pressed forward, never backward, and
,atho secret NJ her Increasing popularity. In 1870,
Mr.. A. u. Wilson, ofW & w., hegin his connection
with sewing machines, with the vibrating or shuttle
| principle. He abandoned that principle, and the
rhnngcfpr IN" ''whe'l m)vom mt in one drecton''-
hs own exclusive nvpntlon--wa made in 1851, and
gave birth to the Wheeler y Wilson sewing machine,
which has. hy s screSs, indicated hissagmlty, md
THIS magnificent proofis recorded that, witha pro-
duet thnt gives perfect machine every thrcc min
ntos. twenty in an hour, the w W. are still be-
| hind their orders 9ILEX.
r. IL, ,BILLINGUURST.A Agent,
At the Nows Room and Periodicnl Depot
40 3w LANCASTER, ONO.