The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1865-02-01
Especial Correspondence Chicago Tribunal
FROM NEW YORK.
A Great american nstitution-A Sewing Machine Ere
TysThrcs Ainntes-The Wheeler d Wilson AdnHfac-
turing Company. E.


Three Ainates-Ths Wheeler Wilson Aan4fac-
turing Company.
e ~, New York. December 9, 1854
New York, that loves excitement has had her fill OF
late Since the attempt to fire the hotels there has been
Xst looked in upon characteristic American institn
Zion. neat and not little village with it's lyceum Its
steam fire department and artillery company, nine
hundred OF whose inhabitants have one common pur-
suit are one pay roll and maintain all the best Cd
juncs and appliances Of New England lie, whlo they
blend their common labor and skill in the great manu-
ctury, the heart and motor OF the whole The village
adjunct to Bridgeport Connecticut and the
prise is the Wheeler Wilson manufacturing company.
Avliing myself of leisure afternoon, Mr. Perry the
gcntemanly Superintendent and Secretary OF the Co.,
showed me through the premises and most interest
ing OCCASION it The splendid pile OF buildings
close an entire quadrangle, with 'front.' on the N. Y.
N II. Railroad side of quarter of mile less 10 feet,
and are filled with costly machinery jottod down on
my thumb nail, as You may say. few figures to be
panded into letter; they so struck proof of
what American invention has reached in this Queen of
the Sewing Machines. On the whole l send you the
memoranda, and let each reader construct the more
voluminous n:erences for himself There is nothing
like figures to prove point Figures will not le.-
Here You have my facts in tabular form:
Capital employed. s., 600 900
Men employ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 900
Ma si; n daiiy psodass 200
In arrsar Of orders ~ 5000
NUMBER IN use -. "..".'. 40 occ 1929
a. ps ss ' aas 1909
do do total product. ......"-. 100000
In other words this mandatory has added to the In
dustriu world the effective force OF million
hundred onsa,d scamstresses 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.
What wonder the W. W. is famous! It has conquer
ed British prejudice in its stronghods Charles
Dickens himself has made it the subject Of finely
turned article in Once Week. And the Thunderer--
the London Times itself-in exhaustive twocolumn-
andahalf editorial covering the whole subject OF Sew
Ing Machine, from humanitarian standpoint, awards
the highest merit Of praise in these words: "The
Wheeler Wilson Machine, which is the best catc-
t0ted for household york. makes the LOCK STITCH by
means Of n ROTATING HOOK"
1t is its mission of laborsavng in all parts of the
world-London St Petersburg, Madrid Constantinople
Calcutta, Cape Town-its agencies are everywhere
throughout tho habitabe globe wherever fabrics are
sewn into human apparel. Its needle clicks through
the gafm ,nts that defy the cold of the frozen
well as through the gossamer tissues Of the people
der the equator.
And all this result is based on the adoption Of prn
cpie in mechanics that stands tho emblem Of perfec
ton in the circle, continuous nation direction
the ROTATING HOOK making tho (two-threadedl
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 forenger Of this steel needewoman, 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 abandone
that principle and the change for the wheel move
nent in direction his exclusive invention
Wilson Sewing Machine which has by its success vim
Dictated his sagacity. and this magnificent proof is
corded that with product that gives perfect machine
every three minutes or twenty in an hour the W. W.
are still behind their orders Slick.
aS- MRS II. c. SCOTT, Agent, McGresor, Iowa.