The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-03-09
\ SEWING MACHINE EVERY
THREE MINUTES.
THE WHEELER & WILSON MANU-
gACTUHIsG COMPANY.

New York, that loves excitement, ba, hsd her filI
Of Lite. Since tho attempt 70 IRE the hotels. mere
has been lull. have had trip into New England.
have justloosed in upon characteristic AmericsB
Institution. neat and not little village. With It's ly-
ecum, ITS DOst0icc, It's steam Gro department and
artillery company nine hundred Of whose inhabit-
ants have one common pursuit on ono pay roll,
and maintain all the bcst adjuncts and GpIangcs VI
New England village Tc, whcthey blend their com.
mon labor and skill III tho great mannfactory, the
heart and motor ofthe whole. The village isnn adj
junct to Bridgeport, COn1ccticut and llc enierpd8c
is the WheelerG wilson Manufacturing Con pans.
Ayailing mysclfOfa leisure afternoon, Mr. Perry,
the gcnilcmanly Superintendent and Secretary ofthc
Company showed me through the premire-, anda
most interesting occasion it was. The splcndd pile
Ofbuiliings enclose an entire quadrangle, with
front on the y. Y ( n. II. Railroad side offs quarter
Of milo" less fifteen feet, andars llcd with costly
machinery. Looted down onmy thunb-nail, a. you
may say, fe@ figures to be expanded into aietter;
they so struck me proof Of what American
invention has reached in this queen Of se@mgma-
chimes. On the whole, send You the memoranda;
and let the reader construct yoluminoas infer
enees for himself There is nothing like figures to
prove point. Figures will notlie. Here you have
my facts in tabular form:
Capital employed o90oo0
M'n 900
Acres in manliIactory prcnses.................,
Machines, daily 2o9
Every three
In arrears OF 5000
Number IN l7ogO1
In excess Of any other" 10 ~ 60
SeamslreSs power, single machine............ 10
g,.
" total proluct............. ! 200 $50
In other words, this manunctory has added to the
industrial world the effective force Of 100000 seam.
stresses, and /, swolingthc immense nunilcrhy ,d-
ding 2,0oopcr dry. You observe that accept the ap
proved careful estimate that the Wheeler wilson
machine is equal to ten women Wha. wonder the
W. W. is amousl 1t has conquered eyen British
prciulicein rs s;ronghold5. Charles Dickens him.
self has made it the subject Of finely turned article
in Once Week. And the Thundercr-thc London
Times itscf-inan exhaustive two columns aud a half
editorial, covering the whole subject Ct sewing ma
chimes, from huinanitanan standpoint, awards the
highest merit ofprlise in these words; "Tho Wheel
er x Wilson machine, which is the one best clcula-
ted for household work, makes the LOCK STITCH by
means ofa ROTATING mooK"
1t is on its mission ofabor saving in alparts Of the
WoIll-bohupn; -. Petersburg, Madrid, Constants
noplc, Calcutta Cape TOwn-its agencies are evory-
where throughout thchahitatle globe, Wherever G,l.
rics are sewn into human apparel Its needle clicks
through the garments that defy the cold Of the frozen
zones,a well as through thesummer tissues Of tho
people under the equator.
And all this result is based on the adoption OF q
principle in mechanics that stands a. the emblem or
perfection in the circle, continuous motion in one d.
rer'ion the rotating hook making the twoihreadei
Iocli-sch, wasting no time ina vibrating. or "stari
and stop movement, and wasting no power 10 over
come the Inertia Of that ancient device The rnta-
ting hook curved this steel neede-wom-
nm, is always pressed forward, never backward and
the secret Of her Increasing popularity III 1850.
Mr., i. u. Wilson, ofW. & w., began his connection
with sewing machines, with t1c vibrating or shuttle
principle lie abandoned that principle, and the
change for the ''whcc movement in one dIrection''-
his own cxclusigeiuyention--w lnate in ISL, and
gave birth to the Wheeler Wilson sewing machine,
which has. byits success, vlndcated his sagacy and
this magnificent proofs recorded, that with rro-
duet that gives perfect machine every three min
utes. rtwentyin an hour, the W. & w. are still ho-
hind their orders. sILEX
It. Il. BILLINGHURsT, Agent,
At the News Room and Pcrodic, Depot,
i9,aw LANCASTER OEIe