The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-10


value OF these machines being S5.6 6O5,345, aud
the amount saved to manufacturers of stitched
goods Is estimated at some sixteen million dol
lars annually
Since the date of Mr.. Howes invention, some
three hundred improvements have been made
and patented, the most perfect of which is the
Grover & Baker machine, which makes stitch
peculiar to itself, and bearing the name of the
proprietors. The utility OF a sewing machine
depends upon it's adaptability to the greatest
variety of work, and this article would be
incomplete it, after tracing the rise and progress
of the idea, we should fail TO point out from
among the thousand varieties the one that
comes nearest to perfection, and combining the
greatest number of useful qualities. For
certain kinds of works there may be
machines more peculiarly adapted than
others, but for all the numberless re-
quirements of family we unhesitat.
ibgly pronounce the smoothly, silently.
and swiftly running Grover d Baker
machine the best. The competition which the
infinite variety of machines has created IN the
market gives one but slim chance of judging
of the merits of particular patent by its adver-
tlsement. Each claims for itself an immeasur-
able superiority over all Others and the bewil-
dered buyer is lost in a maze of allurements and
attractions-some true, but more false repre-
sentations. 1t is to award to our favorite Grover
q Baker machine the encomiums which it so
well deserves, that we have protracted this
hastily written article; and as a full and accu
rate statement of its relative and comparative
merits would necesstate the devotion of an
additional column. we will close with brief
summary of what, from experience. we know TO
be its principal characteristic excelences
One great advantage is that the thread is
drawn direct from the spoos, and requires no
previous winding on shuttes; and the sim
plicity of all its parts and the easy adjustment
of needle thread, and work, make it more
readily comprehensive to the learner than any
we have yet seen. Another important fact is
that they perform, without an alteration of the
adjustment, a much greater variety of work
than is possible on others; fastening both ends
two threads, 1t is true, and a considerable hue
and cry has been made over the waste of cotton
but our experience leads us to believe that this
objection Is more of an advertising dodge than
the discovery of a real fault by its connections
of the seam and requiring no tying. We might
thus enumerate quality after quality in our own
way, but our limited knowledge of both ma.
chinery and sewing would prevent our making
ourselves very Ineligible; aud we think we do
the inventors and makers full justice and at the
same time relate our experience in terms which
there is no mistaking, when we saw that the
Grover & Baker machine may be chosen from
among the now nearly tour hundred improve
ments on MIR. Howes patent, as the best sim
plest and most reliable sewing machine in fine
market.
The trade in these necessities. which have
now become so Indispensable, is assuming eli
gantic proportions, which the fortunate inventor
OF the principle never dreamed of in his most
sanguine and hopefully prophetic moments.
The value of the machines made annually in
America is not far from twenty million dollars.
and the business is yet in its infancy Grover
Baker alone send many thousands to foreign
markets, and this popularity abroad is an
evidence of their merit and superiority.
American sewing machines are used all over
the world, and, like American pianos,
have furnished the principles which have
been adopted by great majority of foreign
manufacturers. To us belongs the credit of
fist making the idea a practical success, and
to us should come the profit. The sewing
machine has been needed ever since Eve made
her 6g-leat aprons. but it remained for the Yam
KEGS to devise the means by which to relieve
the patiently toiling women from the wearing
effects of endlessly tedious needle-work.
Thousands now depend on the sewing machine
for their support, the gentle exercise of propel-
ling the treadles, and the merry clicking of Its
busily working steel fingers, keeping up the
health and spirits of the seamstress. They are
a blessing, and as such should they be re.
garded by the multitude Of those to whom the
sewing machine has come "a a benedcent fairy.
bringing JOY and comfort with ii. We have pub.
lished the advertisement of the Grover & Baker
Manufacturing Company ever since The EVEN
ING TELEGRAPH had a local habitatOn and n
name; The Endorsements OF many prominent
citizens who, from time to time, have forwarded
commendatory letters for publication, is sufi.
cient corroboration of the statements we have
made; and as the notice still graces our adver.
tising columns, need we only refer our readers
TO it.
The inventive genius of the age has flooded |
us with abor-saving machines, and unless
something occurs to put a check on the endless
recurrence OF discovery and improvement, we |
shall soon live and die by mach inery. The
duties OF life may, before long be performed for |
us by cloc6woTk: and deprived of the ggreat |
mental and physical cOunterbalaRce, labor. we
will gradually drift into an inert dotce t0,,
nle1te; work will become play and
"Liie will be ravished of its zest
An0 shorn OF its ambition,
And sink mo the dreamless rest
OF Inanti0n IN. y. Citizen.
The WRshburne Family.
This distinguished family, several of whose