The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-20

Says lady customer to one oftheir agents;--
"1ts charming little machine, that wilcox
and Gibbs; 1t runs so easily ana so quletlyW
"Ohl yes, madam; but then IL IS only single.
thread; and singe-thTedd machine, YOU know,
is of no value as O sewing machine" why
how you talk NY sister nas one OF them; and
she does ali her sewing on 1t, and would not ex-
change IL Tor any other mach ne in the world"
''That may be so; she probably never used any
other; but though IL may satisfy her, 1t would
never, suit you. Why. madam, those single
thread machines were tired long ago, and re-
jected as totally worthless ~
In this manner has the Wilcox IL Gibbs been
systematically, persistenly misrepresented by
the entire double-tiread fraternity. Scarcely
could more palpabe unrutn be uttered than
IL cont eyed in the spirit of those four words,
i'ontu a singietbredd;;n because, though IL does
use but one thread IL does not make the ord5-
NARY siHgte-thredd stitch, as those words in the
sense there used, lmDly;. but vt makes a neD and
different stitch-one that obvates the very de-
feet in the old siDgle.thTead or chnin-stltcn to
which so much Objection IS made-its asserted
liability to ravel. Moreover, The WiUCOT &
Glb6s stitch is far better than any made nth t1o
threads; and hence is destined, so soon as its
merits are generally known, to supersede az he
uGrious doub'e-'hre1d s'pcbes now in use. And
this is the reason why the Wilcox Il Gibbs is so
much feared; for who will want to bother with
tt1O threads, when they find that one is better?
Again, whenever the Wilcox & Gibbs com
pany sent. out canvassers TO Introduce their
machines in new localities, and establish Agen-
cies for their sale, they were sure to encounter
the same kind of opposition.
Even their common right of competing for
premiums at our agricultural and mechanical
falls has been so often tampered with that they
have found 1t necessary 10 obtain, in advance a
guarantee oi impartial treatment from the acting
officers or managers, before entering their ma
chine for competition at such fairs
But, though, thus deprived, by the course OF
the opposition OF the advantageous use OF most
OF the ordinary means of advertising, there
was one-the silent and irresistible influence of
sold mdcb1nes-which no combination could take
away. Each machine sold was a missionary
silently at work in its own neighborhood
making converts to the faith. And converts
became customers, and customers built up
Agencies; and the good work went forward,
slowly but surely. Thus the Wilcox Gibbs
though prosecuted, has prospered; though op-
posed, has steadily progressed. 1t Is still COM
pa1atively ne,D machine, having been scarcely
seven years In the market yet it ranks already,
in the number OF machines sold as the fourth
"Sewng Machine" in use.
And now that the fraternity, in the last des-
perate effort of one OF their number to bolster
up their waning popularity, have signallv failed;
now that their bOldness has furnished the long
sought opportunity Tor an honest and well-con-
tested public trial. and put on record the result
of that trial for the enlgh eminent of the public,
it requires, we think, no prophet to foresee The
accelerated progress OF the Wilcox and Gibbs in
the future, or to foretell its ultimate trumph-As
THE PBooGNIZED STANDARD SEWING MACHINE OF
THE WORLDl