The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-04-29
ABOUT PINS.

Our pins, the oldest Of them come
from the tombs. The Egyptians
buried for rs ages ago. They are
elaborate and eOstly in workman
ship, the longest being eight inches.
These pins IRE ornamented with
gold heads and bands. The ancient
Nexicans used the thorns Of the
agave and the aloe for pins. Our
English grandmothsrs of the SIX
teenth century exercised patience
and i'm patience in using dear little
pins, which pms were wooden
skewers-Q wonder how they dres-
sed the babies OF thatcentury.)
The first pins made in England
were manufactured at Gloucester,
in 1926. Ten years later they were
made in London, and afterwHrd IL
Birmingham. We'owe the business
of pin-makIng in the UnItod States
to the war of 1919, which SO inter-
rupted our commerce that the value
of a six penny paper of pins rose tn
one dollar. Our FIRST pins were
made by EngIishmen at the old
state prison in Greenwich Village,
now included within the limits of
the city of New York. The effort
was soon abandoned. Again, in
1920, the same tools were made to
do duty in pin-maSlng at Bellevue
aIms-house. The enterprise fail
ed. Nr. LemaSl Wright, of Mas
sachusetts, " 1924, invented and
patented In England the irst mach.
ines that made solid headed pins.
That effort failed to meet success,
and he waited nine years before
the first solid headed PIN was sold
in London. One year earlier, Mr..
John 1. Howe, ofNew York, Obtain
ed a patent in the United States
for making pins with wire, or spun
heads, and these were the first
machines in which the pin vas com
pleted by one process that proved
successful. The same inventor pat
tented in 1910, a process for making
pins with solid heads.
There are now, in the United
States. eight or nine mills where
pins are made,and Connecticut
Charms the PIN business as almost
exclusively her own, four of the
mills being In the .vally Of the Ma
ugstuck.
An application at one Of these
Connecticut factories to see a pin
made was met with the reply; I'VE
will show you With pleasure plenty
Of pins after they are made, and
every process except the making OF
the pin." There Ii q secret, wonder
fuI department. IN this mill where
elghty>fve m achinss devoure tons
ofwire. and send forth millions of
pins, and from this department
curious eyes r excluded. A man
named Fowler invented the mach
ines which are carefully hidden,
and q story is told that, in his last
great period of doubt and agony,
lest, after all, his creation should
fail of life, help came 70 hlm IN the
form of q dream, and by it success
The capacity Of one Of these mills Is
1900, 600, pins 8 day, or 2,1s1, OOo,-
osO per year.
+ The best English pins are put in
green paper, and for long time
green paper was sacred to the best
quality of American pins; but now,
alasl it Is made to cover the poorest
quality of iroA pins as we'll, such
as are sold ct q fraction more than
three cents q paper. The best pins
of the American and Howe compan-
les are now put in form of q book,
and arr called "book-pins'" A
book contains two hundred and
sixty-fOuF pins, Including Eve sizes.
in eight rnwH, one Of which is black
The pins, as frat shown at the mill,
are Of braes and iron. The brass
pins receive ~whitaing from long
boiling 10 copper vessels with block
tan. The IRON pins receive their
whining by a process which is
kept secret.
After whining, the pins are put