Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-03-06

dtnefeui from any other machine, az
that this rotating motion. which Is co.
tinuous 10 one direction. With 20 stops q
starts, as the ease With an other machine
j.. which take the lock-siiioh, va the gres
pFin0iple Ehieh had made lbe Wheeler
Wilson tbs leading Haehine for fitee
jean. I linglnal uu,il admonished b
Mr.. Perry that time was on the move. aB
We pass into the gang drills, the jig, an
the score Of other vonderful machine
which are called into use in framin
some part Of this wonderful machine
Doe punches the holes for the screws
4, another makes the bobbins, and You SCI
! 80 much that hardly remember anything
We here see hundred machines beinl
tested. They are placed on a gig an,
run BY machinery. Every machine i
subjected to this trial 10 order that Their,
may exist no want OfharmOny between tn,
various parts. This ought to be a good
test, but it is not considered so. On the
contrary, tho testing process has only just
commenced when the machines come of
the table. Each part now gets Glove
scrutiny, and if there is the minutest de.
Walton from "true," it is east aside as
old iron. absolute perfection" isl mot
to here which is adhered TO as ridgly as
if the human hand was not capable of
mistakes, The deviation Of a hairs
breadth in some parts Of the machines
might cause a jsugle in the whole. After
several tests, each one growing more rig
I'D, machine which passes them all is
sent to the fual testing room, where men
are constantly busy. As the machines are
handed in they arc tested with fiue need
les aud course ones, long stitches aud fine
ones, fine cloths and heavy samples, and
there is no way in which it is not tested.
L fingered long in the needle depart
ment, because it was there that the most
skillful workmen, and the most delicate
machines are employed. One will hardly
ind sewing machine needle as small as
hair, but the finest seem hardly larger,
and 1t was query to me how the 'eyes"
were made until saw the little drills at
work-little bits Of steel threads that one
had to look twice to see. In connection
with the needle department, | find the
only classes" yet seen about the establish.
ment' They are mainly employed in as
sorting and wrapping the needles, having
little to do with their manufacture.
You have seen company of soldiers
march? Well, the monotnous cleft -
4" left of the Captain, is like the mon
otony prevailing here. Right hand-leit
hand-this way-that way-never miss
ing movement, and the longer l stand
aud look, the frmar is the belief that this
man or that woman is an automaton.
whose eyes, fingers and head are moved
about by some hidden machinery within.
1t is wonderful that men can be so train
ed, but if it were not so, the Wheeler &
Wilson would run fast and slow, Earring
and jogging, because only perfect ma
chine experience has shown each contrac-
Tor that any work not perfect in every de-
all will be rejected, and the expense
brown back on bis private purse. Just
hat care which jeweller exercises in
he manufacture of watch is exercised
lere.
Time has been running away like a
ace-horse, and it is noon. Just like a i
egiment OF soldiers, obeying the order to
: carry arms, the signal of noon-time is
beyed by every operator about the build !
ng, and the change from labor to refresh
nent is so sudden and marked as to star
le one. AS the men 60 out and the
'heels become still, one has better
nance to note the depths, width and
eight Of the buildings, which contain, for
ne small item, eighty thousand dollars
'orth Of iron Orders, which support the
oof. C
A trip back TO the hotel, good square
,ankee meal of corned beefand potatoes,
nd return to the beehive for alook a
trough the shops devoted to the manufac- Il
lre of the cabinets, and the tables of the C
Just one-balf of the mammoth t
uilding is devoted to this work. Before a
e 60 in, the Superindent tells me that q
hese shops used up nearly 200, 900 feet v
the choicest pine lumber every month,
nd that the bills paid each month for e
lahogany, rosewood and walnut would K
tart most any man in business. | did a
OF ascertain what it costs to run the I
hole establishment for a single month, q
ut should suppose that the products of \
aging silver mine would be required. 0
he cost of ground, buildings, machinery s.
nd tools must have used up over half Il
'illion dollars before a sewing machine .
as turned ont Hero in theaa roon,e a 30 h