The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1872-05-25
NERRlNAN & WILCOX,
DEALERS IN
SL.H'GER SEWIAG M.aCHZrES

THE MATHUSHEK PIANO AND sILy CIR
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Those who have an intelligent remembrance
Of events which happened twenty five years
since, must recollect how little interest the in
vention Of the sewing machine excited about
that period, except among those who opposed
its use, as all previously introduced labor-savinc
inventions had been opposed, on the ground
that they would be detrimental to manual in
dustry. The sequel, however, has shown that
the sewing machine has since hghtened IL Q
toll and added to the income Of the seamstress,
has cheapened the products hat were once de-
rived exclusively from hard work, and occa-
stoned a complete revolution In domestic indus
try. From the small and insignificant Begin
ming Of the sewing machine invention, about
the period referred to, wnen il was received
with very l.tle encouragement, and when the
sales OF machines were 50 small as to excite no
attention, the latter have become enormous.
amounting, in 1871, to six hundred and sir
thousand and eighty-6ve during that year
alone.
According to the sworn returns Of the various
com anies made In the year in question, under
the licenses granted them by the owners Of the
sewing machine patents, the number sold was
as just stated. of these 1871, ago machines were
sold by the Singer Manufacturing Company,
l2S,526 by Wheeler / Wilson Manufactnrinc
Company, 5O,S3S by Grover h Baker s, M. Co.
$1,000 BY Weed s. NJ. Co, S4,010 from Jann.
airy lst TO July lstl by Howe Machine Co., 90
~ BY Wilcox 4 Gibbs s. M. Co, 20,153 by
Wilson 5. M.Co., 20, III by American b. II. o.
and y. NJ. Co., 20,051 by Original Howe s. NJ.
Co., l5,947 by Florence s. M. Co, 1882 bv
Gold Medal s. NJ. Co., II, sos BY Davis 8. MI
Co, 1887 by Domestic s. NJ. Co, 1883 by
Flnkle b Lyon Manufacturing Co, 4,720 by
.Etna ). Al. Co., 4,577 BY Blees s. N. CO. 4.55b
by Elliptic s. N. Co.
recent memorable but disastrous event has
given peculiar prominence to the i'm
portant position which sewing machines oocn-
Ply in the industrial world. The Special Re-
lief Committee, organized at Chicago after
the great conftgration in that city. made a
report which was published in the Chicaro
Tribune, Of March 9th, Of the present year. In
which II is stated that the whole namber Of
sewing machines for which orders had been
issued 70 the date of the report, was 2,944, on
which the Committee had paid the sum of ST.
4so.s0. OF those ordered, the Singer Cbm-
pany supplied 2,427; Wheeler h Wilson. asa.
Howe, laI; Grover 4 Baker, A; Wilcox K
Gibbs, 30; Florence, Is; Finkie 4 Lyon, 90,
Biees, II; Etna, Ii; Wilson, 6; Western RIM
pire, 2; Manhattan, 2; Davis, Q; Elliptin J..
Gold Medal, |, and the American Button-Hole
This indicates how important a part sew,
ing machines were expected to play Ii III ~
superaticn OF domestic industry in the burn,
,ity, and in what high estimation The sinosr
! Family Sewing Machines are beld in h.
great west, where they lorna an essential and
conspicuous feature Of almost every household.
-Nsw FORK Dispatch.
Ass.c. Q. DoDSoN, Ag., Sardis, Miss. ]