The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1872-07-20
AGRRlhiN & WILCOX,
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II FttO Facts .sboHf tie Spread or ssUfn
sHaehtass.
Those who have an intelligent remembrance
of events which happened twenty-five years
since, must r~ecollcct 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-saving
inventions had been opposed, on the ground
that they would be detrimental to manual I'm
dustry. The sequel, however, has shown that
the sewing machine has since lightened IT,
toll and added to the income of the seamstress,
has cheapened the products that were once de-
rived exclusively from hard work, and occa-
stoned q complete revolution in domestic indus
try. From the small and insignificant begin
ming OF the sewing machine invention, about
the period referred to, when IL was received
with very little encouragement, and when the
sales OF machines were SO small as to excite no
attention, the latter have become
amounting, In 1871, to six hundred and six
thousand and eighty-ivo during that year
alone.
According to the sworn returns of the various
com anies mado In the year in question, under
the licenses granted them by the owners of the
II ih++Ahihba INtNLh 10 wy hhhibc oDiu WINS
as just stated, OF these 1871, EGO machines were
sold by the Singer Manufacturing Company,
l2S,626 by Wheeler b Wilson Manufacturing
Company, 50,S3S by Grover & Boxer s, N. Co,
1865 by Weed s. NJ. Co, S4,0l0 from Janu.
airy lst to July 1st) by Howe Machine Co, 90
l27 by Wilcox s. Gibbs s. M. Co, 20,153 by
Wilson s. M. Co, 20,12i by American B. II. 0.
and :. N. Co, 20,051 by Original Howe s. NJ.
Co, lb,947 BY Florence s. N. 90, 1852 by
Gold Medal s. NJ. Co, 1858 BY Davis s. NJ,
Co., 1887 by Domestic s. M. o., 1859 by
Finklc& Lyon Manufacturing Co, 4,72O by
-AGtna iS.M. CO, s,5f7 BY sBlces s. N. Go. 1855
by Elliptic SasM. Go. ss
ARGENT memorable but disastrous event has
given peculiar prominence to the i'm
portant position which sewing machines occu-
Ply in the industrial world. The Special Re-
lief Committee, organised II Chicago after
the great co~nfsgration In that city, made q
report which was published in the Chicago
Tribune, of March 9th, of the present year, In
which 1t is stated that the whole number of
sewing machines for which orders had been
Issued to the date Of the report, was 2,944, on
which the Committee had paid the sum Of ST.
4a0.S0. OF those ordered, the Singer Com
pany supplied 2,42I; Wheeler i Wilson, 235;
Howe, l27; Grover h Baker. Al; Wilcox 4
Gibbs, 80; Florence, Is; Finkle h Lyon, 20;
Blees, II; Htna, II; Wilson, s; Western EN-
pirc, 2; Manhattan, 2; Davis, 2; Elliptic, /;
Gold Medal, |, and the American Button Hole,
2. This indicates bow important a part sew
ing machines were expected to play in the re-
cupcration of domestic industry in the burnt
city, and in what high estimation The Singer
"Familyn Sewing Machines are held in the
great west, where they form an essential and
conspicuous feature of almost every household.
-Neso Fork Dispatch.
MIS-. @. G. D0DS0N, AIT, Sardis Miss.