The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1872-06-08
MEBRlHAN & WILCOX,
THE MATHUSHEK PIANO AND SILVER
TONGUE ORGANS.

THE MATHUSHEK PIANO AND SILVER
TONGUE ORGANS.
273l Main Street, Memphis, Tenn
a Esw Facts .fboaf the Spread Of sewfng
.naehtRes.
Those who have an intelligent remembrance
of events which happened twenty. five years
since, mus; r~acolloet how little interest the in
%yention 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 in
dustry. The sequel, however, has shown that
the sewing machine has since hghtened Ii e
toll and added to the income of the seamstress,
has cLeipened the products that were once dc.
rived exclusively from hard work, aud 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, wncn il was received
with very little 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 six
thousand and eighty-fve during that year
alone.
According to the sworn returns OF the various
com anies made in the year i'll question, under
the licenses granted them by the owners Of the
sewing machine paterts, the number sold was
Us just stated. OF these 1871, $50 machines were
sold by The Singer Manufacturing COMPANY.
l2s,ba6 by Wheeler 4 Wilson Manufacturing
Company, h0s3s by Grover Baker S. NJ. Co.
$1,000 by Weed S. M. Co, 84.010 from Janu.
airy list 10 July lstl by Howe Machine Co 90
I1TT hr Wtin.1 (. GsAia - At ~ 40 -. -
Wilson ). NJ %. 20, III by American b. HI q.
and ). N. 60, 20,O5l BY Original Howe S. NJ.
Cos l5,947 by Florence s. NJ. Co, 1852 by
Gold Medal 5. NJ, Co., n SOS BY DAVIS \. Nj
Co., lO,3sf by Domestic S Al. Co, 1853 by
Einkie & Lyon Manufacturing Co, 4,I20 by.
-Etna y. Dr. Cos 4,577 by Blecs s.. NJ. CO. 1863
by Elliptic $. N. Go.
recent memorable but disastrous event has
given peculiar prominence to the i'm
portrait position which sewing machines occ,,.
py in the industrial world. The Speciat RE-
lief Committee, organized al Chicago after
the great conf, grafton In that q ty made n
report which was published in tie Chicaro
Tribune, Of March ON, Of the present wear. n
which II is stated that the whole Number Of
sewing machines for which orders had been
issued TO the date Of the report, wa! a,aIa. On
which the Committee had paid the sum OF S7I.-
1880. OF those ordered, the Singer tbm-
pany supplied 2,427; Wheeler / Wilson, 2s5;
Howe, la; Grover l. Baker, Al, Wilcox 4 |
Gibbs, 30; Florence, Is; Finkle Il Lyon, 20. |
Bleest III Atna, II Wilson, 8; Western En-
pire, 2; Manhattan, Z; Davis. q, Elaiptic i.
Cold MEDIA, 4 and the American Button. Hole,
Z. tbs 'ndiceies how important a part sew.
ing machines were expected 10 play II the ~
epreraticn Of domestic Industry In the burnt
cilt, and IN what high estimation The Singer
Family sewiag MACHINES are held In Ia
great wtst, Nhtrn they forp an essential ana
coatplc'ioiis feature of almost every household.
Nss rort Diyatet.
hnS. {. q. DoDS0N, ACT, sardls Miss.