The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1872-05-18
MERRINAN & WILCOX,

THE MATHUSHEK PIANO AND SLY ER
TONGUE ORGANS.
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Those who have an intelligent remembrance
Of events which happened twenty-five years
since, must r~ecollect 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-savinp
inventions had been opposed, on the ground
that they would be detrimental to manual in
dustry. The sequel, however, has shown hat
the sewing machine has since hghtened tie
toll and added 70 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
tho 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-fve 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, 26O machines were
sold by the Singer Manufacturing Company,
1885 BY Wheeler / Wilson Manufacturine
Company, 50,838 by Grover L Baker s, NJ, Co.
1855 by Weed s. NJ. Co., 34,010 from Janu.
airy LIST to July 1st) by Howe Machine Co., 20
127 by Wilcox s. Gibbs s. NJ. Co, 2Ol53 by
Wilson s, N. Co, 20, l2I by American B. H. o.
and s. N. Co., 20,05l by Original Howe s. N.
Co, l5,947 by Florence s. N. Co, 1862 BY
Gold Medal 8. NJ. Co., Il, 1858 by Davis s. M.
Co, 1887 by Domestic 5. N. Co, 1889 by
Finkle b Lyon Manufacturing CO., ALTO by
Etna s. NJ. Co, 4,577 by Blees s. M. Co. 1855
by Elliptic S. NJ Co.
A recent 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, organized at Chicago after
the great conf'gration in that city, made a
report which was published in the Chicago
Tribune, of Aarch 9th, Of the present year, In
which IL 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.
43o.SO. OF those ordered, the Singer Com
pany supplied 2,427; Wheeler & Wilson, ass;
howe, l2I; Grover b Baker, A; Wilcox 4
Gibbs, 80; Florence, Is; Finkle l. Lyon, 20;
Blees, III Etna, IL; Wilson, 5; Western EN-
pire, p Manhattan, 2; Davis, Q; Elliptic. /:
Gold Medal, l, and the American Button-Ho
2. This indicates how important q part sew,
ing machines were expected to play In the re-
cuperation Of domestic industry in the burnt
city, and in what high estimation the sinrer
"Family" Sewing Machines are held in The
great west, where they form an essential and
conspicuous feature of almost every houseboId
--Ner Fork Dipath.
! Mns. G., G., poDsoS, Astr sardis, Miss.