The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-04-26
Communicated.
E,yEs Gales of SeNiiiC-Naacli


It may be remembered by some that con-
siderable excitement was created few
months ago among the sewing-machne fra
tcrnty l,v tie announcement that the Will
cox 4 Gibbs Company had sold over 1,OOG
Of their machines in exchange for the two.
thread machines Of other makers in part pay
mcnt during the year 1871. The increasing
popularity OF the Wilcox 4 Gibbs machine
has 50 multiplied these exchanges that the
Wilcox & Gibbs Company have found 1t
inplacticabic 10 get rid Of the large number
Of u. orkstitch and tw0-;hrcad machines
by private sale which were accommodating on
their hands. they have therefore adopted
the novel mode OF having quarterly auction
trade sales for the purpose OF clearing ON
the surplus stock OF double-tbread ma
chimes that accumulate on their hands by
these exchanges.
On Apri! 18th and 18th inStants one OF
these trade sales took place at 81 Isl oadWav
New York, at which the Wilcox X Gibbs
COMPANY sold over twelve hundred double
thread machines which they had taken III
| exchange for their machines i'll the past two
or three months. This lot wps composed OF
the best two-thread machines in the market
such rs Singer, Wheeler & Wilson, Grover u
| Baker. Howe. Weed, Florence, American
Button-Hoc, &C., &c. Tie machines were
| in excellent condition, the dates on some OF
| the plates showing that they were among the
| latest STYLES manufactured. The low prices
at which the machines were Knocked down
showed the low estimation in which these
dpuble-thread machines are beginning 20
he held by the New York public, most OF the
purchasers being Iersons in the trade from
other sections, OF course it will be undef'
stood no Wilcox & Gibbs machines can be
obtained at these sales, lis they are hardly
ever given up for exchange for any other
machine, and are therefore always scarce IN
the secondhand market.
In reference TO this trade sale the New
York Times makes the following comment,
which we copy for the benefit OF our readers
"The event itself is felt by the sewing,
machine trade To he very significant, and
other sewing-lnuchlne companies can liaroi!
let it pass i'm silence. 1t is all very well ioi
The Wilcox & Gibbs Company to be KNOCK
ing down rival machines i'll this summary
way TO effect clearance, but 1t must nave
been humilisting and CALLING to other COM
nanics TO see their beautiful and tavorite ma
chimes thus dragged in the dust at the htlafiot7
wheels of triumphant adversary. 1t was
not an improving spectacle for any OF THESE
doublc-thread companies to see machines
which they are selling every day for seventy
and Il hundred dollars OF more put up 'gho'
minio,lsly in il crowd and sold ut auction. IL
will probably take good, strong dose OF
philosophy to console them under the CIT
cumstances. 1t is all very well to say sac
transit alOy.{a n,unGf while all the resi- Oh
mankind are growing old and fading around
us. but to be growing docreeit and woril'out
while our rivals are increasing their strength
and renewing their youth Is rather ElH'
TALKING aud trying to the temper, Ihers
is only one consolation for the double-threao
companies; there are enough OF them 10 tofIu
a goodly mess. Like half-dozen0r dozen
old beaux who have each paid an uns'lccess,
full suit to sprightly maiden, but who ma
themselves quietly shelyed, while the obJect
Of their alteration walks off with handsome
and stpapping young fellow, they can afford
to forget their mutual jealousics and dislkes
in a common antipathy and aversion OF their
rival. They can smoke the pipe of peace and
gain melancholy glamour of enjoyment In
recounting their past hopes and successes.
and some one or two, more daring or wicked
than the rest, may possibly deceive them
selves into the fancy that they shall still enjoy
snatches of confidence and moments OF sto-
len Intimacy. Bnt In fair tight they nave
all been overcome, and public favor, which
loves nothing like success, mercilessiy snuDs
them as she passes them by leanlrg on the
arm of her beloved.
meanwhile the public, which ID solely M