The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-07-31


for transporting the wounded during
our late war. This is another COCA.
sion for expressing regret. Why
could not Mr.. Pullman have sent oveI
one drawing room car and one sleep
ing car? Not models, but actual cars
In the Austrian part OF the machin.
cry hall is sleeping car built for the
through line from Vienna to Paris
1t is closer approximation to oul
system than anything 1 have ye,
seen. Still there are grave points oi
difference. The setting of the wheels
are different. There is not SO much
delicate economy Of space and not &C
much ingenuity in the arrangements
for comfort. Every countryman whom
have met has regretted the absence
of Pullman's car; we all feel the need
Of something that will give the Euro
peans ocular demonstration Of the
justice Of our complaints upon the dis
com tort Of continental travel.
The display Of sewing machines is
lavish. All our leading firms are rep
resented, each one exhibiting a great
number and variety Of machines. The
pavilions are in themselves handsome,
being carpeted and otherwise orna-
mented. They attract much atten-
ton, and l understand that q good
business in the way OF sales has al
ready been begun. Orders come In
freely. Our machines hold their own
against all competition. Even where
they are not protected by patent
rights-and the same holds good Of
our agricultural mschines-f foreign
makers find it impossible to initiate
successfully our castings. The brief
est trial will convince one Of the diff
ference between . German made and
an American made machine Of pre-.
cisely the same pattern. The novelty
in this department Is an impro vement
introduced by Mr.. G.. s. Fairfield, Of
the Weed Sewing Machine Company,
Hartford. The chief difficulty in the
use Of the sewing machine has been
this: Whenever the operator wished
to change the direction of the seam,
he or she had to stop the motion Of
the foot in turning, and even with the
most prolonged practice could not al
ways stop at exactly the point desired.
The momentum of the wheel was
lost. In starting agoin the clamp had
to be adjusted by the hand, aud II
the wheel was at the dead point 1t
also had to be helped by the hand.
These were three defects, then, to be
remedied. Mr.. Fair6eld's process il
the perfection of simplicity. BY
merely pressing button on the table
the needle is iHstantaneously stopped,
being thrown out OF gear. while the
wheel goes on revolving by the action
of the foot. As the needle is stopped
the clamp is at the same time brought
down firmly on the cloth SO as to dis
pence with adjustment by hand. On
removing the hand from the button
the needle recommences work, for the
has not been lost. The
patentee claims that in certain kind OF
work-ornamenting, for instance
where the line of the seam to be
changed frequently. more than one
half the operators time can be saved.
i n " a 20 otr in
repeatedly, and can testify to the pre-
cision with which it works. In truth,
1t works more like telegraph key
than an ordinary sewing machine.
With 1t the operator can stop and then
then start new line at right angles
to the old more quickly than the spec
tator can see how it IL done. This
little improvement is the most ingen-
ious invention that we have to show
outside of our machinery department
proper. Close by is knitting-ma-
chine exhibited by the Lamb Compa-
ny that attracts much attention.
HoweIl's photographs, il not so cold
in tinting as Kurz's, are less finished
in execution. The proportion of ugly
to handsome faces, moreover, is ex.
cessive. The Photographic views OF
Chicago In ruins would be interesting
if they We're only properly framed and
arranged.
Sweet, Barnes 4 Co.. OF Syracuse,
exhibit a handsome stand Of steel cut
ters for moving machines. The ex-
hibition of wire bird-cages, made
without solder, by Lindemann and by
of New York, is the best of
its kind In the palace. Our Light
House Board has sent some views Of
light houses, conspicuous among
which Is the one of Alligator Reef,
Florida. 1t also exhibits one Of Fon's
hydraulic foat-lamps, Of the second
order. Scattered along in rather pro-
miscuous order are some architectural
plans OF the dome of the Capitol at
Washington Of the proposed munich
pal buildings in Philadelphia. by Jno.
Macarthur; houses in Madison ave-
nue., and villas on the Hudson. The
is good SO far ~ it goes, but
1t is far too meager to give to foreign
ers fair idea of American public or
private buildings.
The same may be said Of the United
States coast survey maps, the military
map Of the Indian Reservation, and
the Land Office map, all exhibited by
the American Geographical Society.
Mr.. jays plan, which he urged re-
peatedly upon the State Department,
was far more com prehensive and clear
sighted, It was to exhibit Europe
and the United States on maps Of the
same scale, SO as to show at q glance
the relative sizes of the two countries.
Our maps, further, were to show sue
cessively the amount Of land already
settled and that still to be occupied,
the areas Of wheat-land, prairie, tim
ber, the mineral regions, etc. Such
series of maps, accompanied by brief
text, would not only
have decorated our walls handsomely,
but would have given . concrete Inn
age OF our resources, our actual and