The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-03-28

managed. Its present officers are Mr.. Iusaee
A.. Hopper, President and Mr.. George Ross Nc
kenzie Vice President.
Its management has been solid and bri Iii ant
Its business has steadily grown, and is in creas-
ing every year. Its stock amounts to ten Oil
lions of dollars, upon which it pays fine dkyi-
bends regularly.
THE INVENTOR.
Mr.. Isaac Singer, the inventor of this ma
chine, is still living. He was born in the Unit ted
States, October 1lth, 1911, and is, therefore,
sixty-three wears of age. He first invented his
struggle in bringing his machine into success.
The history of his labors would form inter.
esting chapter of heroic manhood, and pressst
m and and %ets hav
warded. He has lived to the fruit of hts
ingenuity, the architect of q supreme succean
and the creator of q vast fortune for an Cd
age. For the last nine years Mr.. Singer his
been in England with his family.
HEADQUARTERS
The headquarters of the company is a hand
some i've story building, in the finest style of
modern architecture, on Union Square, N. Y.
polite and attentive. The establishment
shows order and management throughout
ITS FACTORIES.
The company owns vast deal of valuable
property. 1t has five large sets of works. 1t
has I'M mense IN an ia tories of the machine in
Scotland and in Elizabethport, New Jersey.
IL has, at Sonth Bend, Indiana, large factory
where it makes the black walnut machine
boxes.
1t has a factory in Newark, New jersey
where it manufact ures on a large scale be silk
twist used for the machine At these factories
there is an aggregate of 5000 hands employed,
and the weekly payroll is not under $50, 600.
This property is worth at least So 100000.
THE EL1zABETHPoRT WORKS.
Its lsrgest works are at Elizabethport, NJ,
on the New Jersey Central Railroad, about
twelve miles from New York. Tnese works
new, having been only in use one year. and
ference to it's waDts and increasing business.
The buildings are of brick, with iron frame
work. They cost nearly two millions of dol
lars, and cover five acres of ground.
These works are grand specimen of diver
sifed and skilled industry. They a COM
pick aggregation of every high mechanical
creation. Everything belonging to con-
nected with sewing machine is made here.
Over two Thousand two hundred wOrkmen are
employed at this time in these works. making
payroll of twenty-five thousand dollars u
week. There is every class of mechanical
labor employed from the iron fouudrynan to
the wood carpenter, and from the keen-eyed
aud nimble-hugered constructor of delicate
steel tools to the artist of ornate mosaic
tracery.
There are about one hundred and twenty
parts TO every sewing machine. Aud every
part passes through at beast two special hands,
1t takes at least two hundred and fifty work
men to make one machine, each workman de-
voting himself to a speciality. The time neces-
sary to turn ont u complete machine is about
one month.
Wood and iron are the principal elements of
a Singer machine. The iron predominates
This factory uses the enormous SUN of nine |
b undred tons of crude iron year. There are
two hundred hands who do nothing but make
the sand moulds in which the frame pieces of |
the machines are cast. Each separate piece !
has to have its own special mould made ont OF !
dirt brought down the Hudson river, beyond |
The buildings in which these nice
are cast are Eve hundred aud fifty
feet in length and one hundred feet wide. The
foundry is six hundred feetlong and one hun
1red feet wide.
These great works, with their 22o0 toling
are turning out
EIGHT HUNDRED PERFECT MACHINES
n Glasgow, Scotland, at it's works there the
company turns ont 1000 more every week. +
This makes grand aggregate of 100000 ma
hints made yearly by this great company,
worth over three millions of dollars giving
Employment directly to q large army of en-
'lOyees representing families of 100000 people
No better illustration could be given of the
growth of the business of this
company than the statement of the fact that
n twelve years the weekly prod Ucton of ma
hines has Increased from 400 to 7000-nesrly
10 better testimony could be given than this
o merit Of the machine or ability of manage
nent.
The company has branch business houses in
IL the leading cities of America and Europe,
nd some 1900 sub-agencies under them, and
mploys in these agencies the large number of ;
900 persons.
The New Orleans Agency is under the man
cement of that most enterprising merchant
nd genial gentleman, VIM. f. Cooper, Esq.
assessed of high moral character and great |
usiness capacity and energy, Mr.. Cooper has !
lcreased the sale of the Singer ten fold since
G took charge of the agency, and by thus
rowing its merits, made it the general fayorite !
18th the ladies. Mr., Coopers Office is at SO
anal street, where the merits of the Singer, of
hieh he has always on hand . large number,