Connecticut western news., 1876-11-10
CENTENNIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
ClCsinK Weeks of the ExpositiOD---RepOrts of the Judges of fAwnrds---Nev0rmOre-- Sewing Machines---The WardweII.

Cl0sfnR Weeks of the ExpOsitiOD---RepOrts
 of the Judges of Awards---NevormOre-
 Sewing Machines---The WardwelI.
 As the time for the close of the Exposition draws near, the number of visitors increases. People seem to be in haste, and rush here and there as if fearful that they will not have 8 chance to get good 10 ,k at the big show. Inc exhibitors, too al @ ill trouble lest
 THE REPORTS OF THE JUDGES OF AWARDS will not be ready in season to enable them to make known the merits of their exhibits to an expectant public.
 NEvERMoRE.
 l shall miss many pleasant and familiar sights after the tenth of November. The mammoth grapevine man will no longer stand under the shadow of his huge vine and dis pense souvenirs to 8 gaping crowd. The corn husker man will sell more ironclad gloves to Prangers. Peck, of the Practical Farmer, will no longer demonstrate, as I nave often seen him do, to surprised and delighted fruit growers that with West Chester pruning shears, an instru uent for pruning orchards, grapevines, etc.. which is but ten inches long and weighs only pound, he can, with one hand, easily cut of 8 dry hickory limb an inch and a half thick. platoon of police will not hold bsck the crowd pressing for admission to the New England kitchen; & rush of eager men and women will no longer surge through the pa .sageWays of the spacious Kansas and Colorado buildings to st the huntress of Colo rado aud her show of stuffed animals and birds nor will there be continuous riot of struggling human ty in the Womenis Pavili2n to see pat of butter molded into the perfect likeness of the human face divine. Nor will tue deep bass oi the Corliss engine and the rumbing of miles of revolving shafts and ma chimes in motion be supplemented by the buz- 2ing of hundreds of
 SEWING MACHINES IN MACHINERY HALL.
 Of improvements in sewing ma hines there seems to be no end No sooner does one take the lead and become accepted as tho best and most perfect machine ill the market, combining all the best points of the old standard ma chimes, than another with novel and marked improvements claims our attention, and look ing at it's salient features winch clearly indicate it's great superiority to its predecessors, we in- vount arily exrlaim: ''What next?"
 Among the multitude of sewing machines on exhibition there is one so noyo!, yet so simple in it's construction, 80 free from complications and liability to get out of order, it's parts so accurately fitted together by socket ball and joints, and running so noiselessly and perform ing such marvellous work, that will try to give such description of it as will account in part for the great crowd of visitors it has attracted during this Exposition. It is called the
 wARDwELL TWO SPOOL LoCK-sTTTCH SEWING
 MACHINE,
 has 8 reversible feed and revolving table, so that the operator can sew ill any direction, and can use this if they eau use any machine. It sews directly from two ordinary spools, with out shuttle or bobbp, effecting an immense saving of time. The loop is made in the dowr- W6FQ turuSC or the needle when the unread IS taut and in positive position, the needle loop passing entirely around the under spool, with out strain or friction making it possible to miss or drop stitches, and thread breaking & rare occurrence. The tension of the thread unlike all other lock-stitch machines is easily adjusted, and, when properly adjusted, is ne cessarily equal, as they unwind from equal spools. Another remarkable feature is it's self adjusting and self-holding needle, straight aud shorter than ill any other two-thread machine, which can be taken out or put in instantly, and capnot bo set wrong. The hook is 80 formed as to make it impossible to catch or break he needle or pass on the wrong side of it. so that the finest needle can be used. Aud as the ma chine makes stitch with tbe 3resser foot up as well as down, great variety of work not out change of needle, thread or tension, such as overcoming, hemstitching, darning, mak- ing designs or figures, and gussets in thread stronger than the cloth, and sewing the hard est and heaviest as well as the lighest mate rial. Finally, the timing of the machine is made abs olute in the casting of the shaft which drives all the working parts proportionately at the same instant, so that the stitches are made automatically and with certainty. The treadle and it's connections are so arranged that if the parts become loose and noisy by wear, the turning of one screw will remedy it. No other | machine combines so many excellenc, ,es or per | forms 80 wide a range of work, and it's inven- | tion is public bepefscton. As by sitting on opposite sides, one can run the treadle while | another operates the machine it is peculiarly ads. ted to invalids. There is an eager inquiry | for this machine, and would advise live sew | ing machine men wishing tc cure an agency | for It, to address the Vice-president Geo. w, | Shaw, at Norwich, Conn. $. M. B.