The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-08-01
From Correspondence n. Y. Trade Journal.l
r. M. Wanzer & Co. S Sewing Machines

ta9oS to the country. IL mas always ap
peared glaring and unjust anomaly tina
the people of America should be obliged
to pay thirty per cent more for machine!
made here than the same article wa!
commonly sold at in Europe. Such pro
lection as this is beneftting the individu
al too much at the expense of the com
munity. Now that the manufacture is
free, healthy competition may be ex
pected that will enable the consumer tC
purchase machine at q reasonable fig
ure, and bring fsir return to the pro
ducer. 1t was about the year 1858 that
exclusive rights were given to some com
panies to make certain parts of sewing
machines, so that it was impossible fol
any one else to engage in the industry
without paying them large premiums
This tended to limit the number Of man
ufacturers. In the year named, Mr.. R
NJ. Wanzer commenced business in Butfa
10 but soon found himself unable to con
tend against the combination, while he
was not disposed to pay for the privileges
referred to Like all shrewd and deter
mined men, he was not long in finding
out profitable way to carry out his own
ideas. Seeing the hopelessness of max
| ing headway in the States he removed tC
Hamilton, Canada, in 1859, where he has
continued to extend his connections sc
considerably that he now does one of the
largest trades on the continent. His ma
chimes are not only known in every part
of the Dominion, but their reputation
seems to have spread in nearly every di
rection. In England there is the WanZer
Sewing Machine Company, Oimited)
whose headquarters are in London. As
its name indicates, it was instituted for
the sale of the Wanzer machines in the
Mother country. Mr.. Wanzer is one of
the principal shareholders, and some OF
the heaviest English capitalists are iden-
tilted with it. In Dublin, Messrs, PIN
Bros. & Co, the celebrated poplin manu-
facturers, have the control of the ma
chimes for Ireland. In Ham burg, Messrs.
Doubleday Sons q Co., handle them for
Germany. In France the head office is
in Paris and agents are at Marseilles,
Avignon, Lyons and ninety other towns.
There are thirty agencies in Russia with
principal ones at st. Petersburg and Mos
COW. The leading Austrian agencies are
at Vienna and Pesth. There are twenty
agencies in Denmark, the principal one
being in Copenhagen. Christensen,
Stockholm and other points in Sweden
are supplied from the German agency in
Hamburg. There are fifteen places of
sale in Norway. Portugal and Spain are
not neglected, agencies being in all the
towns of business consequence. But Mr..
Wanzer has valuable connections not
only in European countries his machines
are we'll known in Australia, the head
quarters being at Melbourne. He was
the first to introduce the sewing machine
to South Africa, and has now the great
est trade there. He also exports to New
Zealand, and to that most interesting of
countries, Japan, business cen treing at
Yokohoma Trade is also done with
Brazil and Peru and all countries on the
East and West coasts of South America.
1t will thus be seen that he does very
large business, with far-reaching ramifica
tions He has been desirous of having a
standing in the States, and therefore
hailed with pleasure the advent of the
time when in the home of the sewing ma
chine its manufacture should be perfectly
free.
Accordingly he re-established himself
in Buffalo, at 90 Broadway. But what
contrast his opening this branch manu-,
factury on American soil in 1877, COM
pared with his first effort in 1858. Then
he was attempting to found business,
now he comes an entirely successful man,
sending his produce to the most distant
points of the globe Then he was only
an experimenter, pushing his way, now
he has firmly founded and extensive
business and has the CO operation of his
son and other partners to extend yet
further the great reputation of the firm.
Its style is r. NJ Wanzer & Co., the
members being Mr.. Wanzer himself his
son, F. L. Wanzer, Esq, j. NJ Fair, Esq
and J. McCune, Esq. Each partner has
his department, everything being syste
- Il dow ha
ed arrangement the Dominion and gen
eral export trade will be pushed with the
same energy as heretofore, while special
efforts are devised for the American field.
Efficient agents have already been ap
pointed, and several openings wait to be
filled as the right men appear. They
are prepared to give unusually advanta-
geous terms. The instalment principle
is not adopted, but sales are made for
cash or at ninety days with approved
parties. The heavy iron work of the
machines for the American market is
made at Hamilton, and then forwarded
to the mandatory in Buffalo, where the
steel, screws, brasswork, japanning and
are done. This arrangement
secures the lowest cost in production.
The most modern manufacturing facili-
ties are possessed, and the greatest care
is taken that each machine is mathemat-
ically correct. Every part is of genuine
material, all being strictly gauged and
well finished. Three hundred men are
regularly employed at Hamilton. The
average number of machines manufac-
tured now runs up to between five and
six hundred, while sales one week recent
ly totalized L. 100 machines. The Buffalo
building runs from Broadway to Oak
street, the show room fronting on the
former and the manufactory being in the
rear. The Wanzer Family Machine can
be worked by foot or hand, the combina
ton being unequalled. The popularity
of this machine is shown by 100000 of
them having been sold. The tailoring
machine has no gear or cams, which gives
most power with least wear 1t moves
backward or forward equally well. The
leather machine is the same as the tailor
ing, excepting a wheel feed and extra
length of arm, adapting it better to the
particular work A new family machine,
just introduced, has a capacity of stitch
of from nearly half an inch down to moth
ing. An index to the extensive sale OF
the Wanzer machines is shown by the
fact that their instruction books are
printed in twenty different languages.
We look upon it as national benefit
that Messrs. r. NJ. Wanzer d Co. have
themselves in the States.
Their machines have several points Of
exceptional excellence, and are sold at
the lowest scale of prices, which must
ensure that success here which has at
tended their sale everywhere else.
BUFFALO, n. Y.