Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-11-17
Thev brought In Another Horse.


Messrs. Emory l. Scarborough, agents
for the lodging, gouging, poking and puck
ering tool, favored us through Sunday morn
ing's papers with a fresh bray, direct from
headquarters. That bray, while affecting
not to desire to notice me, shows plainly on
its face to be bald hypocrisy that it was
intended for publication, and brands them
Headquarters as being as base fraud as
the one they are attempting to palm off on
the public by trickery and false representa-
tons of excellence, which they know they
do not possess.
That letter was intended for publication.
1t spoke their "httle piece" it told their
whole story, even quoting matter that they
k1aew all their agents had hundreds, if not
thousands of circulars of, and then dishon-
estly and cowardly lodged behind false
and assumed dignity, with the express view
of shielding themselves agains. further ex-
posure, and in the hope of its rubbing out
of the remembrance of the public their re-
cent defeat here, by leaving it to be inferred
that they could and mould do wonderful
things, only for their great dignity!
If that letter had not been intended for
publication, they never would have dared
iusult the intelligence of man they had
sent out as representative by writing him
sueh chaff, and don't doubt but instruc-
tons accompanied it "to publish at their
expense"
These headquarters goes on to say that
"when reasonable challenge, endorsed by
the secretary or president of any company
is made, for the best sewing machine, that
is, doing the greatest variety of cork, it will
find the Davis company at all times ready to
contest it."
The italics in the above quotation are
mine. They are made to show that the
Davis company are particular about the
kind of challenge that they will agree to
contest" and the definition of what is to
constitute 'best sewing machine" The
one doing the greatest variety of work.
Now if these headquarters were honest, o,
even had good sense, they would not at
tempt such fragrant fraud and dishones
trick on an intelligent public as hypocrit
icaIly pretending that they have wonder
full machine" and at the same time whel
they challenge, or agree to contest
challenge, they dodge the merits Of the ma
chine itseLf and narrow the controversy dow
to Ruffier, to which, coupled with theil
knavery, they owe whatever success they
have achieved at fairs, in palming off this
ridiculously absurd monstrosity on the pub
lie, and in fact, their very existence itself
In order to proue the correctness of this as
sertion, and to show how fran il
their claim for public patronage, I will
state that one of their agents here admitted
to me that their machine had been on tn,
market IS years. Now, they got their rufhel
in 1874, up to which time the Sswing.
Machine Journal shows in its tabulatet
statement for that year, that they had
sold only q, sos machines, being only littl'
over 1000 machines q year. Their mum
bers ,soU after having the ruff1er six year
runs up to 220, 000-which shows that il
sir gears NTH the ru6Ter, they have sol
more than ten times as many machines a
they did in the tmenty years in which the.
did not have it.
| Now, that 1 have shown what the rufie
is to that company, exposed the hypocris.
and trick they have played on the public,
will now give few of the items of cost tina
possesser of one of these ruff1ers, which ha
a capacity for doing only few kinda O
impractical work, that cannot be SO easil
done with other rufflers, together with tn
points lodged by that company, whicl
in lodging they admit are against them.
First, you are charged fully twenty dollar
more for the machine, simply because tina
ruf1er fits it, than the machine would brin
if it did not.
2. You are again charged two dollars for
unless the agent has adopted the fraud c
adding it to the price he asks for the me-
chine.
3. You have to take machine that
built on SO miserable principal as to max
it run as heavy as mud mill.
4. The machine cannot possibly last hal
dozen years.
s. It ruins your nice work by punching
gouging and scattering oil all over it, whe
enough is put in its face to protect tn
machinery.
8. 1t is fearfully complicated in its parts
Z. 1t is difficult to learn to opperate, on
agent admitting to me that he was 10 day
teaching lady to use one.
8. 1t is easy to get out Of order and dit
cult to repair.
| 8. After little use it is exceedingl
noisy, wearing rapidly and becomin
shaky.
10. 1t is easily gummed up, being f
r boxed up that it cannot be gotten at fl
!, 4 proper cleaning without taking it apart,
l the great risk of never getting it back rigl
again.
] II. In addition to the great disadvantas
of having the fearful strain and friction
the feed, needle-bar, take-up and site
+ regulator, all cramped up in space Il
larger than the inside of five cent blac
ing box, directly ouer your work, you ha
!. 6eloto it all the defects Of other shuttle N
chimes. CThe Wheeler Il Wilson has no shr