River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-11-26
The National Garment Gutter.

We recently took occasion to visit
the Gen trail House parlors in this city,
where Messrs. Goldsberry, Doran &
Nelson have established a branch of
their great Chicago House for the in
PRODUCTION and sale of one of the most
useful inventions yet brought out by
mans ingenuity. The article to
which we refer has heretofore been
spoken of in the advertising columns
of the JOURNAL, as our constant read
ers have doubtless observed, and is
rapidly ascending the ladder of fame
as 1.-The National Garment Cutter
BY its use any person of ordinary in
telligence can cut and fit, not only
dresses, but garments of all kinds
worn by men, women, boys and girls.
This system is vast Improvement up
on all methods heretofore presented
for public approval, not only because
of the unequalled ease by which
dresses may be cut, but by reason of
the extended range of work in which
it may be successfully and satisfactor-
lily employed. Metaphorically speak
ing, it is a big thing, and this fact
was strongly impressed upon us by an
incident which recently occurred in
this city. The National Garment Cut
ter has become household word here
and children as well as grown people
talk of it, though the ideas of some of
the smaller ones as to what constitutes
the Cutter are somewhat vague. One
day a -year-old urchin who had
evidently heard of the Garment Cutter
but was not accustomed to the sight
of locomotive, saw train pulling
out for Ellsworth with Engineer
Fitzgerald at the throttle-which is
equivalent to saying that she was get
ting there in great shape-and, gazing
upon the scene in wonder and amaze
ment, after the engine had passed the
little fellow turned and ran INTO the
house almost breathless with excite
ment, exclaiming: ''Mama! | did just
see the National Garment Gutter go
by!" Literally speaking, the little
chap was somewhat loft, but in a
fgurative sense the illustration was
apt indeed. The gentlemen engaged
in the Introduction and sale of this
valuable household necessity in Pierce
county are pushing the work with the
most gratifying success, as the prac-
teal utility of the invention is seen at
a glance. Besides providing an arti.
Gle which enables every housewife to
do her own cutting and fitting of gar
ments of whatsoever kind the Gompa-
ny is furnishing remunerative employ
ment to all who may wish to profit in
financial way by engaging in the
sale of the Cutter. The cordial en-
dOrsements given the Cutter by those
who have become familiar with its
workings entitle it to the careful and
candid consideration of all, and the
very general success with which it is
meeting stamps it as an article of
genuine merit which is rapidly filling
a long felt want-and the pockets of
all who sell it, with money.
In letter to Mr. Doran, from Hon
ey Grove, Texas. June Goth, 1885, we
find the following:
If my experience in introducing the
National Garment Gutter in Texas
was summed up it would be as follows:
AS a pleasant and profitable business,
the Gutter has no rival, it has brought
employment and opened up avenues of
industry to thousands of idle hands.
To the poor, the middle class and the
rich it has furnished alike the art of
cutting and making all kinds of gar
mentS in the best manner and latest
styles, an art hitherto supposed to
belong exclusively to tailors and dress
makers. 1t is the only scientific sys-
tenn of cutting yet adapted to general
use, aud is 50 easily learned that any
lady can with a few hours instruction,
use it efficiently. 1t has no long string
of proper tions to be remembered OF
puzzlng calculations to be made. |
have never taught any lady who did not
learn to use it with satisfaction to her
self, and yet have never in single
instance turned off an applicant.
Many ladies | have taught could not
learn to use the chart system they had
tried, but learned to use the Cutter
easily. My agents are delighted with
the work of selling the Cutter, aud
say that everywhere they go they are
received as benefactors rather than
agents. j. IL. SMITHERS-
FALLS CITY, NEB., June 10, So
MesSers. GotdSberry Doran & Nelson,
Dear Sirs:-A fter six months active
work in the sale of the National Gar
ment Cutter | am taking weeks va
cation and will embrace the OppOrtu-
nifty of reporting to you my experience
in the work. Owing to the vast num-
Der of agents you are constantly send
ing out, it is likely you have forgotten
the circumstances attending my en-
trance into your work. Owing to a
long spell Of sickness, and having
family to support, found myself al
most at the end of the string financial
ly. But fully realizing the simplicity
aud perfection of your work, together
with its universal need, / saw at a
glance there was big money in it for
any one willing to work. And now
know it, for after six months work
through one of the severest winters
the west has ever known, [ can show
an average net gain of over six dollars
IL day. l start for Blair, Nebraska, OH
the 18th to open up the work there.
have never struck point where big
money could not be made with the
Cutter, nor do I expect to. lis the
ladies friend, the mothers salvation
and the agents redemption.
Yours for success,
HARRY PITToCK.
Those with an eye to business do
moi fail IN Goa in what the Garment