Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-12-13
A JUST DECISION.
The Highest Award Possible Captur-
ed by the Standard Sewing
Machine Company.
A Result Highly Gratifying 70 the
Thousands Who Have Stopped TO
Admire their Beautiful Exhibit.
From the Ohio State dournnl.

From the Ohio State Journal
The awarding committee at the Ohio CEN
tennial made no more just decision in the en-
tire discharge of their official duty than that
in regard to the exhibit of the Standard
Sewing Machine company. The bestowal of
the silver medal for the highest merit was
not only just one, but meets the approval
of every visitor to the great show. The
Standard people fairly outdid themselves on
this occasion and eclipsed all previous ef-
forts in the way Of display, "a the ladies will
attest who found their corner in Central hall
an ever entertaining and instructive spot.
II is indeed remarkable what may be andis
accomplished on this wonderful piece OF mech
anism. The most difficult, and heretofore
impossible. results in embroidery and etch-
ing are rendered an easy and simple matter
by the operator of the most ordinary skill.
Some of the pieces shown IN the Centennial
grounds are perfect marvels of ingenuity,
and were it not that practical illustrations
were continually in progress before the eyes
of the deople it would be hard to believe that
they were ever made by a sewing machine.
Several in particular, in that popular style
known as etchings, have excited much COM
ment by their strangely truthful resemb-
lance to nature. No artists brush could pro-
duce more lifelike portraits than those ex-
hibited among a thousand other samples; in
Fed even the most intricate landscape work
is done with equal ease, and trees, sky.
water and figures, miraculous to say, stand
boldly out in silk, perfect in perspective,
form and coloring.
The Standard sewing machine has been
compared to the old styles as the wonder
working harvester of to-day is to the crude
and imperfect instrument of years ago.
Certainly it has revolutionized that great in-
dustry by simplifying construction and the
substitution of the improved rotary shuttle.
The latter. by the way, is the philosopher s
stone" of the sewing-machine business,
sought after for years. the idea of a continu-
GUS motion for this all important part being
an accepted theory, but the application of it
baffied all until Mr.. W. A. Mack, the inventor
of the Domestic and other makes, correctly
developed the principle. The advantages of
this system as embodied in the Standard are
so numerous that it would require volumes
to enumerate them. The economy of power,
the absence of friction, and the multiplied
tion of speed are a few that recommend it
over all others.
The success of the Standard is the marvel
of the sewing machine world. Probably the
youngest in the market, it has suddenly leap
ed into prominence and universal use. Mr..
Frank Mack, the president of the company,
stopped in this city yesterday for day on a
flying trip through the country, and here, as
everywhere else, found the Standard at the
top in popular favor. He was here to say
that their present capacity of 150 machines a
day would be inadequate in another six
months.
Their triumph at the Ohio centennial is
but a similar experience wherever they have
shown or come into contact with other manu-
facturers. AT the New England Triennial
exposition held at Boston they took the high
est honors; the same at the Mechanical In
stitute fair at New York, where they CON-
peted with all the best-known machines in
the country; and the result at the Ohio State
fair of last year is too well known to be re-
peated. 1t is needless to say that the Stand
ard Machine company's exhibit will always
be remembered in the future as one of the
pleasantest of Ohio's centennial as we'll as
| the courteous treatment of Mr.. George D.
Henderson, the state agent, and his corps OF
obliging assistants.