The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-18
New York Trlbune.l

tNeW York Tribune.)
TO the perennial question. Where do
all the pins go?' no adequate answer
has ever been made. Some are swal-
lowed, for every now and then there is
published statement in regard to per-
sons who survive operations for the re-
moVal of this foreign body from the
human system. The majority are lost
TOR whoever is able to find a pin al
ways when it is needed?) and 1t NAV
be presumed that all finally disinte-
CRATE and return to the earth, from
winch came the elements combined in
these articles of use and convenience.
The origin of the pin is also lost in
the mists of antiquity, but as its proto-
type Is found in the thorn and the
slender nsh bone il may readily be con-
Guided that the use of these began
with the invention of clothing, usually
ascr1bed TO the father and the mother
or the race, Adam and Eve, when they
sewed FIG leaves together. and made
themselves aprons" in the Garden
eastward in Eden" although the fact
OF sewing would seem to show that the
needle is of higher ANTIQUITY than the
pm. In the most ancient remains of
the human race yet discovered, those
of the lake dwellers in central Europe.
there have been many pins found, some
OF bone and others of bronze. As if to
show that there is nothing new under
the sun, some have been found which
almost exactly resemble the modern
safety pin. Brass pins find mention in
the Book of Exodus Pins of wood
bone, ivory, bronze, silver and gold,
more or less rudely constructed, were
IN use among the ancient dwellers in
Egypt, Rome, Greece and Asia. The
chinese are practically the only pinless
nation, with all their skill and inven-
uVeness never having made use of this
device which is regarded as indispensa-
Die by the rest of the world. Artisti-
cally wrought pins are found in the
tombs of ancient Egypt. In Pompeii
and Herculaneum are preserved bronze
pins and bone hairpins. There are
many references TO these useful arti-
Giles in classic literature
The modern making of pins dates
back to the fifteenth century. when
pins of iron were first manufactured in
England, but it is believed that these
were without heads and were practi-
cally skewers. In the year 1910 pins
made from brass were introduced in
England by Queen Catherine Howard
the fifth of the six wives Of King Hen
~ VIII. In 1543 there was an act of
parliament which was designed ito
avoid the slight and false making of
pins" and provided that no person
shall put on sale any pinnes but only
such as shall be double headed, and
have the head soldered fast to the
shank Of the pinnes. well smOothed. the
shank we'll shapen. the points well and
round filed, canted and sharpened." At
that time the chief source of supply
was France, but in 1926 the manufac-
ture of pins took a great start in Eng
land, and one man employed 1.500 per-
sons. Ten years later the pinmakers
of London formed a corporation, but
later the industry found its chief seat
at Birmingham. In this country, in
ll75, prizes We're offered in the Caro-
linas for the first native made pins
and needles. but it was not until the
war of 1872 put a practical embargo on
the importation of pins. and the price
rose To prOhibitive proportions, that
their actual manufacture was started
in the United States. and it was inven-
tive Yankees who perfected the modern
process of pinmaking.
The invention of wire drawing was
the first great promoter of the pin in
duStry. and some aged persons can re-