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VOL. I.—NO. 1. N E W Y O R K , APRIL 10, 1891.

SEWING MACHINE TIMES. o

P u b l i s h e d o n t h e l O t h a n d 85th. o f E a c h M o n t h .

3STEW Y O B K . [Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1891, by E. H. Cratge, In the Office of the

Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS NUMBER.

FELIX,

TAKEUP,

GUNFLINT,

TINKER,

RANDOM,

(News Letter.)

(News Letter.)

(Reminiscences—(concl tided.)

(News Letter.)

(News Letter.)

THE MYSTERY OF BLOODY RUN (concluded.)

Augusta, Me.

Marinette, Wis.

Jonesboro, Ind.

Little Rock, Ark.

Parkersburg, W. Va.

By Bill Bind.

SEWING MACHINE TIMES.

THIS PAPER aims to be a representative of the trade in its larger compass, embracing the interests legitimately dependent on or con-tr ibutary to it, giving News, Useful Information and general Reading of interest to all who are concerned in the Production or Marketing of Sewing Machines.

CORRESPONDENCE IS INVITED on all germane subjects, and discussion of such as are of general in teres t ; both sides may be heard through its columns.

ITS OWN VIEWS, on mat ters that belong to the public, will be freely spoken, in the belief that " Trade Journalism," worthy the name, involves more than furnishing a vehicle for the thoughts of others.

OUR BOOKS.

NOT TO. MAKE MONEY, bu t simply for the accommodation of our

Subscribers, we have arranged to supply the line of books listed on another page. rI hey are all good books. None of them are trashy, either in subject or in manufacture. "We give them at cost, and are glad to be of service to our regular Subscribers. Any one whose subscription is paid up can have them for the price named. Old or New Subscribers are treated alike.

A MISSING NUMBER.

To COMPLETE OUR FILES for binding we want a few copies of No. 465, February 25, 1891, of THE UNITED STATES SEWING MACHINE TIMES.

If parties who received specimen copies of that number, and not wishing to preserve them, will send to us in good order, we will, in payment, send SEWING MACHINE TIMES free for three months.

RECORD OF PATENTS.

SUBSCRIBERS will bear in mind that we purpose publishing, at the I end of the year, a supplement containing the record of Sewing I Machine Patents granted prior to this date, within the year 1891, so I tha t with those published hereafter the record of the year will be \ complete in the colums of SEWING MACHINE TIMES.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. s

PATENTS.

THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, referred to in another column, under the heading of " Patents ," is the very best publication in this country for those intei ested in science, engineering, mechanics, inventions, etc.

I t is amoDg our most highly-prized exchanges. I t is a valuable index to the progress of all the arts and sciences, and has been looked up to as an authority by a whole generation of practical men.

CHILTON BROTHERS.

ONE OF THE HANDIEST little tools imaginable for the sewing machine man, whether his duties be in an office or outside, is advertised by this firm. I t combines several of the muchdesired-and-not-usually-at-hand instruments that keep us on the hunt just when we are in a hurry to go somewhere or do something.

And what lady is there, with any sewing machine experience, who has not hunted all over the house for something with which to pierce the belt ? The little screw-driver is as easy to find as the big one, if you have this combination.

UNIVERSAL ATTACHMENT CO.

TEN YEARS IN THE MARKET, the Hand Powers advertised by this company are well-known to the trade. They are the only goods of the kind sold in the general trade, and of course our readers buy them when they need anything of the kind.

PERFORATING MACHINES, also offered by them, are, so far, only known to the larger machine offices, where Art Departments have been established. Now, with so cheap an instrument as is advertised, the smallest machine agency can have this rainy-day and money-making adjunct.

FLOWERS AND VEGETABLES.

FOR " FLOWERS THAT BLOOM IN THE SPRING," those who have not al-

rerdy done so should write at once to Jaaaes Vick, seedsman, Rochester, N. ¥., enclosing 10 cents for his " Floral Guide." There is no time to lose—the spring is here.

The " Floral Guide " is valuable for the mass of information it contains, bu t it costs nothing, as the price paid for i t is deducted from the purchase made.

Read the advertisment on our last page—and do not fail to write at once, mentioning this paper.

THE DOMESTIC IN PHILADELPHIA.

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT deals that has come to our notice lately is the purchase by the Domestic Company of their Philadelphia representative's business.

This office, which has been conducted as a buying agency for a long term of years, is an important one, having, next to New York City, the largest population of any local office.

Mr. Dean, the retir ing dealer, bought this business from E. B. Jordan, who succeeded F. M. Johnson. All of these gentlemen were experienced men, and conducted a profitable business, to which the company now succeeds.

We are informed by the management that the company do not, at present, contemplate any material change in the conduct of the business, except such expansion as a company's capital and opportunities permit beyond what a dealer deems judicious.

Mr. Dean, one of the old war horses of the trade, has not yet made public his intentions regarding future business, bu t has several sewing machine ventures under advisement.


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T H E N R E M E M B E R , THAT WE GUARANTEE ALL THIS AND MORE :

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CANADIANS CAN COMPETE.

Effect of the N. P. on the Sewing Machine Industry.

"Mr. J . T. B. Lee, of Bathurst street, is a Canadian who believes in the ability of his fellow-countrymen to compete with all the world. He is an ardent free trader, and sees in the present policy of the Reform party a step toward that end. In his business relations he has had occasion to mingle a good deal among sewing machine manufacturers, and in conversation told of the disastrous effect of the tariff on that industry. " Why , " said he, " t h e increase in the cost of raw material, and the limitation of market caused by the protective policy, has had a disastrous effect on the trade. In 1878 there were in Hamilton three sewing machine manufactories —the Wanzer, the Gardner and the Wilson & Bowman. They have been wiped out completely. The capital invested has been wasted and eaten up. In the case of two of them they did not pay 100 cents on the dollar and it is not yet known what the other will pay. In Guelph there were

two, possibly three—the Raymond, the Osborne, and I think, the Armes. There is only Raymond's factory left, and it is being run at half time. Down east in Montreal there were two good factories, and the only one now is the Williams ; the Singer Company, I believe, only put their machines together there after importing them. The sewing machine industry has been greatly hurt by the tariff. It is absurd to say that the difference is in the men. Some time ago I went through the factory of the White Sewing Machine Company of Cleveland, and found Canadians at the top in all departments. D'Aarcy Porter, the mechanical superintendent, is a man who went there from Hamilton. In the tool department the chief is J . Cline, who got his training under Raymond of Guelph. In most of the departments I visited I saw Canadians well up the ladder, twelve or fifteen of them foremen and principal men. The girl selected to show the ladies of Paris the work of the machine during the Paris Exposition is a Canadian—Miss Lewis, of Toronto. I t is a disgrace to say that we can't compete in face of these facts. These people have been driven out of our country by the tariff. I know any number of Canadians who have risen high in competition with American labor. J . O. Madison, late of Peterboro', is now editor-in-chief of The American Tailor and Cutter, and stands head and shoulders above any man in America as an instructor in cutting. G. M. Deeks, a builder of Morris-burg, forced out by hard times, had not money enough to go away with. Now in St. Paul he is rated as worth from $25,000 to $30,000, and last year had a big contract for the Spokane Falls depot. There

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are any number of cases within my own knowledge where Canadians forced out of business here have gone to the States and prospered.

" Judson Black, lately of Guelph, worth nothing when he left there, runs the Blue Store, Detroit, furniture, carpets, etc.,and is now worth at least $100,000. Again, very frequently in Buffalo, Detroit, and several other cities, you will see advertisements for accountants, etc., wanted, and in it ' Canadian preferred.' H. Pimlott, formerly of Angus, is now in Chicago getting, I understand, $150 per month, and his brothers George and Frank are in Detroit, doing as well. In Claflin & Co.'s, of New York, you find Canadians occupying important positions. Mr. Derbyshire, of Richmond, told me he had two Canadians and preferred them. Canadians are not afraid of competition with Americans."— Toronto Globe.

Button-Hole Machinery. The newspapers are saying: " T h e

Reece Button-hole Machine Company, of Boston, and the Hand Method Finishing Machine Company, of Lynn, have been the leading contestants regarding ownership rights for the finishing of buttonholes by machinery. Lately information was received from Washington that a decision (by whom it is not stated) had been made in favor of The Reece Button-hole Machine Company for priority of invention on all work done by the Reece method and Singer finishing machines. James H. Lange and Fred. P . Fish, for the Reece Company; C. Brown, C. F . Perkins and C. P . Tuttle, for the Hand Method Company.

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OBITUAKY.

Morrison C. Hull, who died at the ag of sixty-seven, a few weeks ago, was well-known and highly respected residen of Birmingham, where he represented thi Domestic machine.

At the beginning of the War he was en gaged in business in Birmingham, whicl he left to give his services to his country enlisting in the Twenty-third C. V., Aug 27, 1862. He served through the war being with Sherman in his memorabh march to the sea. He passed through the ordeal of battle unscathed and was lion-ably discharged.

He returned here after the close of the War and engaged in the sewing machine agency business, in which he remained till his disability. A few years ago Mr. Hull was run into while driving in Shelton, thrown out of his vehicle, striking on his head, and was so seriously injured that his life was despaired of. He never fully recovered from the injuries received, and his death is attributed to this cause. A few months ago he entered the hospital for disabled soldiers at Noroton, where a few weeks ago he was seized with an apoplectic attack, which he never fully rallied from, passing quietly away, Wednesday.

He was buried at Derby, Conn., the home of his family.

Attractive shops and polite attention seem to be universal attributes of the S'f -ger Sewing Machine Company. The ofU at Charlottesville is especially to be c( mended for the neatness of the room the efficiency of the employees, under management of Mr. H. C. Witt.—Oh cle, Ya. ! •


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THE MYSTERY OF BLOODY RUN.

CHAPTER VII.

BY BILL 1JLUD.

Written for Sewing Machine Times. Duke Mason spent a few days in Everett collecting

evidence, then he went to Altoona, and from there to New York. He had considerable trouble getting the desired information from the N Y. officials of the Co., as they were suspicious of his being a secret member of their Mexican agents. Duke eventually convinced the N. Y. people that he was hunting the murderer of old man Hoke.

From N. Y. Duke went direct to El Paso. He had no trouble in finding Joe Pike, and they determined to use their united efforts to hunt down the murderer of Hoke. They both suspected Tom Coxe. They took precaution by having one of Byrnes' men of N. Y. to assist them. It was necessary to get sufficient evidence against Tom Coxe before arresting him, and they must get him on American soil before attempting the arrest. Joe and Duke had secret consultations on the subject, and decided to get fully acquainted with Coxe and his band. A chance came sooner than they expected. * *

Camille Trolando easily convinced Joe that she had been acting a part in his room, and excused herself for her abrupt entrance by inviting Joe to a little party held in the rooms of one of her acquaintances on the suburbs of El Paso. Joe accepted and attended the party. He met Tom Coxe among the rest of the men present and did everything in his power to get thoroughly acquainted with him. The supper was splendid, the wine flowed freely, and the cigars were of the best. After the cigars card parties were formed. Joe found he had Camille for his partner, and a good one she was. He was initiated in the game of whist, and then a little game of draw poker. •

Joe returned to his hotel pleased with his evening's entertainment. The next day he went to the city of Mexico and did not return for a week.

In the meantime Duke Mason and the N. Y. detective worked up a good case against Tom Coxe. They found out Mr. Coxe had been absent for nearly two weeks. No one could or would tell where, but it was surmised that Coxe had spent his time in Bedford Co., Pa.

When Joe returned from Mexico City, he made a full and complete report of his investigations to N. Y. officers, and advised them that he wanted to be relieved for a few weeks to attend to some personal business. He was granted a vacation.

Shortly after Joe's return to Paso, Camille Trolando invited Joe to join a party to go to Denver on an excursion to hear the famous Patti sing her farewe l l^ ) song to the miners. Joe accepted the invitation, not forgetting to inform Duke and detective Byrnes. This was just what they wanted—to get Tom Coxe on American soil, accuse him of the murder of Hoke, and let future events help them prove his guilt.

The party consisted principally of the same people who attended the wine supper Joe first attended.

Arriving at Denver, all put up at the best hotel, Joe being sandwiched in a room between Camille and Tom Coxe. Across the hall was Duke Mason, next to Coxe's room was Byrnes' room. After the opera Joe escorted Camille to the hotel. While walking along the hall to their rooms, Joe met Duke and Byrnes. He shook hands with Duke and was introduced to Byrnes. Jus t then Tom Coxe came up and greeted Duke warmly. They all aecepted Tom's invitation to a supper in his rooms. At a late hour the party broke up.

Byrnes had noticed a veranda running along on the outside of Coxe's room. Thinking he might hear something to advantage he quietly slipped out of the hall and along the veranda to Coxe's window ; creeping close to the wall, he stopped just outside and put his ear close to the blinds ; the windows being up he could hear everything said in Coxe's room. His t !

" W e must get the papers to-night, sure," said a voice in a hoarse whisper.

" But how are we to get them ?" said another voice, which Byrnes recognized as Camille's.

" I ' l l tell you how," continued the first voice. " Camille, you must beard the lion in his den. Send this bottle of wine to Prince. I will fix it. If he drinks it will soon do its work, and then you must act. Do you understand ?"

" I do, the veranda; you shall have^no cause for disappointment. I will get the papers."

Byrnes had gained a position where he could see everything going on in the room. He saw Coxe take a little phial from his pocket and put the contents in one of two bottles of wine. Coxe was careful to set

i this bottle on a book, saying to Camille, " This is the i one for Prince ; make no mistake, it's the one on the 1 book."

"Don ' t you think we ought to take a stroll and see if everything is safe ?" asked Camille.

" Yes, you are right," said Coxe. Coxe and Camille silently left the room and closed

the door. Now was Byrnes' time. He gently opened the shutters, slipped in the room, took the bottle of wine on the book and exchanged it for the one Coxe evidently intended for his own use. This done he returned to the veranda and waited their return. He had only gotten safely on the outside, and closed the shutters, when Coxe and Camille came into the room. Byrnes saw Camille pick up the bottle tjiat was ' fixed,' and then leave quietly for her room. Byrnes did not wait, but flew to Duke Mason's room and told him everything.

" W h a t shall we do ?" asked Duke excitedly, " Wait !" calmly said Byrnes. " But suppose Coxe drinks of the poisoned wine ?"

said Duke. " Ah !" and Byrnes was on his feet in a moment.

" I have it ! Duke, you go down stairs, quietly hunt up a magistrate, and bring him up here. Go quickly-"

Joe sat in his own room, half dreaming, half thinking. He had taken a generous portion of wine, and weird thoughts, some pleasing and some confused, chased through his brain. With other fancies came Poe's Raven, and in his mind he was repeating :

" Once upin a midnight dreary, While I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a pa°e of forgotten lore, Suddenly there came a rapping

As 1f some one gently tapping, Tapping at my chamber door,

"Tls some visitor,' I murmured, This it is—tap-tap-tap."

" What 's that ?" said Joe, starting up and going to the door.

" From the lady, sir," said the sleepy " F r o n t , " as he handed the bottle into Prince's room.

Camille composed herself for her desperate vigil ; with every nerve strained and every sense quickened by excitement, she listened for the sounds that would tell her the plan was successful. At last, through the thin partition, it came ; the cork was drawn, the glass clicked—he had drank. Now she could wait more patiently ; it would n6t be long. Still she listened. By-and-by all sounds ceased. Her time had come and she must act.

What is that ? A loud noise in the hall startled her. A knock on her door. She rushed out. Men were at Coxe's door in great excitement, She flew to the scene. Great Heaven ! What did she see ? There on the floor was Tom Coxe in the throes of death. She gave one scream and fell on his body.

" He is poisoned ! he is poisoned !" she cried. Coxe rallied, and was given some brandy. " I am going to die," said he, " send for an officer,

I want to make a confession." By this time Joe had awakened and came into the

room. The Magistrate took Coxe's confession and handed it over to Byrnes, the detective.

# * * * * Six months later, Duke Mason and his wife, Katha

rine, are living in Katharine's magnificent residence at Saxton. In one corner of the room is a sewing machine with a history. You know all about it. Back in the cemetery is a grave that covers the mortal remains of old man Hoke. Down in the hollow and up six mile run the furnaces and coal mines are running full time. Neat little cottages along the mountain sides tell the tale of prosperity and happiness in the "Broad Top region." Duke Mason is the king among the rough miners and iron men. "

Sheriff Lashley was quite disappointed in not having a " hanging" while he held the office.

Joe Pike is a famous traveler on the road to-day. Some of you have met him ; if you have not, I'll introduce you to him when we meet at the World's Fair.

Of course you have all guessed who murdered old man Hoke ? Yes ? Well it was a horrible deed, and as you know how it was done we will not repeat Tom Coxe's confession.

Katharine? Yes, she has a history, but it would only cause her pain and misery to have the world know it. Be generous, dear readers, and let dead sorrows rest.

Me ? I am off for the World's Fair.

AFTER THE FAIR. Gunflint More Aggressive—Sees Many Changes—

Stieks to his Trade, but Changes his Politics.

Written for Sewing Machine Time*.

Communication Interrupted. A series of robberies of the wires of the New York

and New Jersey Telephone Company has taken place in Union County lately. A gang of daring thieves are operating, who climb the poles, cut the wires and carry the latter off. The wires leading to the Singer machine works were stripped from all the poles along Trumbull street.

Here's To His Good Health. Mr. Fred. Higgins, who for seven years has wielded

the yard-stick in a most popular manner at the dry goods store of C. H. Gray, has resigned his position as clerk and will engage for a while as an agent for sewing machines, in order to improve his health, which has suffered from too close confinement.

W. P . Bolles, who died recently a t Nashua, was at one time connected with the sewing machine manufactory there.

(Concluded.) Well, the racket being over, and the many con

gratulatory expressions in regard to my achievement, I will return home, feeling about as large as a boy witli his first pair of pantaloons, wiser if not a better man. I had thought that a fair was, as the name indicates, but now hold to the belief that the decision of three judges, who make a hurried examination, not taking time to see whether a machine has a feed, a shuttle or a needle, is worth no more than that of the spectators, hundreds of whom have every opportunity, during several days, to examine and test both the machines and their work. These things considered, upon my arrival home I resolved to lay the proceedings of Messrs. Judges before the public in one of our country papers, which 1 did about word for word, and took special pains to furnish the judges with copies. Here another breeze was raised. His judgeship—Mr. Foreman, came five miles to scare me into the belief that I had better countermand, otherwise he would reply in the paper. These were soft words to my ears, but he looked as though he would like to tan my jacket. After interviewing Mr. Editor, he calmly retreated, leaving me to have it my own way.

About this time was a remarkable change. Many changes took place in the management and conduct of the business in this county. Mr. Jaynes, of Singer renown, of Marrion; also Scott, of Singer; and Vinson, of Howe, of Fairmount, had withdrawn ; so also had J. Holt, who canvassed for Ruly. Ruly was left to sell from his grocery store. Adams had left, or did leave soon after, leaving J. Q. Jennings, American, to hold the sack for a few more yellow boys to drop in. Jennings continued to sell from his hardware store. Both of these merchants sold at starvation prices, making nothing for themselves or the manufacturers. R. A. Delaha left the Singer and went south for his health, and one J . W. Bates took his place. R. L. Jones, of Upland, had quit the Domestic for other business.

The management of the Singer department at Marion was placed in the hands of a Mr. Steel. Many of the T I M E S ' readers have heard their grandfathers tell how they used to procure fire before the lucifer and friction matches were placed upon the market, by means of the flint and steel.

The required implements being at hand, we made the sparks fly during the term of Mr. Steel's administration. Brother J . W. Bates, of this place, drove a wagon for him.

As I have given you to understand, there had been a radical change in the manner of my doing business, but the cause of the changes amongst the many agents—I do not claim to be, nor was I—but I tell you what I did do, as I have many times told you what I tried to do, and failed. This time, will say I came off victorious in eight competing sales, during one summer and fall, over one of the most popular machines in the county. This was the following season after the aforesaid fair. This season I did not attend the fair, and was accosted some days afterward by a friend, who asked me why I did not. " Well," said he, "Thee has done more towards bringing the Royal St. John before the public by thy writing than attending many fairs would have done."

Alluding to the newspaper discussions which I mentioned in a former number, he said, " I anxiously wait each issue to see who comes out ahead." Many others did also. Finally I became so uncomely that certain maehine agents became disgusted at my appearance on the streets of their villages with a machine on my wagon. It is now about nine years since the time I attended the fair above alluded to, and I have not attended a fair since, believing, as I do, that in nine cases out of ten it is the operators, instead of the machines, that secure the premiums.

In concluding the recital of these common-place incidents in the every-day life of a working sewing machine agent, I have spoken, as I thought, of the little things that together make the sum total of our experience. Every man in the business has had more or less of the same troubles and the same pleasures, and looks back with more or less pleasure on them.

I look on them with pleasure as the history of honest effort in an honest cause, that gave me fair return for the labor.

During the time I have covered, the great changes that have taken place in sewing machine construction and sewing machine management have been only in keeping with the changing conditions of all about us. Customs, fashions, and politics, all give way to the requirements of the times. In the overturning of the latter, I, once a high tariff man, have become a tariff reformer, and I would like to hear from the boys on that subject. Who will speak first ?

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THE ARKANSAS TRAVELER. LOGS RUNNING IN THE KENNEBEC. Tinker Touches up Little Rock. The Ice Going Out—The Freshet Subsiding.

NOTES AT RANDOM.

On the Ohio. Correspondence of Sewing Machine Times.

At Little Rock, spring weather at last has put forth in all its grandeur, which has added much to the glory of the sewing machine man, who, in this favored climate, gets at his spring work while some of your readers are still cultivating their ice farms.

The genial W. S. Holt, manager of the Union Manufacturing Company, and his dozen travelers in Arkansas, Texas, and the South-West, are certainly enjoying an early harvest, if the loads of machines being transferred to the various railroad depots is an index from which to judge. I t is a daily occurrence to see the large transfer wagons loaded down with " Union " machines on the streets, while we are informed at the office that the larger orders and carload lots are shipped to the large dealers direct from the factory at Toledo, Ohio, where, in the past year, the capacity has been largely increased.

Well, this is all that could! be looked for under the management, as W. S. Holt is a pusher, and only puts to the front pushers of industry and intelligence. He has shown himself to be the right man in the right place.

The Singer Manufacturing Co., under its able manager, is doing a splendid business in this State. An army of canvassers and dealers are pushing its trade in a respectable and legitimate way, thus commending themselves and the business to good people.

The chatter boxes of the eighties are things of the past, so far as relates to the S. M. business in Arkansas, and it is to be hoped that the disgraceful scrambles of the past for sales and business are gone to never again be repeated.

S. B. Kirby is now traveling for the White Co. through Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, and doubtless getting his share of trade.

J . P . Selsor, known among his friends as the " lucky man," is now touring the State for the New Home.

Fred Church has been duly installed by Phil Jacobs as a ' 'Noble" man. He will go to the front full of enthusiasm for the little gem, and endeavor to convince the sewing machine trade that the Noble is the best and grandest work of man.

The interest of D. Snitzer is looked after in Arkansas by Mr. Hurlbut, until recently manager of the Missouri branch of the Singer Manufacturing Co., with headquarters at St. Louis.

J . J . Bundy, M. W. Shaw, and several other old veterans out in the interest of the " Union," recently visited this city, but were soon off, sending back orders. T I N K E R .

Little Rock.

IS IT TRUE?

Questioning Mr. Felix's Position. Correspondence of Sewing Machine Times.

I have read with interest, but with many doubts, several assertions in your paper that sewing machine men were unfitted, as a result of such occupation, for general business. I use the term assertions, because I see little in the way of argument to prove the claim thus advanced. Mr. Felix, who writes like an educated and experienced man, is one of those who take that ground, but he does not make it very plain to me that it is the correct one. I notice that Webster takes issue with Felix, and instances himself in support of his theory.

This may not be strictly modest in W.—and I don't know as he wishes to be considered modest—but it is bold and open, and it encourages me to speak up and say, " M e t o o ! " I have had a little experience in some other kinds of business, and have done tolerable well. I do not see that five years of close application to the sewing machine trade, as a starter, in any way unfitted me for general merchandising, which I afterward followed. I think the experience was beneficial to me, just as my clerking then was of benefit to me in my later sewing machine work. I am very sure that I can drop this business and make a living otherwise. Wha t is there in sewing machines that could have such a bad effect on a man ? PROGRESS.

The Milwaukee Suicide. Alfred Belsing, the suicide, mentioned in our last,

was 35 years old. He was arrested in October on a charge of embezzling money from the Singer Sewing Machine Company. He was acquitted for lack of evidence. Afterward he became involved in trouble with his wife, which led him to make some severe charges against her to the neighbors.

Belsing called at the house of Mr. Beck and left a note for Mrs. Beck. The note read :

" Mrs. Beck : I take back all that I said about my wife being a thief. It is not true. I am going to kill myself. A L F R E D B E L S I N G . "

After leaving the note Belsing started back through the yard to his own house. After going a short distance he pulled a revolver from his pocket, placed the muzzle to his mouth, and pulled the trigger. The ball pierced his brain and he fell dead in his tracks.

Correspondence of Sewing Machine Times. I can look out of my back window down upon the

heaving, rolling, seething bosom of the broad Kennebec and imagine the riches likely to reach our wharves as soon as the ice jam, two miles below us, singles out and mingles with the saline atmosphere that hangs hungrily over the river's mouth. White-winged ships are in the offing, uneasily wallowing away the time, straining at the icy leash that holds them, anxious to bring us that partial wealth which for months has been wholly in our minds.

Maine winters are hard enough without extras. The one almost past can boast all the fixins necessary for a complete freeze-out. Still we live, and are thankful that we are to-day allowed to gaze across the foaming river, intermingled with mud and sticks, logs and ice, and more than thankful that instead of six feet of water in our lower basement, as yesterday, to-day there is but two. •

We are and shall always be thankful for improvements, and it is good ground for thankfulness to know that the water has risen so high that it can't go higher, and must recede.

Have I any news to write? Well, no, not much— Er—yes—just a word—come to think. The genial face of Mr. Howey, traveling agent for New Home Sewing Machine Co., dropped in on us this morning, and claims good business in Maine. Their agent at Vassalboro, Mr. Pope, is said to be suffering from hemorrhage, and it is feared will be obliged to go out of the sewing machine business altogether.

At Waterville we notice the Singer folks have two offices. Upon inquiry we learn that one man is a Frenchman, the other talks United States, and they work the population in English and French, as the case may be. One of the offices is in with an undertaker, the coffin and casket sign being displayed from the same front as the sewing machine sign—still we hope their juxtaposition has no particular significance. The other machines are fairly represented by men who are all music-dealers as well ; and while they claim some sales, all agree that collections are—nothing.

The Singer and White are as usual having it hot and heavy at Lewiston, but from the occasional advent of a car-load of White's for Charlie Hildreth I imagine he is still on deck.

Bean & Hamlen, at this place, seem to be handling some Standards and New Homes, and get, as usual, their share (and part of the other fellow's, too, I reckon) of the trade, in connection with their large music business. Their store, at 127 Water street, is undoubtedly the finest store of the kind in Maine, and if any of the brethren come this way it will do them good to call.

Regarding Mr. Lindsay, whose suicide you mentioned in your last number, I desire to bear my testimony to the universal esteem in which he was held by his acquaintances. Mr. Lindsay was an old sewing machine man, having acted as traveling man and adjuster for the Singer Boston office, afterward manager for the same company at Bangor, Me. He was one of the few men that had no enemfts—no, not one. Among all his many acquaintances in Maine, there cannot be found one person but what was glad to see Brother Lindsay at any and all times. He called on us on the Tuesday before he committed the rash act, Friday night, and seemed in excellent spirits; was having a fair trade, and the news of his death was a severe shock to those of us who knew him for a jolly, whole-souled fellow.

The cause for his taking his own life can be traced easily to his losses at cards (his only bad habit). Luck had been against him ; but his embarrassments were so inconsequential that they would have been relieved, if known, by any of his friends, or, as they tell me, by his employers. So it goes.

The new management of T H E T I M E S , the best of sewing machine papers, has the well-wishes of

Augusta, Me. F E L I X .

The Davies in Wilkesbarre, Pa. The News Dealer says : " Eberly & Miller, the fur

niture dealers on Main street, are becoming more popular every day and are building up a very large trade in connection with their furniture business. They have accepted the sole agency of the Davis sewing machine, in which they are doing a large business. All cleaning and repairing done gratis for one year."

"What I Know About Sewing Machines. The New York Mail and Express is a pretty good

newspaper, but see what it says about the sewing machine :

" T h e progress of work produced by the sewing machine during the last decade is truly wonderful and marvelous. What was ten years ago a clumsy, noisy piece of mechanism, is now a beautiful piece of furniture, easy of manipulation, rapid in speed and almost noiseless."

Correspondence of Sewing Machine Times. Parkersburg, W. Va., and the country around, is

improving rapidly. I t is an active and generally prosperous region,embracing mineral, manufacturing and farming interests. Coal and timber are sent out in large quantities, and sheep raising is an item of considerable importance. The country is filling up with settlers very fast. New railroads are being built and many new manufactories started.

The high water has not been as disastrous as in some previous seasons, but the roads are still bad and traveling impeded. A little April weather will dry up the mud and then I predict a good season for machines.

Dr. Hall, with the New Home ; Hopkins & Amos, with the Wheeler & Wilson : and the Singer Company, are all doing a little in a quiet way, but waiting for hard-bottomed roads before making much exertion.

The firm of Hunt & Wetherell, dealers in pianos, organs and sewing machines, is closing out business, on account of the death of the senior member of the firm, Dr. L. C. Hunt . 0 . A. Stapleton, lately with the Singer Co.,is employed to collect the claims of the firm and the private accounts of Dr. Hunt.

Joseph Hailey has been a very successful salesman for Dr. Hall, with the New Home, in this city and in the country.

George Whitty, formerly with Hunt & Wetherell, at Parkersburg, has engaged with Whaley & Bowers, at Albany, O. He is an active man, and though young in years, not lacking in experience. He will keep the American ball rolling. *

At Athens, O., the prospect has never been better than now. The Standard, American and Singer are in the field. The American is, perhaps, most generally in use.

Cromwell & Co., dealers here for some time past, are about to remove to Parkersburg.

At Nelsonville, O., the only machine represented, and that is doubly represented, is the Singer, Two offices, under Pit tsburg and Cincinnati, divide the trade that one could do if territorial differences were settled. Nelsonville is a mining town of 7,000 in habitants.

At Lancaster, O., James Brinkley, White agent, has just returned from Kentucky, from his wedding tour. I regret to hear that Mrs. Brinkley is quite ill. James Thompson, formerly Howe agent_ at Lancaster, is now in Mr. Brinkley's employ, and is doing good service.

L. E. Sackett, Singer agent, Marietta, O., is a very popular man in the sewing machine circles of this section. He is well posted and could entertain the readers of T H E T I M E S if he would take up his pen.

Whaley & Bowers, of Albany, O., are preparing for a vigorous campaign with the No. 7 American, with George Whit ty as manager.

Thomas Wheetley, Pomroy, O., makes the White his king.

The American is sold by O. F . Hawk, at Hawk's Station, O.

J . H. Homes, formerly with the Singer, at Pomroy 0 . , is now with the same company at Parkersburg, W. Va.

Parties at Zanesville, O., are perfecting a ball-joint pitman for all machines.

New agencies have been established by the Wheeler & Wilson, at Breman, W. Va. ; by the White at Ratcliff Station ; by the Singer at Gloucester, O.

H. D. Byers, general traveling agent for the Williams, and George D. Henderson of the Standard, are now looking through this section in the interest of their machines.

Several adjusters are plying an itinerant trade with moderate success in this vicinity. They obstruct the trade in old machines, but " l ive and let live."

Parkersburg, W. Va. RANDOM.

More Wanzer Rumors. After half-a-dozen other rumors are disposed Of

comes this, in the Toronto Empire : " I t is said that a Scotch company is negotiating for the purchase of the Wanzer sewing machine factory. The City Council will probably be asked to give some financial encouragement to the enterprise."

That Is So. Our enthusiastic Domestic friend, Auerbach, ques

tions our geographical and nautical knowledge, and claims that however it may have been when the camp-fires burned round about " South East," Washington, D, C., is not under the hill now. Then he kindly lets us into the secret of his Capitol Hill branch. It was not, as we innocently supposed, opened to catch trade ; merely to accommodate the residents of that section and save them the long journey to Demestic headquarters, where they were all flocking. And then he forgives our ignorance and promises us the freedom of the city when we are elected to Congress. We never could box the compass in Washington— N. W.—N. E.—S. W . - S . E . - D . C . - U . S. A.


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THE "FIRST THOUSAND."

The Magical Number with which Promotors Daze the Public, Directors Encourage the Stockhold_ T s , and Superintendents Excuse Delays.

This all-instructive, all-satisfying phrase is slipping off the end of the reporter's pencil, and exhibiting the newspaper knowledge of shop-talk, so frequently now that it must make the old-times blush for their ignorance.

The wonder is how the old fellows got along without it. How could they ever have raised money, built factories and sold sewing machines without a "first thousand?" And another wonder, akin to the mystery that surrounds pins and Patti 's "farewells," is : What becomes of all the " first thousands?"

However, all things that are must have a beginning, and the "first thousands" of the past, the present and the future, have our best wishes.

Nebraska papers of March were overflowing with this :

" T h e Noble sewing machine factory will in a few days place its first thousand machines on the market. I t is the only factory of the kind west of the Mississippi."

The Atlanta Constitution, of 2d ult., contributes this, from its own store of knowledge, to the general fund :

" The first 1,000 is always the hardest to make, for tools, called " j i g s , " must be made for almost every part. This has to be done with the first 1,000."

Then it quotes the foreman of the Brosius factory thus :

" When we begin to turn out the first 1,000 machines we will, of course, not turn them all out at once."

Sentiment Beats Business. Mrs. Cobwigger—However did you induce your

husband to get that nice electric motor to run your sewing machine ?

Mrs. Younghusband—I told him it would rock the cradle as well.—Epoch.

TIMES TALK.

M. E. Hartzler, of York, Pa., has been spending a few days in this city. He is one of the old Grover & Baker disciples, who became domesticated, and now, after twenty years in the harness, is as enthusiastic as ever, and works his extensive territory in southeastern Pennsylvania for all it is worth. He sells only Domestics. He tells us that this year business in that section will be greater than last. His is a rich agricultural region, in which tobacco is a leading crop. The tobacco crop of the last season was a good one, and the money for it is just now in circulation.

Elmira, N. Y.—M. L. McDowell, the live furniture dealer of this place, has taken the agency of the Helpmate, and will doubtless sustain the high position the machine now occupies in that section.

Olean, N. Y.—Messrs. Weaver & Williams, who are among the largest dealers in southern New York, handle the Helpmate, principally, with a few of other makes, and report an excellent trade through the month of March.

W. H. Burt, representing the New Home in Virginia and Tennessee, writes from Chattanooga of the favorable condition of the machine trade there, and of the general success of his agents.

ART EXHIBITS.

SINGER NOTES.

Along the Susquehanna.

But Litt le Doing l a t e ly .

Daily and weekly papers from various points tell us— That Mr. Belmont, Singer agent at Santa Rosa, Cal., assisted by Mrs. Somers, has made a successful exhibit recently.

That some fine pieces of work done in silk are on exhibition at the new store of the White Sewing Machine Co. in Chelsea, Mass.

That A. L. Moore, assistant general manager of the White Sewing Machine Co., of Cleveland, O., was in Rockford, 111., making arrangements for a grand display of fancy work executed on their machine, which was shown at the World's Fair in Paris.

The only one that suggests any special mention is that given by Mr. A. C. Tucker, with Heaslen & Young, operators, agent for the Davis at Newcomers-town, O. The Davis exhibits have always had a character, somewhat their own, of practical utility, and in this instance the affair was made particularly so by giving away an elegant machine.

Miss Lulu Tidock,. of Newcomerstown, was the fortunate and happy recipient of the gift.

And the Back Towns Not All Heard From Yet. One would think that the tail, Motor, was wagging

the dog, Sewing Machine, as unconcernedly as the office boy does the feather duster, if credence was given to the Southern newspapers. The following is from the Chattanooga Times, of March 22 :

" The Read Sewing Machine Motor Company held a meeting yesterday afternoon to consider the numer ous propositions being received by manufacturers and new towns, but owing to the absence of some of the stockholders, the matter was deferred to next Tuesday. Several sewing machine manufacturers have applied for the privilege of making them on royalty. •

" T h e company has also received propositions from new towns and this city to erect works to engage in making them.

'' The motor has been described by the News. I t was invented by a Chattanooga man, and consists of a clock-work driven by a spring. The motor is first wound up by a crank, and drives the machine tintil it runs down."

And this is from the same paper one day later, as news from Sequachee :

" T h e sewing machine factory is completed and is receiving the machinery. It will be ready to start up in a few days."

THIS WEEK'S CORRESPONDENCE.

The Mystery of Bloody Run is solved. The villain has paid his penalty, and all the deserving ones are happy. The detective has earned his fee, and Mr. Bind is free to dream of the World's Fair.

Last week, Felix's back window view disclosed boys hooking tom-cods through the ice. Now he sees running ice and logs. Next week a four-master will lay alongside his ice-house, and he will be depositing checks drawn by the Consumers Ice Co. Meantime Bret is wondering if Felix will have to break the ice for his horse in the old trough at the " forks of the road " again before Thanksgiving.

Gunflint brings his interesting reminiscences to a close and gives us the impression that he has a pretty good opinion of the sewing machine business,

Takeup tells us that the winter is most gone in the great Pine Region, and that the lumberman's winter earnings will soon gladden the hearts of the tradesmen.

Tinker tells us that Arkansas trade is good, and better yet, that it is conducted in an intelligent, business-like manner, free from all questionable methods of obtaining trade.

Random gives us lots of information concerning the territory of which Parkersburg is the centre,

Fred Moore, Harford, Susquehanna Co., Pa., has accepted a position as agent for the Singer Manufacturing Co. Fred is a young man of rare ability. He will sell to all of the single girls in his territory, sure.

Mr. Charles R. Curtis. W. Burlington, Bradford Co., Pa., has been appointed agent and collector for the Singer in his district. Mr. Curtis thinks he can make more money selling the Singer than he can farming. We bespeak for him a successful career in the business.

Mr. S. M. White, Evergreen, Bradford Co., Pa., has sold out his store, resigned the postmastership and engaged in selling the Singer. Mr. White is so well-known, he will only have to say the word and his machine is sold. He certainly has lots of business tact and energy.

Henry Williams, Springville, Susquehanna Co., Pa., an old reliable Singer man, has re-engaged in the sale of that machine. His first week's work netted him two cash sales. His record for 1891 will eclipse all former records. He is a little up in years, but is still in the ring, and will make his competitors hustle. He has a nice double team and a new Newton wagon.

Frank Fletcher, Singer agent, Towanda, Pa., has recently returned from Rochester, where he was successfully treated for an annoying disease. He has bought another horse, and is going to make the Singer loom up in great shape for 1891.

A. L. Fawcett, New Albany, Bradford Co., Pa., has decided to push out for more business. He sells the Singer. A good organ man can make a deal with Mr. Fawcett.—Reliable.

THE LUMBER COUNTRY. When the Snow Goes Off the l u m b e r m e n Will

Bring Money and Business.

Correspondence of Sewing Machine Times.

I will try and send you a few items of news from the pine woods of northern Wisconsin and Michigan. Sewing machine business is somewhat dull for the past four weeks, owing to the large amount of snow that has fallen in that time. Sewing machine companies are very well represented in this place and Menominee. Singer, Domestic, White, Standard American and Davis, make a list amplv sufficient to supply the country, Very soon the "men will be coming out of the woods; and then, while their money is being distributed through the avenues of trade, our city will be busy and the sewing machine man will have his share of the profits. Until then we must be content to keep quiet.

The Singer business of the two cities is now handled by J . H. Rooney, an experienced man, who is giving his competitors a lively tilt. He don't allow the other fellows to make eatu sales. Mr. Rooney was seen sailing up the street this morning with a signal of danger around his neck. This red flannel, we are told, is the only remaining unpleasantness left from a bad cold that tried to knock him out. Although somewhat disabled he managed to remain in the ranks.

Mr. Risdale, Domestic dealer, is pushing trade as far as he can feel justified. His agent, Mr. Arthur, is an old hand in the business, and a first-class man, always on the lookout for business. He has been in Mr. Ridsdale's employ for a number of years.

G. T. Winstou, agent for the White, Standard and American, is pushing his line for all he is worth, and intends to have as big a share of the trade as one wagon is entitled to—even if he has to work for it.

Miss Lottie Hubble is the book-keeper at the Singer office. She is not only a first-class book-keeper, bu t can sell a sewing maching as quick as most of the expert agents.

F . O'Roork, late of Oshkosh, Wis., is now canvassing Marinette and Menominee in the interest of the Singer Manufacturing Co.

Tom O'Conor, of Marinette, intends giving up selling sewing machines and going back to sawing in the mill as soon as it starts up.

Oley Rollins, of Iron Mountain, Mich., is doing a rushing business for the Singer Co. on the Range. He bobs up at Marinette occasionally.

Mr. Jas. Medbury, Singer agent at Escanaba, Mich., was in town j esterday. He reports business booming in his territory. He is one of the successful ones who never gets " done up . " T A K E U P .

Marinette, Wis.

Another Frenchman Gone Wrong. At Lowell, Mass., the last week in March, George

Manseault, also known as Provenchal, was arrested and taken to Haverhill, where on Saturday he was sentenced to six months in the Lawrence House of Correction for embezzlement of money from the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Since his arrest it has been discovered that he has served other sewing machine agencies in the same way ; and that up to the present time four wives have been discovered, all of whom claim him and desire his punishment.


CONDENSED CLIPPINGS.

N E W J E R S E Y . Paymaster Tucker, whose arrest at Elizabeth was

mentioned in a late number of this paper, was held for the Grand Jury in $700 bail, which was furnished.

The Bridgeton agent who illegally repossessed a machine and was compelled to carry it back, recently, has since been fined $9 for the trespass and damage.

A new "sewing factory," i. «., a manufactory of clothing, is being erected at Bridgeton, which is quite a centre for this industry.

MASSACHUSETTS. James Brock, sewing machine dealer, at Maiden, is

having a handsome delivery wagon built at Hender son's, in Cambridge. He received the prize from the Davis Sewing Machine Co.—a handsome gold watch, for selling the most machines of any agent during the month of February.

The Singer Sewing Machine Company have shipped a large number of machines to their agent, Mr. Cady, who will open in the Lawrence Block, in Wolcott, for business, April 1st.

The Morley Button Sewing Machine Company, of Boston, has declared a quarterly dividend of 2 | per cent., payable April 1 to stock of March 27.

Horace M. Hadley, formerly employed by the New Home Company, at Orange, goes to Belvidere, 111., to take a position with the June Company.

Charles F. Howes, seventeen years in the Singer service, died recently at his home in East Dennis .

Louis Taylor, proprietor of the instalment store at 183 Essex street, Lawrence, met with a mishap while rounding the corner of Appleton street on to Essex. As the wagon in which he was seated slewed around the corner, five second-hand sewing machines which were in it toppled over and crashed to the pavement, where they were literally broken to pieces. The fragments were gathered up and carried away. Mr. Taylor said the accident cost him about $50.

PENNSYLVANIA. At Beaver, a j ury was called in case of Household

Sewing Machine Co. vs. Dr. D. McKinney, jr., and by agreement rendered a verdict for the defendant.

The new building to be constructed as an addition to the Provincial House of the Good Shepherd, at Thirty-fifth street and Fairmount avenue, Philadelphia's to be at the rear of the house.on Melon street. It will be a plain structure of brick, 20 by 132 feet, two stories in height. The lower floor will be used as a sewing machine room, and will accommodate about 70 machines. The steady growth of the House, the number of whose inmates is now 487 all told, has made the erection of the new bulding a necessity.

Oscar Harris, aged 18 years, residing on Kensington avenue, above Cambria street, and George Jones, aged 19 years, residing on Kipp street, above Somerset, Philadelphia, were arrested by Policemen Jones and Creighton on the charge of larceny of a sewing machine from the residence of Harris's mother. She had gone out and locked the door, and the two, it is alleged, broke it open and stole the machine. They were arrested while trying to sell it.

N E W H A M P S H I R E . S. W. Elliott, agent for the New Home, is doing

quite a good business in Stratford. At Exeter, Frank Kean, agent for the sale of sew

ing machines for shoe shops, while setting up a new machine recently, run a screw-driver through his hand, causing a painful wound.

M A I N E . Tyler Crockett, of Searsport, is doing a thriving

business in sewing machines, as he furnishes all styles and makes.

Joseph Mourset, a Lewiston sewing machine agent, is dangerously ill from a fall on the ice.

Mr. H. A. Day, of Waterville, who represents the Singer Sewing Machine Company in that part of the State, returned Tuesday from a trip to Madison. He is working up a good trade in that lively town, and reports everything booming up there.

GEORGIA. The New Home Sewing Machine Company is doing

an immense business in Columbus and surrounding territory through their house located here. Mr. B. F. White, the clever local manager, stated yesterday that for the past three weeks he has received a carload of machines every week, and last week they sold more sewing machines than was ever sold in Columbus before in the same length of time.

ALABAMA. O. F. Storm, who has been employed in a sewing

machine company of Montgomery, was picked up on the streets, on Monday night, very drunk. He was carried to the barracks, where it was discovered that his leg was broken. Storm knew nothing about it, and could not remember how is happened.

V I R G I N I A . The New York Sewing Machine & Manufacturing

Co. has been organized, and signed contract with the Perpetual Investment, Construction & Deposit Co., to erect a sewing machine factory in East Richmond.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

Mr. M. A Malone, the well-known music and sew

ing machine dealer, has associated his brother, Mr. G. B. Malone, with him in the business, and the firm name is to be M. A. Malone & Brother. The new firm is a strong one and should meet with great success.

TEXAS. The New Home Sewing Machine Company has

filed a petition in the District Court to set aside the deed of trust lately executed by T. J. Shuck and for the appointment of a receiver of the property conveyed by it. Shuck disappeared about the time of filing the deed of trust, and it is said he is now in San Francisco.

COLORADO. G. E. George, a sewing machine agent at Aspen,

has been arrested upon the charge of embezzlement of $200.

NEBRASKA. Miss Adda Smith, who has been in the employ of

the Singer Machine Company in Beatrice, goes to Lincoln soon to take a situation with the same company.

T E N N E S S E E . Will Rogers, a sewing machine agent, aged 55

.years, was found dead in his room at the Commercial Hotel in Memphis. His death was caused by congestion.

R H O D E ISLAND. The local branch of the Singer Sewing Machine

Co., at Westerly, will move from Hinckley & Mitchell's into new quarters, No. 60 High street, its old stand, April 1st.

INDIANA. At Peru, recently, James Brown, a second-hand

man, brutally assaulted Mrs. Thomas Holman with an ax, on account of the woman's inability to pay 50 cents due on a sewing machine. Mrs. Holman was seriously injured. Brown is in jail.

The Singer works in South Bend are crowded to their fullest capacity now. The number of employes have been increased to nearly 1,000, and they are working full ten hours a day, stopping only half an hour at noon and quitting at 5:30 in the evening.

Mr. John S. Evans, of the White Sewing Machine agency, New Albany, has received the contract to furnish the sewing machines for the New Albany Clothing Company. It will take over one hundred machines.

I L L I N O I S . Geo. H. Lowe, representing the White Sewing Ma

chine Company, was in Rockford in conference with P. N. Anderson, in reference to establishing an agency in this city.

IOWA.

H. G. Freeman, of Dubuque, has moved t > 940 Main street. Call and see his fine stock of sewing machines, pianos and organs.

E. L. Seymore, connected with the Singer sewing machine agency of Burlington, was arrested recently by Sheriff Buchanan, of Henry County, and taken to Ft. Madison to serve a three yearteim at the penitentiary. About a year and a half ago he was convicted at Mt. Pleasant of raising a note from $20 to $35, and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary for the offence. He took an appeal to the Supreme Court and was released on bond, at least it is supposed so, for he has been at liberty ever since, and for some time past has been engaged with the Singer sewing machine agency in this city.

With commendable grit Mr. R. Hellyer, manager of the Domestic sewing machine emporium at Dcs Moines, has opened up anew at 616 Locust street.

N E W YORK. Miller & Hutchinson, Allentown, once handling

the best machines to some extent, are said to be on the $19.50 level now.

The machinery of the Love works has been shipped to Smithville, N. J.

Mr. M. Jacobs, an agent and collector for the Singer Sewing Machine Co. at Erie, while driving out on the Buffalo road last week, to make collections, was upset, and dislocated his left shoulder. Drs. Silliman and Montgomery attended the injured man, who is now suffering much pain, and will be laid up for some time. The upsetting was caused by the wretched condition of the road.

At Bloody Corners, near Castile, Fred De Wolf, a Buffalo sewing machine man, and Orrie Otis, of Cas tile, had a quarrel recently that resulted in blows De Wolf was knocked head foremost against a door. Friday he was taken violently insane, a blood vessel near the brain having burst. His chances for recovery are slight.

John Kirchen is located at Mayfield as agent for the Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine. From this point he expects to wake the echoes in the Mohawk Valley as soon as the sap flows.

At Tonawanda the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Company have opened an office on North Canal street, with Joseph Lewis in charge.

The Singer Manufacturing Company has rented the half of the store with F. C. Alvoord on South Main street, Gloversville.

THE REV. HARLAN G. MENDENHALL.

We claim relationship to the reverend gentleman whose name heads this mention, on two grounds—his newspaper life, and his sewing machine associations.

Harlan G. is the eldest son of Wm. B. Mendenhall, who has been for so many years at the head of the American Sewing Machine Co.

Howard L., the second son of President Mendenhall, has been prominently identified with the American company since his entrance into business life. He was manager of that company's Baltimore office until 1889, since which time he has occupied the position of general manager, with headquarters at the factory in Philadelphia. The name Mendenhall is almost synonymous with the American B. O. and S. M. Co.

The New York Tribune had this to say recently: "Another ex-newspaper writer and editor in a

prominent pulpit is the Rev. Harlan G. Mendenhall, who lately accepted a call to the Greene Presbyterian Church, after resigning a college presidency in the West. Mr. Mendenhall is forty years old, and was born of Quaker parentage at Coatesville, Penn. He was educated in Washington and at Williston Seminary, at Easthampton, Mass., where he prepared for college. But he had gained a taste for newspaper work by corresponding for "The Springfield Republican," and at the age of eighteen he joined the staff of that newspaper, and soon was put in charge of its page of New-England news. After a year at this work he entered Lafayette College, and after graduation studied in the Western Theological Seminary at Meadville, Penn., and was graduated in 1874. His first pastorate was at the Third Presbyterian Church at Fort Wayne, Ind. After three years he resigned and made a tour of Europe, and upon his return he accepted a call to the Sixth Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg. In 1883 he went to North Dakota for his health, and became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Grand Forks. He was also editor of "The Plain Dealer," the only morning daily paper in the place. In 1889 he became president of the Jamestown University, a young institution, and successfully managed its affairs for a year. He then returned to the East, and after the Rev. W. J. Bridges resigned from the Greene Avenue Presbyterian Church he was invited to occupy its pulpit. Finding the climate of Brooklyn suited to his health he accepted a call to the church recently, declining a call to Boston at the same time. Mr. Mendenall promises to be one of the most interesting preachers in the city, as he takes up the topics of the day, looked at from a newspaper point of view, for the subjects of many of his sermons."

MERIDIAN, MISS.

T h o m a s M. Ferguson Absorbs t h e Bus iness of J . W. Harvey & Co.

Messrs. J. W. Harvey & Co. announce to the public that they have sold to Mr. Thos. M. Ferguson their sewing machine business, and in connection therewith they desire to state to their former friends and patrons that in Mr. Ferguson they will find a gentleman thoroughly versed in the sewing machine business, and one in whom they can have the utmost confidence' Mr. Ferguson will be found at his well-known stand on the Brookshire corner, and with a line of the best sewing machines in the world. Call and see him.

J. W. Harvey will be found with Thos. M. Ferguson, aud will be pleased to have his many friends call and see him. J. W. HARVEY & Co.

Concerning the above purchase, our friend Ferguson writes : " I have now, so to speak, a monopoly of the sewing machine trade of this section, and I hope to keep it. I have four of the best machine canvassers in East Mississippi. I sell, in connection with the celebrated Davis, the White, Wheeler & Wilson Domestic and Crown.

"Mr. Jno. C. Campbell, the popular Davis man, is here on his annual visit, and meets a warm welcome from his many friends.

"The trade prospects are very good, and particularly encouraging when compared with the few months just passed." »

Mr. Post, New England agent for the Domestic sends us some very pretty specimens of his advertising!

Riotous C loakmakers D e m o l i s h Sewing M a c h i n e s and Des troy Goods w i t h Vitr io l .

A gang of about 30 of the striking New York City Broadway cloakmakers went to Jamaica and raided the house of Brattler & Goodman, a firm that a week ago moved from New York and established a nonunion workshop here.

The strikers smashed in the door, and with axes, iron bars and clubs, demolished the sewing machines', after which they destroyed several bundles of goods by throwing vitriol over them.

A 7-year-old child of Mr. Goodman was severely burned about the head and face by the vitriol sprinkled by the strikers. The riotous mob departed for Brooklyn on an electric car after smashing everything to their satisfaction. Most of the gang were arrested and held for trial.

10 SEWING MACHINE TIMES.

United States Patents Affecting Sewing Machine Interests. Claim.—\. In a sewing-machine, the combination,"^!th an oseij*

bating or rotary shuttle and a needle, of a vibrating thread -guard, Arranged to press against the front or outer face of the said shuttle; and operated independently thereof, said thread-guard vibrating in av direction parallel to the movement of the said shuttle, or approxw mately so, and projecting behind or inside of the shuttle-thread and i between the latter and the shuttle to hold the said thread out of the oath of the beak of the shuttle when the latter is approaching the?1

needle, substantially as set forth. 2. In a sewing-machine,.the combination, with the needle-bar <?

and its needle c, of the oscillating or rotary shuttle D, having the outwardly cnrved or inclined beak d, the spring thread-guard,c\ having an upwardly and outwardly curved end bearing against tile front or outer face of the shuttle and co operating with the beak of the latter to prevent said beak from catching the shuttle-thread, and the vibrating lever E, carrying- said thread-guard and moving back and forth parallel to the plane of movement of the shuttle, said lever being operated independently of the shuttle, as set forth.

G r a n t e d Mar«* l i :t, 1 8 0 1 .

4 4 7 , 3 0 6 . SEWING-MACHINE, MARSBALL GARDKBR,Aurora,III, assignor to Thomas H. Bah and James Stone, same place, and Simon Florshelm, Chicago, QL Piled Aug. 17,1888. Serial No, 282,999. (No model)

( Claim.— 1. The combination, with a series of parallel circular shuttle-races, of a series of circular hooked shuttles engaged therewith and a segmental oscillating driver engaged with said shuttles, said shuttles being each provided with a central recess concentric with the axis of rotation of the shuttle for containing a flat cop, an exit thread-guide passing through the side wall of the shuttle at the center of said recess, and a flat cover for closing said recess, substantially aak

described. 2. The combination, with a circular shuttle-race, of a circular

hooked shuttle engaged therewith and an oscillating segmental driver, said shuttle being provided with a central recess concentric with the axis of rotation of the shuttle, an exit thread-guide passing through the side wall of the shuttle at the center of said recess, a flat cover closing said recess, a tension-spring located in a cavity outside of the central recess and provided with guide-notches for holding the thread in engagement with said spring, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with a series of needles and a series of parallel circular shuttle-races, of a series of circular hooked shuttles en-gaged with said shuttle-races and a throat-plate extending over the shuttles and having in its under surface grooves forming parts of the shuttle-races, said throat-plate being provided with needle-apertures • at the sides of the shuttle-races, and provided.also with * series of narrow guide slots or recesses for the thread-loops, extending upwardly from the shuttle-races and laterally from the needle-apertures at one side thereof in a direction transverse to the paths of the points of the shuttles, substantially as described.

. ^ 4 7 , 3 0 7 . SEWING-MACHINE. MARSHALLGAawrra,Aurora,111., assignor to Thomas H Ball and James Stone, same plane, and Simon Floraheim, Chicago, I1L Filed June 21,1887. Renewed Jan. 7.1891. Serial No. 876.974. (No model) Claim.— 1. The combination, with a curved shuttle-race, of a

shuttle-carrier comprising two horizontal bars I' I*. the bar I' adjacent to the point of the shuttle being provided with a guide-groove for the needle and if ith an adjacent notch to receive the edge of the shuttle,* substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a series of oscillating shuttles, of aj curved shuttle-race formed of two horizontally-arranged parts or cast-' tngs H H\ arranged at opposite sides of the needles and provided with, a series of parallel downwardly-opening guide-grooves in their under surfaces, a shuttle-carrier located beneath the several shuttles and supporting the same io engagement with the race, one of said parts or castings, as H', being pivoted at its outer margin to the frame, whereby it may be moved to permit the extraction and insertion of the shuttles,] substantially as described

3. The combination, with a' series of oscillating shuttles moving in parallel planes, of a curved shuttle-race provided with a series of! downwardly-opening guide-grooves, and an oscillating shuttle-carrier comprising two bars I' Is, each engaging the said several shuttles and' sustaining them in engagement with the grooves of the race, the said shuttle-race consisting of two pieces or castings H H', one of which' is pivotally supported to admit of its being removed to allow the exJ traction and insertion of the shuttles, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with the reciprocating needle-bar of a sew-' big-machine and an oscillating take-up arm for the needfe-threacl, or a spring take-up comprising a slotted rod, a sliding block or ring upon the rod, and a spring for actuating said block or ring, the said rod being arranged with its end toward which the ring is thrown by the' spring downward and remote from the take-up arm, and a guide fori the needle-thread located above said rod, whereby the needle-thread 'is drawn npwardly away from the ring at both aides of the latter-, sttb-I, ataatiallj as described.,

5 A take-up device for the needle-threads of a gang sewing-machine, consisting of a series of slotted rods M' M', a series of sliding rings upon said rods, springs actuating said rings, and a bar located adjacent to the ends of the several rods, transverse to the latter, and sustained by a spring arm. or arms, substantially as described

4 : 4 7 , 4 0 1 . FEEDING MECHANISM FOR SEWING-MACHINES, Mi mmAu GiBDsTKR, Aurora, HL, assignor to Thomas E Bail and James; Stone, same place, and Simon Floraheim. Chicago. Dl Filed Sept 10. 1889. Serial No 323.538 (No modeD

Claim.—A feed device for sewing-machines, comprising two feed* dogs, one located below and the other above the work, and means for. actuating said dogs, comprising two bars pivotally supported at points between their ends and severally connected with and actuating said feed-dogs, a single driving-shaft provided with a series of pairs of cams, one pair engaging each of said bars and g'vjng both longitudinal and lateral movement thereto, and shifting-pivots severally engaging, and supporting said bare, whereby the length of the stitch may be changed, substantially as described

4 4 7 , 4 0 Q . SEWING• MACHINE. MARSHALL GARDNER. Chicago. assignor to Thomas E Ball and James Stone, Aurora, and Simon Flor* shelm, Chicago, DL Original application filed June 21.1887. Serial No 241.960 Divided and this application filed June 1. 1888. Serial No 362,144. (No model-)

Claim.— 1 The combination, with the needles of a gang sewing-machine, of a presser-foot the working-face of which is provided with two series of fingers, one series located at the point at the front and the other at the rear of the needles, both series being in alignment with the needles, substantially as described:

2. The combination, with the needles of a gang sewing-machine, of a presser-foot provided with apertures for the needles and having D, operated by means of the movement of the wheels of the carnage, the levers G, foot-levers d*, and the levers N, having the pawls i, rods i8, and fu!?rumed on the bars 0, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with a presser-foot N, of a spring applied to throw the said presser-foot downwardly, a bent lever N"8, pivoted upon the frame of the machine and provided with a horizontal arm connected v/7th the presser-foot, a rock-sbaft N6, provided with a depending arm engaging the said lever N8 and with a second arm extending to a point adjacent to the driving-shaft of the machine, ami a cam upon said driving-shpft engaging said second arm of the rock-shaft, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with a feed-dog located above the work-plate of the machine, an arm P. sustaining said dog, and means for movably sustaining the said arm from the machine-frame, affording a vertical and horizontal motion in the feed-dog, of means for giving a combined oscillatory and vertical movement to said feed-dog, consisting of a revolving shaft provided with two cams severally acting upon a part rigidly connected with said arm, a spring for depressing the feed-deg, and a frictional retarding device attached to the machine and acting upon the movable part supporting the feed-dog, whereby the horizontal movement of the feed-dog, under the action of the cam, is limited or controlled, substantially as described.

o. The combination, with a feed-dog located over the work-plate of the machine and an arm Q, sustaining said feed-dog, of means for movrbly sustaining the said arm from the machine-frame, affording a vertical and horizontal motion in the feed-dog, an arm Q8, rigidly attached to said arm Q, a revolving shaft provided with two cams acting upon the upper end of said arm Q8, and a friction device consisting of a plate or plates Q6, connected with the frame, a bolt passing through the said plate or plates and the arm Q8, and a spring-washer or equivalent means producing frictional engagement between said plate or plates Q* and arm Qs, substantially as described.

4 4 7 , 4 : 9 6 . FRICTION ATTACHMENT FOR SPOOLCREEM Wal, TXR SLADB, Pascoag, R. I. Filed Apr. 14,189a Serial No. 347,859 (No model)

Claim.—1. A spool-creel provided with an adjustable re voluble friction-head adapted to press eccentrically against the bead of the inserted spool, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the eccentrically-arranged sliding friction-head, the supporting-bar, the adjustable collar, and the operating spring, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with the friction-head adapted to press eccentrically against one head of the spool, of a spring placed upon the journal of the opposite end of the spool, substantially as described.

4 4 : 7 , 5 7 0 . aUILTING-MACHINR MATTHIAS KOOH, New York, N.Y., assignor to Louis Schuitz, same place. Filed Feb. 10,1888. Serial No, 263,569. (NomodeL)^

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United States Patents Affecting Sewing Machine Interests.

Claim.—I. In a sewing-macMne, the combination, with sewing mechanism, of a support for the work, a main shaft, a shaft extending parallel with the main shaft and deriving motion therefrom, two pattern-cams mounted on said second shaft, a third shaft deriving motion from the second-named shaft and extending at right angles thereto, two pattern-cams mounted on said third-named shaft, and gearing, substantially such as described, operated from the pattern-wheels mounted on the second-named shaft, for causing a fore-and-aft motion of the said work-support, and an arm operated from the pattern-wheels mounted on the third-named shaft for causing a side-to-side movement of said work-support, substantially as specified.

2. In a sewing-machine, the combination, with a sewing mechanism, of a support for the worfc,a main shaft, two pairs of pattern-cams for imparting motion to said work-support, and arms extending between said pattern-cams, each of said arms bearing two pins or projections, one of which pins or projections bears upon one of the cams of the pair with which it co-operates and the other of said pins or projections bears upon the other of said pair of cams, said arms serving to transmit motion to the work-support, substantially as specified.

3. In a sewing-machine, the combination, with sewing mechanism, of a support for the work, a pair of pattern-cams, a shaft upon which said cams* are mounted, an arm provided with projections bearing upon the peripheries of said cams, said arm being provided with a rack, a gear-wheel with which said rack engages, a shaft upon which •aid gear-wheel is mounted, other gear-wheels mounted on said shaft, and racks upon the work-support, with which the last-named gearwheels engage, substantially as specified.

4. In a sewing-machine, the combination, with sewing mechanism, of a support for the work, a rack and pinion for imparting a'raove-tnent to the support, a shaft upon which said pinion is mounted, a pinion provided with elongated teeth, also mounted on said shaft, a rack engaging said last-named pinion, and pattern-wheels imparting a longitudinal movement to said last-named rack, substantially as specified.

5. In a sewing-machine, the combination, with sewing mechanism, of a support for the work, a pair of pattern-cams, a shaft upon which said cams are mounted, an arm provided with projections bearing upon the peripheries of said cams, said arm being provided with a rack, a shaft mounted on the work-support so as to move with the latter, a gear-wheel engaging said rack and mounted on the last-named Shaft so as to move with the same, other gear-wheels mounted on said last-named shaft, and racks upon the work-support, with which said last-named gear-wbeels engage, substantially as specified.

6. In a sewing-machine, the combination, with sewing mechanism, of a support for the work, a shaft, a pattern-cam controlling the rotation of said shaft, a gear-wheel rotated by said shaft, a second gearwheel rotated by the gear-wheel first named, a shaft mounted upon the said work-support and bearing the gear-wheel last named, a third gearwheel rotated by the second-named shaft, said gear-wheels and shafts being connected to hare a relative sliding movement, feed-rollers, and gearing intermediate of said last-named gear-wheel and the feed-rollers for transmitting motion to the latter, substantially as specified.

7 In a sewing-machine, the combination, with sewing mechanism, of a support for the work, a shaft, a pattern-cam controlling the rotation of said shaft, feed-rollers, a second shaft, intermittently-operating bevel gear-wheels for transmitting motion from the first-named to the second-named shaft, other intermittently-operating bevel gear-wheels for transmitting motion from the second-named shaft to the feed-rollers, one of said last-named gear-wheels being movable lengthwise on the second-named shaft, substantially as specified.

4 4 7 , 5 7 1 . QUILTING-MACHINE. MATTHIAS KOCH, Chicago, 111, assignor to Louis Sohultz, New York. N. Y. Filed May 25,1889. Serial Ha 312,082. (No model)

Claim.—1. In a quilting-machine, the combination, with a series of needles and two work-carriages arranged one upon the other for supporting and moving the fabric universally in a plane transverse to the reciprocation of the needles and pattern-wheels for moving saia carriages, of mechanism, substantially such as described, between one of the carriages and its pattern-wheel, whereby the direction of cer-tain motions of such carriage may be reversed without reversing the pattern-wheel, substantially as specified.

2. In a quilting-machine, the combination, with a series of needles and two work-carriages arranged ooe upon the other for supporting and moving a fabric universally in a plane transvetae to the reciprocation of the needles, of a rack on one carriage, a gear-wheel engaging with the rack, a shaft carrying the gear-wheel, a rack-bar extending over this shaft, a long pinion supported on the shaft so that it may be shifted into or out of engagement with the rack-bar, bearings for a second shaft, and gear-wheels on the second shaft arranged so that wheu the second shaft is in place and the long pinion is shifted oue of these gear-wheels on the second shaft will engage with the long pinion and the other with the said rack-bar, substantially as specified.

3. In a quilting-machine, the combination, with a series of needles and two work-carriages arranged one upon the other for supporting and moving a fabric universally in a plane transverse to the reciprocation of the needles, of a rack r on one carriage, a gear-wheel E, engaging with the rack, a shaft B', carrying the gear-wheel, a rack-bar E8, extending over this shaft, a long pinion Bs, supported on the shaft so that it may be shifted into or out of engagement with the rack-bar, bearings 2 3 for a second shaft 4, and gear-wheels 5 6 on the second shaft, arranged so that when the second shaft is in place and the long pinion is shifted one of these gear-wheels on the second shaft will engage with the long pinion and the other with the said rack-bar, substantially as specified.

4 4 7 , 7 Q 9 SEWING-MACHINE-NEEDLE GUIDE GBGRGE a RILL. Lynn, Mass., assignor to The Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company, Bridgeport. Conn. Ffled Mar. 29, 1887 Serial No 232,848 (No model)

Claim.—In a sewing-machine, the presser-bar and its presser-foot or roller, combined with the vertically-reciprocating needle-guide c. constructed of a piece of metal bent essentially at right angles, and thus projecting from the presser-bar into the path of the needle, and having the needle-holes 4 5 at one- end and secured at its other end to the presser-bar at a height that will keep it out of contact with the material being sewed, while serving to stay the needles at the point of greatest strain upon them in entering the material to be sewed, substantially as described.

G r a n t e d M a r c h IO, 1 8 9 6 .

4 4 7 , 7 5 8 TABLE-LEAF SUPPORT. LBWI& 0. CASH, Russellville. Mo? Filed Aug.'JL .1890 Serial-No. 301,044. (NomodeD

Claim.—1 The combination, with the support having the opposite screw-eyes, the leaf, the plates secured to the rear under side of the leaf, said plates being reduced at their rear ends and bent to form hooks for engaging the eyes and at their front ends bent to form perforated lugs, and bearing-lugs located at the front ends of the leaf and opposite the plates, of V-shaped brackets having their upper terminals reduced to form bearings and entering the lug and their lower ends rearwardly bent, and the arms pivotally connected to the elbows and provided upon their under sides and rear ends with sockets and rubber buffers mounted in the same, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with a leaf hinged at its upper rear edge to its support, of a bracket-arm depending therefrom and secured thereto a short distance in front of its rear edge, and a short arm hinged to the lower end of the bracket-arm, adapted to fold up against the bracket-arm, and provided at its outer edge and at its end with bearings 20 and 18, respectively, substantially as specified.

4 4 7 , 7 9 1 . MACHINE FOR CUTTING AND STITCHING BUTTOjj HOLES." JABS* A. OBTBlHonT, Troy, N. Y., assignor to the NaUonv. Machine Company, same place Ffled Dec 22,1885. Serial No. 188 426 (No model >

Claim.—1. In a button-hole sewing-machine, the combination, with its stitch-forming and work-moving mechanisms, of a work-cutter and its carrier normally elevated, a depressor which ordinarily does not depress the cutter-carrier and cutter, a cutter-controller connected to and moving with the said work-moving mechanism, and connections between the said cutter-controller, cutter-carrier, and depressor, whereby the latter is temporarily caused to depress the cutter-carrier and cutter, substantially as set forth.

2. In a button-hole sewing-machine, the combination, with its stitch-forming and work-moving mechanisms, of a work-cutter and its carrier normally elevated, a depressor which is operated by the needle-actuating mechanism of the sewing-machine, and which ordinarily does not depress the. cutter-carrier and cotter, a cutter-controller connected to and moving with the said work-moving mechanism, and connections between the said critter-controller, cotter-carrier, and de pre sor, whereby, the latter is temporarily caused to depress the cuttc--carrier a'nd cutter, substantially as set forth.

3. In a button-hole sewing-machine, the combination, with its stitch-forming and work-moving mechanisms, of a work-cutter and its carrier normally elevated, a depressor which is operated by the needle-carrier of the sewing-machine, a'nd which ordinarily does not depress the cutter-carrier and cutter, a cutter-controller connected to and moving with the said work-moving mechanism, and connections between the said cutter-controller, cutter-carrier, and depressor, whereby the cutter - carrier and cutter are temporarily depressed by the said depressor, substantially as described.

4. In a button-hole sewing-machine, the combination, with its stitch-forming mechanism, work-clamps, and mechanism including s rotary feed device for operating the work-clamp, of a work-cuttei and its carrier normally elevated, a depressor which ordinarily does not depress the cutter-carrier and cutter, a Cutter-controller connected to and rotating with the said rotary feed device, and connections between the said cutter-controller, cutter-carrier, and depressor, whereby the said depressor is temporarily caused to depress the cutter-carrier and cutter, substantially as set forth.

5. In a button-hole sewing-machine, the combination, with a stitch-forming mechanism, a work-clamp, and mechanism including a rotary feed device for operating the work-clamp, of a work-cutter and its carrier normally elevated, a depressor operated by the needle-actuating mechanism of the' sewing-machine, a cutter-controller connected to and rotating with the said rotary feed device, and connections between the said cutter-controller, cutter-carrier, and depressor, whereby the cutter-carrier and cutter are temporarily depressed by the said depressor, substantially as set forth.

6. In a button-hole sewing-machine, the combination, with a stitch-forming mechanism, a work-clamp, and mechanism including a rotary feed device, for operating the work-clamp, of a work-cutter and its carrier normally elevated, a depressor operated by the needle-carrier of the sewing-machine, a cutter-controller connected to and rotating with the said rotary feed device, and connections oetween the said cutter-controller, cutter - carrier, and depressor, whereby the cutter-carrier and cutter are temporarily depressed by the said depressor, substantially as described. ™

7. In a button-hole sewing-machine, the combination, with a stitch-forming mechanism, a work-clamp, and mechanism for operating the work-clamp, of a depressor operated by the actuating mechanism of the sewing-machine, a work-cutter, its carrier, means to elevate the cutter-carrier, and means to support it when elevated and disconnected from said depressor, a cutter-controller connected to and moving with the mechanism for operating the work-clamp, and connections between the said cutter-controller, cutter-carrier, and depressor, whereby the cutter-carrier is temporarily connected with and depressed by the said depressor and is thereupon elevated and disconnected from the depressor, substantially as described.

8. In a button-hole sewing-machine, the combination, with its stitch-forming mechanism, work-clamp, and mechanism for operating the work-clamp, of a depressor connected with and operated by the needle-carrier of the sewing-machine, a work-cutter and its carrier, means to elevate the cutter-carrier, and means to support it wheu elevated and disconnected from said depressor, a cutter-controller connected to and moving with the mechanism for operating the work-clamp, and connections between the said cutter-controller, cutter-carrier, and depressor, whereby the cutter-carrier is temporarily connected with and depressed by said depressor and is thereupon elevated and disconnected therefrom, substantially aa described.

9. In a button-holesewiog-machine, the combination, with a stitch-forming mechanism, a work-clamp, and mechanism for operating the work-clamp, of a depressor and an elevator operated by actuating mechanism of the sewing-machine, a work-cutter and its carrier, a support for the cutter-carrier when elevated and disconnected from said depressor, a cutter-controller connected to and moving with the said mechanism for operating the work-clamp, and connections between the said cutter-controller, cutter-carrier, depressor, and elevator, whereby the cutter-carrier is temporarily connected with and depressed and elevated by said depressor and elevator and is thereupon disconnected from said depressor, substantially as set forth.

10. In a button-hole sewing-machine, the combination, with a stitch-forming mechanism, a work-clamn, and mechanism for operating.

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SEWING MACHINE EXPORTS.

F r o m t h e P o r t of N e w Y o r k for t h e M o u t h , of M a r c h , 1 8 9 1 .

'Compiled expressly for the S. M. TIMES from the manifests of outward-bound vessels.]

DESTINATION. VALUE Antwerp $ 517 Aberdeen 267 Brazil 2,178 Brussels 1,126 Berwick 180 Barcelona 800 British Australia 43.057 British Africa 92 British East Indies , 889 British Honduras . 287 British Guiana ..: 64 British West Indies 410 Central America 14,314 China ..- 80 Chill 309 Christiana 1,444 Cuba, 5394 Dutch West Indies 295 Ecuador 1.761 French W. Indies 63S Geneva 192 Glasgow 19,899 Honduras 234 Haytl 404 Havre 6.140 Hamburg 46 330 Lyons 1,493 London 26,822 Liverpool 10391 Liberia 20 Milan 1,095 Mexico 8829 PortoElco 38 Peru 1,812 Sandwich Islands 860 Slam 362 San Domlntro 398 U. s. ol Colombia 6.679 Venezuela 6 191 Vienna 2830 Miscellaneous 50

TOTAL * 8 I 9 . T 4 Corresp'dlng time 1890 186 ,494

INCREASE $33,251 FOR THE YEAR.

First three months lu 1891 $562,185 •• -1890 539 883

INCREASE $ 2 2 , 3 0 2

EMPLOYMENT. F o u r I n s e r t i o n s F o r $ 1 . 0 0

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T h e N e w Y o r k S u n s a y s : " M o d e s t y is o u t of p lace in a n adver t i se r . H i s bus ines s is to r e c o m m e n d h i s g o o d s a n d t o p u t h is a d v e r t i s e m e n t of t h e m in t h e m o s t a l l u r i n g a n d c o n v i n c i n g form t h a t occur s t o h i m . If he h a b i t u a l l y e x a g g e r a t e s , h i s c u s t o m e r s will find h i m o u t in t ime , a n d wi l l cease t o b e a t t r a c t e d b y his a d v e r t i s e m e n t s , b u t h a b i t u a l u n d e r s t a t e m e n t is no t r e q u i r e d of h i m .

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O u r a d v e r t i s i n g c o l u m n s b e a r t e s t i m o n y , t o those w h o h a v e a w i d e a c q u a i n t a n c e in t h e circle , t h a t t h e y l a rge ly r e p r e s e n t t h e con t ro l l i ng a n d d i r e c t i n g e l e m e n t of t h e t r a d e .

T o t h e b u y e r w h o is no t so fami l ia r w i t h t h e s u b j e c t w e can s a y — a n d we say it f rom persona l k n o w l e d g e — t h a t f rom these a d v e r t i s e r s y o u can ob ta in all t h e i m p o r t a n t a d v a n t a g e s t h a t c an be offered o r des i red .

T o those w h o a re s e e k i n g e m p l o y m e n t w e say , w i t h e q u a l e m p h a s i s , t h a t t h e field covered b y these a d v e r t i s e r s is so

l a rge , and so p o w e r f u l l y and in t e l l i gen t ly w o r k e d , t h a t y o u wil l s e rve y o u r t r u e int e r e s t s b y e n g a g i n g w i t h t h e m if possible.

N o one need look ou t s ide o u r l is t of a d v e r t i s e r s for t h e substantial, reliable adv a n t a g e s w h i c h C a p i t a l . E x p e r i e n c e , P r e s t i ge and E n t e r p r i s e g u a r a n t e e . T h e p ro d u c t i o n s of t he se c o m p a n i e s wil l adve r t i s e t h e Dea le r ; h e does n o t h a v e to sell t h e m on h i s o w n r e p u t a t i o n . T H E S I N G E R M A N U F A C T U R I N G C O M P A N Y ;

A N D T H E W H E E L E R & W I L S O N M A N U

F A C T U R I N G C O M P A N Y .

W h a t m a y p r o p e r l y be said in th i s connec t ion of e i the r one of these conce rns , ap pl ies t o t h e o the r . J u s t as t h e adver t i se m e n t s s t a n d , s ide b y s ide on o u r p a g e , so these p r o m i n e n t houses h a v e s tood for nea r ly fo r ty y e a r s , subs t an t i a ] m o n u r n e n t s of l eg i t ima te , ea rned a n d m e r i t e d success . T h e i r v e r y n a m e s c a r r y a g u a r a n t e e of honorab l e dea l ing , a n d t h e a c c u m u l a t e d k n o w l e d g e a n d facil i t ies of t h e i r l o n g exper ience g i v e t h e m a d v a n t a g e s t h a t a l l can a p p r e c i a t e .

T H E S T A N D A R D S E W I N G M A C H I N E C O M P A N Y .

A m o n g t h e n e w e r c o m p a n i e s , t h e S tanda r d h a s been c o n s p i c u o u s for t h e en te r pr i se and e n e r g y w i t h w h i c h i t h a s e a r n e d i ts p lace in t h e confidence and es teem of t h e p u b l i c . W i t h n e w e s t of e q u i p m e n t s , and g u i d e d b y ex t ens ive p r i o r .exper ience , t h e m a n a g e r s of th i s c o m p a n y w e r e enab l ed t o p u t i t o n a firm bas is in t h e first y e a r s of i t s ex is tence ; a n d the i r success is a t e s t i m o n y t o t h e w i s d o m of t h e i r m e t h o d s .

D Y E R & H U G H E S .

W e t h i n k t h e t e s t i m o n y of mus i c i aus is b e t t e r t h a n a n y t h i n g w e can say of th i s firm or i ts i n s t r u m e n t s .

See w h a t some of t h e m o s t n o t e d mus i c ians say a b o u t t h e D y e r & H u g h e s O r g a n :

N e w E n g l a n d Conse rva to ry of Music , ) E . T o u r j e e , Di rec tor , >

F r a n k l i n S q u a r e , Bos ton , Mass . , J u n e 1, 1886.

M E S S R S . D Y E R & H U G H E S :

G e n t l e m e n — T h e O r g a n w e ordered f rom y o u r fac to ry for use in t h e C o n s e r v a t o r y is g i v i n g g r e a t sat isfact ion, no t only for i t s t o n e a n d q u a l i t y , b u t especial ly in t h a t tone power w h i c h r e n d e r s such efficient aid in l e a d i n g a l a r g e b o d y of s inge r s . I can hea r t i l y r e c o m m e n d t h e i n s t r u m e n t .

Y o u r s t r u l y , E . T O U R J E E .

Office of C. E . F r e e m a n , A m h e r s t , ) N o v a Scotia, Oct . 8, 1890. i

M E S S R S . D Y E R & H U G H E S , P i a n a a n d Org a n M a n u f a c t u r e r s , F o x c r o f t , Me .

D e a r S i r s — Y o u r s ty l e B , m a h o g a n y finished, h a s a r r ived , a n d it no t on ly looks wel l b u t s o u n d s we l l , b e i n g c lear , s w e e t a n d power fu l - t oned . I t h a s been m u c h a d m i r e d , a n d b ids fair t o bu i ld u p a solid and l a s t i ng r e p u t a t i o n . I w i sh y o u t h e m e r i t e d success w i t h y o u r P i a n o s t h a t y o u h a v e n o w a l r e a d y w i t h y o u r O r g a n s .

R e s p e c t f u l l y y o u r s , C. E . F R E E M A N .

T h e S h o e m a k e r ' s F r i e n d . A s t r o n g po in t m a d e s t r o n g e r — t h e

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135 While It Was Morning. 136 Sweet Home. 137 Woman's Mission and Influence. 138 Spiritualism Exposed. 139 Morning Star, The Symbols of Christ. 140 Deserted Family. 141 Christian's Gift. 142 Wreath of Gems. 143 Living and Loving. 144 Fatal Glass, The. 145 Anna Clayton. 146 Enchan ted Beauty, The. 147 Galileo, Personal Life of. 148 Cook's Voyages around the World. 149 Little Trapper, The. 150 Angel Visitor. 151 Fanny Hunter's Western Adventures. 152 Land and Sea, Adventures by. 153 White Rocks, or The Robber's Den. 154 Great Expectations. 155 Soldier and Sorceress. 156 Southern Matron, Recollections; of. 157 Forger's Daughter, The. 158 Funny Adventures on a Crutch. 159 Joker's Knapsack. 160 Young Lady's Own Book. 161 Fashionable Dissipation. 162 Madagascar, Three Visits to. 163 Siberia, Oriental and Weslern. 164 Grains for the Grangers. 165 Nicaragua, History and Description. 166 Horse Training Made Easy. 167 Lora, A Pastoral Poem. 168 Songs from the Lowlands. 169 Rev. Mr. Dashwell. 170 That Mother-in-law of Mine. 171 Ladies' Hand Book of Ornamental Work. 172 Hoyle's Games. 173 Life of Lorenzo Dow. 174 Life of Horace Greeley. 175 Russo-Turkish War. 176 Evervbody's Lawyer and Book of Forms. 177 Fatal Secret, IdaGlenwood. 178 Natural History, Wood. 179 Mrs. Partington's Knitting Work. 180 Horse and Diseases, Jennings. 181 Cattle and Diseases, Jennings. 182 Sheep, Swine and Poultry., Jennings. 183 American Horse, Cattle and Sheep, McClnre

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