. The city of Troy and its vicinity. ison with the elab-orately and tastefully constructed ma-chines sold by the company. For anumber of days the ingenious inven-tion was exhibited at the MansionHouse. With no little disappoint-ment, Mr. Wheeler discovered that adisbelief in the practicability of theuse of the machine in making collarsinclined the manufacturers of collarsin the city to reject his overtures tohave them subject the labor-saving in-struments to a trial in their a letter to the writer, he refers tothe hesitancy of the collar makers informing a different opinion respec
. The city of Troy and its vicinity. ison with the elab-orately and tastefully constructed ma-chines sold by the company. For anumber of days the ingenious inven-tion was exhibited at the MansionHouse. With no little disappoint-ment, Mr. Wheeler discovered that adisbelief in the practicability of theuse of the machine in making collarsinclined the manufacturers of collarsin the city to reject his overtures tohave them subject the labor-saving in-struments to a trial in their a letter to the writer, he refers tothe hesitancy of the collar makers informing a different opinion respectingthe sewing machines : I particularlybrought the attention of the manufac-turers of collars and cuffs to the ma-chines, most of whom shook theirheads, doubting the practicability ofstitching collars by machinery. Amongmy visitors was Jefferson Gardner,who seeming to be less skeptical, pa-tiently investigated the subject, andconcluded to give the machines atrial. In the spring of 1852, severalwere sent him to be used in his collar. WHELLER V WILSON MANUF. CO S BUILDING. 273 factory on King Street. His tests oftheir adaptability to collar-work wereso satisfactory that he ordered othersto be sent him. He afterward visitedBridgeport, Conn., and purchased ahalf-interest in the sale of the ma-chine in Rensselaer County. Besidesusing about thirty in his own factory,Jefferson Gardner in a short time dis-posed of a large number to the othercollar manufacturers in the as it is true, the Wheeler &Wilson sewing machines are the onesnow mostly used in the manufactureof collars, cuffs and shirts in their introduction, not less than20,000 have been sold in this city andin other parts of Rensselaer a few persons have made them-selves comparatively rich by the useof one or more of these the salesroom of the Wheeler &Wilson Manufacturing Company, onFulton Street, is a machine withwhich a woman certifies she realized$6,000. With one of the latest
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