The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-10-06
TUESDAY NIGHT, OCT. 6, 1916.
IoRE uRIJINn AND MORE UPANICW

Boston, who devote themselves to the good work Of
supplying their fellow.ezens with cotton garments
10 the of some 20 80 per cent profit are just
now if you will take their own account OF the mat
ter very ill-used set of men. Their grievance +,
that they can only get, under the new tariff, from
25 to 80 per cent protection against their foreign
competitors. Yet for men whom vicious legislation
has ruined, they seem to be going on with very
considerable confidence and enterprise, and TO be en-
loving witha a very toIerabe degree Of prosperity.
We do not hear Of any great fortunes as yet sunk
at Lowell though the new tariff law has passed, and
will be in full operation next january. On the con-
trary, the manufacturing operations in that American
Manchester seem to be extending themselves with
marked rapiJity. If2O or per cent. protection,
as given by the new tariff, be, in fact, ruinous
grievance then are these gentlemen capitalists sure
ly the most improyident and imprudent Of men; for
in this very state Of things they going on with
NEW and larger investments of their capital, in the
very same oppressed and ruined business. Here
is some account Of their proceedings in this way, as
we find il given in one of the late Lowell Journals
"NEw MILLS IN LowELL-The foundation for
the new mill on the eaTpet is nearly completed.
This mill will be filed with powerlooms for carpet
weaving. II is TO be 272 feet long, by $50 feet
wide, two stories high, and lighled from the top,
and will contain 200 looms. This company is also
putting up a large machine shop, plcker-house, and
other buildings.
''The new Hamilton mill is 3l7 by 4s feet, and
four stories high calculated for 1000 spndles. II
is fast being fitted for operation. Part OF tho build
ing was undermined by water last spring, and aboct
30 feet of il fell into the canal.
"The new mill on the Menimack is nearly
for Foarbiuarxy IL il FIVE gtOFieg high. 3l1
feet in length, and 45 feet wide, and will run GOO
looms and 20 900 spindles, and give employment 10
500 hands; 1t is intended for the Manufacture OF
printing cloth. The water for this mill Is carried
from the canal through an immense wrought-iron
feeder or hume, 8 feet IN diameter, with fall OF
about 30 feet. This feeder made at the ma
chine shop in this city, and will cost, together with
the expense of laying 1t down; nearly $4,000.
This is, we should think, decided improvement
upon the old wooden hume. The company ore also
building a new picker-house, 2l6 feet long, and a
new waste house, ITO feet long IL is estimated
that there will be laid, the present season. by the
company, about 1000 900 Of brick. They employ,
at the present time, nearly 1900 hands, male and fe-
male.
"The new Prescott mills are nearly ready for OPP
Grafton. The large mill is for spinning, and will
contain, when full, 10000 spndles, and will be
driven by water power, The smaller mill is to be
filled with looms, and steam engine Of lS0-horse
power will be used in driving the machinery
"The new woolen mill Of the Middlesex COM
pany on Concord river, is $50 by 43 feet, six sto-
mes high, with an engine-house and large engine
for use in Of failure of water, which is always
expected on this river in summer. The company
have also recently built n new machine-shop, and
made additions 20 their old mills.
AT the Lowell bleachery extensive improve
ments are being made, A large bIeach-house, one
clearinghouse, one dry-house, and an engine
room for new engine Of 100 horse power, are now
being built"
All this seems to tell very different tale from that
which the representatives of the manufacturers in
the Senate and elsewhere, led US to expect in the
event Of the passage Of the new tariff law. We
told, that the repeal of the act Of lS42 was to
produce gloom and silence in the scenes now re-
sounding with the hum Of the spinning jenny, and
the crash of the water-wheel. On the contrary, we
find that in the face of the reduction of the tariff the
capitalists of Massachusetts are seeking out new
sites, well as raising new edi6ces, in which to
put forth their manufacturing energies. Some fifty
years ago three barren and uncultivatcd farms
pied the ground which is now the city Of Lowell.
The makers ofLowell, it seems, are rapidly going
on to build up new and neighboring city. Ifwhat
we hear be true, in spite OF the tariff Of 1916, the
city of Essex will ere long present itself as the wor
thy rival and competitor of Lowell. We find the
following account of this enterprise given by cor
respondent writing on the spot to the last Brooklyn
Eagle;
"Ths scraw has extended so far, | must come
to close with few words about the new city of Es-
sex, few miles below Lowell, on the Merrmack,
1t is started under the auspices of the LawIences,
Appletons Nesmiths, &c. IL IS growing with un-
paralleed rapGity. They began last spring, and
there now between three and four thousand peo-
PIE there The Atlantic Cotton Mills have been in
corporated with capital of - 900, 900, and the Bay
State Woollen Company with capital of 81 900, 600
The former have put up several blocks OF boarding
houses, and laid the foundations of two or three
large mills, and the latter have also commenced on
their works. 1t is said some S2000O,000 will be
eventually invested here.
"The Boston and Maine Railroad Co. changed
their route to meet this new city at expense of
nine miles additional track, costing Sl6O000 1t will
be Of immense advantage to the company to secure
the travel and transportation OF this Lowell jr. The
wonderful change which capital and enterprise can
work, may be seen in the single fact stated by
Lowell paper, Vor PopuH that the land, lying in
the centre of present and future operations, which
cost those gentlemen about fifty dollars, has been
sold off in lots for only seventy thousand dollars
some OF 1t bringing seventy cents per square foot!
GLOW much do such men care for the tariff How
which is predicted' Do their present gigantic ope-
rations, and the immense preparations making for
the future, indicate any great terror, or apprehen-
sion of general prostraton of the industry and bu
slness of the countryi
We bring these facts before the people in no
spirit of hostility to the gentlemen whose prosperity
they testify. On the contrary, we rejoice at the
great success which attends their sagacity and their
enterprise. But we insist that while selling,
eyewitness states the fact, the land for seventy
cents square foot, which cost them probably some
fifty dollars per acre--we insist, we say, that I'M
der such circumstances, they ought not to complain
that government at Washington is breaking up their
business We deny, on the state of facts indicated
by the above extracts, that there is any color of
plausibility in the statement that the new tariff is
measure Of ruin to the manufacturers. We were
told, when this law passed, that "ropeal" was TO be
the wachword and reply of the great wing party,
rallying in opposition to it. We shall be glad to
,Lo 6rat Of iho - a..