Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-01-08
lRe-published BY request.
READY.MADE CLOTHING,


READY-MADE CLOTHING.
How vast, expansive, and progressive are
the industrial resources of this great coun-
try, how few, even of those who might be
supposed to keep pace with its rapid strides.
The Politician stumping some election dis
trict, wondering what gain he will get over his
victorious rival, and thinks or wonders that
all the world is not astounded at his rural
greatness, sent forth to shine for the day, in
some legislative hall. Many look with as
constituent to find that they are mere
things comprising but moiety of the
vast machinery of human power and great
ness, that they are not the sole levers that
its power moves on uninterrupted by
any Earring of its lesser power. We
see the plow driven by industry and
thrift; fields springing up in rich YER
dure where but yesterday the forest
held its sbadowy sway; villages starting
up like magic; the iron girdle spreading
its vast way over coming space, bringing
the products of the but yesterdays distant
forest to be waited to foreign climes. What
mind can take in this greatness? who keep
pace with its strides. What resources of in
dustry, mighty beyond comparison, taxing
the credulity of the most progressive minds |!
May we be pardoned for mentioning but
one department of this vast human treasury
of labor-that of ready clothing.
This branch of industry, but few short
years ago was scarcely worth the notice of
passing glance, now has assumed one of
the most important stands in the vast ex-
change, disbursing more capital to in
dustrious laborers, employing in it's vast
manufactures greater number of operatives
than any other branch Of industry. Take
but the city of New York, who will credit us
when we give some of the few details
landlord & Brother, four thousand five
hundred hands and forty cutters; Brook
Brother twenty cutters two thousand five
hundred hands; J. W. Lewis s. Co., three
thousand; Close s. Smith two thousand. D.
& J. evlin, P. l.. Rogers, Union Hall;
and P. D. Barnum; the latter establish
ments are wholesale and retail, and
employ as many hands as the larg-
est houses. These are the most extensive
and splendid establishments in the country.
keeping the most fashionable and elegant
goods, even superior to those gotten up by
merchant tailors, which is the case in all well
regulated clothing establishments.
These are but some of the leading houses
in that city. In Philadelphia there are
also extensive houses Cause, Lerhman s.
Co., thirty-fve hundred, Bennett. & Co., two
thousand, besides many others too nume-
rous to mention. In Baltimore Noah
Walker and many others, who work as
many hands as many of the large houses.
And lastly we come down to our city,
which has of latter years been keeping pace
with the progress Of the times; and keeping
in view that this is city of but compare
lively few years old, it can boast of as
much enterprises as any of the sister cities.
In this same department of industry
might be mentioned, Wall and Stevens,
of this city, the largest Clothing Manufac-
turers in the District, employing from nine
ty to one hundred hands, land would en-
ploy many more but for the scarcity of la
Dor, benefting our city by employing
our own citizens, and producing goods as
low in price as any establishment north Of
the same quality, excepting the very COM
mon and low price goods, which, from the
large and surplus population of northern
cities, can be made at lower prices there,
but for better quality, wages are equal
We are pleased to see that within the last
few years merchandise of every kind is sold
in this market as low as in any of the other
cities, and the supply equal in all respects.
It may be asked by some what pay have
this vast concourse of human labor receive
for this work whether they are benefited