New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-09

Wsshiss IN sFef'. occupyirga past Of tws blocks.
Comb. n he e-tInstou cf lls co.enporf'ies. w's
criyng a srge bu.ress. Curry ana Beach. Oliver
Ws5e, and Chbres + csipman once did much b1H
I,ss in "tte 5 samp, Wtich, tEen'y years sso, ws
the toughest lotking SPOT il the city. Within & ~
years the mo.t OF The cid bulldogs Market -'-c"t
heve been removed. and their places supplied With
reat and 10 nv brick shops in which fourteen firms
ere cerr,ing on a hsayy business Among them al
thee is ba' cue regulsr lssth,r ti1pey-IIslsey AID
Tucker; I'll The rest. 81 ept two morocco tsaneries,
puIcltse hides tanned IN the back county, ald flush
them kr mArket. The beayies. OF these leather
houses aloue employs seventy hands. and pays OFT
500 week. o. over $4,000 yosr for labor. Tuis
house tan- and finishes 10000 hides year and IONS
20 600 cal+kius giving to market finished leather to
tie smourt OF $50, 600, which is almost ooe-haf a.
much as All the thirteen t.nneries OF Newark did il
1888. Another house. Pieison AID Berry, Purchasing
tier Leather tanned finishes no; less than 100000
~o:th in year, employing twelve men. All finishing
some 800 hides week Nine Of these ho-ses each
makes sales CT mere than $4,000 worth OF leather il
year, and tie sale. Of the fourteen leather ms are
estimated 20 amour, 10 about one miQi6a Of ioV1rs
year. These establishments employ about l9O or goo
hands, and dsbu-se in wages between $4,000 and
ress has changed since 1888 in the item Of tanning
the establishments are not much increased in number,
nearly double ire number of hands is employed, and
The arrusl sales ere abcu. double what they were III
1888. This reckoning doc. not include the patent
leather which Will be eOnsidere byitss These estab'
hments finch about 100 bide- week, and l)l0 900
in year, beside calfskin', shee ?-skins, &c. The
Establishments of Mr.. George Dougherty and P G.
L. l., INafh
vast number # calfskins.
These figures Indicate not entire accuracy bu. some
idea Of TIE amount of business done in that swamp
at the present tine and Of the employment 1t furnishes
to laborcf.. 1t is very busy place ia very busy
city.
TIE MOROCCO BUSINESS.
There are four morocco tanneries in Newark one
of witch makes its stock principally into leather for
book binding. Tive Of tbfse houses are making
$4,000 worth of a very superior black morocco for
shtes and giving emp hoy ment to between fifty and
sixty laborers These firms use exclusively.
orc Informed, goat skts from Tampi,o aud Cnacos,
which are considered superior TO those procured at
o,her places. The process of converting rough goat
skin into the best morocco ready for the shoemaker,
r. Gures about five weeks. The skin first goes into
the bands Of the "triinor who currieS il and takes
Of the hair; then The "rurer by 8 curious process
removes the glutinous substances from it; tlen the
" sower" prepares il for the "tsnner, who imneses
il a ew hours in sumac liquo; then TIE currieI'
take and under hs nie prepares FOR the nster
who "gIazes, rolls, bs ks and polshes it. About
one third Ct the sumsc used is from Sicily and the
remainder our common country sumac. As high
as ninety collars tun has been paid for the foreign
sumsc and it will DOW average about eighty do'la-s,
Al the country article about thirty dollars. Mr..
Young uses about 8. 900 worth o. this article in a
year
Those two firms tan about 5O,O 600 Cdracoa goasAins
ard 20 coo Tompco skirs, 80 r-tly 1000 week,
which, WHOM finished are worth 81? dozen for the
former and sis for the latter making the sales of ND
rocco il these two houses to amount 10 some $4,000
year. This item alone is one fifth az large as The
product Of all tho Newark Lsnneres in 1893.
In looking h'ough the leather shops one is struck
with the veiy large proportion Of Irish employees. Ia
some cases ell the Isb9rers are foreigners.
By comparing this list with that of 1910, it will be
.een that those shops in Z" the swamp" engaged in
makir shoe and harness leather pro luce three times
es many as the tsnncres in Essex county at th 1t
time.
Tie leather dealers are feeling tue present very
high rrices Of raw hides which perhaps ae increased
by the almost incredible nun bcrs used in the patent
other iine. Sufcien has been said TO shcw that the
leather thde i. rot small item in the trade Of
Newark.