New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-13


,srd full OF these franz, giving more inp,o.s,.
idea Of the amount sf surface finished aere Asa "a,
be gsiped in shy oth-r say. IF allow ,sentysa,.
squsre seet a. the average Of the hides The s.l..
finished 10 Howers factory slo in ayeu vop.
cover surface If some 6Fesn scne', elusive a,
Whist are called the ".plits," SD including Aa..
would cover nearly double thst sGrfaoel n,
"suess which ~e ,bik dSe- not exceed the tr,S
shows whM large bushes Il il, and Ses Ore re.s.
for the present densrd and ices OF raw hides n.
pate leather 'sc,oris Of Nessk a-e actually An,
somewhere be,see. severity and ore hundred ser. y
hides sNesr!
The leather -ow goes h he ioisher 20 be poh.b.S
snG crsirtd the last process pr-parsto-y - ben,
sent of 10 the market, This description convex,
very il quste ioea Il the converting OF arashA
into the nSst beautiful carriage leather or .ko.
Leather. N about thrse months after the hide !,
stripped from the nay grace the eleg N, e,.s
of the millionaire or the tiny too; OF some Brolcs,,
exoujl'e.--Sn extraordinary change aay, co.tx,
csriis a5or iugei ui'y snd greater thsa lbo..
vos -rioy he produc, are usu.lly aware o..
The OF era'ons in this mandatory probably frn,S
fair basif for calculating The amount OF ,bog wye
ss.s &c. 10 the p,ert leather business Of hses
,bowGg II al his srdcle Ia. become one OF the r,s
Eow-rs Of Newark. snd vsst increase upon u
experimental factory o; Mr. Boyden twenty yes,
ago
In sro,hsr factory are employed about loo nea
who receive So, coo in wages syear; that is mon
than sve-k Tire fths 4 thee lsborers 4,
hreca,rs. They use 500 hices & week, or s6,o0el
year worth in he STATE sbOu. $50 o00, this lw
is not ticial aud mai ing >nnua IS - the auoau
e 100000. The week we were there the eel.
amounted to the sum OF O0O This leather i. ser,
10 al parts Of the country. and while there we.s
ZONE packages 10 be sent 20 Germany. The gso.e-
wh,se name 10 at the he.d OF this firm 10 full Of
energy, md il a hard worker as well |. .hresd
fnspcer. The last six years have told iavorsAyoa
tshrune.
B,side this msnufsctory there sre nine Ohsr..
several Of Which are doing very heavy business in
pa'ert leather. Six of them usirg up and finishing
net le.e than som7 ZOO hides a week. Beside thee.
heavy houses there are several doiog thnyu bus
ness but on 8 smaller scale one OF the most in,eK.
gent men in the business gave as his opinion tia.
thee ten sctores are using every week averas:
Between ? sC0 ard geo hides. All these h,ories
to.eiber Use per YEAR SO 600 worth OF nsesd oil and
from $40 OOc to $50 900 worth spirits turpenhne, or
campbei e. They give employment 10 some 80 men
he factories directly and TO msny others indirectly
They disbure annually some $3.50 900 in wages, max
irg ,n average 10 each per day, for siI days q
the week Of one collar snd ten cen's They are max
il 2 annual sales Of about 81 100000 When one Of
iht boI.fs gets factory for mskiDg he japanr
cloth The sum total Of sales will amount TO about tso
million. Of dollars. This factory will be ready shorty
20 20 into operation, and then suppose this estsb.
isl neut will be the heaviest in the city Of Newark
Iiwin be seen by blending all the branches OF he
Gather bus:pess in News'k that it has become
esc ing interest in this city, furnishing employment
nearly Loco persors, among whom It dlstrlba's,
wsets per eaI Of some sJGO co., it consumes nearly
5000 hiees week, or $50, 600 q year, beside gos-
skins sheep-fes and cafskins, which in the r:v
state are worth not far from 81 100000, and which
when ready for market, are worth nearly or gate
g. 0OO,O
This il certainly q marvellous increase on all the
tsnperies OF Essex county in 1910, pu ting the 12,no
side OF leather of the county that yesr against The Q.
ltss $50 900 year in The city Of Newark alone II
ia ysst increase en- this business in Newark a. II
ives in 1893 being tbiteen tsnneries then against
twenty -four leather establishments now 100 laoorer
then employed against near 600 now employees
some s33 co of wages year then agalns. sous
$500 600 year now s7s 900 cspi al in the business
tten a. ainst we d. not know how much, bat very
leavy capital as is evioent and s5oJ, 900 annsS
sales then against some e. 900 900 annual sales
The busDess row is at lesst six times great as
was nls53.
Beside this. II must not he forgotten that these e.
tablsbmept. surnish LABOR for very large number Of
persons in the cOartry-in Morris, Sussex, and Wsra
corn'ies and in Pennsylvania along the Delaxare-h
e fpd raa1v kef fOr
leather, tanned ard sold 10 the crus; to the finishing
houses IN Newark. Reckoning he entire labor, iron
the bark-peeiDg and g,indr aud tanning Of hides
The country factories Until it comes out finished N The
vsoys shops al Ne~aTk, it IL not beyond the truth 70
SAY that seue two thousand families are Deepen iao
o,e OF ess IN cash received from the leather msnS
fecturers e Newark. The failure Of this business
would affect many more than the capitalists.
IL tbese Gid other faats do not pretend 10 eIst
n,nbere, but base our calculations on str'euens
mace 10y eng sged IN the business and thoroughly
pos,ed up in the oesiis and believe thu. If 81 &c.
curste schedule Of the trade in morocco, csf and
shetpskiDs k2skins snd Lesvy Leather for shoes and
il pate ard Trunk leather, &C., in the city OF New
ark were TO be MADE out 10 detail the aggregate oil
lsbor wager and ss.s would exceed the esiirnss
hee msde.
AZ looking through thee leather factof'ee AMI COM
psrine them with times post, one sees the great IN
crosse Of foreign operations. In 1870 tn censo,
reported les than seven hundred foreigners In zee
county Of Kseex VITO wee rot nsturaized. There are
nor as eny regLers as thst in the leather shops o.
NewsIk Inquiries siso ss.i,fed US that only q snsl
proportion Of ,aboreIs IN this business laying a3e
ally -i5ersbie portion Of tteE wages. The most o.
III. II ,ent hpcfes and probably DO not get enough
shesd for long time Ct ra,ny teotier. Of thee
reIs 10 ehe lett .hnns q YerY arxe nrOpo Or