New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-09
TIE CITY OF Ne WARK NO. H.
A GLANCE AT THE PAST HISTORY or ITS MANU-
FACTORIEs-THR LEATHER BUsNL>>-MASj
raCTT-pr OP MOROCCO


FACTJBE OF MOROCCO.
In looking over the flies Of the old Sentinel c I'e>-
DOM in The ssue Of Jsnusry -, 1911, we find an ao
strsct of the manufactures in Essex county taken
10 connection with the OF lelO Al that u ne
there was more manufacturing in the county ou' OF
Newark than in it. This abstract furnishes the me ans
of making progress since at the present time there are
-four b,ar ches of business followed in NeTsrk alone
tic annual saes of each Of which probably larger
than all the manufactures of Essex county IN leiO.
Let me quote par: Of this abstract which mentions the
following items viz: col s65 yards Of cotton linen
and wooden goods Manufactured in famVesi i96, $50
ysrds Of cotton cs.smerCs &C.; SIS looms for family
USE lO2 looms for cotton seventy Of which arc driven
by water: twenty-five looms for weaving coachlace
and fringe 322 $50 pairs Of shoes and i,)2j Of boos
Annually; 80 700 .ides of leather tanned, and i025
skins year: $3.50 900 worth of carriages; $500
sittiyc chairs; eghty-txo dstiileres making annually
3O7 $40 gallcns Of whisky from cider, and 10000 from
molssses; zoe barrels Of ale year; 81 900 worth
Of plated ware; 3,l40 spinGles for cotton and 9liO
more soon TO be put in notion with 500 for spinning
fsx; ter paper mills with seventeen vats, employing
80 bands and making Sill, 800 worth of paper;
sos 900 worth Of earhcn tiles and teapcts $500 600
bricks, worth els COO; $50 900 worth Of lightweight
different drugs 500 $50 worth OF inware &c 80 hats
YEAR, seven car6ing machines, carding 30 900 lbs.
Of wool four turning factories FOR turning charstuf,
making so GOO worth year; four bark mi Is. csps-
bic of grinding 900 tuns year. % 500 yards coach
lace and fringe worth sl9 7jo four fullingmlIs, max.
ing 49, 600 yards YEAR, ST. 900 worth OF steel springs
and large iron sc1ews; one chocolate mill; two
factories Of jewery TO very large amount; 1854
worth of soap and candles; one saddle-tree snuf'c
tory, Masking 80 cozen year; $4,000 worth twiue
two cut nail factories making fourteen tuns year
one for curling hair; three printe and one book
binder; seven slversmiths and watchmakers; one
powder mill erecting; two oil mills making 200 gaI
Ions ear one for sheet.lead; two paint mills max
ing 100 tuns year; nineteen quar- les of fIeestone,
yielding $500 y-ari one wire factory; ooe for
brass fu niture; two machines for cutting lOgwood
and three saw mills cutting 900 MAHOGANY log, in;o
vent eIirg
Here is list which comes near TO a basis Of con-
trast oftbe present manufactures of Newark with that
period as have been able TO fud But il furnishes
poiuts Of interest For instance in 1910 nineteen
qusrres in the county produced $50 0o0 worth of stone
but in 1855 The Lite Falls quarry alone furnishes
$40 900 worth OF stone to the Custom house build
ing il Newak Another point Of contrast lie tic mater
of home manufactures: in 40 Essex county had SIS
looms for family use, which made col s6j yards Of
cotton lireo ard wooden goods bat in 1850 the cens1
states the home manufactures Of al ESex to be only
ss6i!
very uncomfortable part Of the articles namsd in
the abstract Of 1910 belonged 10 Newark. The shoe,
paper aid cotton business of Orange and Bloomfield
was very largo item. The most OF the wooden and
other factories driven by water were on the second
ard third rivers from Beleve to Orange, and fc0m
Bloomfield to West Bloomfield. The leather business
was also carried on largely IN Bloomfield, O'arge,
Springfield ard other places 10 the county. Probably
il will be within tie bounds Of truth to say that not
one quarter of all the products named belonged to
Newark.
In Gordon's Gazetteer of NevJereey published in
1894 is found an article on Newark, which was pre-
pared by some en rpIisng seuemon the year before,
and with great labor From this gath srthe follow.
ing fscts slowing VIII 1t was done 10 the way of
ufacture 10 the city of NeSarl in 1913. The following
is an abstl act ofths attic containing all the branches
which these ntlemen thought of sufficient importance
to mention at that time viz:
Harness and saddle factor IS sixteen, employing 272
hs16s; capital, s2l7,aOO; annual sales, s3io,2sO;
amount Of wages pAid year, $4,000.
Carriage .factories ten employing 10 hands at
probably about sl5O,OoO wages; capita s2O25oo
ar annua sales 1898 OoO.
Shoe factories eighteen, employing 1915 hands, who
receive sl75 900 Of wages capital $500 600 and an
nya ssle iGo5 49, TLese ablishmen's used per year
$500 900 of leather and in l32 their sales amounted
10 Coco. 600.
Hat Cactorits nire, employing A. haods receiving
sl42, GOO il wages; capital, 100000, an annual sales
s55l, Geo.
Tanneries thirteen, employing lO3 hsnds; capital,
$500; annual sales, sos 900; and wages probably
about $4,000 year.
Soap and candie factories tFo with capital OF
s2l 900, and annual sa!es of $4,000 number Of
woIkmen not mepiiooed
In this article there are two patent leather factories
mentioned without any statistics, though OF bat
little account. There were other branches Of business
c,Iled IN at that time but they no. mentioned by
Gordon The sriice mentioned seventy factories Of
seven different kinds, employing not FAR from 200
hards, at probably about 100000 of wagfe y.lri
en- aggregate capitsl of shout s9l0,O0o, and annual
ss les about e., 100000.
We are not able to state il positively but suppose
that including the manufacture OF ewe.Ey and c'hsr
leading bran hes the entire annual ssle ofal the rau
niacores in Newark 10 -3] wOCd not have exceeded
s. 900 600. But even ibis vas increase on the
busness OF twenty years previous, and was p,ooaby
more than double all the products Of Essex c)uny IN
1910
Ia examining the present condition OF Newark ii
will not be amiss to observe thai the years 1879 and
1897 were pecu sry disastrous 10 the msnufactI
Of tbs city, The first Of these ears swept down very
many who were apparently in good circumstances,
and the later yesr that Of 1884, threatened tae snni
hiaiion Of all branches of industry. One factory
which cost ESQ 900 was cold by the sheriff fr 81 400,