New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-15
THE CITY or Ne JVARK. No. ".

THf CITY Nf NF |bdHh NO. Nv.
TIE CLOTHING BUSINESS, LhBORERs, WAGES, AND
SALES WORD ABOUT sEAMsTREssEs. Es-
PECIALIY COUNTRY sEAMsTREssEs.
twenty-five years sgo there were thousands OF
American grs, daughters Of farmers, mechanics and
lsborera who were wi ling to 60 ont aud do house
"work" in our towns and cities. Ia this way the liv
ing Of many poor families was eked out and macy
very intelligent aud worthy young women earned
their own marriage outfit by this kind of soor, at the
rate of from three to four collars month The mod
ern wages Of FIVE six aad eight dollars month were
not so ns Oh az thought Of IL fact previous to $780,
young women wishing to earn her own living, had
no alternative in New-Jtrtey between working in the
factories of Paterson ard Rsmspo AID going Ous TO
service in fsniles. But O, the present time nine
teptbs if not Iiy eteen.t tietts OF all the females
doing hcusew ork in this region, foreigners. When
we we boy it was an easy matte to hire the
vices of tidy American girl from Morris, Bergen,
Sussex county, but DOW our city Marthas' would be
about as much put to il TO find American help as
DioRenes waste find man. The change is very slr-
prisipg and is not TO be accounted for merely by the
inc1ease Of foreign emgr7ton for the American girls
could have mopopozed that kind of service had they
been so disposed Many thousand families would pay
premium on such rather than Put up With ali the in
copveiier ces and uncertainties attending those from
foreign countries
One Gauss Of the change is found in the rise and
growth Of the clothing business, which furnishes TO
eus not very easy way OF accomplishing more ny
their eedles hon could be done at service Besides,
there is fterg that it is more respectable to work
with the peecle than with the oiso.c!oh aud scrub
bipg brush. In diton 10 this the arrangement o.
this business such thst crest macy ssanttressss
have no need to leave their houses ehe to aud work
or 10 ge their pay. THE jObbers' bring the work,
take it away and pay for it, without any trouble TO
those they employ.
About the Year 1880 isis business began 10 Newark,
which hitherto had had taors and taoress enougnto
cotbe its own people. We have heard that SIR j. e.
Gsithw aite ard the late hr. Charles Aliog were
among the first to engage in the manufacture OF
clothes for foreign markets. especially the Southern
And yet in 1893 the business had lot assumed sui-
cieut Importance to insure it even passing ausioni in
u article which some intelligent gentleman OF Newark
prepared on Newark Manufactures for Gordols
Go=eer OF New jersey and which may be touud under
the head of Newark In 1887 the bu,ines had grown
very considerably. ODe arm was doing heavy bust
n,ss in purchasing cloths of the importers to be
BE- side stocking their own clothing establish nent
This house at u head of which was then and is Yet,
one of be beat nanciers in NewJersey, favored with
some extraordinary facilities in that black year of
1887 lie said never to have had dollar Of its paper
"laid over even for a day, but promptly met every
note as it due fact which at the time was ssld
70 be true of that house alone in the city OF Newark.
Other houses are said to have very nearly, bat
not quite up to this max that year.
Since that DISASTROUS period the clothing business
has assumed pO.t and controls cash capital be-
You'd the reach Of ordinary II evidently has
bten a paving business, and its sales reach asun
total which must place it among the leading prodac-
tons OF Newark.
Some of the statistics Of this business can only be
guessed at One house, where their books showed
how many coats, pants vests drawers and shirts were
cut, MADE and sid in a year and just how m4ny
thousand dollars they paid for making these garments,
hsu no. the data upon which to 'ound even guess
how many laborers were employed in making up their
articles The reason of this is tina. they job out their
work ii parcels to persons who employ and pay their
own aboers. Tois part of the article must therefore
pass ccI ecrlal, and yet the oorjectures will be
seen TO be not altogether improbable.
There are at the present time in Newark eighteen
clcthipg es ID shments for making and selling mems
clothes Cor markets principally at the Yves, aud Soah
and the smsles Of these makes sales OF $4,000 q
wear, $40 iDc ldIrVsl Uom S~fJ,vvV ~ NoSVtJOV, q
figure which The sales have occasionally reached.
Two Of these houses ssd TO make sale, of 900
ayesr three Others reach $4,000 four ohersieach
100000; tao others are rated at s75ooO each; aud
five Others, which are rsiei at from $50 70 $4,000
esoh-msking sun total of ssles in these eighteen
msnufsctors ia round numbers OF $4,000 900.
In ore of the largest 900 gssnetts costs, vests,
pants. and Srawe sire made, and 1900 shirts. Its
sales annually are about s975eoO, and it disburses
eco 600 in wsges. Ip another large establishment.
engaged extepsiveIy in making fine custom york, as
well as for foreign market, the humber OF g.rmsnts
amounts to OOO the to $500 900, sno the wages
it pays, $50 900, which sum is distributed sm'ns some
200 hands, an average of $3.50 to each iaborer per
year. If We take these data ss the bssis We reseh
Il following interesting results IS to the whole isi-
pe,s of Newark The annual ssle, amount to
$4,000, OOo the namber of garments made per year
some $4,000 or COZ, 900; the number Of lsborers
s,0O who receive in wsses about 500 900 year, or