The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-04-06

Our Beston Correspondence.
Bor,S, March 20, 1850.
Boston Statistics Collected BY Me Board of 7rade-Saip
Bsasamg-Saies Of ORR Goods Of Leather
-Cothins Glass - DistiIleries - Lus0s--ice-B Book
Fubii.kimg- Shipping tovetgw Trade-Nore R0ilroad
Ebu4es-zAe Cambridge Horse Rsilroad, &C., d..
The report Of the Boston Board Of Trade for the year
snciDg January l. 1855, made BY Isaac c. Bates, ESQ.,
Secretary Of the Bard document Of marked ability,
and gives very striking picture Of he business OF B
ton its character and forth. II appe.rs that
the total number Of vessels bus In Bostoo 1885, aad
In those towns which have hsrsor % msdiun of
communication with the sea- was twenty-five, with .
tonnage Of 27s77. East Boston, Charles ovn Chelsea,
hedford and South Boston included. rae value OF
domestic Manufactured oottoos sold In Boston last year,
by arst bands S46 oo0 OF woosns $21 900 0oo
Our boot and and leather trade mous,
10 inferred from the fact that for tho year ending June
l. 1885, the Of the boots and shoes made in Msssa
chusstts S66. The number Of pairs Of boots
ard shoes made in that year was A. sOs ao2
The number of men employed In this bas
ness was 43,907 Of women, $685. The 200
tanneries of Massachusetts,, during the same time,
tanned 21O1 S72 hides valued 1t a. 76ss0 Their CAPT
tai 81 273 0s3 and they employed ,5Aa persons. The
capital Of 247 ourry Ing olish 81 $685. en-
ploying SEQ persons and curying her OF the value
OF 1877 The snire value Of the leather AnnuAly
used in Massachusetts, il supposed to b sN,0O,0oo
Boston benefits largely from these Businesses and Is tae
greatest market for the sale Of boots and shoes in Amsr
There thirty Wholesale clothing establish nenta
Boston, which employ many thousand parsons, and
whose productions Of tbs annual value Of Sf2 Coo
There glars works in the vicinity Of tho city
al owned here, and having capitals of tia aggcegAs
value of 81 000 they employed 800 persons in 1885,
and produced ,ods of the value of $2Os00O0 There
are seventy Eve Wholesale grocery whose
united capt. ais -, 100000 being an average OF
SsooOo each. In 1855 their sales amounted to
s25 We have twelve distlleres, Ia which are
invested 81 oOO, 900. Last year they Manufactured
so3s 500 gallons valued at ss466,59o, mott Of which
was exported. There imported 60s,2iS gallon.
showing An increase Of about $4,000 gAloEs in one
year. and OF about oes, 900 gallons in ten years.
There arc eix,y three houses in the lumber
business, whose capitals reach to million and
q half and whose annual business amounts
to For the year enoing February 1885, the
lumber received here reached to one hundred aud Atty
mil ion feet. There india rubber companies,
whose sales S. 200 00o and VIII ported 200
pounds rubber The capital invested In the furniture
trade 700 O00 and % to the ex emit Of four AMI
hslfnicps were made in 1856 The sales of agricultural
tools up to two and half millions, by Eve whole
sale establishments which have capitals Of $3.50 080
The same concerns deal largely in seeds, &c. Our
twelve ice companies sold CO. 0G0 tons for city and
exported $50 600 In 1s45 this business
great 1t is by two thirds, but then It
thought highly Of. Five firms manufacture tobacso.
Their entire capital Is $500 COO and their last years
sales were tie amount Of $500 900. There twenty
four firms in the Western provision busiuess having
S. Geo COO invested Ia 1855 there received here
81 SEQ coo worth Of beef hcgs bsc,p 1ari and pork.
Ssms Of these carry the business Of packing
provi isns The value OF the medicines paints and dye
stufs imported in 1855 $ 900 0OO The value Of the
booksepg and publishir business ave and h,f mil
uors icing Of 26 psr cent in year. This
eught to be stcn business, BY way of smnen y, and
ts 600 bags valued ST. 1T 975 There were
ported from Calcutta 46l9, $50 gunpy bsgs Of the value
At rather more han million and qasrser. raers arc
FIVE brush manufacturing essabh meats, with pitfalls
Il $50 ard tuning ou work OF ths annual am unit
OF $3.50 Geo. The capital here Invested in shipping much
exceeds twenty millions. The ships owned here
chiefly in tie remote foreign trade Ia 1854 there
Good HOPE, and Of these los arrived in Boston; but
there oaIy Sos arrivals in 1866 The estimated
1855 were IS 357 GOO We have Two -four mills, which
turn out 500 barrels day. One Of these has
chinery for dressing rice from the pasdy and pro-
The most noticeable fact about business position IL
the great increase which have made in al branches
OF it during the last ten yet 1t is during these
very years that railroad companies say thAt
they have been ruined, which shsws that they
Of the general prosperity Our whole state has
in quite Is large proportion a. Boston, as the next pub
1s m,ts,;.T .s c,n S.vs notsios TO cs '. Of
blu. We gIumb.e, for oil that.
In foeign trade Boston Al but takes this lead In 1885,
the number Ct foreign vessels that q rived here
207l with tonnage OF 1884, 400 and manned by 1000
men. This is but little behind New York in tonnage,
The foreign register ed tonnage arrived here amounts to
half Eilion Of tons. We distance Philadelphia
Baltimore and New Orleans largely.
East Bost, and Chelsea very growing plasss, and
must in few years be ofths capacity of Ia 60 ctss
The spring business opens here very rromT,insy and
tween the close .of next autu Our mocha
MICS receiving large orders both from home and from
sbrc and 9th business also ut work There
will proba ply DO much buiciog, to meet the
SANITY increasing demand for houses, consequent
bitsnt rates. Some Of the railr sad companies
to be crszed through their losses, and having
ana illegal character For example tho Bos.on and Pro.
vdeEc Compsny have caused their Superintendent to
notify the PASSENGERS that they must notify Whenever
after from the privilege Of buying season tickets
Such is the meaning of the clumsy ukase which they
that if . passenger shalt travelling the road
hou. giving due formal notice OF his intention to d.
without pay ing during he VII lie season which
may be absent, even though II should be for dozen
II this Is mot sfo, .g r 70 snss
have excited considerable CON IN here from their io
CLEO ,ssuIei and VILLAIN ans Lsg.iasa.s oasht to
control IL would change matters, and things have got
,uch pass, that chars uid be for the better
There was experimental trip made last Wednesday
the Cambridge Horse Railroad, whore things worked
| excsllen'ly. Yesterday, there FIVE large
brought in train all full Of passengers The Bos
tx terminus Of the in West Cedar street. h..
IL Is expected tha. BY Monday, st tne lase,. ~. trains
come in 70 Bowden square, he nice selected for
lie Boston eiear.ng House win 60 into ops alton to
cay 1nss been drilling the employees this week.
,1e eiDg from TIE In which Of our bank
Office have been sold" lately, should say that
very numerous awkward squad" might be formed out
/ cf their number who would be the for
severe Grill ss would satisfied the martinez III
| soul OF Captain Manual himself.
Mr. Robbins, who has long had charge Of House Of
Erection was appointed Warden OF the State Prison.
week jones' deceased undsrso TODD that he
refuses accept the Office unless the salary shall be
raised and 10 that there is much opposition the State
10 over b. ad and In eeb nd time is prop
ous for the evyiug Of taxes Mr. Robbins is excel
ru,y well qualified for the &c ano Gov. Gardner il
1 u,pch AID I'd Ter Mil sfr0c d., LII