The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-21
The Crisis and the Trades.

CARRIAGE AND HARNESS MAKERS or THE METRO
PoLfs-uow THEY ARE AFFECTED by THE DE-
PREssIoE-sIxTY OUT OF EVERY HUNDRED IN
WANT OF INSTRUMENTATION TOTAL STOP
FACE OF TIE SOUTHERN TRADE, ETC.
Perhaps there other trade business New York
which has suffered severely from the cr
sis that Of the carriage makers and the result has
been the discharge OF at least sixty out Of every hundred
Of the workmen The rigid system Of economy which
has been inauguratcd generally among the wealthy,
wen among those who SO abundanty bless
cd with tho good things Of this world, has Affected this
department of industry to perhaps great
er degree than any other. Mllionares, whose
real estate and other property becoming
unreliable in value in the threatened prospect of
civil war have concluded tighten their purse strings
and dispense with Injuries until the advent of better
timcs-which signifies the adoption OF the Crittcnden
compromise, other having in view the
salvation Of the country. They will therefore Of
be satisfied under tho present condition OF things with
the carriages which they had before intended replace
with ones, and which revarDshed and 70
fitted for another In the harness trade pre-
sonted with the state of aGars-au who own or
employ horses either for pleasure labor are obliged
by the consid rations TO postpone their orders
the manufacturers for the present And thus 1t Is that
sixty cent Of the operative carriage and harness
makers present out Of employ and thrown
back upon their little sayings for ;ed To depend
upon public charity for support. In an article
published the Herald the 'Poor and the Crisis
the public presented with the of harness
maker, who, among number OF other tradesmen-all
deprived Of employ by the general depression OF
business-had applied for assistance in the Office of tine
Almshouse Department How many others Of this trade
there may be reduced 10 paupcrism u Is OF course i'm
pssibo 10 say, large proportion OF those who mako
the carriages and harness sold in New York do not live
in the city. We shall however give the results Of
inquiries into the present condition of the trade showing
not only the number who in want of work but
the loss 10 the business Of the manufacturers themselves
In the carriage business OF our metropolis, including
both manufacturing and selling there about eighty
houses, a whom not more than oncfourh dealers
that those who purchase from The makers and sell 10
tho public
Tbe principal carriage manufacturers have their work
done New Haven bridgeport Newark and other places
and the number of employed by them Ia about
thousand. The value Of the work, including all kinds OF
carrases Is estimated at between three and -four mil
lions dollars The iradespen employed In the different
branches Of carriage making called wood workuen,
painters rinmcrs, body makers and blacksmiths who
upon average something like ten dollars week
These mon have all been discharged in about equal pro-
portions, and that only when their employers were
forced not only by the actual withdrawaloi their orders
but BY the gloomy pros poets for " Is probable they
would have retained large number were they, As IN
Ordinary Of business depression satisfied that
there would be revival o, trade within definite period
1T Is only in the last extremity" said an en-
ploycr 70 whom We are indebted for some of our
information, sthlt have discharged hands, and
IL We saw fair prospect Of better times would
stu have retained iQsny Of our men and given them
some,hsnq 90 no. Ffon New Orleans Mobile Augusta
Savannah Charleston, Montgomery and Columbus, the
regard 10 the trade IL all the samethat IS in
a depressed and almost PROSTATE state In New York.
however the local business Is better than that Of any
" The cities named AMI that have stated, ~
affected to tho extent Of sixty cent 10 imagine that
made IN return OF better times rs simply iu
son least the manufacturers themselves regard
il. They say il - dead loss-as blank upon their
books that viii never be lllcd up.
The dealers m the harness trade Of New
York number about one hundred and twenty,
OF whom there ten twelve engaged In
the Wholesale business. Zach OF thcsc has average
I'VE operatives employed when the trade Is gooi but
the employers have boon compelled TO discharge six
or xpryt I'll 4