Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-11-05
THE CITY.
Cavalry Equipments.


We were somewhat incorrect respecting
the cavalry equipments in our short article
of last evening, but are now able to give q
more full and correct statement in regard to
their manufacture.
Messrs. Wade q Hutchins, through their
generous iorethought, obtained leave of the
Secretary of War to procure equipments for
their regiment in Northern Ohio. Accord
ingly about the middle of September they
advertised for harness makers to call at the
Quartermaster's Office and make arrange
ments for manufacturing the equipments.
Several of our harness makers met Mr..
Hutchins at the appointed time, and the
order was given to all harness makers in
Northern Ohio to make as many Of the
equipments as they could in thirty days.
No sample being furnished, but few could
tell what the regulation required; accord
ingly Messrs. Lyon & Whitelaw, George F.
Marshall, and Christian & Marshall, entered
into an arrangement TO manufacture what
they could of the equipments, obtained
sample, and went to work, and in connec-
ton with the following harness makers,
have succeeded in furnishing nine hundred
and fifty equipments. Messrs. Baily and
Mcscott, of oberlin Breck, Of Now Lon
don; Childs, of Painesville; Ford, Of Ash
tabula; Goodrich, of Brownhelm; Hervey &
Co., Of jefferson Lindsey, of Gevelandj
Morse, of Elyria; Redferm, Of Amherstj
Willard, of Berlin. Humphrey, of Cleve-
land, Is making saddle-bags for the Monroe
vile regiment. Stow, of Pennington, and
MunsOn, Of solOn, worked on the Wade &
Hutchins equipments. Aside from these
gentlemen, Mr.. E. H. Allison, of Warren;
also John HassrOad, of Cleveland, have each
manufactured one hundred of the equip
ments.
By the above distribution it will be seen
that Messrs. Wade & Hutchins have had
their wishes carried out in the distribution
of the work.
This cavalry job has been one of no little
Importance to the saddlers of this section of
the State. While they were nearly all out of
employment, and hundreds entering the
srmy, it has been a fortunate work for them
at this time. Nearly two hundred men
have been engaged in the manufacture OF
the equipments.
Another good has come to this city in the
manufacture Of saddle-Iees. When the job
was commenced the trees could not be OBJ
tanned at any price. Messrs. seaborn &
Hempy went to work promptly, and from
the sample manufactured an excellent Nc
Clsllan tree, and this initialstep has brought
work in that line to this city from other
sources. The Monroeville regiment is be-
ing supplied with trees from this city, and
dealers in Cincinnati have sent here for
their trees. The harness makers of this
section have reason to thank their Senator
and Representative for their consideration
in looking to the interests of the mechanics
at home.
Few persons who are now organizing reg
iments have the same consideration that
actuated Messrs. Wade and Hutchins when
they asked snd obtained permission to equip
their regiments, as far as possible, in North
ern Ohio. Col. zahm, of the Monroeville
regiment of cavalry, exercised the same
1orethought. 0fthe tens OF thousands which
Northern Ohio has sent to the war, not one
twentieth part of their equipments have
been made in the States all for the want o.
considerate and reflective men to organize
the regiments. While Ohio pours out hel
best blood for the Q Union, we must not forget
that she has as good mechanics ''as any
other sister State" Our Pennsylvania
neighbors are well cared for with this army
wo.k.
We are informed that the Allegheny AR.
senal is SO managed as to give no work Il
citizens outside the State. Work is giver
out to any and all who are willing to do it
but it must be manufactured within thu
bounds of Pennsylvania. Certainly Ohio il
not less deserving than Pennsylvania, anC
her ability to do her portion is unquestiOn
ed.