Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-01-17
Payments to our Industrial Army.

In this city, the national armory disburSes
about SoO,O00 month for labor, among fine
able-bOdied men sufficient to fill regiment;
the American Machine Works are now pro-
duclng gun machinery wholly, upon contracts
which will last until next June, and pay about
S64OO monthly i'll wages; Smith 6 Wes.on,
revolving pistol manufacturers, disburse over
S5OOO monthly in wages and their force of
help is constantly increasing; Il. w. Wason
4 TO-, manufacturers of gun carriages, army
wagons, &C., pay nearly $4,000 per month;
Wilkinson Cummings. harness and cavalry
equipment makers, pay about $1,000 per
month; Bemis & Call, Homer Foot & Co,
Harris Cotton, james Warner, Samuel Nor
ris, and others, for iron works. army tools
gun stocks, musket sights, etc, are pay lug
$1,000 or $4,000 monthly in the aggregate.
AT Chicopee, the Dwight Manufacturing
Company, the AmeS Company, Emerson Gay
lord, the Chicopee Manufacturing Company,
the Arms Company, and other smaller con
Germs, pay an aggregate of 500 900 monthly 10
their artisans AT Worcester Nathan Wash
burn, on rifle barrel iron and musket barrels
Allen & Wheelock's armory establishment;
Osgo0d Bradley, on gun carriages and lim-
bers F0X'S mills, on sky blue kerseys; and
various smaller concerns ON gun machinery,
llanket looms, etc, are driven at the utmost
speed, and pay at least $40 900 per month to
their employees. The pay roll ut Charlestown
navy yard for the month OF December was
S15l 1858.
AT Hartford, Colts armory employs 1900
men at wages averaging 81 per day while
there are several hundred men at work upon
the buildings, which are now being duplicated,
and other manufactures, which would bring
the monthly pay roll probably to more than
$4,000 The Sharp's rifle company work
day and night, and nav out $50 600 month
The saddlery establishment OF Smith Bourne
& Co employs 500 hands, at monthly cost
OF $4,000 Woodruff & Beach, engine built
ers, have $50 men at work. whose monthly
pay amounts to 10000 or SIS 900. Jewell &
Sons, belt makers, the Phoenix iron works.
and the Hartford manufacturing company, also
employ numerous workmen. Ghe above and
other establishments in Halt ord probably d s.
hurse not far from $3.50, 900 monthly. G. 4
ID. Cook of New Haven have changed their
work, with ready Yankee adaptation, from
pleasure carriages to gun carriages, and pay
about $1,000 per month. The Savage revoiy-
ing firearms company at Hliddletown pay
about $500 per month for labor.
The innumerable manufacturers of buttons,
ornaments, etc, for the uniforms of shoes,
hats, and tents of harness irons, stirrups
and bits; of army cloth, employing scores of
wooden mills day and night; and Of clothing,
which could never be finished in season but
for the timely invention OF the sewing machine
all these varied industries, with others too
numerous to specify, which have been set in
motion by the war, must cause long null
and strong pull on the federal treasury The
industrial army lett at home is ready and wilt
ing to settle with the inevitable tax-gatheIer.
as soon as congress pleases to send him aionu.
Springfield Republican,