Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-01-10

station, %
Repairs, bridges, ',o' on
Total, Slo,f'S 10
NASHVILLE AND CHATTANOOGA RAILROAD. |
This company employs large number
of hands, and we make a statement OF the
number, by occupation, as follows
Conductors 90, brakemen 65, engineers
80, fremen 81, mschinists and pattern
makers GO, cleaners IS, blacksmiths and
helpers %, mouldsrs and helpers 8, work.
men in car shops SO, Watchmen II, section
men, bridge carpenters, watchmen, pump
ers, gravel-train hands, ETC., 1923, spprenti-
ces 10, coppersmiths and sheet iron WORK.
ers 4, and helpers in same department 2,
boiler-mskers and helpers IL.
The force employed receive as wages
from 81 so to 81 per day. John Fletcher
ard Peter Corcoran, are foremen OF the
machine shop, Charles Grant, foreman oil
the blacksmith shop, VIM. johnson, fore
man of The foundry, J. G. Sawyer, foreman
of the car shops, Col. G. Fl. SHED has the
superintendency of the watchmeD, and
Walter Rosser, supervisor of section men,
ETC, etc.
OIL REFINERY.
The only oil refinery in Tennessee Is just
beyond the city limits on Browns Greek,
where petroleum oil obtained from Over
ton county is refined. The proPrietors'
Messrs. Walker, Yaryan & Co., employ at
the establishment some fifteen or twenty
hands, who receive from $40 to $3.50 per
month.
| The largest tannery in the State Is Ioca'
ted near this city, with ample capital, con-
ducted by Hamilton & Cunningham, who
employ 80 hands, whose wages average
from ST. 50 to S. per day. james Mason
ia the foreman of the establishment.
SOUTHERN soRGHo MACHINE co.
This manufacturing establishment was
organized last summer, with a force oil
some twenty hands, the wages paid rang
ing from 81 so to 81 per day.
BOOK BINDERS.
There are not as many book binders EN-
pIoyed as there were before the war, bul
the business is looking up, and in addition
TO experienced hands who receive from
8 to "a per day, employment is given to
large number girls who make good wage
in folding and stitching.
PRINTERS.
Our compilation would not be complete
unless we should have word to say re
Iatiye 10 the "Art PreservatiVe" corps, l
is the printer who puts into existence, a
it were, our thoughts and ideas, and
this very midnight hour, whep the toilln
millions Of other trades are reposing Il
quiet, he is laboring to bring this leVIe'
of the mechanic arts before the readln
public. Other artisans perform their Ia
bors by day and the printer chronicle
his labors. If superstructure, msgnll
cent in design, and artistic in hi
ish. is reared on any Of GU
thoroughfares, it is first brought int
notice by the use Of the types. The cal
rage builder turns out an extra job, an
throughout the entire day, it is draw
, through the city almost unobserVed, unit
a description of the magnificent turnout
appears in a morning print The pillow
maker introduces an article 70 far SuPerlC
, 10 anything in use that he is warranted
the belief that it will create revolution
the entire planting world, but this agricu
tural implement has TO pass through II
hands of the printer before its virtues al
made known to an intelligent communIt,
The magnificent steamers that al
now aaoat upon tie waters Of the We
were constructed by representatives fro
the different branches Of the mechanic art
and the finishing touch is given BY IL
printer when he puts in type a descrll
ton of dimensions and heralds to the Worl
, the magnificent appointments and gre
speed of the new craft. So with ever,
thing new under under the SUI. 1t ca
only be brought to light by means of prin
ers ink. We must be pardoned for this e1
I pressed partislity for our own business, an
will conclude by saying that there are no
! about seventy printers employed in the di
ferent newspaper and job rooms in the cit
, who receive from $40 to $35 per wee
according TO ability.