Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-03-21

dustries scattered over the state manufactures
less than $500 600 worth year more than this
District IL is true, that while PENNSYLVANIA
exeels in iron manufacture, Massachusetts in
boots and shoes, Michigan IN lumber, Connsc-
ticut in plated ware, Vermont in scales and bat
ances, Texas in beef-packing, and North Caro-
lima in tar and turpentne, this District excel
IN no particular branch of industry, the aggre-
CATION OF industries gives it the status shown in
the accompanying table, which / have COM
pied from the census report;
annual Product Of Iafus'yu
Dist of Col.S9, 292, l73 Montaua.. =. 49, 81
Arizona. 1910 Nebrassa....... 5..3S,5I2
A AIlH i,62s "a New Mexico. l,4S9,oes
Colorado. ,s52, $40 lOregon....... 6,S17 ,3s1
Dakato...... ES,5.0l Utah .... 23i3,Oi9
Florida 49,. 4,Gs5, 403 Washington ~ 2.S5I0J2
, M;a;::.;; 10y; ga Wyoming -. 1924
This table does not include statistics of min
ing and quarrying.
Ii Is a fact that
ONLY THREE CITIES
south of you, Louisville. Richmond, and New
Orleans, manufacture as largely as does the
city of Washington. The population of the
District is: Washington, 100, 1879; Georgetown,
11,3o4: remainder OF the District, IL, III; total
121 ,s02. As the coal trade of Georgetown is not
counted in the aggregate it is fair to presume
that washington industries amount to 81 900 G0a
worth year. This beats Nashville, Memphis,
Mobile, montgomery, Atlanta, Augusta, CO.
lumbia, Charleston, Savannah. and all south
ern cities except Richmond, Wheeling, Louis
vile, and New Orleans, and the last named
city, the metropolis of the south, produces only
$3.50 ,2e year. This exhibit should not be
south. They never could succeed in manufac-
lures with slave labor. They have thrown that
clinker aside in fact as i'm name, and have buried
its remembrance in a new ambition which has
swept the south like a whiriwind. That am
bition is the possession of manufactures as an
element OF wealth, their wares aell "a fast a.
they can make them, and towns i'm the south
that few years ago, even before the war, were
shabby in appearance, present to the glare of
the sun nurtured foliage, in gardens that adorn
the wbitc-washed fences and painted houses of
AbOut the year 1906 John Harrison COM
menced to make oil of vitriO in Philadelphia
on small scale, and from his small beginning
steadily grew the fact Of to-day that i'm the citv
OF Philadelphia is made nearly one half OF an
the drugs and chemicals made i'm the United
States. So in Georgia. the cotton and WOODEN
mills are growing side by side, and the manu-
features no longer fear competition from the
north and east They compete with southern
factors, a cheerful sign. Washington has shared
the disadvantages that slaves brought.
The District of Columbia has according 10 the
census,
952 INDUSTRIAL EsTABLIsHNENTs
using "a steam engines, with an aggregate of $50
horsepower, 10 water wheels with 100 horse
power, employing 4,6S5 hands, who receive as
wages S2,00s $40 year, and the annual product
Is, as before stated, 80, ,E3. No doubt this
has considerably increased since the census WAS
taken. From these industries 1 will select only
two, to show the kind of manufacturing that
brings the surest wealth OF valuable laborers.
who are the solid foundation of desirable COM
munity. These are the nine flour ills of Geor ye-
town, and the twenty-six carriage and wagon
factories OF the District. No Washing tonian
need go to Brewster, in New York, to get the
best carriage in the country. He can get it
made right here, as good as Brewster ever si~-
ana as cheap as they make them in New York
the rGa ansS No Wsshlngtonian need go to
II not better, in Georgetown. These mannfac-
lures are bound to grow here. So with saddlerv
and harness. The United States exports harness
becanse Americans make the best in the world
but y0ur harness makers do as good work as
they do in Philadelphia. Reasoning from tn se
successes alone. does it not show that the m re
acquisition Of manufactures is not the thiay
because they may be temporary.
STANDARD INDUSTRIES
are the only industries upon which q city's
manufacturing success is built. The standards
may be best flour, best brick, best carriages,
best yarn or muslin, or even the poor Quaiity
muslin. standard article of the duality. and
can't make 1t fast s;iough for the demand The
water power above Georgetown is vast, and the
climate is suitable. II steam is wanted, Cum
oeriand coal averages about 1866 in George
town, when it sells for $3.50 per ton in Baiti-
more. There's any quantity Of good truck soil
all around here for vegetable supplies If three
standard qualities. there IL no reason why your
whole water power would not be taken up in .
few years. When such industries take q start,
they are usually, to greater or less extent, Il &c
John Harrison's oil Of vitriol experiment. Jne
mill-owners finally get 20 much work that ia ~
begin to put on airs, and q smaller concern com
mences on the next lot. By and by people dis
cover that there Is plenty of room and p ,it
for more mills, and before they realize il
customers come from other cities to give
II was exactly 70 ct Columbus, Ga. Mr You 70
started the Phoenix Woolen mills there, and 20
was afraid some6o1y che would start one. %.
Now he has big firm, an ONCE in New W k,
has competitors using the same water pos r,
and is begging capitalists to start the same nd
Of mills al around him, because he refuses =
ders every day. The sure accompaniment az
these mills are consumers for the farmer !. D.
Ger and butcher to feed; machine shops wagon
factories, woodcn-box and jute-bag factor!-s.
ana mechanics, who, more than any other ciaS
are permanent residents, buy for cash. and
when they 60 leave no debts behind them II
Hampshire and Maine, Is made into muslin
there. passes through the jobbers' hands tn the
washington dealer, pays several landings
fretghss and carriage. and we, poor dupes foot
All the bills. II We lacked advantages IL world
De inherent But We have every one Won can
name except labor, which will follow en.er-
prise, and am sure the Washington dealsr
would rather cell us home made muslin OF ne
same quality made here. for the same M s,.if
II less price, than take the trouble and espense
OF getting II from New York.
hive resided here ten wears, and seen the
habits Of your population change from inditlsr-
ence TO commendable energy. and vour slo., 80
OF mud TRANSFORMED into preitier and h. ~ Il
paved streets than 2iV city in fl. 60, n,~,, -.