The New York herald., 1873-11-10
THE BUSINESS PROSPECT.
The Situation in New York, Massachusetts,,
Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa and
Illinois-Reduotion of Work and Wager.
NEW YORK.

Railway Car shop Closed I'm Schemes
tady-Woollen Mill Half Time-A
Few Fortunate Workmen.
SCHENECTADY, Nov. 7. 1878.
Originally trading post OF great Importance,
owing to its being at one time on the extreme
western frontier OF the settled parts or America,
this city was known to the Indians as .the end OF
the pine woods" and yet bears the name, In their
language, which conveys that appellation. 1t has
communication through the Erie Canal with the
Hudson, and with the whole system OF inland
navigation from whitehall. on Lake Champaign,
to Duluth, at the extreme end OF Lake Supe-
nor. Five lines of railroad connect here
three of these being under the management OF the
Central and Hudson River Railroad Company. and
the others are leased by the Delaware and Hudson
Canal Company. Its central position, in reference
to the immense trafic passing through it, renders
1t great focus for distributing along Its iron
fingers the goods and passengers bound from all
points, especially to and from the West and South.
Srs MANUFACTURING INTERESTS
The principal manufactures carried on are the
Ellis Locomotive Works. Clute's Machine and
Boiler Shop. Barhydt 4 Greenhagh's Steel Spring
Works Rays Shovel Factory and a railway car
building shop. The number of men usually en-
ployed In these Qeaving out Rays Shovel Factory
is about 1,OOO OF which the locomotive works take
two-thirds OF whom are females and boys
under fourteen years or age. About two weeks
ago the car shop, which is quite new enterprise,
owned by company, started work, but feeling
''the pinchr which all industries experienced
about that time, and possibly being more impress
sionable on that subject than older undertakings,
paid of its hands-about forty-closed its career
snd for the present since
half time, and II any inference can be drawn from
appearances, should imagine that the condition
be Instantaneous and quite abnormal. The ap-
pearance Of the receptaces In which the well
substantial comfortable look s Of the 61ndreds Of
shawls In the looms suggest, In this somewhat
chilly weather. the desirablity OF at once having
those useful garments placed within reach OF the
shivering forms for whose service they are in
tended. The present IL precisely the season when
lively but for the baDeful efYect which the upas
tree OF wicked gambling has had on everything
whose value can be measured in money.
LOCOMOTIVE WORKS.
At the Ellis Locomotive Works. about two weeks
ago, some fifty men were laid OF, owing to the work
on piece jobs being curtailed. Since then
an order for twenty-eight locomotives has
been received, which will arord full work
for all hands until next summer opens. At present
IN various stages OF construction from the shaping
OF the plates to the starting out on its uncertain
career OF finished iocomotive-brilliant with the
sheen OF polished brass and steel--some twenty
engines are in progress. The tools and machines
in use at these works are Of the most improved
pattern.
MACHINE SHOPS
At Clute's Machine and Boiler Shop some $50 men
al are good wages and plenty
also the fortunate media OF providing work in
these very uncertain times for about 120
The position OF AFFAIRS in Schenectady Is taken al
together, much more satisfactory at present than
many other cities in this direction OF lar more
pretentious appearances. This, no doubt, arises
from Its industries being unaected by the prevail
ing epidemic; but how and why they have 50 far
tunately has happened In the present crisis that
very much In the proportion of the wealth DIFF
fusing nature Of employments has the pestential
breath OF the Wall street Malboga poisoned the
more effectualy the atmosphere Of their existence.