The New York herald., 1873-11-10

wsch, New Haven and Waterbury, because they
are engaged in vulgar methods OF making money
such as cotton. clock, carriage factories and the
like. They feel no dread OF any distress this win
ter among their working people. There are about
1000 operatives OF all kinds In the city. and they
are distributed and situated In this way I'm the
Pratt Whitney Works $50 men are employed. and
no reduction in time or wages has taken place. nor
Is there likelihood OF any, for the reason that the
nrm has orders nom the Austrian and Russian
governments which win take them to the middle
OF next year to execute. Their speciality Is the
manufacture OF machinery for making guns
and sewing machines, and their ESTABLISHMENT Is
quite an extensive one. Everybody mas hearo OF
THE COLT FACTORY
where the famous Colt revovers are made. II ia
an immense concern, but It has fallen away since
the death OF Colonel Colt There was time when
it employed over 1000 hands. II Is now content
with force OF 500. IL Is running ten hours day,
and the thinks there VIII ne no occs
wood Brainard, book printers, employ 200 hands
at iull time and customary wages. ldentined with
who had the contract for Greeley's "American Con-
flctn The first volume went or their hands ike
Greeley went to Richmond to attach his autograph
to Jeh. Davis bail bond, and that proved the
death knell OF the second volume. Thousands ol
good republicans who read with ravenous zest
the first lnstalmeht or Greeley's story never cared
to see the second This incident should be in
corporated among the "ouriosities OF Literature"
GREAT FACTORY
here In the days OF the war, where Sharpe's re-
peatng ri1eS were made As the government
failed TO repeat Its orders the factory closed, but
was subsequently taken by the Weed Sewing Ma
chine Company, who employ 800 men. They have
reduced the hours OF LABOR to quarters time
but have discharged none OF their hands. p. Jewell
SONS, leather betting sixty men employed are
graphers. full time; Hartford File Company. full
time. and washburn Wheelworks, same. George
s. Lincoln Co.. machinists and founders employ
120 men now, having discharged twenty-five. They
are about to cut down from ten to eight hours.
James 1. Howard war , Co., railway supply h mannlac, e
better times they have had as many as 100. They
explain the falling on on the score that all over the
and curtaing, and that the demand for railway
supplies Is confined to barely what is necessary
pany employ ri i5o hands, and l have SO r lar made
no reduction In the number or in the wages. The
woodruff Iron Works have $50 hands, and the su-
PEELED to run night and day, SO that there Is no
IN that quarter Of any sck q employ
the engines for the ST. Louis Bridge.
AMERICAN SILK PRODUCTION.
paid visit to the mandatory OF the Cheeney
Brothers, which Is rather remarkable lnstitu-
tion as It is one OF the few attempts In this coun-
try to compete with the SILK productions OF France
and England. The great feature OF the manulac-
ture Is the weaving OF spun silk into silk cloth for
ladies' dresses. They employ 800 hands In Hartford
have no immediate intention Of reducing the force.
They say the panic has cut or month or six
weeks OF fall trade. Last September was the
largest month they ever had, but October showed
falling or OF fifty per cent They are now en-
gagged preparing for the spring trade, and have no
apprehension that the present depression will
continue.
AN IMAGINARY PANIC. .M
find from conversation with the manufacturers
that there Is no sense or positive alarm among
them as to the uture. They insist that this panic
started fictitious basis, that there is no sound
cause for it, and that no analogy exists between
this year and 1857 AS for the operatives. this is
the LANGUAGE l heard from gentleman OF Hart.
ford Here and everywhere else you VIII nm, and
who live from hand TO mouth. and are no better Off
In the best than in the worst OF times Good sober
workmen are seldom or never discharged, except,
OF course, where Q factory shuts down altogether.
In the class OF manufactures confined to Hartford
kep a aS
been with you for some time, and happen
TO be good ones, to replace them satis1ac-
tOrily by strangers. In other places. especially
In England, they close their factories in duh times
let the hands dsperse and trust to luck to get them
luck ior better times and keep our hands on work
ing IN that hope The work people appreciate this
and their labor Is all the better for It,"
"What might be the comparative difference In
the prospects OF the operatives In the city and In
the country placess"
sThe country, undoubtedly, is easier for the
work people. In the city there Is the question OF
rent to be met punctually. II the city landlord
turns his tenants out In the country the opera
tives may owe for six months rent and not feel
anxiety about being thrown out OF shelter. That
country have y chance OF raising vegetables, rear
ing poultry, and, altogether living more cheaply
and comfortably than In the city,"
EFFEcTs THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
So far IL Is certain that the manufacturing inter-
ests OF the state have not been seriously affected;
but in anticipation of any further embarrassment,
there Is general disposition to cut down expenses
wherever the cutting can be done with the least
possible Inconvenience Taking the state alto
getner there are now out OF employment In the
manufacturing centres about 4,50O hands.
Tne New Haven carriage factories and the New
a
At East Hampton the Gong Bell Company, the
East Hampton Bell Company and D. B: Niles 4
Beyin Bros. ' ( Co. are stiu open, with reduced
number OF workmen.
Aads A. New Brighton the sta Stanley @ Rue works nave
At Bridgeport the Howe Sewing Machine Com
pany have stopped and the Wheeler Wilson are
At West winsted the Empire Knife Company and
Latnrop's Cutlery are running on reduced time
At Wlnsted the New England Pin Company nave
reduced the hours from ten to eight
At Bristol all the factories are on reduced time.
AT New Milford the button factory Is running
with a diminished number OF workmen.
At WocottvIe the Turner Seym0r Judd Man.
ufacturing Company are running on half time. All
the other shops continue on 1ull time. The Union
Hardware Company informed their employees last
week that they should run full time for the pres
ent, but the monthly payments would not be made
At Meriden the Britannia Company have deter
mined, after consultation to run their present
help on full time until after. New Years, unless
some extraordinary emergency arises. The pay
roll OF this company was hall million last year.
Al Plainfeld the cotton factories OF A. b. Fenner
are running on hall time, and the chances are that
there win be no change for the better this winter.
At Unionville the Union Nut Company has re-
duced the wages OF Its employees from fifteen to
twenty-five per cent.
At Naugatuck the Connecticut Cutlery Company
is running on reduced time. The Glove Company
have Just erected new building which was to
have been filed with hands, but owing to the state
OF the money market they have determined not to
put on any more help at present.
Az ma Qvo
shut down, except to finish some little work left
unexecuted, alter which they will hold up until
more orders come In. The Shelton Company paid
their hands In full last Saturday, but are running
their mills on half time. The wilkinson Company
have cut down the wages Of all their hands twenty
per cent.
At Birmingham the pin factory is running on re-
duced time The iron foundry has reduced the pay
OF Its hands twenty per cent, but gives them fuil
time. S0mers a Howe and the iron and steel works
paid their workmen part OF their wages on Satur-
day, leaving three weeks unpaid.