New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-12-06

neat villages which have grown up about them.
and lA.0Oo spindles. employing some 5000
hands and manufacturing the wellknown Lonsdale
shrtings and sheetngs Wages at these mills have been
reduced 10 per cent but production has not
at any time. member of the firm of Brown & ives
said that In all probability the running time OF their
mills will be curaled this season, and that they VIII
certainly stop altogether lie said that was the
opinion of the firm, and OF Rhode Island manufacturers
in general that had been too high.of late years
and the opportunity for reduction afforded by the panic
had been seized by almost ALL Near the Lonsdale nils
ia a large mill at Valley Falls. run by the VAL
ley Falls Manufacturing Company. where wages
were cut down 10 per cent month aso
without reducing production. The mill OF the Aopot'
Run Company at the place. suspended altogether
ON account of the crisis. Another large Brown
Ives MILL 40 called, is that OF the Blackstone mahu'ac
turing Company, at Blackstone, the first town III lho
valley over the Massachusetts line The majority OF 'no
stock is however owned by Alexander Duncan OF sco'
land father OF william Butler Duncan OF NcW-iorh WI"
owns some OF the most valuable improved rear estate "
Rhode Island The Company runs b2'oU spihu'o,' 49,
looms employs nearly 1000 bands ABOUT 'nieo -,
them girls and women, and produces o'o'VV' y 80
sbirting. and print-coths per month THESE iis "oi
-, o.. fortnight in November for repairs
and fears were excited that they would only On
martial time They started again with fui ''ihe anu ~
wages but not long after the rents oi 'no ' i,
tenemepts in which nearly all the operatives nVe' a"
which have been rented very cheapy VI '"o'' %
Low, "a a., ner year-wero raised, ana wages nave ooon
on, down Is per cent, the raising OF rents coun's "
80, % tho reauction OF wages. thousand hands are
,ovod 4, the three large wooden mills NJ Waterloi"
village partly in Blackstone, Mass. ana party :"
Woonsocket r. l. These three mills nave 40 se'S VI m
cbnery and are run respectively by Evans q ocas''
tho Desbarre Wooden Company, ana Z. f. Mason =" w
of ,heso vooen mills that of the Deabarre company
IL the largest, containing "a setS AL 'ni00 INV
on ba,f time nearly month.
rv ,,porsr COTTON MILL IN THE VALLEY.
The largest cotton mill on the Blackstone between
tbose of the Lonsdale Company ana tue biaeKs'ohe
company is at Manvile This has capacity ior i~ooo
snndles but now contains less than $4,000 It's force III
cIudes about 1000 hands, most OF whom being French
canadians This mill is run by the Manville Company,
the eapita stock which principally held in Provi'
dence The panic affected the Company very heavily.
Tbere were heavy payments TO meet just at the time
when it wa. hardest to raise money. The mill was
closed about two months ago. ana VIII not start again
iii there is great change for the better in trade. In
IJxbrldge and Northbrldge above Blackstone ana
npon the Blackstone River and the Mumford
stream-a tributary OF the Blaekstone-there are
several cotton and wooden mills, aud large machine
works The sanet mil OF o. W. CapSSn Un cue in pro
ducton or wages has yet made but unless business
month The Cashmere mill OF W. ID. Davis Co., on the
Blackstone In Uxbridge which RUS IL sets Oi maSnu
cry aud employs $50 hands. has been running three
folrths rate for a month. Day Chapn's WOODEN
mill near by the stream. has eight sets or ma
re w5oIsn mil of C. A. d g. NJ Wheeler has sets
and 100 hands, also at fun hours and full pay The sat
three .fourths time. All the Uxbrdge manufacturers
propose to reduce wages thi1 month unless unless
mill. at North Ux6rdge, and the Linwood cotton
mill ut whitinsvllle Station in the township Oh Noftn'
and draw their power from the Mumtord speaP,
Together they have 5000 spindles ana 800 hands
reduced per cent Dec. l. These mills have been
aud running full tme and VII continue so t 60 run
Wbnsyille Village has 256 looms. spindes. and
$50 hands This mill is owned by Charles r. whitln 4
per week Wages were reduced basis OF about is
per Dec. Ia large reduction being made IN tue
pay. Living here is cheap, and there will be
suffering among operatives as full time Is Kept np ana
women operatives get board at 81 80 per week and
men at 81 The hands here are Of somewhat higher
long TO the families OF skilled machnsts, who are drawn
here by the extensive wh,ns Machine Works close by
These works their inception In 1926 john {. Within
OF WhitinsvIe is President OF the Company which has
the works since 1870 and owns almost an the stock
own name. These works manufacture cotton ma
chinery solely ana are among the largest and best
Known in the country In the foundery Is Of pig
iron can melted daily for the use OF the works They
hands ali live in tenements furnished by the COMPANY
the rents OF which range from sls TO go per year Tue
panc has not injured them in the least, as there has
fe,n no reduction wages. time, or force at these
works. is u probable tnat there VIII ne as mere are
orders hand which it will take all winter 10 execute
During the hight of the panic these works ran extra
time in tue evening.
SLIGHT REDUCTIONS N WAGES.
The Rochdale and Riverdae cotton mills are above
whtInsvle. They make shirtings aud sheetings. aud
are operated by the Paul Whiting Manufacturing Com
pany Together they have 1900 spndles and $50
hands They still running at full time and propose
TO keep it up, but have cut down wages about is per
In the upper part Of the BLACKSTONE valley there
New-England Village. in Grafton, and at Millbqrg.
None OF these are of great size Mlbury has no less
WOODEN Some OF the Millbury mills have curtailed
time Others have ent down Sa,o Wages In all
made in the mills, but such reductions do not bear
hard on the help in those places where living Is
mendation: At New England Village there is consider
None of the mills are shut, and almost all the man
ssedsson whatever the Winter may bring There has
been failure delay in paving wages In all this
which suspended before the crisis. The outlook for
operatives, then, does not threaten distress
one of the thrlftiest manufacturing towns in Central
Massachusetts is in different girer OF the same county
As the village last 9ams Of s eS4mae wRsa
variety OF industries here, the principal being The
manufacture Of easp ps ana re The
and bases its prosperity wholly upon its mills. The
PSa and English and
Scotch. The large mills OF the Lancaster bingham Com
power used Extensive additions have been made these
mills Of late years aud new building OF large size is
now gons up nn Cn,o , anu az % noy 3D. wnere
are employed Therehas been change IN the running
time these mills nor is it expected that hours will be
REDUCED all this Winter. slight reduction In wages
has been made. The stock Of this Company is chiefly
owned in Bost5r, 30 IL that OF the Bgeow Carpet Gem
pany, which runs tyQ mills here-a worsted mill and
the cafpet mill The. worsted mill makes yarn for
carpet woven In carpe: mill aud also makes cheaper
of carpets are made IL In tbs mill that Erastus B.
Bigelow up the first power loom Ged IN this country
TO manufacture carpets He Is now perfecu new in
yentlon-a loom OF novel constructio6-fOr Eakng
tain kinds Of carpets The 8igelow Carpet Company
employs hands. No reduction in wages hours,
or force has yet been made. In the wirecloh mill !
where made wire cloth and wire netting and large