New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-11-14
pHuADELpHIA's TEXTILE FABRICS.

BHllAUEIIHlAS lEAllLE FADhiNS.
COTTON AND WOODEN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
IN THE DRY GOODS TRADE-PARTIL TINE IN
TILE MIILS-EEDUC1oN OF WAGES.
lyRoN A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT oy THs TRIBUNE
PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 1.-THE cotton and
wooden manufactures of Philadelphia very extern
sve surprising both in the amount of capital invested
and in the number of hands employed, the iron manu-
factures OF any other single industry In the city From
the best statistics that accessible 1t Is estimated
that not less than 4o persons IN the city and suburbs
are occupied in these factories which are from 200
to in number. About twothrds OF the operatives
are women This industry here as elsewhere, Is In o
very depressed condition, and the news which reaches
here to-day II. b. Clain o; NewYork is throwing
his large stock of goods upon the market at rs per cent
discount on regular price Is mentioned by the man
ufacturers calculated s further to depress them
and discourage revival OF their DusineSS'
Fully onethird Of the factories here have stopped
altogether since the panic. and the remaining t"o
are running reduced time and reduced wages "oe'
OF the manufacturers trying to keep their iHS Al
operation Oh partial time in order to keep ther opera
,ves tocther but the prospect now is that many more
will be compelled TO stop within the next two weeks
Gen Patterson who is probably the largest indlVd-
nal cotton manufactures IN the country as wei as
largo deaIern the raw material. tells that he has
stopped six of his eleven mills entirely ana ntehdS
TO stop the other FIVE within week. There
is Mosaic the manufactured goods and no immediate
prospects OF sale and, cotton IS sold for cash OF
very short credit tits found very difficult In the present
strngency Of the money market to keep the mills going
He estimates that the production OF the cotton and
wooden mills in and around Philadelphia has dimin-
ished fully twohrds from what was eight weeks ago
He Intends however, to start his mills again by the LIST Of
January and thinks most Of the others will do the same
Among the larger mills that have stopped entirely are
Sharpe Brothers. the pioneer manufacturers or WOfsteu
goods, who suspended some time ago discharbng o OF
apnk De- G. grap ma
and wooden goods, who stopped their Park mills last
week dlscharging 400 hands, but who still employ
between 800 in their other mills That are running
$50 hands which also shut down last week; SIX OF Cen
Paterson's mills employing about 1000 hands and half
dozen mills in Manayu empoyn from 80 TO 500 hands
Manayunk, which Is IN the city limits, ana had a
population Of 1900 or 5000 before the panic had is
mills running Ill full force OF which only are now IN
operation. Three OF these are paper mills belonging 70
Mr. Harding OF The Inquirer winch are running III iul
force Before the pane there distributed monthly
among the operatives OF Manayunk over 100000. Now
il ia less than $4,000 About the same condition OF
things exists at Germantown, where the manu-
facture is mostly OF mixed cotton ana WOODEN goods
hosiery, &c The factories that have not stopped en-
tirely running some two some three some 1or OF
DAYS a week. and in all OF them there mas Deeh re-
ductiOn OF averaging II ana 10 per cent Inc huh
Der now entirely out of employment in the cotton ana
wooden manufactures in Philadelphia lie probably over
OOO but large proportion OF them are women auu
girls there is not that public show OF dieness that
would be manifest If they were OF the Other sex
The superintendens of the mills think that c0npara
lively few of them have accumulated much savings ana
that If they and their male relations kept out OF en-
pOyment many weeks, there must De great distress
among them. The superintendent OF Gen Patterson :
mills Manavuuk tod that within the last eight
weeks there had been steady draft upon he TWO saw
ngs banks that place which amounted i'll the aggre-
gate up the present time TO $4,000 IL IL generally
Ihough however that the mills will nearly all resume
work by the beginning of the new year, though II Is
universally conceded tnat there must De general anu
permanent reduction OF the wages OF operatives