, 1873-10-14
PHILADELPHIA
Special Dispatch to Ths Catcapo Tribune.

THE MONETARY SITUATION.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13.-Tho monetary strin-
gcnoy still continues. Call loans vary from 10
to II per cont, according to coaterals, etc.. and
discounts from 15 to 20. Gold opened at 1885
and closed ut 1885,. The difficulty Of obtaining
currency, in addition to its scarcity, is source
Of general embarrassment to al business men
and Causes uniyorsal depression. Quite num-
ber Of tho 1argo manufacturing Embellishments
in the Eighteenth aud Ninotoonth Wards are
now
RUNNING ON HALE TIME.
Among the number are Messrs. Porter 1;
Dlckey, employing 800 hands; Irwin & stinaon,
$50 hands, and James Nolina Star Mills, 400
hands. Tho mills Of James Long, Brother l.
Co. have suspended operations temporarily.
4 cLosE-NoUTuED SUPERINTENDENT.
called on hfr. Briggs Superintendent Of tho
Southwark Foundry, to-day, and having quea~
toned him about tho strike there, received tho
following answer: II decline giving you any
information an to our yicws and it you Bay you
wont give tho Btriko
ANY FURTHER PUBLICITY,
I will gladly give you certain sum Of money.
Some rascany reporters have got at tho mons
backs, have w1ttton public appeal for thom,
aud got 1t published by subscription
in tho ledger mud other papers.
belioyo tho men will return to work on Wodnes-
day. Mr.. Morris is out Of town, and will not ro-
turn TIL Tuesday night, late. I won't say On
what terms the mon will be coming back. am
informed that Western employers aro reducing
mon'a wages az we'll az ourselves. decline pos
iti.eIy to say anything further on tho subject"
After assuring this porson that I could and
would receive no bribe; that secuted the idea
Of any reporter in tho city doing % he alleged.
and thanking him for tho information accorded,
loft the establishment and proceeded to tho
sTnIKRns' COMMITTEE 1looMs.
{ there learned what previously suspected,
that tho mon would not 60 back till matters
wore satisfactorily adjusted; that mono Of them
had arranged to resume on Wednesday; that
Morris loft tho city lost be should moot them,
and that subscriptions to aid them and the move
ment wore pouring in from Now York, Balti-
moro, and other citioa. They assert their doter-
'''A1~'''@ " srANp OUT mANrp11y
for their rights, aud eonsoientiously agros with
Upwards Of 500 hands have boon discharged
by burnl,an, Parry d Co., Of tho Baldwin Loco
oSs i've awnc %Hfss M as1sat snz9y s R&ans5 made
1--WE HAVE REDUCED OUR HANpa
botweon 500 md GOO, and }ayo fully 1000 now
On wor1. We will now turn out four locomotives
weekly, instoad Of twelve: No business ias
to keep our works going Before tho panic wo
had sufficient oltloFs to maintain tho full force
of handa for tho wintor. Now, things lava
changed. The, recent failures have fright
enod railroad lnanagelB ana thoy not
only reduce present working exponsos, bit have
countormantod many ordofa for locomotives not
presently roqulred."
Bruuer'a Cotton and Woolon Mills In tho
uorthwoalorn part Of tho city, and said to have
been III operation upwards Of twonty years. have
been
THE SCENE or uuoM EXCITEMENT,
thoao fcw days post. Ntlo hundred handa are
employed In tho two mills, aud not Boul las
received wages for tic past five weots. Drunor
has not appeared near tho mill for month, and
has appointed peraon from New York. na1nol
Lord. to auporlntonl operations. Tho lattor
haa repeatedly promised to pay the hands, but
as frequently failed to do 10.
ALL HAVE NOW STRUCK.
and s7ill not reBumo till they receive mart of
thur wages. This r1n alleges that the atringon-