The New York herald., 1873-11-13
Along the Canal Road.

CHESHIRE, Nov. 9, 1873.
Along the route OF the Canal road from New
Haven TO Northampton the variety OF manufactur-
ing industries Is quite marked. The panic has not
touched them seriously as yet their business being
OF kind that is not very sensitive to monetary
disturbances. The Cheshire Brass Company runs
on full time and no reduction OF force or wages.
The American Braid and Button Company makes
the same report the Mix gimlet factory the same;
Jeralds h Lawton, ferules and sewing machine
needles, the same; Ives h Judd, matches better
than ever before; Cheshire Manufacturing Com
Woodruff & Co., malleable ron half time; F. Ives
Co, carriage axles, eight hours. At Soutnington
800 hands out or employment. At Plantsvile quite
number are also out OF work. Retrenchment is
ns oTaer S Na % the day along me Canal road other
Wherever chance presents itself to save dollar
the saving is made. Passenger and freight trafic
has iallen or twenty-five per cent.
Among tho Woollen Factories-One of
tho Worst Anticipated Results OF the
Observation-Disclosures Among the Fee
male Opcratives-Ihe Woollen Busi-
ness at Westerly, Conn.
WESTERLY. Nov. 10, 1873.
Should the eject OF the panic assume any worse
phase than it now exhibits, and the mills which
are running on reduced time be compelled to close
altogether the evil results to the large class OF
female operatives employed can hardly be meas
ured in dollars and cents heard Baptist divine
in Hartford deporing the advent OF the panic at
this season OF the year. not because or the distress
1t is likely to entail in the matter Of bread and but
ter and board, but on the OF The demoraliza-
tion 1t is most apt TO produce among the working
girls and women. Three or four hundred young
and thoughtess girls thrown entirely out OF work
in city like New Haven or Hartford, and trusting
to their own hands for living, make an easy prey
m fho In fNan nnffo fat ri
trcts female labor predominates In such places
the stranger Is struck by the
MULTITUDES OF YOUNG GIRLS,
ranging in age from fourteen to twenty, and
almost invariably clad In naring scarlet wOolen
River met them at every turn in twos and threes,
singing and cutting up ike boys, In the most lnno-
Gently wanton way This sort OF relaxation after
the days dreary confinement within the gloomy
walls OF the factory is natural enough. Home,
probably, has little attraction for them The board
ing house is but little relief from the workshop,
and consequently you find them in the street, where
the noises OF life heard and in which they seem
to fnd delightful change from the toll OF the
factory.
SO long as these young girls are In the receipt OF
monthly wages so long as they can pay their board
bills and crafty their simple tastes in Dress taking
40 thought OF the morrow, they are more or less
contented and out OF harms way. But the case is
very different when they are thrown the charity
OF the world when employment Of no kind what
ever is offered them and when
THE WINTERS COLD
brings them sharp reminder OF their poverty and>
heplessness. That many are demoralized and
ing; but a better organized form OF society would
provide against contingencies OF this kind. 1t is
pitable enough to see q strong man willing to
work and unable to get the chance, but it is much
more painful to see these young girls in o factory
town, away from their relatives and friends per-
haps without any in the world, penness and out
OF employment and subjected at every turn to the
criminal snares Of temptation. Every factory
town should have protective asylum for cases OF
this kind, where girls thrown out or work by the
vicssiudes OF trace might find shelter until better
times returned.
RESULTS AROUND WESTERLY.
Somewhere near 1000 hands were employed in
this place and its vicinity up TO the occurrence Of
the panic The woollen mills at Mantle owned by
John Z. Weden, employ 125 hands and eight sets OF
machinery. At the present writing they are run
ming on seven-eighths time, and the expectation
Is that this will be reduced TO three fourths time
pany are charging aud rehtting their establish
ment but doing no work at present They expect
to start about April next, with $50 hands and 00o0
spindles. r. f. Latimer's wo0llen mill at Laurel
Glen is running on full time and expects to
keep on through the winter. 1t employs forty men
ana two and half sets Of woolen machinery. Still
man Bros' mill has been closed for over year.
The Stillman Manufacturing Company have been
shut up since October 25 undergoing repairs osten
b but actually on OF tine Of the
They employ 200 hands and eight sets OF woollen
machinery.
owned by Knight Bros, OF Providence which is
running on full time. IL Is not quite certain that
IT Will hold so during the winter. The number Of
hands Is $50, and Of spindles 10000.
At Stillmanyille there Is woollen mill running
on full.time 1t employs over 100 hands, and has
cut down their wages twenty per cent.
THE ONE COMPLAINT ALL ROUND.
The complaint offered by the wooen manufac-
turers Is much the same as the one generally ad-
vanced-that the trade in the cities has iallen Oh.
People have begun to hoard their money, ana when
the circulation falls on business falls or. The only
safe man In business during panic would appear
TO be the undertaken or the rumseller, for every
body else has some complaint to offer.