New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-11-08
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.

Weeks OF The American Md'iUdctuH III tui9 "''' W.
statistics and valuable information
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.
4 L.IGE CONCERN SUBSTITUTES STORE ORDERS FOR
CAsH-CoNsIDERABLB REDUCTION OF FORCE AT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS DOES NOT YET FEEL THE
PANIC.
(FRoM sPEcIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUsE.i
JoHNsTowN, Penn, Nov. 5.-The Cambria
Company OF this place made another reduction To-
day OF 10 per cent tho wages OF their employees, In
addition to the 10 per cent reduction made two or three
weeks ago. The Company all tho works here, In
GLIDING two rolling mills for iron, for steel. Bes-
semer steel works aud WOODEN mill recently started
and about half filed with machinery. &C. They also
mine their own coal and iron which are obtained In this
vicinity and employ In all Of their operations about 5000
men, The town and the neIghboring bOroughs have
q population of 1900 $1,000, nearly til OF whom are
dependent. IN another, on the Cambria Iron
Company Very few hands have been discharged yet
not more than 400 am t0ld-but the wages OF all
have been reduced as previously stated and since the
financial troubles the mills have not run regularly Tho
principal bu siness the manufacture or railroad roD
aud when the panic began the Company hau oruers
enough TO keep their works going all WINTER but these
orders were counermanded. and the mills now run ac
cordng to orders they receive There has been
an improvement within tho last week, and there
ara enough orders to keep the mills run
ming a month more: and In the mean time
It is thought others will DO received 40 as to prevent
another soppage this Winter There is good deal or
uncertainty however, aud the feeling among all classes
is despondent. The Company has paid no money to its
empoyes for time past, but gives them orders ON
the stores owned by 1t for all they want TO live and
what they do not wish trade out, be left to their
credit on the COmpanys books. The Companys stores
keep everything In the shape OF necossaros needed by
their hands, and 1t IL said sell cheap other stores
but the operatives Obliged to trade with them whether
or not as they get money and no negotiable notes,
duebills. or orders from tie Company. They only
nay their rents by orders on tho Company's
stores At the last pay day, last Saturday. these
stores sold $4,000 worth OF goods OF which $4,000 worth
WAS groceries There does not appear TO be much CON-
paint among at this state OF things, as the em
poyers tell them that tho only alternative Is to stop
work altogether and they see no chance OF lettering
their condition by going elsewhere The chief grum
bers are the shopkeepers OF opposition stores Their
trade IL entirely stopped and IL Is OF course natural That
they should beeyeaud Try to make others believe that
the action Of the Company Is dictated not 80 much Dy
necessity as 10y sharp practice and desire to monopo
lie the trade Ofhelr employee They say that under TINS
cement, and with the reduced wages tue Cambria
Iron Company manufacture IRON Az per cent lower
than they could before the panic me Company are 10
start steel mills again ON the 10Th ns and intend
10 Keep all their works going through the winter III
possible either gu full or partial time They gave no as
sursnce to their employees as 10 when they VIII com'
mence paying cash agau but promise TO do so as soon
as tS Of the Cambria Company are owned partly in
JohnstOwn and partly In Philadelphia.
THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
ALTOONA PENN Nov. 6.-rhe principal works OF the
Pennsy ivana Railroad Company are at this place, ill.,
Guiding car shops, machine shops, locomotive works.
castings Of all kinds &C., and employing usually about
$500 men. Soon after tho panic began the Company
duced time from 10 hours to all hands working
their road except the train force and the result was
that many left who have since returned and asked for
work at reduced hours 1t should be stated that ali
the men employed by the Company are paid by the
has always been customary, however, 10 make reduc
ton OF hour in time IN the FAIL but II was done
earlier this year on account OF the panic ana reduc
ton OF two hours made instead OF one. Since the
reduction business has grown worse Instead OF better
The Company decline 10 reemplOy the men who went
~ ON strike. contract the force employed In every
where II 10 practicable between 800 and 600
has heen sp0Dding reduction III the smaller works
OF Company at Harrisburg Huntington Philadelphia
places Mr.. Gardner, the General
superintendent here cells me that tho estimated force
employed W the Company ia 5000 men or more, and
men, There has been no reduction or wages per hour
Tue freight business OF the company parucusry west,
IL is estimated that the decrease Is about 80 per cent
panic The eastern bouni freight however. has kept
no remarkably WELL aud this Company, as well as the
during the Winter In freIghts rom the West.
uARRIsBUKG. Penn, Nov. CT all the manufacturers
OF Pennsy lyana were in nourishing condition as
those of It's capital there would be little occasion for
dependency IN the Keystone state. Harrisburg has
larger manufacturing interest hln outsiders generally
1--WE IL credit for aud far can learn lt has yet
scarcely suffered all from tue effects OF tue panic
There are this city and suburbs SIX blast furnaces,
owned by aud In connection with rolling mills all
but one Of which in full operation Tue pennsylvania
Steel Works, the largest concern or tho KIND In the
country mas "a roiing mill and was about To build
1--WE others. when the tgntness In the money market
began: Mccormick Co. have two 5he Lochiei Rolling
Mill Company one. Price Bros. have one, aud d. * j.
Wstar one Wistars stopped before the panic
for repairs and has not ared again, as 1t would nave
done Dul for panic. There has been reduction ia
men time or wages the other 1--we. fdere are three
large rolling mills FOR the manufacture OF boiler plate,
aud one he Locne probably tho largest In the coun
try poying 900 Tor the manufacture ef rail
road IRON All them running with fun force aud
no deduction In time Taerc Is nail factory
employing men, also running on full time aud force.
The Harrisburg car shops, employing about $40 mel
when fan have discharged hail their force, aud this IA
the only concern that discharged any OF It's hep.
They largely for the New-fofk Central
Railroad Company, and had the $so00O due tnom from
that forthcoming. would have Kept Gu In
full force. Tue Harrisburg cotton mills, employing
1000 1900 hands, mostly glrls, Is running la iu force
aud time and reduction OF wages although tho latter
Is talked Of The umDer trade OF Harrisburg quito
extensive, handling SoOv0O0o feot annually and
from liooOOJ 100000 feet vi bridge
lumber. There reduction Ia tho force
pioyod Ia tbA businooS, W u tho Wages VI