Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-11-06
The Morocco Trade.

ANOTHER FACTORY BEGUN IN THIS cITY-sosE NEW
IDEAS IN THE ERECTION OF THE BUILDING AND IN
LABoR-sAvINa MACHINERY.
Mr.. William Y Warner, late of the firm of
Pusey, Scott q Co., who has been for some time
prospecting for site for a new morocco manu-
factory, visiting Chester aud New Castle in the
meantime, where very liberal inducements were
offered him, especially at tho latter place, has
Determined to locate in Wilmington, aud has a.
ready begun the erection of his buildings. The
site selected ia just beyond the city limits be-
tween Beach Street and the Newport Pike, and
in the vicinity of Il. q A. Belts tool factory.
where he has purchased an entire square from
the Christiana River Improvement Company.
The new building which Mr.. Warner has begun
to erect will be of brck, 140 feet long and di-
vided into apartments as follows Beam House,
45x47 feet; Tan House, 40x55 feet; Finishing
Hoom, 45x55 feet. An engine room, 80 feet
square, will be attached to the front of the build
ing, on Beach street, and the office will be 15x20
feet detached from the main building and at one
end of it. There will be no cellar under the
building, in all the other factories in the city,
and the Beam and Tan Houses will be but two
stories high, while the Finishing Room will be
only one story. Drying sheds will be built in the
rear OF the building, into which the skins will
be run from the main building by means of an
elevated railway depending from the ceiling, the
skins having first been hung upon the railway
before it is sent out into the drying sheds. Under
the water and refuse material from the build
ing, and over this trench car will run the whole
length of the factory, the top of which car will
be even with the first floor so as to admit the
passage of cars from lateral tracks in all parts
of the building to this burthen car which will
| convey them to any department desired AL
the work Of tanning, beaming and finishing will
be performed ON one floor, and the second floors
will be used for storage purposes altogether
All necessary machinery will be introduced into
the building, which will be driven by Il 60 horse
| engine.
| Mr.. Warner has started out with the object in
| view of cheapening production, believing that
| therein lies the secret of SUCCESS at this time.
| 70 this end he will avoid as much as possible the
| carrying of few skins from department to de-
| partment by his employees, but will remove
| them in bulk by means of the apparatus spoken
| of above. There will be no eli bng of stair
cases in his building, no gathering up of shou
der loads of skins, and none of the laboriout
| work which removal of the material in this man
ner involves. Mr.. Warner expects thus to econ
omize considerably in labor but besides thit
there are other systems of economy which he
| has devised of which we are not at liberty tt
| speak.
| His factory will give employment to about 2l
men, whose product will be about twenty-iv,
dozen skins per day. He will manufacture ON
| ly Cape stock.
PRESENT CONDITION OF THE TRADE.
| manufacturer informs us that at this TIM
| the trade is duller than it has been at any tim
| this year. Production has gone OH as severa
weeks ago, and the result is, he says, AN accumula
ton of stocks in most OF the factories with bu
| few inquiries. Unless the demand should re-
vive, he apprehends there will be slowing
down ut many of the factories