Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-16
JEANS AND WORsTRD GAR.
MENTS. :
Nearly Three Hundred Women
and Girls Kept Busy Making
Them fer One House.

There is an important industrial
establishment in this city which gives
steady employment to between two
and three hundred women aud girls.
They each earn from 81 to Siz % per
week, according to the skill and
rapidly they develop at their trade as
seamstresses, and in the line Of men
and boys pants alone as many as from
1900 to 1000 pair are manufactured
and sold in a single week by the
house. The inmates of one Of our
w%orthiest charitable asylums have all
they can do and receive a reason
able compensation for their services.
The firm alluded to is H. Morris &
Bro, at No. BOG Main street, and each
member Of the establishment has all
the work he can attend TO,
cutting and arranging their
goods for market, taking orders and
packing garments for shipment. Mr..
d. Morris, who does the buying for
the firm. says a large portion of The
material used is purchased from the
jeans and worsted mills Of Wesson.
Miss, where goods are made elual in
quality to any in the world, but mills
at Louisville, Baltimore and other
cities North and East are also liber.
ally patrOnized. A mass Of made up
articles, mainly pants, but including
other garments, seen during a visit
made to the house on yesterday, caused
inquisies to be made which elected
information Of decidedly interesting
nature.
In answer to questions pro-
pounded the gentlemen connected
with the house, during their busiest
hours, the following was ascertained:
The firm aims mainly to manufacture
cheap but durable articles of clothing,
including coats, pants and vests, using
the best woven jeans, cottonade and
wOrsted material for the purpose, de-
voting skill and care 10 the cutting
and seeing that the sewing is Efficient
ly and perfectly performed. By this
course closely followed, and by their
experience of more than thirteen
years, the house has established q
reputation for themselves and they
enjoy a large and lucrative trade With
merchants all over the Southwest.
They are to able to give satisfac.
ton in all cases. Indeed, they supply
pants to the trade Of a durable
and rather stylish appear
ance, which country merchants
can sell as low as two dollars a pair,
even then realizing a fair profit. The
tailOress' work is done here as cheap
as II any city North or elsewhere, and
1t is only a notion with some people to
say otherwise. The firm at first ex-
perienced difficulty in this lice, bus-
after teaching the ladies how to do
their work properly, no further trouble
was encountered, and some ofthe most
skilled women make City to sixty
pair Of pants per week, receiving
therefor $40 to $3.50. Some, however,
do not make more han a dozen pairs
per week, while the majority, as before
stated, realize an average of 81 to Sc.
The establishment Of this industry
fills q long felt want. and it has al.
ready attracted much attention in
various parts of the country. The
merchants Of the interior are especially
interested in this enterprise, and for
their information the following from
the circular Of H. Morris & Bro, is
appended; I'VE desire to call your at
tentiOn to our immense stock Of jeans,
wOrsted and moleskin clothing, and its
~adaptability to your trade, Offering to
merchants in making their fall pur-
chases facilities second to no house in
America, both as regard prices, quail
ty and variety Of goods.p
Have Your smoky ChImneys
Cured