New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-07
AN OvERSTOCKED MARKET.
TALKS WITH BALTIMORE MANUFACTURERS
TOO MANY COTTON sPNDI.Es IN THE SOUTH MAX
ING BUSINESS DULL.

TOO MANY COTTON sPISDLEs IN THE SOUTH MAN
| ING BUSINESS DULL.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 6.-The San this morning
publishes interviews with the leading eottonmh owner
of Maryland on Of trade. William H. hooper, VI
the Woodberry factory said In the thrtylve years
Of nv business experience think the outlook at present
Ia the least satisfactory have known. The wages Oh
operatives nj the mills on Jones Falls are oe'er tn
those paid on the Patapsco The warehouses are i Oh
goods which there is market except ri prices tn
either would show loss or no profit Maryiahu co''o
manufacturers have lost more by the competition OF
Southern mills than those Of any other State We make
the coarse goods which the South making and eei inc
overproduetion most There are too many spindles' anu
the spindles increase rapidly than the population
which IA to consume the manufactured PRODUCTS ino
Southern operatives get at least 80 per cent less wages
| than we nav They work twelve hours day and our
people work only hours. The Woodberry sils are
noted for making the best cotton duck In the world Dui
we have never had monopoly Of that production Inc
reports that Maryland made speciality OF cotton ocA
goods attracted the notice Of Southern and other mill
owners and now cotton duck Il made In the South ana
everywhere else and s production 80 per cent
eyraer than the demand II all the duck mills In the
country were TO shut down for the next sixty days. the
owners woud save money The Southern production Oh
yarns twines etc, Is in the same proportion anu lno
market has been driven down to prices which leave tne
manufacturers profit"
A
largely interested I'm the Laurel Mills said
From necunary polnt NJ view would have been bet
ter for II had shut down ninety DAYS ago we are
stocked with goods. and cannot reineInher WIEN ,
outlook was quite unpromsing rs II Is Just now but
we may have marked advance In cotton or some otntr
good which will distribute the stocks on hann.
The for the past five ten years has bnh mania
for putting MP cotton mills Then the IN
fines as nony Goods rs II could fifteen years ago with
the exception the skilled operatives who we're drawn
from the MARYLAND mills fancy TO teach the Deo
ME I'm Southern mills wages there 81 30 and 90
than pay aud the hours OF labor longer
Their operatives live chcapy and know nothing OF me
domestic comforts which have The Southern mills
among the best In point OF construction know 70
the One-tenth OF cent what goods cost 70 produce
when they are shown to me, and AZ
the prfccs which those from the South T sre
Southern cotton mills which from time TO time make me
Tosy statements showing argg s,n ., o pS
II IL Is legitimate, the business world would say they are
foolish people make the fact public that they nave 20
good thing can take Laurel Mills, which do not
think making much money and 10y system 81 nOOH
and pay them and vet not earn dollar. Only shoii
time ago the Southern splnners who held lneeug ~
cssed the anestons Of the trade 10 they could
manufacture at profit Northern capital has been free
into them from baltimore The New England manufac.
turers In October held meeting and seriously
how defective production OF the doRddys of SUM
mer could he rcmedcd when the natural temperature
is at 95o the indoors range of The thermometer NJ COTTON
mills with al tine mHltifariOus machinery IN inOton II
mp 20 ten itecn degrees higher Inc hbFe Sanhn
be worked 10 advantage the hands are ~ no. a.
q 10 30 per cent New England has about twenty i've
Of these 'd0cdays every summer. We have not inyre
than forty 81 them, while IN the South they last for
months. Tho New Enganders could not suggest ram
edy advised that only the finest material should De
handled these periods. For six months the New
land spinners have contend with atmosphere highly
charged with electricity and must spray ther mus TO
couneract Il. Maryland T. EXEMPT from the weather e1
trrInes Of New England and the h. The condition or
Affairs IN the milling business IL such that IN the
next five years the problem must be solved, ana u VIII
he for The survival Of the icst The southern railroads
make tariffs by which the mn products ar carrier NoIln
rs sixth-ciass goods. while they charge the same
goods made North and sent south as hrst class
Cotton goods from the mills Augusta aud Columbus
Ca are carried North for ~ cents hundred pounds
bur the same goods sent from the North must pay II %
This protection 81 the South against Northern cOpc
tiiinn The rniiroads claim that they make low Iaes
on Nnrtbuund freight rather than srd ears back from
south PITY, hut tins does not explain ne case Inc
trad, have sought redress IA vain All they ask Is Tor
equal terms and doubt Congress viii grant H. as u
surely Will asked. SeEng gland MAKES the inner good.
not produced IN the South. and Ia special lines II Is said
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