The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-11-21

What tho Election OF Gruver Cleveland IA
CosiinE New Jersey.

"A"t lhc I.Iectanh oI dfOSer Cleveland In
CosiinE New Jersey.
TRENTON, Nov. .0.-Ihe evil effects Of
the uncertainty hanging over the tariff
question attending The coming change OF
administration are already being visited
upon the workingmcn and women Of New
Jersey. The depression in manufacturing,
which began with last Winters tariff usi..
sation, has increased serio,isly since elec.
zion, and there seems to be no promise Of
Improvement until the policy Of the new
Admnist tration and OF the next Congress
is definitely settled.
Charles Potter, jr., manufacturer OF
printing presses at phinfekl, discharged
fifty men on Saturday. When asked wha,
we're their prospects tor being again given
work. the were told: "Well, bows, in fou,
years | hope there'll he change that will
put you all Mt work again." It is under
stood that orders for presses aygrpga.ing
So0,u00 were countermanded after Ceve.
lands election was assured. Walter
Scott Ind bnilt works in the same place,
rlraling the Potter press works in size, and
expected by this time to be employing
several hundred men turning out improy.
eel presses. 1t is stated that he has deeid.
ed not to launch out al all until the tariff
question is settled. 81
ORDERS COuNTEEMASDED.
Scheptin, Baldwin, Twccdy 4 Co.,
clothing manufacturers in Piainiield, shut
'lown OH Saturday, and the workmen fear
the suspension will be all winter. The
Norfolk and New Brunswick Hosiery Com.
pany, in New Brunswick, had orders for
s50,W0 worth Of goods, contingent upon
the election Of Blaine. The. orders have
been countermanded, and tic 100 EN-.
ployes in the factories Yere notified on
Saturday thut it was expected to shut
down on December for IN indefinite
period. !..'G''
The Singer Manufacturing Company dis
charged 600 employees from its Elizabeth
shops on Saturday. The company manu-
tactures its sewing machines for the foreign
market at Glasgow, Scotland, and, il tie
tariff is reduced sufficiently, can manu-.
ture for the American market also more
prolitablyin the same place. JIG. Todd,
e'AS "SSsoStb CHsaAS DulltCI, ICNuEctl
wages yesterday sixteen perSent. lie has
always been prominent and active Dem
ocnt, until this fall, when he came out
for Blaine on the tariff issue.
IN NEWARK AND TRENTON.
In Newark things we're so bad before
election that there is not room for any
thing much worse, short OF general sus-
pension. A large z:nc works is the only
considerable establishment that has not
shut down since election. -.
In Trenton the pottcries were .already
running on short time and with small
force. SINCE election there lias been n
further reduction Of iorces, but no closing
up, and wages are at tho old figure. John
A, Roebling's Soma rnlling-mill was closed
upa year ago, because the reduction in
tariifmade it cheaper to buy iron and wire
abroad. Neither this nor the iron werks
controlled by Cooper 4 Hewitt are doing
anywhere near ther business OF. two or
three years ago, but they havc made no
reductions since election.
:, In almost every instance the iron works
along the Delaware, ut various points IRON
Trenton to Camden, have closed up, re-
duced their force or cut down wages since
election. q.