Glassmaking Industry Falls on Hard Times
Brookfield Glass Company has one furnace in operation
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[Newspaper] Publication: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn, NY, United States |
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BUSINESS IS STAGNANT. Dullness in All Branches of Brooklyn Trade.
Even the Saloonkeepers Have a Good Deal to Complain About - The Number of Unemployed Was Never so Great - Where Breadwinners Are Idle. · · The glass making industry fell on hard times during 1878. The green glass works of A.J. Haggerty & Co., Smith street, in fair seasons usually have employment about two hundred and fifty hands. These works have been shut since June. James F. Haggerty said he does not know when they would open up again. The depression was general throughout the country. In William Brookfield's Bushwick green glass factory one furnace has been kept in blast with the exception of the regular closing time in July and August. Another furnace will be opened up shortly. This will be the means of giving employment to over a third of the usual force employed in the factory. Mr. Brookfield, who is chairman of the Republican state committee, thinks the depression is due to the question of silver currency, the unsettled state of the tariff and overproduction. · ·
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