St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10

ness last week in keeping up with the ire
mendous output of the flour mills.
A clock and $40 worth of tools were
stolen from the Doud shop recently and
no trace of the thief was left.
Last week brought nothing new in the
cooper situation. The Miller expresses it
when it says: The contract made by two
shops week or ten days ago has had the
result of lowering prices &c per barrel all
around, and 40c for ten-hoop oak barrels is
now the ruling quotation. The Journey
men cOopers have cooled off somewhat and
are less disposed to voluntarily lower their
own wages IN order to wreak vengeance
upon the two cooperative shops, who they
feel took advantage of them. They have
in fact decided to maintain the old price of
making if possible, the cooperative
shops with machinery agreeing to lend their
assistance in this. The proprietors OF jour-
neymen shops, however, declare that cut
i'm labor is inevitable. While there is such
a pressing demand for barrels, of course
this cannot take place; but as soon as bust
ness Stacks up, great pressure Will be
brought to bear to reduce wages, to make
I'D for the &c lost by the shops in barrel
prices. The scheme to place all the shops
| i'm the city on the cooperative plan does
not seem to be favored by the majority OF
millers. nor do all the shops from whom as
sistance was looked for, enlist in the cause
as heartily as was hoped for by the projec-
tors Champions Of the scheme appeared
before the Millers' association one day last
week. but the millers failed to give the
movement their support, and it will now
probably be given up.
There never was time, says the Miller,
when the shops of the city came so near
being unable to meet the demand for barrels
as now, notwithstanding their capacity has
been materially added to in the past year or
two But there are two shops practically
out of business at the present time, and the
| mills too, never ran stronger or packed q
greater proportion of their -four in barrels.
In meeting the needs of the mills so lar,
the contents of storehOuses have been
brought into requisition: but this source has
been about exhausted, and if the present
activity among the mills is kept up some OF
them may find it difficult to get barrels. Ihe
sales and manufacture OF barrels for the
past four weeks and for the corresponding
| time in 1884, are shown in the appended
| table:
Week C-Sold, bbls.@ Made, bblS.0
ending 1854. 1885. 1884, 1885.
May a.. .62, 800 $4,000 $1,000 $4,000
April 25 49, 900 $4,000 81, 700 5000
| April 49,. $3.50 1890 $4,000 sc, 400
| April H.. 1880 $4,000 ..... 54.400
A. Bumb, the oldest boss cooper in the
/; city, has decided to close up his extensive
| cooper shops on the corner of Sixth street
| and Thirteenth avenue south, and wait I'M
| til there is better prospect for business.
| He has already commenced remodeling and
| fhaV will hQ nOnUarfQ1 into CtnrAS and
tenements, and the familiar sign ''to let"
| will soon be visible thereon.
| The North Star Barrel company have
their new machinery ready to run and will
probably commence operating it next week.
This machinery consists of double work.
| ing-Of machine, croZeing, champlng and
leveling both ends of a barrel at the same
time, a horizontal tresser treSsing both ends
of the barrel at once, and o steam windlass
of an improved pattern. The full capacity
of this machinery is said to be 4, 600 barrels
every ten hours yet many old craftsmen
doubt this statement, as it seems impossible
for the operator to handle that number in
this limited time. The big Jumbo"
tresser as the boys call it, is certainly large
enough to perform any amount OF labor
were it possible to put the work in and take
it out again. Iron tress hoops will be used
instead of the ordinary wooden ones and
will prevent the employment of many boys,
as the work will be too heavy for them to
handle, and in this, old worlmen say, a
large portion of the profits of machinery
| will be lost.
THE HEAD AnLLERs.
The Head Millers association met on
Tuesday evening and transacted several inn
portant items Of business. Mr.. Palmer re-
ported that the committee appointed to Sc
lect inscriptions for the monument had con-
sidered the following for the principal one:
Erected A. D., 1884, by the Minneapolis
Head Millers' association, in memory Of
those who lost their lives in the great mill
| explosion, May 2, 1S7S.' This received
the approval of the meeting, and it was
also decided to have the names of the ex-
| plosion victims arranged on two sides of the
monument, with the inscription on the
front. Messrs. Dodge, Scott and Tamm
were named a committee to procure cor
rect list of the victims The matter of hold
ing the millerS fifth annual excursion was
! discussed, and Saturday, June 20, was fixed
upon for the date, provided it was satisfac-
| tory to the mill owners. Each head miller
was requested to interview his employers
about shutting down their mill on that date
and report at the next meeting. A special
meeting was called for Tuesday evening
next, to hear these reports and make further
arrangements.
| MILL NOTES.
| Over $50, 900 barrels of flour were mads
| last week.
| The head millers will meet again on Tues
day evening.
Within three weeks Pillsbury B mill will
be ready to start up.
The new Washburn mill at Anoka will be-
built by the Pray Manufacturing company,
its plans having been accepted.
The observation-disclosures company is
after some parties who are appropriating its
brands and will make it sultry for them.
The three Washburn mills made nearly
40, 900 barrels of flour last week, exceeding
their former weeks work and beating theiT
record.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Three helpers have been laid off at the
Milwaukee boiler shops because of slack
work.
''Mike" Lynch of the Milwaukee car
shops is to play with the Minneapolis base
ball nine.
The Pray and Willford & Northway COM
panies are rushed with mill orders from
every direction.
The Typographical union met last Sum
day, but adjourned without meeting, as no
quorum was present.
j. S. Collins and W. W. O'Key were
o1aofod ho,.c OF tho ole