The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-12
Labor and Tndustrial Notes.

The Detroit stove works are sending their
stoves all over Europe.
A company to make iron roofing will start in
Birmingham, Ala, with capital of 100000
The Rochester Tumbler Company, of Penn
sylvania, offers 81 900 in prizes to its employees
for the best work during the coming year.
A glass bottle factory is to be established at
Atlanta, Ga. There is large local demand in
the South which this enterprise expects to sup
ply
New York and Pennsylvania capitalists are
buying up 8, 900 acres of land in Jefferson coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, for the purpose of operating
it on large scale.
Copper tube manufacturers will be interested
to know that there is new process just pat
ented in Birmingham, England, for making
seamless copper tubes.
Frederick Semens is making railroad sleepers
out of glass. which will cost considerably less
than cast-iron STEEL He expects to manufact-
ure them on large SCALE
Extensive additions are being made and new
machinery will be put in nearly all textile mills.
A Meriden, Conn, company filled an order last
week for Bridgeport amounting to $40, 900.
Some very large steam engines are being
made. One New Hampshire firm has just put
in one 100 horse power engine The capital
stock OF about dozen companies in New York
Massachusetts and Connecticut has been largely
increased.
bricks for fuel to be used in locomotives, glass
furnaces, steamers and for domestic purposes.
A company has been formed with a capital Of
$4,000, and it expects to get work on a large
scale right away.
British capital in the valley of Mexico has
started to use peat in the manufacture of brick
by machinery, the peat to be supplied at 60 per
cent. less than the present price of wood. Large
beds Of alleged anthracite coal in that locality
will be worked by English companies which ex-
pect to sell it to railroad companies.
The system Of public lectures by Knights of
Labor will be carried on energetically during
the coming winter. The best speakers will be
engaged, and special efforts will be made to fur
nsh them with the most valuable information
that can be had that is to say, they will be
started out with good stock of information
gathered for them rather than by them.
Masons and plasterers would do we'll to make
note of hint thrown out by an English archi
tect. who says that the addition of saccharine
matter increases the strength of mortar, making
common lime, with sugar added, as strong as
Portland cement Water, to which sugar has
been added. dissolves fourteen and half times
more lime than does water without sugar.
silk manufacturing firm in Paterson has
concluded to follow the rest who have gone be-
FORE 1t has leased large structure in Mead
vile. Several more silk k-throwsters will leave
that center for New York and Pennsylvania.
The linen-thread mill at Allentown is being
concern has started up in Chicago, with o capital
Of $l00, 600.
Paper manufacturers have for years been cast
ing about them for some new material for paper
making. The use of peat is an accom-
plshed fact. A machine has been made that
can turn out three tons an hour. A Boston
mechanic has just invented machine for cut
ting leather lacings by machinery, which have
hitherto been cut by hand. Each machine turns
out the work OF ten men,
A great deal of rolling mill capacity is going
up and new rollngmills will be completed at
Scotdaie. twelve-inch mill started last Monday
at Sherman and four furnaces and Basic Bes-
semer steel works will be bnilt at Pittsburg
Ala. A new nail factory has just been COM
pleted at Youngstown, and an extensive tube
and iron works will start up to morrow and will
employ 700 men when fully completed
Employers are pleased with the attitude taken
by Mr. Powderly on the eighthour question
They have been apprehensive that that agitation
will be renewed next year. There is strong
sentiment among the Knights of Labor in favor
of it. Strong combinations have been effected
among the manufacturers to fight the movement
in organized form when it comes. Unless the
Richmond convention takes very strong ground
against the eight-hour agitation it win set in and
sweep the country,