The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-18

~ suah DIV uouTS per Udys luCAhoAhb - a
day night and Saturday morning. Any boss
who compels his hands to work more viii be
nned go. This may sound strange to many en-
ployers, but the bakers will do it or boycott.
The building trades of New York will be run on
the nine-hour system this year without any eff
fort to reduce to eight. Several branches of la
Dor In that city have opened labor bureaus. All
OF the street-car lines of New York have fallen
into the twelve-hour movement and SO per day.
The spring trade is beginning to show signs of
developing a good deal of activity even in this
usually dull month. The manufacturing towns
OF New England are showing q good deal of ac-
tlvity. A number of manufacturers who con-
templated emigration in order to escape union
control are reconsidering, and will probably stay
where they are. Spring trade is beginning
among the shoemakers and ciothiers, and build
ers everywhere are full of preparations.
Several OF the governments of Europe have
taken additional steps to further the cause of
technical education. The programme to be pur-
sued Is preserved as a secret. as each nation de-
slres to establish the most perfect and thorough
system. Technical schools have been started in
nearly all of the larger cities of Great Britain.
France, Austria and Turkey are increasing the
number of their schools and enlarging their
scope.
Two or three locomotive works are getting
ready to make textile machinery when locomo-
tive building is dull. One establishment in
Paterson Is now erecting frames for 5000 spin
dies for a silk company. The Same concern has
just received an order for twenty engines.
The new Bethlehem Pa silk company starts
out with a capital of 500, 600.
The orthweste lumbermen are endeayor-
ing to create the impression on Eastern lumber
buyers that higher prices will prevail OH the
opening OF the season. Contracts for getting
legs out this winter will be at about the same
figure as last, and this winter will witness the
largest. cut on record. Last years cut was
about 10 per cent. less than the previous year.
1t Is too soon to draw conclusions as to the prob
able course OF prices. but buyers are not alarmed
sufficiently to run into market just at present.
Inc Chicago steel-rail mill is making 10, 900
tons OF rails to be laid side by side with English
rails as a test of superiority. The ex-
pertinent will last a long time, but it will be a con-
elusive one when results are announced. A for
eisn syndicate has purchased all the iron-ore beds
in Berkshire valley, in western Massachusetts,
In order to make ar-wheel iron.
One OF the failures of co operation in times
past has been the small amount of capital sub
scribed by workingmen themselves. who at
tempted to run their business without business
management. Oflate years the CO. operative en-
terprises starting up are supported by the capital
OF citizens with business experience, whe lend
their counsel and advice, and some of the recent
efforts made in this way are promising
lair success. Within the past two weeks
announcements have been made of the intended
construction of car works, engine works, ma
chine shops and large foundries in five Western
and Southern States. In most cases these enter
priScS are projected Dy men OF Eastern mechdn-
zeal education. In addition to these, several
establishments are TO be built to turn out rail
way supplies, tools and engines of small capacity.
The Union Pacific Railway Company has con-
tracts out for %, 600 tons of steel rails. A Ger
man inventor is endeavoring TO Introduce a soda
locomotive engine, which will be operated by
diluted soda lye raised to a boiling point in a
closed tank, In intimate contact with the steam
boiler of the engine filed with steam and water.
1t is estimated that street railroads could be
operated with such engines at one-half less ex-
pense than horse power.
Manufacturer in the textile industries. in the
iron trades, hardware trades, and some other
branches are complaining. not without some
justification, that very much of the advance in
prices has gone either for higher wages or for
higher prices of raw material. Prices have not
corresponding ely advanced for finished products,
and hence manufacturers generally are antici-
pating an Improvement, aud argue that such an
Improvement is not only probable, but neces-
sary. The general sentiment among them is to
take business at as low a margin as possible.
The increase in wages in the cotton industry is
now pretty general throughout New England,
averaging 10 per cent In the higher grades of
WOODEN goods no change whatever has been made
in prices, but in the lower qualities an advance is
made all round.
The manufacturers of Fall River have intro
duced an improved method in bringing cotton
from the South. They have chartered copper
bottomed schooners with air tight compartments
In which the cargo is kept dry. During the past
week between twenty and thirty manufacturing
corporations in New England announced that
they would make fortnightly payments and in
crease the rate of wages from 5 to 10 per cent.
The cotton, wooden and worsted manufacturers
OF Rhode Island, comprising 90 per cent. of all
the manufacturers in the State, have united.
under the name of the Slater Club, for mutual
protection in labor troubles.
Despite the complaints Of narrow margins in
textile manufacturing establishments, a great
many orders are being given out for new ma.
chinery. One Lowell shop has just received
an order for machinery to run AZ. 900 spindles. A
good many companies are increasing the capacity
of their buildings by wings and additions Of one
or two stories. Additions are also being made
to some of the silk mills. Wages will be in
creased in the Lawrence mills on March 1. The
new mill which two or three Philadelphians are
to build in Augusta, Ga. will be 265 feet long by
20 feet wide. and Will have 10. 600 spindles and
employ 200 hands.