Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-07
TRADES PULSE.
aeavy orders for Products of All Kinds

aoavv orders for p rOducts of All Kinds
Being Placed by Manufacturers.
PHILADELPHIA, April J.--The largest
napufacturers and concerns of Penn3yl-
,ania. New York and all the New Eng
land states are discounting the South
uestern strike, and placing heavy orders
tor material and products of all kinds, at
mills furnaces and factories. a vast
amount of business has been held back
hiring the past thirty days, simply on
account of the strikes, agitatiOns for
shorter hours, and the general uncertain
~ resulting theretrOm, The industrial
ard manufacturing interests see their
way through these difficulties.
INCREASED DEMAND.
Meantime the cousumptive demands of
The country have been increased rather
t9an declining, and distributing points
stocks are pretty well exhausted, while
at all large manufacturing centres there
Are no goods on hand. and orders are on
books calling for fall output of mills tor
from one to four months. In Western
Pennsylvania the iron and steel-Inaking
raDacity is loaded down with orders more
heavily tnan for years, and general i'm
prOyement in prices is probable there.
LESS ACTIVITY.
In Eastern Pennsylvania there is less
activity. bus still a large amount of BUSH
ness is hanging on the edges OF the
market waiting for the first symptoms OF
an Improvement During the past week
some Is 900, 600 feet OF lumber have been
thrown INTO the market at New York ana
Philadelphia. and some 10 or % cargOes
are now on the way from Southern ports
with yellow pine to Till urgent orders Tor
builders, aiIroad buyers, and other con.
sumers OF Southern pine. Lumber is firm
IN price and yard men are stocking up.
THE COAL MINERS STRIKE.
Everything is uncertainty as to the
continuance of the bitumln0us coal str Ike.
The miners are better UrGanized than usu-
al, and will probably hold out for sOme
time. In Eastern Pennsylvania and in
New Jersey between thirty and sixty
manufacturers establishments nave shut
down, and during the next six days as
many more will he Obliged TO suspend, I'M
less bituminOus supplies are received.
Urgent orders are teiegraphed for coke.
The anthracite miners are working tull
time and an urgent demand Is coming in
from al qarters.
TEXTILE MILLS BUSY.
All OF the textile mills of Pm ladelphia
are running ful time with excellent pros
poets. Wool is declining in price and
demand, and foreign supplies are coming
IN. Cotton is being more largely used in
hosiery than usual, to compensate for the
Increasing cost. A great deal of interest
IS being developed in the cultivation Of
raimee in the South Manufacturers are
wary and cautious. Hosiery is in mod
crate demand Jersey aud Jersey cloth
sell we'll. Prints and print clotn contin-
ue in slow demand. A better feeling pre-
walls in dry goOds circles over trade pros
poets, which will improve when strikes
are settled.
STRIKE SETTLEMENTS
There is a prospect OF a settlement of
labor difficulties throughout the country
during the next two weeks.
The organization of manufacturers in
the cotton and wooden goods industry,
hosiery manufacturers and manufac.
turers in several other Industries is being
pushed quietly, but with prospect of
securing a great deal of attention at last.
Delegates will be elected this week to at
tend the national convention OF employers
in Chicago next mouth, where some pro-
-ramme for organized effort will be es-
tablisbed.
Next week the organization of assem-
nlies under the Knights of Labor will he
renewed, and it is understood that there
are between 1900 and 500 applications
already made, TO be acted upon.