West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-03-29
INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

TuERE are five plate-glaSs factories in this
,Ountry.
TnE strike ON the Reading cost all hands
ncarly Si,OOO,OO).
FIRST class maker OF viollns i'm Franco
saNs that his cheapest tiddlcS cost him 81 cents
piece aud sell for a littlo over dollar.
srRIKiNo workman wearing an oil cloth
Ngn, warning people to keep away from an
obnoxious firm, was fined by Judge at
Lynn, Mass.
In is estimated that 100000 wage. workers
were idle in New York City and vicinity as
result of the storm Work i'm the building
trades was almost suspended.
AT recent meeting OF tho cigarmalScrs of
t1ttsburg and Allegheny it was decided 60
continue To- work ten hours day, but to de-
n'and an aivanco in wages OF al "a 1000.
FHtLADEIPnIA cigar making firm was
permitting it's employees to smoke 600 cigars
per day. An attempt was made 20 cut OIL
TINS privilege and strike was the result.
DEMAND for nine hours day with wages
at the ten hour rate, caused tho strike OF SGu
marble workers In Brooklyn recently, the
employers refusing 10 acce1o TO tho do
mandA
YEAR by year the expectation os American
machinery To South America aud other for
sign countries grows larger. English manu-
outlook
GooRGE w. CnILDs's birthday, May IL.
VII loo honored 10y all the union printers east
of the Mississippi River 10y donation OF tho
price of 1000 ems each TO tho Homo Fund OF
the International Union.
THE Rice " Griffin Manufa cturing Com.
pany, OF Worcester, Mao, has paid its EN-.
pioyes Sllid as their share i'm last year
profits. Tho plan was put in operation last
year aud has proved "a valuable stimulus
MEN closely connected with tho iron trade,
aud who are IN position 10 know, expo t
th'S season will be ns busy and prosperous as
last. AZ tho present tlmo all OF the big
factories are running their full capacity.
FoUR HUNDRED men are mining granite in
two quarries in Georgia They cut on an
average $4,000 blocks IA day, which is oqunl 10
1909 square yards. About 1000 square
yards OF this granite VIII TO used in Atlanta.
THE Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf
railroad Company has granted tho demands
If It's engineers Hereafter passenger en-.
gineers will receive ~ cents per mile; all
other than local freight, cents local freight,
w cents
AN artificial limb. b.malxer said recently that
latter tho war H. was Thought that tho
wooden arm and leg business was at an end,
but the locomo i've aud labor-saviny M
ihlneiy have continued 10 create augmente
demands
THE advance mado In the manufacture OF
glass and fine China i'm this country durin
iho last few years In most phenomenal an |
some of the handsomest ware and largest
'zeS OF plate glass sold are the product of
)ur own manufactures.
The mine bosses are Interested i'm company
stores In tho Pittston tP,nn.) region, and
and II Is "A dilicult thing for n single man 10
got work, as the married men with the big
sest families are preferred, because they
will bo the best customers
NEITHER builders nor arch tects I'm New
| York entertain any other opinion than that
there viii be as much building activity this
/ year as there was during tho past year nn1
chat lterprisl will be gritty encouraged by
the moderate prices OF I'll kinds of buidin
material
THOUSANDS OF girls in New York City re-
eelve only s3 week. Here is how ono OF
| them lives: She pays Sl.25 room rent hho
! has bread and tea for breakfast, aud s at
her work at o'clock. For lunch she has n
couple OF chocolate cclairs or cream pulfs,
which cost little and are sweet. She goes
home at d o'clock and has bread and tea for
| upper In the evening she makes her own
;.othes mends and washes and irons them