Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-05-18
THE LABOR WORLD.

THERE are comparatively few idle printers
In the United States
THE big American sugar refinery at San
Francisco Cal, has shut down.
In Massachusetts, $4,000 children under IA
years of age are working in shops.
DANvILLE, Va, is to have new tobacco
warehouse that will hold 5000 hogsheads.
OVER one hundred thousand anthracite
miners are employed by six or seven men.
THE Georgia granite quarries employs 400
men, who average 10000 square yards day.
THE capacity of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road machine shops at Houston, Texas, will
be doubled.
THE largest silk factory in the United
States is being built at Wiliamsbridge, n Y,
by Dudon g. Co.
A THOUSAND idle men applied for work in
one day at the office of the Traction Railway
Company in Pittsburg, Penn
THE flint glass workers will start a oper-
alive factory at East Liverpool, W. Va. An
other will be started in Sandwich, Mass.
THE largest rolls in the world have just
been completed for Pittsburg mill. They
will roll armor plates from ingots weighing
so tons
THE Mcmillan Type Setting Machine
Company of Glens Falls, N, Y, has been in
corporated at Albany, with capital of
100000.
The Knights of Labor estimate from the
figures they have received that there are
over 1000, 900 unemployed men and women
throughout the United States and Terri
tories
A SUGAR refining company with 5000, 900
capital, has been started in New York, to
use Mr.. Henry Friends new method of re-
filming by electricity. The cost will be about
seventY-fve cents ton.
EXAMINATIONS are now being held at the
Berlin Tailoring Academy. Last year 902
students from all over the world attended
the institution. Two came from Brazil, two
from Cape Town, and one from Japan.
JOHN CRossLEY & Sons, of England,
large manufacturers and weavers of carpets
and heavy woolens, have purchased forty
acres of land near San Antonio, Texas 1t is
expected that they will establish large fac
tories there.
THE Belgian Chamber of Deputies has
adopted a bill declaring two -ffths of work
ingman's pay inalienable to be taken even in
legal process Clerks salaries are made free
from liability of seizure unless they exceed
S240 per annum.
THE most powerful war ship ever launched
has just been completed in England. She
dsplaces II $40 tons, 1900 horse power
makes 10 miles an hour is plated with iron
lTOIl II W ~ IHCuto bulCh. EOu0 uttS lOuI VI
ton guns that fire shot weighing 1850 pounds
each, and has % smaller guns. besides ma.
chinery for firing torpedoes, eight at time
She cost $1,000, 900.
ADMISSION, Ala, expects to be the greatest
manufacturing city in the United States. 1t
is building what it claims to be the largest
pipe works in the United States 1t has the
richest ore fields near at hand, car works, car
wheel works, rolling mills, and blast fur
Tts ruorlyc huiI6ipCr will ba
most extensive in America, and will cost
$l,000,0O0. 1t will need four thousand work.
men this year.
THE large railroad companies are center
ing their repair shops. The Pennsylvania
road will put $1,00O,000 into shops fifteen
miles east of Pitusburg. The Louisville and
Nashville will cover fifty-t acres at Deca-
tur, Ala, with shops. The Baltimore and
Ohio has ordered fifty locomotives, 1900
freight cars, and 25O refrigerator cars The
Southern Pacific car shops at Sacramento.
Cal. are to be doubled in size.