The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-10


Company. employing S. 900 men, have decided to
make reduction in wages of 10 per cent on
! Feb j, unless business improves within few
| weeks. The reduction to have dated from
Jan. Is. but was postponed.
Industrial and Labor Notes.
| Philadelphia Record.
An electric elevated railroad for the convey
| snce of newspapers and small parcels at a very
high rate of speed is under consideration at Bal
| timore.
The milling interests throughout the West
| have been losing great deal OF money, and
| propose TO organize an information bureau OF
| their own.
The new railroads in Indiana have opened up
what is said to be the finest growths of oak.
hickory. ash, walnut and cherry to be found in
the West
Popular science lectures are being delivered
| in various towns and cities of England, at which
the admission is two cents They are doing
| much good.
Textile manufacturers are devising numerous
things to increase the production of their mills
| and add to the convenience OF handling manu-
featured goods.
The turtle-canning industry is assuming large
proportions in Florida, and vessels are being en-
| ployed to bring turtles from Yucatan and the
West India islands
| Georgia gold fields are being worked more in
| dustrously than ever The cost of working has
been reduced to thirty cents per ton. The deep
est mine is 200 feet
During the past year the distribution of lum-
| her at Chicago was 100, 900 feet in excess of
4 1856 Prices did rot move up through the year.
| as had been expected
| Manufacturers are discovering In a great
| many instances that more work can be obtained
ont of factories that lighred by electric light
| than where gas is used.
| Lockport On. " engine-builder has just
booked an order for 10. 600, 900 gallon engine
for Kansas City and 600. 600 gallon engine for
| Mccormick, of Chicago.
A coke manufacturing syndicate has purchased
80 AID NJ uwx.l1~
| Another syndicate has purchased 5000 acres OF
| land IN Washington county.
| 1t is quite encouraging to note the number of
shops and factories that are running at night
| Most OF them are running on patent devices
| appliances of one kind or another.
| French and English ship-building firms are
| negotiating with Spanish capitalists with a
view of establishing ship-yards and marine en-
| gne-works on the banks of the Bilboa river.
In four years the commercial efficiency of
electrical machinery has been increased from
81 to 80 per cent, and the cost of q given cur
rent ID not % per cent of what it was q year
ago.
A syndicate has just purchased so 900 acres
of well timbered land in Florida. Most of the
tim Der IL black cypress A mill with capacity
OF OCO feet per day is to be erected on the
land
car-maker at Fullerton, Pa. is building
lOO-ten gondola cars to be used in transporting
heavy foreign machinery from New York to
| Bethlehem. The axles are seven inches in d.
| ameter.
Rome has I.S35 telephones in use, London
1000. Glasgow 1,472 and Liverpool 399 There
are as many telephones in New York as in all
Italy, and twice as many in New York as in
London.
An engine fora Sound steamer has justybeen
ordered from Detroit engine builders that will
have forty four-inch cylinders, twelve feet
stroke, and feathering wheels twenty-six feet in
diameter.
The boot and shoe manufacturers are running
full time ia nearly all establishments through
q ie
vigorously everywhere. The traffic in morocco
is heavy.
Thirty million pounds of copper are used an
nually in Waterbury, Conn. Orders for goods
in which copper is largely used have fallen off
80 per cent. on account of the advance from 103
to Is cents.
On account of the great care taken in silk
weaving and spinning in Italy, it is claimed
that italian raw silk possesses evenness and
finish which make it superior to handreeled
Chinese silk.
Manufacturing enterprise has broken loose in
North Carolina. Subscription lists have been
started in about dozen towns within thirty
days for factories and shops The preference is
for cotton factories
The Illinois millers have taken the credit
question into hand and propose to demand more
prompt payment They want a system by which
they can know something about the character Of
flour dealers everywhere
Notwithstanding all that has been said about
the damage done to the shoe business it is 20 per
cent better in several Eastern establishments
than 1T was at this time last year. There are no
labor troubles a. the present time.
There is a great demand for small boilers to
suit the numerous small shops and factories
starting up over the country. The Philadelphia
boiler makers are ovsrsold, and business is COM
ing in frequently without being sought
English electricians are trying to make an in
candescent lamp which will burn without vacu-
um. 1t will be necessary to find conducting
material OF high specific resistance great
many doubt the possibility of such a lamp
The production of hard wood duripp this
it has been estimated, viii, be fully 25 per cent
in excess Of that of any former year and the
heavier demand for il will, it is believed by lum-
Der authorities, prevent any decline in prices.
In some places tunnels with endless belts or
aprons have beer constructed through yards
and across streets between the mills, through
which the cloth from the different weaving
rooms is delivered directly to the finishing
rooms.
A Chicago company proposes to make and
sell q mixed water gas and coal gas at prices
ranging from so cents per 1000 feet to % cents.
The company also agrees to furnish Incandes-
cent electric lights at cost not exceeding 81
per 1000 for illuminating gas.
Eastern mills are storing up with cotton as
fast they get it. About 100, 600 of the
200. 900 bales of cotton consumed at Fall River
have already arrived. and there is great want
of storage capacity. It is proposed to build
sheds for that purpose
Steam coal costs So per ton in Montgomery.
Ala Common labor is 20 cents q day. Free
sites offered to all industrial enterprises. An
AOuuuanCo OF yelloW pluc ~ WituiH twenty mics.
A cotton seed oil mill is in operation that han
dies $50 tons of seed per day.
The gossamer rubber pool is in trouble ever
the fact that there are more mills than are
needed. and unless they shall be bought MP by
the trust they will start up and turn ont goods
The Manufacturers are yet unable to agree
upon the percentage Of restriction.
A recent Westinghouse circular states that
every consideration of efficiency, convenience
and economy. not to speak of humanity, urges
the substitution of mechanical for animal power
upon the numerous streetrailway lines of the |
country at the earliest practical moment
The Rochester shoe manufacturers are throw |
ing their hats in the air the defeat of their
workmen. 1t was brought about by sending to |
several shoe-manufacturing centers and employ /
ing non-union labor There twenty-five |
manufacturers there, employing 3, 900 hands.
The number of permits taken out since Dec i |