The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23
LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
Philadelphia Record.

II hctoAas
English engineers have begun to copy Ameri-
can designs. They have just introduced the
pin-connected type in large spans on big BRIDGES.
A Skowhegan Me company has introduced
q new way of lasting in Its mill. The soles
are fastened with cement instead OK tacks or
pegs
About fifteen miles from Ell Psso. Tex. there
is q Mexican colony of about /. 500 families who
are slaves to three or four families among their
number.
There are 100 miles of electric railroads in OPP
grafton in the United States. and loo more have
been contracted for. The greatest area OF miles
10 In Pennsylvania.
The Birmingham Eng eun-trade is reported
10 De In a poorer condition this season tnan Ior
twenty seven years. There Is an increased de-
mand for revoIvers.
The Olympia Nv. IT, lumber output this sea-
son will reach 160, 900, 900 feet. worth 81. las. 900.
The camps employ $50 men, 700 oxen and mules
and seven locomotives
San Antonio. Tex, IL claimed to be the largest
horse market in the country, and the greatest
pecan market of the world
Some Pittsburg glsss-workers will establish q
cooperative plant at Tifin. 0. Five acres OF
ground, free gas and SIC. 900 were given as q
bonus by the people of Tifin.
Our Consul at Malaga. Spain, ordered Q stove
from America, which at first was not 10 oked on
with favor by the natives. but now they like il,
and there is q great cry for stoves.
A 500-loom cotton-mill for the manufacture OF
the finer qualities Of ginghams, seersuckers,
etc. will be established at ColuEbus. Ga. This
will be the first mill of the kind in the South.
One of the Bsku (Russial oil-wells recently
produced about 30. 000, 900 gallons in lis days.
The greater portion was lost, because there was
no apparatus TO control the output, which flowed
away into the river.
A Gatlinggun company has been formed at
London with q capital Of "a. 900. 900. The COM
pany has an agreement with the American peo-
pie which gives is exclusive control OF all mar
ksts outside Of the Western hemisphere.
The Brick-layers' Union of Toronto, Can. has
held q public meeting at which the practice OF
overcrowding the market by importing English
brick-layers and masons was strongly con-
demned. Other trades report similar importa-
tons in their occupations.
The free miners in the Pratt mines, near
Birmingham. Ala, have struck for So cents q
ton. The last scale paid was so cents a ton in
winter and 40 cents In summer The company
employs about /. 800 persons. About 800 con-
victs are at work around the mines.
Italy 10 growing to- a great extent. About
l0.000 miles Of railroad are . recent addition,
which indicates great growth. Despite the
great number who have emigrated fully 300. 600
to the States and about 1000, 900 to South
Americal there is still o population Of 3d.
600, 900.
SuoRe DroWor, o 7 Lu6 Oulteo Ot6to8 O1rculC
Court has just decided q case of interest to
railroad men, A fireman was injured by q shock
from the sudden stcppaee Of q train when there
we're insufficient brakemen. He sued the COM
pany, and the Judge declared in favor Of the
plaintiff.
the people can obtain fair compensation for
their labor they will have good houses. good
clothing, good food and the means of educating
their families. Labor will be cheerful and the
people happy. The great interest Of this coun-
try 10 labor, labor, labor"
The street-car employees Of Minneapolis have
been granted an advance. Hereafter the oon-
ductors on cable cars will be paid IL cents an
hour for the first three months and Fl cents
an hour thereafter. Car-drivers and conduct
tors will be paid 16 cents an hour for the
frat three months, and IL cents an hour after
that
Professor Woodward. of St Louis, in his
speech to the American Society of Engineers
at Nashville. said: 1.-THE engineer 10 q creation
of recent date. Engineering is . modern pro-
fession. The Romans invented the full center
circular arch, and SO took the first step In real
engineering. But beyond the arch they made
little progress. The masonry of their aqueducts
involved no second stsp. In . climate like ours,
with wide ranges OF temperature and humidity,
their arches would have rumblsd in a century.
Look for . moment at the elements which die
tinguish New York or Boston to-day from the
New York or Boston of one hundred years ago,
Auo soo - wuos oAson. NO sro uuoor ooLRss'ous
to the engineer" The association has been
taking . trip through the big cities OF the South.
The Brooklyn Union furnishes the following
wsge-list Of these occupations In that city: Blue
stone cutters. g. 30 for q nine-bour day; brick
layers, "a . day for general work and IS for
front setting. The day consists Of nine hours
through the week and eight on Saturday.
Brown-stone cutters get "a a day for the eight
summer months. and $3.50 for the winter
months. Carpenters receive g. 5 for q nine
hour day; trainers, 1925 for . nine-hour day;
! eieht-hour Saturday; laborers (plumbersl. g. so
nine-hour day; brick-layers' laborers, s.. 20 q day;
fathers, So q day; plasterers, 81, nine-hour day
and eight hours on Saturday; plumbers and gas
filters, 81 for q nine-hour day; ~roofers; SO. %, and