The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-06

They do not deny that Chicago will take q
great deal of Pitssburg trade. but not that OF
the East
Pittshurg Knights of Labor statesmen propose
the formation of national assembly ana nave
elected Louis Van Ullen National Organizer
The coal deposits of Vera Cruz. Mexico cover
80 miles. but from 2. 900 to 1000 feet above
the seh, and it would cost considerable to de-
velop them.
The Valley Works, at Williamsport have inst
MADE one of rhe largest center-crank double
dlskl automatic cutoff engines ever put togeth-
er. II weighs 10000 pounds.
The introduction of natural gas at Pittsburg
has displaced the use of A. 500 900 tons of coal 3
year. One-half of the $4,000 houses in Pittsburg
the natural gas for heat and light.
A noticeable feature of the modern transpor-
tation development of this country is much
more rapid increase in the number of freight
cars than in the number of passenger cars
The strike in Behring'S piano mandatory
in Harlem Is likely to be settled within few
days In favor of the employees II IS against a
reduction of wages OF from 10 TO 80 per cent
Refining works have been erected at Santa
Paula which produce from the California petro.
leum kerosene for Illuminating said TO be
equal in all respects to the best Eastern OIL
Oliver Bros steel-mill at Pitteburg, recently
turned out 900 finished billets in a week. This
record. it is claimed has never been equaled
Natural gas is biz factor IN the increased pro-
duction.
The largest cotton-mill in the world is at
Krahuholn. Russia Seven Thousand persons
are employed on the $40, 900 spindles and 9, 200
looms. A fall on the MaroUa river furnishes
the motive power.
The capacity of the natural-gas pipe lines
reaching Pittsburg is about SOC, 600, 600 cubic
feet every twerty-four hours. During the win
ter season all this gas consumed. while IN the
summer there is a surplus
Nearly all the houses in San Francisco are
built of wood. A local paper says the reason
for this is the fine climate they enjoy that makes
the houses comfortable ar d permits the use OF
v1Ia 49, e. Ho.rs l@ac
The Philadelphia NatnralGas Company of
Pittsburg, claims that the delinquent tax col
lector has no right to class its pipes as taxable
property. and asks the court TO prevent him
from proceeding to collect the tax
The hosiery-milI at Wilmington, ~. c., which
was established in December, is to be enlarged
At present 200 dozen are made weekly: The
propretors claim that they sell cheaply
as do Philadelphia manufacturers.
The Master Carpenters Association of Chicago
has notified the carpenters unions that eight
hours will be days work for this season, and
30 cents an hour will be the lowest wages, and
that there shall be discrimination between
the union and non-union men.
Fall River Mass, weavers have gone out be-
cause, in spite of an increase OF per cent, the
wager are 81 week less than before the adj
vance. The reason of this is that roller has
been placed on the loom, two picks have been
added and the cuts are longer.
Experiments made at the Henderson steel
works. of Birmingham. Ala, to if good
steel could be made from Alabama iron have
been declared successful If further tests
should prove the process feasible Birmingham
would then be able to produce the cheapest
steel well as the cheapest iron. S. j. Richie,
of Akron. o., says the discovery will change the
centre of production for steel in the United
States, and that in Importance it is only second
to the discovery of SIR Henry Bessemer.
An investigation by the Canadian Labor Com
mission has brought out thu following facts;
Block cutters in the wallpaper trade paid
from S IA to 500 week, ten hours day. BOYS
receive from ST.. so to $40 week. Skilled labor
ers in oil-cloth factories get from $40 to $14
week, and unskiled workers from Sc to So. The
designs from the United States. The wages
of masons during 1887 averaged about So so
day. Carpenters were paid about $3.50 day;
foreman carpenters. s.. so; brick-layers. from So
to Sc. 80; house painters and decorators, So
day. graners and gilders. So 30. They work
about seven months in the year. Sign-writers
make from 81 to Sc day. The wages in glass
factories vary from So. 30 to $40 a week Some
apprentices make $18 week. Tanners get
from 81 to 50 a week. A leather dresser
said, in his tannery. If the men should
go to the closets without leave they
were fined % cents and dismissed il they spoke
paid from 81 to ST. 80 day, and receive
from So TO So a week. Bakers working eighteen
hours some days receive Sl2 week. There
400 jonrneymen bakers in Montreal. Ax-ynakers
earn from 81 80 to "a a day. Molders are paid
S175 a day, and $1.40 in stove foundries.
Marblecutters get from 81, 80 TO 81. 75 and pol
shers receive 35 in winter and Sl75 in sum-
mer Machinsts, $40 week. Women en-
ployed in making shirts and collars, good opera
tors $11 a week, buttonhole. makers from 81 to
Sill Laborers loading cars with coal get from
81 to 81. 25 day. Compositors evening pa
pers get % cents thousand ems and morn
SIC a week morning papers. and some jour
neymen do not earn SO week. Gatemen on
the Grand Trunk railroad paid from IS
cents to 81. 10 day,