Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-30
THE INDUSTRIAL FIELD.

THE INDUSTRIAL FIELD.
In year the people of London drink 200,
600, 900 quarts of beer, and consume 100000
oxen, 20U0,0OO sheep, 100000 calves and
300, 00O swine.
The international union congress at Berne
has been postponed till next spring.
The ship carpenters at East Boston have
won their strike for the nine-hour system.
A movement for higher wages is going on
in nearly all the industries Of Central Eu-
rope.
The New York Steamfitters' union has a
vigorous system of dealing with candidates
for membership. They are examined by a
special committee as to their knowledge, the
oretical and practical, of the trade.
The New York Confectloners' union has
growing membership and cash fund of
81. 900.
Spain allows children from nine to thir-
teen years old to work five hours daily; from
thirteen to eighteen, eight hours.
There has been a reduction of wages in
several of the carpet factories of New York,
and there is much dissatisfaction in conse-
quence.
The American Encaustic Tile company, Of
GAINESVILLE, O., Is preparing to burn Lima oil
in its kilns. The fluid will cost about 80 cents
a barrel.
The new shoe factory at Dalton, Mass,
has been completed and work has started.
About one thousand pairs of shoes will be
turned out daily.
According to the news from Name, all the
saw mills on the Penobscot are now in full
operation under the new adjustment of
wages.
Lord Randolph Churchill has become one
of the foremost champions Of the eight-hour
movement IN England.
Kalamazoo, Mich, expects to realize 81, ,O00,
600 for celery this year. The business is
chiefly in the hands of Hollanders.
Upper Sandusky co., citizens have sub
scribed S33, 900 toward a threshing machine
factory, which is now an assured enterprise.
1.-The Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers is now one of the most powerful organ
izations in the country. 1t has $4,000 mem
bers in its 52s branches.
The operatives of the Bombay cotton mills,
India have commenced movement toward
securing to themselves Sunday as COM
plete day of rest
The Progressive Musical Unions of New
York. Brooklyn, Newark, Chicago, ,SCincin-
natl and other cities are preparing to estab-
lish national organization.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad company
has reduced the daily working hours of half
the force at the Mount Clare shops from
ten to eight, with a corresponding reduction
of pay.
The Atlantic mills, at Olneyville, r. l.,
are probably the largest mills in The country
confined strictly to the manufacture Of
worsted dress goods. They employ 2,000
operatives.
local efforts to introduce the cooperative
Lowell is ready to take cooperative con-
tracts in tn at line of trade.
M Tayn, Russian engineer, has con-
structed an apparatus for the purpose Of
utilizing the power of running streams. 1t
consists of an endless cable carrying series
of cones which open and shut like an um-
breila, the current causing them to open au-
tomatically.
Edward Norton and John &. Hodgson, Of
haywood, H.. have invented method for
the manufacture of rolled bars or rails di-
rect from the molten metal. 1t will materi-
ally lessen the labor and cost
M. De Chardonnet, a French scientist and
inventor of note, has succeeded in producing
artificial silk which is said to be superior in
quality and lustre to the production of the silk
worm. 1t is believed that in time its manu-
facture will become one of the important in
dustries of the world.
American wood working machinery at the
| Paris exhibltion is conceded by its European
competitors to be fully equal to anything dis
! playe.
Machinery IN the United States does the
work of SOC, 600, 900 men. And still there is a
better demand for the labor of men, and
| vastly better wages than q century ago,
| when there was comparatively little machin-
| cry in use.
The Parkinson sorghum sugar works al
| Fort Scott Kan, cleared $50 600 last year.
| w. F. Wooten, of the Pennsylvania rail.
road, has constructed an effective device for
measuring and registering the speed of pas.
senger locomotives. 1t is not patented.
A Michigan inventor has constructed an
iron cage, to be placed over IA railroad switch
stand, that can not be entered or escaped
| from except the switch is set for the main
| line.
Engineer John Heath has been in the ser
| vice of the Northwestern railroad nearly
thirty years, during which time he made
| 1858 miles as fireman and 905, III miles al
engineer, without an accident 1t is a nota
BILE record.
The Columbus Iron company, Of Lancas-
ter, Pa, recently increased the wages OF
puddlers from $3.50 to S3.S5, and other wages
in proportion, in accordance with promise
made four months ago, that when trade grew
better an advance would be made TO the old
standard.
A New Hampshire factory turns out 40, 900
bushels of shoe pegs annually.
The manufacture Of soldering acid, an ar
ticle OF common use in every tInshop, was al
one time closely guarded secret.
STATE AND TERRITORY.