Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-18
THE TREND OF TRADE.
The Shoe Upper Industry is at This
Time in Splendid Shape.
MANUFACTURERS BEHIND ORDERS.
Canned Meats and Dressed Beef Moving
Out Very Lively.
TIE WEEKS WORK AT LIBERTY YARDS
OFFICE OF PTTTsBURG DISPATCH,
THURSDAY, October IA. lSS9.

THURSDAY, OctopeT II, looS.
I'D. Chantler & Co., who represent the
shoe upper industry in this city. and for
that matter lead in this line in the United
States, within the past year removed from
the McCance block and established them
selves on the fifth floor of the Diamond
street DISPATCH building. 1t was thought
that the new commodious quarters would be
sufficient for number of years. But busi-
ness has grown until it has been found
necessary lately to secure further room.
When the firm changed its quarters the
number of hands employed was sc, two
thirds of whom were women and girls. Now
there are, in round numbers, 100 employed,
and with the increase in number of en-
ployes has come improved machinery,
which enables the 100 hands to turn out
proportionately more stuff than heretofore.
Within the past week or two Is new ma
chimes have been introduced
Increusine the Capacity
fully 80 per cent. The double stitching and
scolloping machines of the Singer Manu-
featuring Company, and various other
new devices have recently been added so
that the 100 hands now employed can readily do
the work which few years ago would have re-
Quired fully double that number. The Chantler
firm is a month or more behind its orders, but
with improved facilities and new machines
hope to catch up before the month is out Or
ders are coming in FROM the furthest East and
West A look at the books of the firm showed
orders OF recent date from fortlana. Qre,
Lake Boston and New York. 1t is pleasure
TO discover that Pittsb1rg is doing big things
outside of the heavy weight industries In the
line of shoe upper manufacturing we are at the
'front.' and this industry was never before In as
prosperous a condition as it is at the present
time.
Canned Meats and Dressed Beef.
The canned meat industry has passed its bnsy
time, but 0ctober's trade SO far has been fully
so per cent larger than last October, according
to the testimony of representative of the Ar
mour firm. The brisk season for this trade is
in the summer months, when the societies and
Sunday schools take TO the woods. 1t is
within bounds to say that the trade in canned
meats the past summer was 100 per cent better
than any previous season.
An idea of the growth of the dressed beef in
dustry in this city may be gathered by the fol-
lowing figures: The sales of the firms engaged
here in this line last week were in round num-
bers as follows: Winter & Dellenbach, 200
carcasses: Armour & Co., l70; Swift, l3l and
Hill, l36. From these figures il appears that
the daily sales of dressed beeves in this city are
In round numbers, l4O head. In addition to
this one of the four firms mentioned above re-
ports sales of 40 to so dressed sheep and as
many calves each week. The other firms no
doubt, do equally well. tits evident from these
figures that the dressed meat industry has come
to stay.
Liberty Live Stock.
1t will be seen from the accompanying report
of the weeks transactions that the through run
Of cattle was unusually large, and local receipts
unusually light A difference of 600 head of
cattle for the local trade in ordinary times
would have had some effect on markets This
season, however, is an exception to all rules,
ana breaks all precedentS Prime cattle were
lower this week than last in face of the light
run. The only class of stock that showed firm
ness was the light. tidy butcher stock Low
grades had touched bottom before and were
fairly steady this week.
Sheep were a shade higher. and hogs were
firm at last weeks prices
The following table shows transactions for
the week at the East Liberty yards:
RECEIPTS.