The intelligencer., 1889-11-09
THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

THE new Findlay (O) glass house will
employ $50 men. California, Pa, is to have
prescription glass works. Findlay, O.,
Is to have the largest steel, iron and alumni
ium works, and l 800 houses are being
erected for employees. The Rome (Ga) roll
ing mill is being enlarged The Henna
wagon Company, of Peoria, Ill, is new
company, and has 100000. At Canneltou,
Pa, Mcknight q Co. will put up a big stove
works.
In Turkey the house in which man lives
can not be seized for debt, and sufficient
land must be left to serve for his support.
The homestead is inviolable. The creditors
must even provide the debtor with some
humble dwelling if the land forfeited to
them has none sufficient for his needs.
MANY Brooklyn grocers won't sell nom
union bread since the bakers struck rather
than leave the union. Cooperative bakeries
are talked of. The organization has re-
duced days work from seventeen hours
per day to eleven, and to thirteen on Satur
day.
CHICAGO contains italian, Gaelic, Erse,
Latin, Turkish, Chinese, Dutch, Crock,
Polish, Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Norwe-
gian, German, Platt-Deutsch, Danish,
French, Welsh and Hebrew residents
In the Netherlands the average consump-
ton OF tobacco in year for each inhab-
liant Is pounds. Europe's average is 21S
pounds, and that of the United States is AZ
pounds per inhabitant.
BETWEEN Asscom and Burmah there Is q
town OF ", 600 people, with not a store, fac
tory, wheeled conveyance or working-ma
They live off the oppressed agriculturists of
other towns.
LONDON boss bakers make from IS to SIS
per week; workmen, So so TO Sc; cleaning
up boys, S2. Each is allowed a loaf to
bring home. Most of them sleep In the
shops.
TIE Philadelphia electricity exhibit at the
Centennial Exposition IN 1875 was verv
small. To-day $500, coo, 600 is invested in the
100000 lamps and 100 railways
LYONS, France, is completing the worlds
biggest dam, begun century ago. It is
1000 feet long, It's feet high and the foun-
dations are 100 feet deep.
BELGIUM bakers, milkmen and hucksters
make dogs draw their carts. The animal
works under the cart between the wheels.
Some sell for S45
WHEN family at Berlin can not nav rent
they can go to the "City Shelter" big
building where they are fed and kept till
work is obtained.
LONDON has fixed the cost of its electric
light at 16 cents for one ten-candle lamp
thirty fours, or twenty sixteen-candle
lamps ten hours.
A Moscow foundry fuses metals by cleo
tricity. The glare is greater than the sun,
and employees work two hours per day.
LONDON and Paris railroad street cars and
omnibuses are allowed by law to carry only
certain number of passengers.
ENGLAND's Engineers Union has 80 600
members, and has spent S14, ,092, ,575 in ben
efits in its 81 years existence.
A WASHINGTON man buys cat skins
Shipped to Europe they sell as rugs, dress
ing gown linlngs, etc.
PORTUGAL produces two-thirds of the
worlds cork In some towns each private
house is factory.
THE United States Court at st. Louis de.
cided that the Cigarmakers' Union label
must not be initiated
HEBREW knee-pants' workers at New
York won their strike by starting four
cooperative shops.
MINNEAPoLIs bricklayers are all union
men. They get 40 cents per hour for nine
hour day.
AT Tarrytown, N. Y, one row contains
sixty-three millionaires who are worth $780,
100000.
Boston has 1900 organized tailors. They
want New York tenement-h house work bow
cotted.
THE K. of l.. delegates were expelled
from the Syracuse IN. " Trades Assem-
bly,.
The Dominion Of Canada Labor Congress
lndorsed Henry George and eight hours.
New York employs l,2OO girls making
neckties. They make IS per week.
AT San Francisco 81 300 was made on the |
eight-hour demonstration.
In France the Government runs the to- |
oacco and match business
New York carpenters who worked on |
Labor Day were fined
The London & Northwestern railway en- |
oloys &C, 600 persons.