Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-08-28
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL ITEMS

New York has a meat trust
Baltimore high license is $3.50.
New York has over hundred hotels.
We export 100000 sewing machines a
year
Cincinnatians devour over 1000 turtles
per annum.
A Nounkirchen, Germany, foundry
employs 1900.
There are seven wood pulp factories
in New Hampshire.
About 500 Canadians come over 10 De-
troit each day to work.
Sugar trust assets above the plant are
estimated at $16,O0O,00O.
A New York bakers union sold 500
union labels to bosses in one week.
There are 2,095 subfarmers' alliances
in North Carolina, besides "a county al
liances-
The Denver Bricklayers' Union will
erect four story hall 100 feet long and
so feet deep.
The net profits of the Louisiana Lot
than $l4 900, 900 year.
The Workingwomen's Improvement
Association of Chicago board women
luxuriously for $2 25 week.
Brooklyn has the largest bakery-7O,-
600 loaves day. The ovens are under
the street. About 500 are employed.
Quicksilver miners in Spain get 20
cents day. In five years the men are
physically unable to continue the labor.
OF the 10, 200 steamers of the world Of
over 100 tons register, 5,912 are British
and only 425 belong to the United States.
The Massachusetts labor report shows
that over Al, 900 engaged in mechanical
manufacturing industries average less
than $5 a week.
The price of ice has been increased 20
per cent. in New York since the 1st of
March. Consumers denounce the ad-
vance as a cold steal.
Great Britainss cooperative societies
have 10000 members, capital Of
$50, 600, 900, sell $3.50, ,O0O, 600 worth a year,
and make $15, 900, 900.
Chicago has about 225, 900 Germans,
$50, 900 Irish, 1000 Poles, 40, 900 Scandi-
navians, 40 900 to $4,000 Bohemians,
IL, 900 to $1,000 Italians, and 1000 Chi
nese
It seems that the organized workers of
England are divided in their opinions on
the advisability of adopting the eight
hour bill which was introduced into par
lament.
Seats this year bring on an average
about $23, 900 in the New YORK Stock
Exchange, about $13, 900 in Boston, and
50, 500 in Philadelphia. Prices in Chi
cago usually range between $1,000 and
81, 200.
The trade of electrician, one of the
very newest, begins to be crowded. In
Philadelphia there are 200 graduates of
polytechnic institute on record as hav-
ing offered to work as electricians for so
cents per day.
Horses could not stand the compressed
air which the men breathe while work.
ing in the Port Huron tunnel, and mule
power was substituted. The mules get
fat and sleek on it and do not seem to
mind the pressure.
The past year has demonstrated that
the steel rail mills of this country have
capacity sufficient to meet all the
country's needs, and keep prices far
below the point at which they would be
if this country was still dependent on
foreign mills.
The carpet productof Smyrna, says the
French consul, reaches A, ,O00, 900 francs,
or about 100000. There are three CEN
ters of manufacture-Ouch Koula,
and Ghiordes-where carpets of various
dimensions are made, but the same proc
esses are in vogue in them all.
A factory at Cronly, a village near
Wilmington, N. c., is Sdrning out daily
1900 yards of bagging for cotton, made
from needles 1t is believed that this
new material for bagging will not only
break up the jute trust, but become a
source of great wealth TO the South.
II appears that water works in the
United States and Canada have trebled
in the last 10 years, growing from 660 in
1881 to 1900 to-day. The capital in
vested is $500, 900. 900, their annual rev.
enue is $50, 00U, 600, their mains are 80, 900
miles long and they have 10000 taps.
The principal manufactures of Boston
in 1896 consisted of rum, loaf sugar,
beer, sail cloth, cordage, wool and cot
ton cards, playing cards. pot and pearl
ashes, paper hangings, hat. plate, glass,
tobacco, and chocolate. There were 80
distilleries, breweries, 8 sugar houses,
and II ropewalks.
In the New Zealand frozen meat trade
are steamers capable of carrying 10000,
40, 900, and $4,000 carcasses Of frozen
mutton, but these are to be distanced by
the new steamer Morayshire, whose
equipment is so extensive and complete
that she viii be able to carry go, 900 car
casses in the cold air chambers.
There are extensive deposits of petro-
Ieum In northern Peru, and an American
gentleman has purchased tract of land
l2 miles wide and 90 miles long covering