The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-08
ACTIVE INDUSTRIES
Rhode Island Manufactures are
Filled With Orders for Goods.
MANY INCREASES OF PLANT.
The Woolen Industry Especially Active
Mills Under Aggressive Managers are
Doing Excellent work-severaI Mills
Have Changed Hands.

ployed upon the construction work OF the
b. b. g. r. Knights mammoth clotl
building, and brick is being laid for the
second story.
The plans for the new building of J.
Flanagan g. Co.. Clyde, have been finished
by Eugene Baxter, and the new store and
warerooms, when completed, will be the
largest in the state. having glass front
OF 105 feet on the main street.
v The machinery, engine, boiler ETC., OF
the Athol Thread Company in the new
mill building was sold last Saturd ay to
the mortgagee, who held a mortgage of
$4,000 on the property.
The contract for the wiring for electric
light and a complete bell work installa-
tion in the residence and stables of o. H.
p, Belmont, Esq, has been a arded to
the Newport illuminating Company. 1t
covers an installation Of $50 electric lights
and the work is To be Of the highest char
acter.
Work Mt the Spring Lake Woolen Mills
Spring Lake, Is being pushed rapidly and
the employees are now working until o
o'clock every evening in order TO fill the
many large orders which are being re-
ceived daily.
The Philo Z. Thayer Company Of Paw
tuthCt, 10 doiuk u ItinATk-
ably large business this year. For the
twenty-five years that the business has
been carried on there has not been stop
.or break. and now about forty hands are
employed the year round. The factory
occupies two floors in the Jeuks ock,
East avenue, each 60x45, and the floor
space will have TO be increased
The United States census Office supplies
the following manufacturing statistics
~ Uyf IN KAf. m har % a.
mates reported, 347; number OF industries
reported, 20; capital invested, $i4, Dos, ,632;
hands employed 1908; wages paid, 50, ,433,-
563; cost OF materials used, IS. Cos. .25; value
of product, Sl4, 349,5 ,595
The Kent Woolen mill, Centerville.
which has been shut down to allow the
machinists to make repairs, was started
up with large force OF operatives ON
Monday morning.
The manufacturing jewellers of Provi-
dence are doing rushing business in
Christmas goods.
j. M. Westmacot g. Co. OF Providencs
are manufacturing special gas machines
for use In the jewelry factories.
The Colvin Machine Company of River
Point Is shipping from fifty to seventy
five looms per week to New Bedford for
The new mill in that city
The River Spinning Company is receiv-
ing considerable new machinery.
The work of transferring the plant of
the Edison Illuminating Company from
the old site on Tew's Court Newport. to
the new station. the Richmond mill prop
erty on Thames street, is nearly com
pleted. Only two machines are now in
operation in the old place. The work of
erecting the new main lines of wire is
progressing rapidly and SO far as can be
learned without any trouble, the COM
pany arranging with owners and abut-
ters before placing the poles.
The George w. Stafford Manufacturing
Company OF this city is busy on orders
for looms for the silk mills OF Massachu-
setts and New Jersey. The company re-
Gently bought the pate Is and patterns of |
the Richardson cloth folder.
A new water wheel has been placed in |
the Hamlet mills at Woonsooket.
Miliner 81 Sons, proprietors OF the /
Moosup Woolen Mills, are now runniup
twelve sets of machinery for wide goods |
and a large amount of fancy cassimeres.
a yard wide. is manufactured and shippe d
TO different points.
At the works of the American Supnlv
Company, Valley Fails may be seen a
new machine for making weavers' har-
utsocS. ~ 10 tuo Only one ltS KIND In |
operation in this country aud is attract
ing considerable attention. This machine
was first put upon the market in 1874
improvements upon it have been steady.
lt is now almost perfect, and has been
patented in every country of Europe as
we'll as in the United States
Kent Woolen Company at Centreville
will erect a new building.
The new mill OF the Peacedale Mann.
[acturing Company, Peacedale, has been
.nut down for some time on account of a
broken crank shaft.
The new Babcock 81 Wilcox boilers
which were purchased several months
igo ty the Is. H. d r. Knight Manulac-
'uring Company for the NaticlI mills, ar
lived yesterday and will be put i'm under
iifeetieh of the firm of Babcock &, VIII
'ox as soon as the roof TO the new boiler
house Is put on.
The. Central Falls Wooden Mill ba,
,assed Into new hands. and will be started
lp again as soon as practicable. T. =
,srwell, president of the National
Vorsted Mills of Olneyville, is the mr.
haser. lt Is expected that employment
viii be given TO about 400 hands The
eason given for the closing up the affairs
y tne oid company Is that the margin OF
rofit was too small
Ihe manufacture OF Scotch caps is now
cry great at Washington village and
lany new styles for the winter season
re being designed Many girls find
in the Tyler mill under
uperintendant Boynton, and many are
ow earning large wages doing piece |,
vork. f'N"'
The engine equipment OF the Newport e
lectric Lighting company consists OF a
* large Arnington & Simms compound
1ndensing, high-speed engines, making
" revolutions per minute. and au.
regating some 1900 horse power. The
'rgest pnllcy Is on the engine used for e
rect railway work and measures y
inches ia diameter. 32 inches across :,
,e face, and weighs over 4,OO) pounds =
o provide suitable foundations for :
'ese enormous power generators, solid
EDS OF brick are laid covering an area !,
$50 square feet and extending TO n
epth OF seven feet, and resting upon
clay sub-soil. The steam after pass- \
lg throuzn the cylinders OF the engines :
exhausted by two powerful pnmps =
10 air OF con ensers, thus providing
vacuum . 20 u 30 Inches anu I,creas,
~ the efficiency of the plant