The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-08-25
THE BOTTOM NEARLY REACHED.
1t Appears That Nearly All the Mills
of the Country are Closing.

OF the Country are Closing.
New ORLEANS, LA.-On account of
scarcity of currency, Maginnis' cotton
mills have closed.
LAWRENCE, MAss.-Tho mills of Con.
gressman Stevens & So7s at North An
dover, Andover, and Haverhill will shut
down for an indefinite period after this
week. The firm is among the largest
individual wool manufacturers in the
United States.
WooNsoCKET, r. 1.-The Hamlet Cot
ton Mills, in this city, Frank II iris,
proprietor, employing 300 persons have
closed for two weeks. Occupants Of the
mil tenements will be charged no rent
during this pcr,cd.
AMEsBURY, Mass. O,dcrs have been
received at the Hamilton Mills to run
only every Other week until further
notice.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass The directors
of the United S ates Whip Company
voted to shut down all the factories in
the whip syndicate until Aug. %, be-
cause OF inability to sposc of goods.
NoRwIcu, Conn. The Clinton Wool
en- Mills Company at Bcln Hill have
posted notices stating that the mills will
be closed for two or three weeks.
AMSTERDAM, N. Y.-The Stewart
Knitting Mills closed on Saturday night.
MIR. Stewart says the mills will reopen as
soon as the conditions of the market war
rants such course. The Liddlc Knit
ting aud Green Knitting C,mpaai
mills have shut down. The mill of
Gardner & Warning will shut down
when the G 'cds now in process cf man
ufacture ere run out. The No. 1 knit
ting mill OF Warren, De Forest & Co.,
closed for an indefinite time. They en-.
ploy 800 hands in this mill. Thers are
nearly 1900 people now out of employ
mcnt in this city. The Salisbury mill
and the Leo Manufacturing Company
have rcopened, but they employ less than
$50 hands.
NORTH ADAMS, NAss.-Thc Arnold
Print Works, the largest mills in this
town, together with tho Beaver and
Eclipse Mills of Gallup & IIoughton, in
this town, the Williamstown Manufactur-
ing Company in Wllliamstown, and the
North Fownal Manufacturing Com pany
at North Pownal, VT, millswhich made
cloth for the Arnold Print Works, shut
down indefinitely Saturday night. More
than 2.c00 employees are affected.
a.. O. Houghtou, President of Arnold
Print Works, says: I'm view of the
unsettled condition of the business of the
country, We have decided to close our
mills until the situation improves. If
Congrss, should take decisive action and
the situation should clear up we would
start up immediately"
The mills have been run on full time
with nearly ali Help until the present
time in the hope that times would i'm.
prove.
The Henrietta Mills, Rutherford
county, N. c., are now running on half
time.
NEW BEDFORD MILLS START UP.
New BEDFORD, MAss.-The Wam-
sutta mills started up Monday in accord
ance with their plan to run week on
and week off, which was announced
when the mills were closed last week
The situation is so much improved, how.
ever. that it is thought that it viii not
be necessary TO close up at the end of
next week. In nearly all the mills in
town with the exception of the Potomska
mills work will be gradually re.
sumed, beginning Monday. The City
Manufacturing Company, manufacturers
of fine yarns, employing 575 hands, have
posted notices that the mills would be
shut down for the rest Of the week.
Work will be resumed Monday.
PRESIDENT EINsTEIN's INTERPRETATION
OF THE MESSAGE.
soMERvILLE, N. david l.. Elm
stein of New York is President of the
company operating the large woollen
mills in Raritan, one mile above here,
in which about eleven hundred hands
are employed. The mills are the back
bone of the town of Raritan, as nearly
every person in the place is in some way
supported by them. The mills have
been running on full time up to the
present.
When Mr.. Einstein read the President'i
message in the evening papers on Tues
day, he at once despatched the following