The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-02

Spinning Company, better known as
Belgian Yarn Conoern. Will this SUNNI r
issa
A spring presser for carding machipes,
invented by J. d. Stanwood Of Warren.
presses into place tie top hats OF card
ing machine after they have been
stripped.
to be built in Pawtucket has led business
men and residents generally into al xiou $
inquiry as to where and when. "As
understand" remarked a Lonsdaie ave-
nue. business man, today. there were
thres gentlemen here from the Framing
ham Rubber Works aud. with well
known local capitalist, were driven over
the west side. They went along
Lonsdale avenue aud made careful
Inspection from Crossman sti eet to Mia
eral Spring avenue on both sides of the
railroad and they seemed favorably i'm
pressed with a site on the Mountain plat
on either side of the Moshassuck. north
OF Weeden street. Then, l believe, they
visited South Woodlawn, but before they
left they said they, rs well as Bristol
men, for there seems to be plan for
amaleamatiou. would probably be heard
from before March l. !"
The Kingston Worsted Company has
shut down temporarily.
f. Kenyon g. Son, wooden manufacture.
ers at Kenyon. have let the contracts for
tue building of a new woolen mill, $50 by
% feet, two stories.
1t is reported that the Rays have OBJ
tanned possession of a controlling inter-
est IN the Woonsocket Electric Mac nine
and Power Company. These aie the per-
sons who own majority of the shares
in the Woonsocket Street Railway Com
pany, which system is soon To be ex-
tended ana equipped with electric mo
tive power, aud have purchased
the unoccupiei Main street build
ings OF tue Harris Wool en- Company in
Woonsocket. The Electric Machine and
Power Co., which mas five years con-
tract TO supply the CITY with arc electric
lights, supplies the town OF Blackstone
and does u heavy commercial business
Within a feS days it has been known
that the gentlemen mentioned own
nearly 200 shares. having increased their
former large holdings by purchase, and
now IL is stated that they have secured
over controlling interest, whcl is Psi
shares. The plant comprises four stone
mills, only portion of which they
occupy. and the place could he utilized
as power house for the new electric
railroad. There is ample room in the
yard FOR car shops, etc. The electric COM
pany has capital stock of $3.50, 900, and
the street railway company S4OD. 900 CAPT
tai stock, making a total OF S650.000. Il.
X. Ray mas also secured control of the
Franklin Electric Light Company of
franklin. Mass, in which town he re
sides.
The lease of the Blackstone wooden
mill, No. .. oonsocket, operated by
Evans. Seagrave 81 Co., aud owned by
the Mason heirs aud Evans q Seagrave,
will expire In Ma, and there is a posi-.
bility that IT will not be renewed, and
thus shutdown of the plant will follow.
Andrew Crumley has resigned his po.
stion as overseer of spinning. spooling.
warplng and slashing at the Bernon
mill, Geor xiaville. and has gone to the
Lyman mill, Holyoke, Mass. Mr.. q. A.
Sykes takes MS place.
The effect the cold weather and wet
weather has had on the rubber trade has
extended to most of the large cities In
the East, and the many millions which
populate the country as well as the cities
of the United States have been told that
they cou d not be supplied with the kinds
proper sizes. The Woonsocket Rubber
Company has overrun orders at its
mills and can't turn out enough goods to
answer tue demand. Tue outlook is for
a continued demand for many weeks yet,
and IL only the price list was changed
March i instead of April I, 1t Is not SO
probable there would be any great
diminution in the demand. The great
In Woonsocket have seidom
teen as well cleaned out as today At
this most unfor, unats time a fiy-wheel
burst and left the Alice mill with power
50 reduced that for some weeks produc
tion has been necessarily limited.