Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-07-27

1.-THE agent Of some of the wooden
mills near by" says the Boston Post,
"opened his spring samples in Boston on
Wednesday, and by Thursday night had
orders $4,000 in excess of the entire
product of his mills. This does not look
as If confidence had entirely deserted
the trade hereabouts, or as if industry
were likely to languish or labor likely
to starve for some time to come. We
commend the incident to the political
croakers who are bound TO ruin New
England, if it can be doneby croaking."
The New York journal Of Commerce,
in an editorial showing that, in spite of
the influences growing out of the cur
rency uncertainty and its consequent
contraction of credits, the manu-.
facturers of this country, taking
them generally, are in no such condi-
ton as they would be If they were all
laboring under apprehension of tariff
changes, says that 81 knitting establish
ments were started in the first half of
this year, TO 48 for the corresponding
period of last year, gain of three es-
adjustments in an industry that is ex-
ceptionally dependent, according to
most of the men in it, upon the present
tariff law. Three years ago the manu-
facturers of knit goods declared they
could not exist without additional
| protection, and very few interests
got SO much additional protection
as this. Yet the starting Of 81
new mills does not betray any serious
apprehension on their part. No new
plush factories were started this year to
offset the four that were started in the
first half of 1892, but this is an article
that sells or not according to the whims
J of fashion, and the existing tariff law
was only few months old when wages
were reduced in Pennsylvania plush
J factories on account Of dull business
Notwithstanding the high protection
: The branch plush factory started in
Bridgeport, Conn.,, by an English firm
! amid vociferous applause, proved SO un
e successful, because of the little demand
for its product, that three months befor,
i the November election Tribune dispatcl
# reported the machinery had been taker
J out of the works and was being replaced
Z with machinery for the manufacture o
Il velvets. The editorial concludes a
i follows:
Z In the first half of 1892, 40 cotton mill
Il were started, and in the correspondent
q part of 1898 only "a were started; here al
"a parently there is evidence Of partial pa
,e ralysis, but it is only apparent the Terti
4. World says that the new mills are so niue
N larger than those constructed last yea
d that the increased capacity of 1898 con
% pares fayorably with that OF 1892. :. IN IL
IA dustry the average size of whose establish
# ments is increasing Is not paralyZed
Il fear of hostile legislation.
d In the wooden and silk industries, how
M ever, the falling of in the number of ne
.. factories is not offset by their greater siz
IN Here there are real reductions. But tt
he evidences of depression in the wooden il
~ dustry are not more marked than the
- were four years ago, when the impendir
nj tariff changes were in an opposite dire
II ton. Besides, about the first step tn
n, will probably be taken in revising Il
~ tariff will be the reduction or removal
i the duties on wool. A large proportion
N the manufacturers have asked Congre
IS for this, and 1t is difficult to believe til
M any wooden mills are suffering from Il
ss anticipation OF free wool more than ter
~ porary uncertainty, though they would
or course carry as small stocks as possib
made from duty-pdid wool over into
period of probable free wool.
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