New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-09
MORE MILLS AND FACTORIES CLOSED.

4 BIG PROFITsUARING ESTABLISHMENT SHUT
DOWN WISCONSIN PULP MILLS IDLE.
INDIANAPOLIS Aug. s.-Congressman c. G. Conn. OF
the XIIth District Yesterday closed his musical ins'r
ment factory at Ekhart. the largest OF the K'ho III
the world. announcing that It would remain eoseo
four weeks longer II the financial strineenfy con-
Times MIR. Conn. several years ago. put ms factory
upon profit sharing basis. Two years ago T''"
profits divided among his men and last year he
distributed $4,000. one thousand men VIII be-
thrown ont OF work.
Appleton. Wis. Aug s.-The mammoth suIphte
fibre pulp mill OF the Manufacturing Investment com
pany In which President Cleveland Daniel Lamont
and Don NJ Dickinson are heavy stockholders mas
shut down. but announces that work VIII be reS'"'ru
In two weeks. The mill employs over 1oo haous'
Tile paper mill and two pulp mills OF the Ala' 'o"''
pony have also shut down, throwing over Il hundred
employees ont OF work.
Ttica. ~ y. Aug lSpecal).-On account OF the
uncertainty Of the knit goods market the worR'ns
hours I'm Robert MacKinnon's mill at Little Falls nave
been reduced from ten 10 eight. Alfred Dodge o'
Dolgeville has laid off sixty hands at his big fe''
mill In Dolgcville. After paying them In full h'
stated that he would give them 50 wee"
until business frightened mp. and make up the re-
mainder Of their wages al some future time.
Poughkeepsic, " y. Aug. -.-fhe clothing man"
factory OF Hull 4 Co.. ono Of IN" most important III
dusires In this city. employing several hnhore' wom"
| with a hitherto steady weekly pnyroh o
| 81 900 and working on fun time has been compelled
| 10 half time.
Amsterdam. y. V, Aug. 2.The rug factory OF HOW
gate. McClary d Co.. at Rockton has closed down. aho
nearly 500 hands are thrown out OF work inderhi"N
Some Of the employees have started ont In the country
| In search Of work among the farmers and Others.
Burlington. W.. Aug. S.-rhe wO0llen. merino and
cotton mills IN wnooskl and this city have shu'
| down. the latter I'LL September 4 and longer II bn'
docs not Improve. The Shutdown OF the wooll"r
| and merno mills throws about 800 people ont Of
work. and the cotton mill shutdown affects 800
| people.
| Wexford has shut down for at beast two weeks
All the large mills IN the town now closed
| Ncw.Eedford. Mass. Aug. s.The leather manu-
factory OF Job Wade has shut down for two or three
weeks This IS the first time II has been idle In y
| number Of years.
| Waliham. Mass. Aug a.-A reduction ranging fro,
10 10 80 per cent has been made In the wages Of the
employees in I'll departments In the American Watch
| Factory. - - $50,
| Finland VI. Au9. s.-A reduction Of - per cent
| wa. made Yesterday IN the wages OF IN" empov"~
| Of tine True Blue Marble Company. OF West Rn;and
I, reported that tn" Vermont Maroi' a"nP,N ma0
with families Will De employed only I'VE dhNs III
| week and single mep thrN. days; ,,,,.o,,u,,o
| Comnony Bnacon Fails employing 80 hands. began
| Yesterday 10 run thre" DAYS n week the c2mI1hs
owns all the houses and has reduced rent, onr-hh,'
san Francisco, Aug. S.-Thr Southern fn'lhc itaii
way Yesterday issued an order reducing W. r., Hh
entire shop force numbering over 4""g , Mi' ~ ,
! hc laid off Fridays and sturdy, THIS II - "a'"
| viii save the southern Pacific 100000 month.