Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-02-25


crease Of work In all departments Of the
1.ehigh Valley shops here. and the indi-
cations are that the shops will soon be
running full time.
BLOOMSBURY, PA.-The Bloomsburg
Car Company began work On Thursday
ON A contract for 300 coa1-cary for the
New York, Susquehanna and western
Railway Company. and another Tor fW
self-oiling car-wheels for a firm at Cape
Breton This will give steady employment
to 100 men until the middle OF
next June The carpet-works have also
started up with an order for D,0U yarus
OF ingram carpet for frm IN Michigan.
| The local woollen- and silk-miils have
increaSed the number Of hands and length
| ened the working hours. and the School
Furnishing Company will resume work
| on Monday, after a long idleness.
| BALTIMORE.-The old tin-plate mil
at Locust Point started up "Wednesday,
and IL Is stated that by March 18th all
the departments Will be running iuiI
blast. The workmen In the rolling and
pickling-mills are run in three gangs
OF eight hours each. II Is stated tnat
l25 men will be required to run the plant.
The majority Of those now employed are
Welshmen or are Of Welsh descent.
| HEALTHY CONDITION.
| CINCINNATI Il. c. Hall. OF
the Herring Hall-Marvin Safe Company
says
"WhiIe trade has been duh this win
! fer we have been able to keep a goodly
number of men at work right along on
special orders. I consider mat the safe
business is I'm a healthy and encouraging
condition" The Victor Safe ana LOCK
Company has been running fun time'
eight hours a day. all winter ana mas
/ had all the business 1t could well handle.
HAMILTON. O.-The Mosler Safe
Works. the largest of the kind in the
world have been able TO steadily run up
| TO their full capacity day and night
throughout the late financial depression
without being idle one single day. 1hey
employ $50 hands.
| DETROIT. MICH.-At Tawas City. a
new company will build two large saw
mills, employing 500 men.
| AT Niles a wool-boot factory, employ
ing 100 men, is about to be started.
At Alpena a franchise has just been
given for a fine and complete electric
| street-railway system.
| INDIANAPOLIS, INDIA new brass
factory has just started up at Porter
and the American Brass-Works, or cam
bridge Mass, will also remove there, 10
employ 200 men. Two other large facto-
ries will be located there within TWO
! weeks.
! A Gaming factory and an agricultural
! implem ent- factory opened at Muncic last
week, employing 200 persons.
| The employees OF the Pennsyivahia
Glass Factory at Anderson have been
notified that work will be resumed Mon
/ day.
The Mammoth Glass Works, at Cicero
began operations last week with 80 EN-
ployees.
( The st. Louis Hydraulic Brick Company.
at Hobart, will soon resume, and employ
! 100 men.
/ NORFOLK, VA.-Work on the new gov
eminent war-ships will begin this week.
! This will give employment to at least 3'VoJ
I men.
RESUME AT ONCE.
| WHEELING, W. VA.--The Moundsvile
Welsburg, and Wheeling mines, or the
Wheeling district, yesterday signed the
new miners scale. being the same as the
Ohio miners scale, and will resume work
at once All the mines have been shut
down for several weeks, leaving about l,VO
men idle.
+ RALEIGH. n. C.-The coal mines at
/ Egypt. Chatham county, which shut down
last August will resume work this week
A large force Is at work making excava-
lions for extensive buildings here, in which
car-wheels will be manufactured by Lob
dell az Co, OF Wilmington, Delaware who
/ have taken a large block of stock In the
! North Carolina Car Company. A contract
| has been made for the erection at Egypt
of a charcoal iron furnace OF twenty-five
| tons daily capacity. All the cotton-nlills in
North Carolina, 100 In number, are In
operation, all except few on full time
SAVANNAH. GA.-The Southover Land
Company. which has owned valuable lands
for manufacturing purposes near Savannah
for two years, has begun TO put In prac-
tical operation its plan for constructing a
80, O00-spindle yarn-mil. The l2,0O0-spindle
mill now in daily operation is finding
orders for all the goods ii can manufac-
| ture.
A lampblack factory was started here
last week.
NASHVILLE, TENN.-Whte, Dixon &
Co., lessees OF the Cumberland Iron
Works, in Stewart county. Tenn, made
their first run on Wednesday. These fur
naces have been closed for years.
NORWALK. CONN.-Several manu-
featuring concerns here, which closed last
fall. have resumed. with orders enough to
last until summer. Every hat-shop is
busy, and the Norwalk Lock Company
and the Lockwood Manufacturing Com
pany are still running on full time.
Several woollen-mill companies which
threatened to stop work because Of tariff
revision are still busy.
In Westport the outlook is very en-
couraging Woods satchel-factory re-
sumed to-day. with less than the regular
number of employees, but on full time.
The Saugatuck Button Manufacturing
Company Is running five days a week OF
nine hours each. At Posts Paper Mill an
increased number of hands are working
day and night. Euphrats Life-Savng
Fender Company, with a capital OF 1000 =
900, is about to build a plant at Westport
or elsewhere 10 employ 200 hands.
HARTFORD. CONN.-Hartford and
Wallngford capitalists have Incorporated
the Willingford Hollow-Ware Company,
and will build factory at Wallingford
In time 10 begin manufacturing April lst.
The rev anchor-mill in Windsor Locks
started 10 manufacture tissue-paper to-
day. with 40 hands. The Torrington
factories have all started on full time.
including the Coe Brass-Mills, and those
of Turner Il Seymour, hardware manu-
facturers; the Union Hardware Gem
pany, and G. Hotchkiss Brothers Com
parry. The Hame factory In Plainville IS
running nights. In Willimantic the Wind
ham Cotton-Mill and the A. q. Turner
Silk-Mill have resumed work on full time.
NEW nav f<.>, toNN.-Ine largest IN
dividual order ever received by the Win
, chester Repeating Arms Company came
yesterday. Ii is for 2O,OOo sporting-rifies
and 1900 rifles for field use. 1t will keep
the rifle department busy for nearly two
years.
WORCESTER. MASS.-The Stewart
Boiler Works has received orders which
will take several months to fill. This COM
pany has kept all its men at work. but In
the past two weeks business has picked
up SO work will be booming for some time
a force OF night workmen has been put on
at the Qulnsigamond Works Of the WASH
burn & Moen Manufacturing Company
This Is the first night-work done at these
works since July. At present about 5000
hands are employed. Four months ago
there was practically a shutdown. A
year ago 100 hands were employed
The Stoneville Worsted Company's mill
in Auburn has started on full time. 1t
closed last August, and the occupants of
the company's forty-two tenements were
given rent free. The Worcester Carpet
Company's mill, at South Worcester, are
on full time. with 600 hands. with ORDERS
enough to insure a busy season.