Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-02-25
THE WAGE OUTLOOK.
NEW INDUSTRIES PROJECTED AND
OLD ONES REsuMlNc WORK
Employment Being Given to Many Idle
Hands, Reports from All Sources
ON the Subject.


an Increase In business.
WALES, MASS.-The mill at this place
owned by II. Il. Shaw. after lying idle
for a long time. Is going to resume with
O. 20 Icr cent reduction In wages all
around.
HAVERHILL. MAsS.-The woollen-mills
In this city owned by Congressman Stevens
are now running at full capacity, after q
brief shutdown. and some branches have
been forced TO run nights to meet orders.
Chick Brothers firm. which did million
and half Of business last year, started
up on full time yesterday, employing 5O
hands.
Gilman e. Sons hat-factory. which has
been idle for three months. Is preparing
to start ON full time on March 1st.
NEW BEDFORD. MASS.-The Wam-
sutta Mills, of this city, which have been
running forty hours a week since last
August, will start on full time Monday
morning.
BIG IMPROVEMENT.
o WATERBURY. CONN.-waterbury has
three large Industrial concerns, the Bene-
diet & Burnham Company. the Scoville
Manufacturing Company. and the Holmes.
Boothe e Hayden Company. which employ
in the aggregate nearly five thousand men.
A comparison of the quarters ending Octo-
Der LIST and January LIST show in each OF
these concerns an improvement OF about
one third in the number OF days that their
employees have worked. The Benedict &
Durham Company are already starting
their mill after the annual inventory that
closes all the factories for the first week
Of every year. and anticipate an improved
business The Waterbury Watch Com
pany's output last year was within 10
per cent. of that Of the previous year.
The concern is now busily replenshing
the stock which they have so greatly re-
duced by their heavy fall trade. These
few instances cited are about the same re-
ports one hears from the many other con-
Germs scattered about the city. With ore
accord. they are hoping for a speedy set
Element of the tariff question, and the
settled basis on which ttey can then plan
their operations. T.. c. Lewis, president of
the Waterbury Farrell Foundry Company,
predicts an improvement in business. He
IS Republican.
Down in Naugatuck the Goodyear
Rubber Company has been fairly busy
In Seymour the Seymour Manufacturing
Company is running part of the time
with good prospects OF an increase of
business. At Ansonia, Wallace Il Sons
whose failure threw out of work 900
men, have partially resumed operations
at great reductions in the wages of the
few men that they are able TO keep at
work. The Farral foundry and the An
sonia Brass and Copper Company, the
two other large concerns in the town.
are runndng from three TO four days a
week in most OF their departments, and
I'm some parts are doing Il little better
than that.
Derby and Shelton, sister towns Just
below. are crowded with small concerns
running on at least half time. with a
slight reduction in pay.
Charles f. Atwater. the secretary OF
the Howe Pin Company. .ays that this
industry does not fear any foreign COM
petition. The Derby Cotton-NIill Is run
ming full time. as is also the Shelton Tack
Company. The Sterling Organ Company
is running on an eight-hour basis.
on the whole, the business outlook is en-
couraging.
ON FULL TINE.
NEW LONDON.-Some Of the manu-
factories which were running with re-
duced forces on short time. are now rum
ming two thirds force, and full time.
merly employees OF the Brainerd & Arm
strong Silk-Mills, of this city, will start
new mill in their own interest Cm April
1st Pratt, Reed az Co, manufacturers
OF ivory and bone goods, at Deep River,
called In their ivory sawyers Monday.
after four-months' vacation. At Ivory
ton, in Essex, Comstock. Cheney & Co.
ivory manufacturers. have increased their
working hours, and called in extra help.
4.
ter with Port Jervis than in many locali-
ties. Millen's satisfactory has been run
ming ten hours a day all winter. Chant
glove-factory is running with half force.
with good prospects for spring trade. Jen-
nings saw-works are on three-quarter
time at present. Orrs overall establish,
ment and Brox's glass-factory are run
ming fun force. The Erie shops ere on
three-quarter time, which is considered
good at this season of the year.
All in all, Port Jervis las little to COM
plain of.
MIDDLETOWN, n. Y.-Joshna Old
royds fet-boot-factory, near this city,
will start up next week with full force in
all departments.
HAVERSTRAW. ". Y.-The Rockland
Print-Works. employing about 900 hands,
are running full force. The brickmakers
predict a good season. They are making
lease and getting ready for an early start.
JOY TO HUNDREDS.
PATTERSON. n. 1.-THE business out
look in this city is such as TO bring JOY
to hundreds of homes that have felt The
cruel pinch of poverty for many months.
With the opening of the Dolphin jute-mill,
employing $50 operatives. came the first
CLEAN of hope. Tomorrow morning many
others who have spent weeks In idleness
will hear the click of machinery in the
Barbour thread-mills, which will go on
full time with a full complement OF ope-
ratives, at a reduction OF 10 per cent. Bar
bour's Grand-street mill has been running
at three quarter and half time for six or
eight months, and the Spruce-street mill
has been closed for two months ostensibly
because OF the danger Of the passage OF
the Wilson bill.
1t was announced yesterday, also, that
the blacksmith-shop. foundry, and boiler
shop of the Rogers ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
would be rcopencd.
In the silk trade the signs are equally
encouraging. Following the announce
ment in the World on Wednesday that the
Augusta silk Company had advanced the
wages of its silk weavers 10 per cent.
came a request from the ribbon weavers
of Sherman & Co.'S mill for an ad-
vance with the result that an increase OF
20 per cent, TO take effect tomorrow. was
granted.
CAMDEN, n. 1.-THE big wool and
worsted mills of Rowland Croft * Co. will
start up tomorrow with force OF be-
tween $50 and 800 hands. The mills have
been idle for two months, but the firm
says II now has enough orders ahead to
keep going for two months.
WORK ON SUNDAY.
PITTSBURG. The New Castle Steel
Works began to-day TO operate on Sum
days on account of the rush OF orders.
This Is the first Instance OF the kind in
this part OF the State.
Several plants that have been idle since
June Goth will resume on Monday. Among
them viii be the Republic Iron Works. Of
the South Side.
The Elwood Steel Company will change
its plant into a tin-plate mill. and will
give employment TO $50 men.
The carpenters. painters. bricklayers'.
plasterers and stone-cutters' unions have
decided TO make no demand this spring
for an advance Of wages or a reduction OF
working hours. The indications are for a
building year.
ALLENTOWN. PA.-Thc ore-mines OF
the Hartsell Concentrating Company, at
Rittenhouse Gap. In which Inventor
Thomas A. Edison Is a large stakeholder