Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-16
WORK Is RESUMING.
INDUSTRY RECOVERING At DIFF.
FERENT POINTS.
BE Produced That Times Are I'm.
proving.
Shoe and Leather Reporter.


that it is sure, and that from this time
on its pace will be accelerated. AS
suredly the following commercial and
industrial notes are Of encouraging
interest and foreshadow something
like substantial progress toward better
times:
Six hundred men will resume work
at the National Rolling Mill at Nc.
keesport, Pa. on Monday next.
The works OF the American Watch
Company, at Waltham, Mass, which
have been closed since last summer,
we're opened on full time and with a
full force on February 6.
The Franklin Brass and Bronze
Company, at Derby, Conn.,, will re-
sumo work on Monday.
The Kansas Zinc Company, at Cir
ard, Kan, has begun work again with
four-blOck plant.
The Western File Works, at Beaver
Falls, Pa, will resume next week with
400 hands.
The Copps Woolen Mills, at Jack
sonville, ILL.,, has started up with over
200 operatives.
The Dunlap Carpet Mills, the largest
OF the kind in the northern part OF
Philadelphia, are making arrangements
to start in few days with 100 weavers.
The largest manufacturer of lamp
chimneys in America, George A. Mac
beth, of Pittsburg. says: "The times
are good already, and they're going to
get better" His new plant at Char,
leroi will be started on April l, and
employment furnished for 300 or 400
men.
The new plant of the Sterling Cold
Rolled Steel Company, at Wilson Sta
ton, Pa, has been put in operation,
employing about SO men. A large
number of men will be given
employment in q short time. The
Golf Steel Company is also in op-
GRAFTON at this point.
Six shops have been started in Nc.
KEGS glass factory, at Jeanette, Pa.
Preparations are being made to start
up the Wood Woolen Mills at North.
borough, Mass. in q few days. The
Saxonville Woolen Mills, at South
birmingham, will start up with full
force next week.
The Abrsm Cox Stove Works, at
I.ansdale, Pa, will resume February 5.
The Babcock Shoe Company, Limited
has already resumed there.
The East Stroudsburg (Pa.) Silk
Mill, which was closed for q long time
during the dull season, is now run
ming, and the silk business is reported
to be improving.
Harvey's Silk Mills, at Scranton,
Pa, where 800 persons have been put
1t work and orders issued for the mills
to be run on double time, after an
idleness Of several months; Whites
Centennial Carpet Mills, in Philadel-
phia, with full force on full time
James 4 Morris Yarn Mills, and the
High Bridge Mills, in Manayunk; H.
C. Jones' Woolen Mills, ut Consho.
hocken, and Woolen and Cotton Mills
OF J. and S. Lees, at the same place,
and the Graundy Mills, at Bristol.
Shoe manufacturers generally have
commenced making goods to fill or.
ders. The tanneries are all working
moderately.
Mauch Chunk (Pa.) coal mines,
after three months shut down.
Pittsburg, Lindsay & McCutcheon,
two mills, 500 hands.
Harvard Glass Company, full capac-
ity.
Columbia. Pa, Kelley Stove and
Columbia Iron Works, after many
months idleness.
St. Louis Buck Stove and Range
Company.
Wappinger Falls, N. Y, Garner &
Company's Print Works, with many
thousand hands, will run until 10
o'clock at night.
Newburg, N. Y, Caldwell Lawn
Mower Company, with more orders
than last year.
Lawrence, Mass, Philips & Kun
hardt, cotton mill.
Danbury, Conn.,, Crofut & White,
hats.
Dobson & Company's blanket mills.
Their carpet mills started up two
weeks ago, with 5000 hands, after be-.
ing idle since July.
In Elizabeth, N. j., the Singer Man
ufacturing Company, with over 5000
hands, after shut down of five weeks.
Three furnaces OF the Reading Iron
Works were fired up anew Monday,
and the entire plant of the Reading
Rolling Mill was put in operation. At
the Pennsylvania Steel Works, Harris
burg, Saturday, $4,000 was paid out
for wages of 100 men for two weeks,
the first money paid by this mill since
last fall.
In Virginia the tobacco and iron
works ran constantly last year. The
Richmond Locomotive Works, 1900
men, are building the entire machin.
cry and plating for the U. S. war ves-
sci Texas. The leather trade was pros.
porous all through 1893. Most of the
red-sole sold in the South is trimmed.
The tanners sent their rough and
harness leather to the city dealers and
it found a ready market.