Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-10-31
DAY AND NIGHT
Turn the Busy Wheels of the Mohawk
Valley Mills-An Object Lesson
Against Calamity HOwling.

Utica, Oct 31.--The Mohawk valley
from Schenectady to Utica,is buzzing with
prosperity by day and oratory by night
Every mill along the valley is humming
with Industry. Last year at this time
business was as fiat and as cold as flag
stone. Thousands of unemployed walked
the streets, unable, many Of them, to find
more pittance for the sustenance of
themselves and those who were dependent
upon them. Not in twenty years had
there been so much destitution and so
much real suffering among deserving
people.
At all the great manufacturing centers
this deplorable condition of affairs will
be found changed to-day. Schenectady,
Amsterdam, Cana oharie, Fort Plain, st..
townsville, Little Falls, Herkimer, lion,
Frankfort-from all come the same
stereotyped reports, business is booming
and the sunlight of prosperity is break
ing through the thick clouds of CONNER
c1al depression.
Nor is this all Many of the manufac.
tories have not only restored their full
complement. of labor, but number of
them are working their full force day and
night. The orders ahead are so
NUMEROUS AND HEAVY
that this expedient must be adopted to
complete them in time.
But back of all this is the politics of
the situation. Many of these manufac-
turers are Republicans, and for years
have enjoyed the benefits of a protective
tariff.
Now that they have again oiled and
started their machinery, taken back for
employment the workmen who were sum-
marily laid off last fall, and are running
their mills at full speed day and night,
the politics they have played, and their
share in the responsibility for the hard
times, which began to recede the instant
the mills of the country got under way,
are becoming apparent. That they shut
down their works with orders in their
safes is self-evident fact, sufficiently
proved by their running now at night.
Inquiry along the valley produces the
same report, that before tho final action
of the recent congress on the tariff bill
many of these manufactures had already
resumed operations, with small force, it
is true. But hardly had the doors of con-
gress been closed ere the pulsations of
the machinery were heard
IN FULL BLAST
from one end of the valley to the other,
At Schenectady the Edison works are
employing over 5000 men. The Ellis
locomotive works are running with 800
employees on orders that will necessitate
an increase of the force before the snow
flies. At Amsterdam predictions are al
ready made that the near future will
bring the greatest prosperity the town
ever has had, in spite of the croakinRs of
the Sanfords, the big carpet manufac-
turers, who are trying to figure out for
campaign orators the disadvantages of
the Wilson bill as compared with the
bill.
Little Falls has resumed it's wonted air
of industry, and $500 persons are now at
work in the knitting mills, which were
idle for several months while congress
was in session. Many Of these mills are
now working on orders several months
old. At st. Johnsville, between Little
Falls and Fort Plain, the knitting mills
ire working night and day on old orders.
All the manufactures here are under |
Roadway with full complement of work
men, some of them running continuously
rom early Monday morning to midnight
Saturday. The Marks Knitting mill, the
argest in this section of the country, is
working under full pressure. New match
works are to be started at Frankfort, be-
ween here and Herkimer, and the West
'hore shops are employing 800 men.
On the whole the outlook is as
right as could be desired.