Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-24

EsC York Horid
These are Tough times Tor the ealam-
ttv boWler lie was dead certain before
tbs massage OF the Wisoa bill not only
fbat free wool would kick the bottom
out Of prices and ruin the wool ana
sbeep industries, Cut Ihat the reductions
~ the duties on wooilens would close
mail OF our woollen mills. His posi-
zion is now most pitiable. Facts refuse
10 spbmit To his pesS.mistIc theories;
moreoyer, thoy stand out so plainly that
he cannot possibly deceive the voters
until NovemG Ger While prices OF for
eign woods nave f2llaD abou, 90 per cent.
lust as tho Democrats promised
Drices OF domestic woods have advanced
fully 10 per Gems. over Mckinley prices
OF three months ago. Aud on top OF
this advance the Dry Goods Ec0ROm'SI
OF September 20, says:
The wool market in New YORK lot
the past week has shown more actFs
aud general demand and fully sustained
prices. Slight advances ia prices nave
been paid for certain classes OF domeS-
tic woods. notably the mediums and
ouarter-bIoods. There is a good de-
mand for Texas fall woods and some
sales OF the earliest arrivals. A fairly
large and diversified stock is 0einS
offered in the market, and manufactur-
ers are showing better interest thau
thew have eyinced for q year past.
FThe Boston wool market has exper-
fenced a coed demand this week ana
prices have been fairly well main
tanned" ,
The mistaken and misanthropic ca
lamity shrieker can get no Satisfaction
when be begiuS 10 look for Woouen ml'iS
closed Up by the new tariff. Never DE-
fore In our history have so many woollen
mills been opened m suCn short time.
The Wool and Cotton Reporter by Tar
the greatest authority 10 America on
textiles devoIes considerable space
every week 10 Bulletin Of New En-
terprises." .,.
show In the table below the result
OF the first months experiment win
free wool. In order, II possible, 70 IN
ducs protectioniSts 20 read the whole
table, I have sorted out and placed at
the head OF the table every calamity
item mentioned;
RECORD OF TEXTILE MILLS
Compiled from Wool aud Cotton reporters
Bul.sunsJ
During week ending
Sept. Sept. Sept sept Oct. Oct
New uin....... 6 Is 10 Is Is Il
EuIargeDents
n a94 improve l..,''...ss IS IA IS % q
S a5-.. ,'a ,i'.a.s3 % % 80 q q
N.lsshutdovn
Seventy mentions Of new mills, l25 Oh
endorsements and i'm provements, l42 oil
mills starting up, and only hye mills
idle because Of lack Of orders Is the
record for the past six weeks under Tree
WOO. Protectjonist croakers Gao md nc
such prosDerOuy record with so TO"
shut.dOwus for lack OF orders during
any month Of the four years OF Mchin
leyism.
Thus the Dy1i Goods Economist OF Oc
tober says. The leayeu OF free WOO
has only just begin 10 work, but already
important changes are becoming sppar
ent. Prominent among these is the con
dition 10 which the manufacturers using
antiouated aud wasteful machinery mo
themselves placed. Under tariff
ranging at times as high as lI5 pei
cent. il was possible 10 use these old
hrattletraDs az q profit, and hence rae
.,oolsssS fitted with machinery OF this clas.
machinery Of the best aud newest
kind.
II is possible that the five mills that
have shut down since August were "Old
rattetraps," uufttO compete with we'll
equipped mills. The DRY Goods
Economist says. "They must go TO the
rear with the stage-cOach aud pack
horse. The fttest only will survive in
the hot pace q the future, as they alone
deserve 20 survive"
Seventy mentions Of new mills, 1913 OF
engagements and Improvements, 143 Of
mills starting ID, with only five Tor pos
sibly Dine) legitimate shut-d0wns, is a
wonderful record, We challenge Nc
kinley and MS calamity-croaking breth-
ren TO find any period OF six weeks dur
Ing the past thirty years when the
record showed such prosperity with so
few shut-dOWns. They cannot find Ia.
They prefer 10 continue their calamity
howl, only taxing the precautIon TO
keep 10 far away from the whirring,
busy, noisy textile mills.
The prosperity has become so pro-
nOunCed and the demand for textile
workers so great that some Of the man
ufacturerS have been forced TO restore
all or part Of the wage reductions made
during the dull Mckinley period.
On September the Wool and Cotton
Reporter said that Rawitzer Bros OF
Stafford Springs, had settled with their
dissatisfied weaverS, giving them a %
per advance In wages.
On September q the Reporter said
that the winders al the Riverside Knit
ting Mills az Cohoes, y y, struck for
an increase OF wages last week Mr..
BochlOwitZ, the proprietor, stated that
an Increase would be granted October
]. The knitters and carders were also
promised an increase on October 1.
On October the Reporter said that
the strike at the woOiien and worsted
mill OF Alexander Crow, Jr., at Twenty
first street and Pennsylvania avenue,
PHILADELPHIA, vas declared of on the
25th ult, a compromise being affected
with the men. Mr.. Grow agreed 20 re-
store 10 per cent. OF the reduction, aud
the 400 employees returned 20 work next
day"
% October 4 the Reporter said "ths
Woodstock mills, NOrristown, Pa, re-
opened Mon1ay aud the strike is broken.
The company will pay all employees the
rate Of wages they received before the
last reduction was made on February
L."
On OctOberl4 the Reporter also men
toned that 'tthe Continental WOrsted
Mills, Philadelphia, have closed down
on account Of the operatives striking
for a twenty per cent increase in