Evening journal., 1894-09-14
PLENTY OF WORK, NOW
Machinery on the East Side
Humming Again.
EVEN THE sHIPYARDs ABE LIVELY

Rush Of Work at Pullman's and the
Edge Moor Bridge Works and Several
Factories and FouudrIss are Starting
Up IN Full Force.
There is a business boom Of the bona
tde order prevailing among the large
industrial establishments OF the East
ard South Side OF the city this week As
result there is less ideness and more
happiness throughout the city than has
been known for months. Nearly every
manufacturer now admits that business
is picking up and the most enterprising
ones say they are rushed
At the big bridge works Of the Edge
Moor Iron Company, everything is
rushing this week, aud the wheels of
machinery are buzzlng along night aud
day Ia this department about ZOO
workmen are employed, including the
yard gangs and outside laborers The
company Is hurrying ahead with the
fourteen new bridges for the Pennsylvania
Midland Railroad and a half dozen other
large orders which are being filed in
turn.
A Rush at Puliman's Works.
Fully forty-fve cars have been crowded
into the Wilmington works of Pullman's
Palace Car Company since last Monday.
aud now all the men who were laid OF
last week and more TOO, have been
engaged TO hurry along the big Job
This rush Of the rolling palaces was
caused by the company's superintendent
holding bsck the cars for the past fort :
night on account of the Grand Army Of
the Republics Plttsburg encampment
Two more Chleago limited trains are
also being htted out in magnificent
style at these works.
Brisk Business on the BrandywIne.
Along the Brandywine the scene was a
buster one day than for years. A big
three masted schooner had gotten all the
way up to the busy works Of the Seidel
and Hastings Company, and was there
unloading scrap iron The two barges.
Swift aud Bseche-, reported ia yester
days EyESING JOURNAL Gs having ar
rived in port, were towed up the creek
to the wharf Of the Diamond Match
Company. This industry resumed lat
week with steady working force Of 300
hands
d. f. Pickels's pipe works. the products
Of which are cdst-iron sewer and drain
pipes, and are shipped to Philadelphia By
water, are buster than ever aud working
extra hours.
Four hundred operatives AZ the Will
mington Jute Works, beyond Eleventh
street bridge. will resume work there
next Monday morning, when the machin
cry will be started up again, full blast
Two more electric cars, similar in con
structcn TO those recently shipped to
Tonawanda, and fitted up exactly like
this railroad DAY coaches with reversible
back seats ana electric call bells were
stripped TO the Akron Street Railway
Company, Of Akron, o This Is the la 4
lot Of cars for that Western town, but
the car shops are filed with electric cars.
near completion, of all descriptions and
shades
More Work at the Il. q II. Company -
In addition to the present rush Of work
at the Harlan & Holingsw worth Company Z
establishment, there is lots more to be
done this month The old Spanish steam
ship Marciano will be hauled up aud con
verted into a barge over 800 feet long. Tr
it's shops, this company is now complet-
ing heavy steel forgings for the Detroit
Canal Company and a carload is now
nearly ready for shipment The progress
of this very heavy work is being watched
with much interest.
Aud these are only few of the firms
that aie now prospering with the revivine
trade that is coming like tidal wave il
nearly every branch Of manufacturing
Enterprise of the Diamond State
Company.
The Diamond State Iron Company has
attained no little fame abroad for its
enterprise, and in competition with Other
and larger manufacturing firms AT
the Roadm asters' Association Of America
now in twelfth annual convention In New
York city, in Tammsny Hall, the company
has on exhibition a section OF S5 pound
rail, with Churchill rail joint applied,
and also the Hill curved spike
President Reid, It is said, personally
praised the exhibitors and commended
the exhibit.