Omaha daily bee., 1895-12-08
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

| A German has invented an incandescent
| lamp apparatus for showing the interior of
| boilers while filled with steam.
The current output of pig iron to Novem-
Der 1 was at the stupendous rate of II, $50 900
| tons for the year.
| After shutdown of three months the
shops of Aultman, Miller & Co., Akron, o.,
| have resumed operations. Some 1900 hands
| are affected.
The Cooperative Age is responsible for
| the statement that Eugene V. Debs has now
filled 1000 calls for speeches in various parts
of the United States.
The CRANKY Cotton Mills buildings at Co.
umba S. c., are being pushed to completion
as rapidly as possible and will be completed
in January. An equipment of $1,000 spindles
and ! ,050 looms has been ordered, and will
be put in at the start and increased gradually
to 10000 spindes. The main building is
four-stOry one, 372 by 127 feet, and is to
contain every modern mill Improvement
Product is to be fine sheetlngs and twills.
The report of the United States inspector Of
coal mines in Utah to the secretary of the
interior shows that there are thirty mines
in the territory three of which are idle
The output of these twenty-seven mines for
the year ending June 30, 1895, was 511,332
tons. In New Mexico the annual report Of
the inspector shows that the output of coal
for the year was 673,260 tons, and of coke
II 900 tons.
The great progress made by the United
Garment Workers of America is shown by
the annual report of General Secretary Reich
ers for the fiscal year just ended. During
that period thirty-four local and three dis
trict councils have been created, and the re-
ceipts were Sic, ,597.15, as against $4,39964
the year preceding. The list of members has
increased 5000. The report details the strug-
giles of the union against the sweat snop sys-
TEN.
A mechanical hammer has been invented
to take the place of a blacksmith's assistant.
1t is known as the ready striker. A fifty
pound hammer is always in position over the
anvil and it is manipulated by lever under
control of the workman's foot. 1t Is so con-
structed that it will strike over any part Of
the anvil surface, including the horn. The
power is applied by the blacksmth's foot,
the sledge being so evenly balanced between
two tempered steel coils that but little exer-
ton is needed. The springs give the hammer
a remarkably elastic, but powerful motion.
An interesting table, showing the cost Of
operating passenger railway cars in Birming-
ham, England, by steam, cable, horses and
electricity gives an unexpected result as to
the latter The net earnings per train mile
from steam were 9.54 cents, from horses l.62
cents, from cable 1874 cents, and there was
loss Of "a cents per train mile from cleo
tricity The expenses were but 1854 cents
per train mile by cable, 20.24 cents by horses,
2244 cents by cable and 1916 cents by eec-
tricity.
In speaking of the Keely motor, "Megar-
gee," in the Philadelphia Times, says: What
has become of all the money? That is
mighty difficult question to answer. Keely
himself is a rough, crude man, whose per-
sonal habits are not expensive There Is no
doubt. however, that vast sums have been
expended in useless machinery, devices and
tools One piece of mechanism, which cost
$4O,O 900, was paid for and Immediately re-
iected by the inventor because he claimed
there was a flaw in It, He thinks nothing of
spending $2O 900 for piece of machinery and
a few weeks afterward throwing it aside as
useless. In that queer-lookng workshop Of
his in Twentieth street, above Master, he
certainly does perform the most marvellous
things, but how he does it no one but him
self knows l doubt If any one ever will