The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-02
FROM THE LABOR WORLD.
A CAR FAMINE.
Furnaces Are Unable to Obtain Fuel and
Ore as Needed.

There Is n car famine in the Pennsylvaia
coal and iron regions. The mill and furnace
yards are bare Of stock and their owners are
bounding the roads day aud night to give
them enough material to keep running.
The assertion that the corn crops of Mis-
Bouri, Kansas, Illinois aud Texas alone will
give 800, 900 carloads Of surplus for ship
ments Is made on good authority. and as the
wheat crop OF the West is also large II Is
evident that the good fortune OF the agricul-
tural States this year will be shared by the
railroads and the holders Of their securf
ties.
Express companies in youngstown are ar
ranging 20 do away largely with horses and
wagons except for heavy trailc, and will in
troduce bicycle express wagons for the de-
lvering OF light parcels. The bicycle wagons
will be placed in service by one company the
coming week and the others have ordered
them.
The Kentucky distillers' Association adopt
ed an agreement TO limit whisky production
in Kentucky for tho next three years to 90
per cent. Of the average output during the
fiscal years OF 1890, 1891 and 1892.
Tho Bellaire. o. bottle works resumed
operations giving employment TO 2OOpersons.
The Shenango glass works. the largest in
tho New Castle, Pa, section, resumed opera
tons in full. The company employs nearly
800 men, half OF whom are new comers, rs
the works have doubled their capacity since
the last fire. The Laurence factory Will re-
sumo the first Of the coming week.
At Altoona, Pa, for the first time in two
years the Pennsylvania Railroad shops en-
ploying 200 men, are working full 10 hours.
For more than year past they were laid OIL
on Saturdays.
The Union Manufacturing Company are
enlarglng their plant at Toledo. and will add
alarge number Of men in their bicycle de-
partment
J. II. Young. OF Chicago. is IN Toledo, ar
ranging to open new bicycle mandatory.
Operations will commence this week, and
large force of men will find work.
Turnbull 4 Son, OF Loudon, Tenn, having
leased the plant OF the Loudon Lumber Com
pany, will establish a wagon factory and em
ploy 100 hands.
The work at the American Plate Glass
Works, in Alexandria, Ind, preparatory 10
starting, has almost been completed aud the
big plant will start before the end OF this
month. New hands will be put on from time
to time ana II is expected that by the FIRST
OF the year 800 new men will be employed.
The Ohio Tube company at Warren, has
decided to begin at once the erection Of an
other furnace, which will furnish employ
ment for from seventy-flve to one hunnred
additional men.
A company has been organized in New
buryport, Mass, to manufacture street cars.
and It will be knawn as the Newburyport Car
Manufacturing Company. They will want
men following that line OF business.
The Harrisburg (Pa. roll works is to be en-
larged. An additional lot has beea purchns-
ed, and there will be erected a brick building
with imbroyed mtchinery which will employ
more men.
The Union Steel Works, OF Alexandria,
Ind, is rapidly nearing completion, and over
800 men are at work on the construction OF
the buildings alone, and expect to have them
done this fall when the whole plant will bs
put In operation, requiring between 600 and
1900 operatives.
An electric railway to cost $4,000 per
mile, is to be built shortly In Richmond, Ind.
They will need number Of laborers on the
work.
Tse Virginia Glnss Works OF West End,
Va, started up this weed, having been closed
all summer. They will want sixty or seventy
hands.
The 400 employees OF the sheet mill OF the
new plant OF the Salisbury Iron Company,
Salisbury. Pa, have organized themselves in.
to branch OF the Amalgamated Iron and
Steel Association. The new mill OF the Salts
burg Iron Company has been started and q
complete sheet plant is now In operation.
The general resumption OF work among
the glass factories at Ellwood, Ind, will give
every emplcye In the city employment.
Wages this year in the glass and iron in
dustries are about 10 per cent. higher than
last year.