Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-04-27

6eventy-Five Thousand People Got
Better Wages In April.
Healthy Improvement In All
Lines of Business.


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NEW YORK, April S.-Bradstreet's 70
lay ssys: The feature OF the week 10 che
eontinusdo strength Of prices OF staples
aftse the striking advances Of preceding
weeks. Perhaps tho most relentlsss cd
vance has beon In hides. 3 cents within Il
days, from to 10 cents from the Lowest
point .,In ge
There ID flrmer undertone In nearly all
lines Of trade. but 1T . number OF points
gains In industrials Are more marked than
In commercial lines.
Woolen dress goods mills have secured
. number of orders for fall delivery, which
accounte for the moderate activity In the
market for wool. Cotton goods arc firm
on the advance. in cotton and higher wages
paid eastern mill operatives.
During the past two weeks the wages OF
$1,000 operatives, most Of them In textile
lines, have been advanced without strikes,
and fully 75 600 industrial operatives ap-
pear to have had their wages advanced
since the beginning of April.
Dun's Review.
r. G. Dun g. Co.'S weekly review Of
trade says:
Neither the rising In speculative mar
kets nor the steady gain In industries has
ceased, and it is wholesome that there are
fewer signs of hesitation in the productive
Industries than In speculative prices.
Wage strikes grow more numerous and
cause some trouble, and retail demand
lags behind wholesale sales and joDbing
purchases behind production in some
branches, but through many conflicting
reports the fact shines out that the indus
tries are gaining, not with q rush and q
whirl, but moro safely.
Recovery Is not often mathematically
equitable. When the load Of depression is
lifted and men find that better things
have come to stay, there must be many
contradictory changes. Quite number
of works have advanced wages during the
week, but strikes to compel an advance,
possible for some but not for others, have
grown much more numerous. Some shops
are closing for want of orders, but q larger
number are resuming work.
Prices of shoes and cotton goods are ris-
ing; wool and woolens are lower. 1t
would be a distinctly unnatural move.
ment, inviting only distrust, II 1t were
sympathetic and with equal step In all
branches.
Manufacturers In Doubt.
Doubt whether hides and leather would
be held at higher prices hindered shoe
manufacture for time. but now iobbers
want to give more orders than manufac-
turers dare to take who have their leather
yet to buy. The hindrance is the advance
in hides and leather, for while TX to 10
cents more Is paid for shoes, the present
of mi hop atea 10 &c
dearcr, and cents paid for western hides
is said to mean higher prices yet for some
kinds of leather. Shipments from Boston
against 2S4, ,6l5 In 1899.
Cotton mills are getting more money
for goods and have quite generally ad-
vanced wages. CONSUMPTION Of northern
spinners at the maximum would be In
actually taken 1850, 900 bales, and have q
profit on 600, 900 bales controlled of over
$4,OO0,000. The consumption is large and
Advances Seem to BE Warranted.
Iron production, stimulated because ORE
coke and oil were to be dearer, is retarded
by shrinking demand for products. for,
on the whole, new business Is said to be
smaller than in February or March Bes-
semer pig Is lower, and sales of southern
pig in northern markets have been largo
at 25 cents advance. Finished products
are nearly all at their lowest prices.
Wool has sold at the lowest price on
record this week, 16 cents for Ohio Xxx
and cents for years Texas, and offers to
clear of stocks before new supplies come
forward tempt manufacturers to purchase
beyond present needs Sales of foreign,
Al17, 800 pounds in three weeks of April,
against 1895, 500 domestic, make the total
l7,4O9, 800. against Is. 9o6 100 in 1892, and
less, Of course, in 1898 and 1894. Demand
for dress goods continues large and i'm
proving, but uncertainty in mems wear
goods continues, and Is somewhat In
creased by more numerous strikes. Col
ored fiannels are 8 to ~ per cent lower
and an auction sale IL to be held, and some
irregularity appears In prices for fine
fancy goods.
Wheat Exports Checked.
Higher prices for wheat nearly 8 cents
above last weeks, tend to check Atlantic
exports.
Cotton touched cents, receding to 6 80;
9. 312 500 bales had como into sight last
week, and British exports of goods were
10000. 600 yards less in the first quarter
this year than last. With such facts, the
rise does not help to lessen southern acre
ago.
The failures for the week have been 280
In the United States, against ITO last year,
and 81 in Canada. against 26 last year.
Cuban Insurssn,s Iacuca
HAVANA. April 27.-The insurgents In
the Manzanilla district are levying on the
owners OF plantations for contributions Of
money and arms. Threats arc made by
the Insurgents that IL their deinan ara