The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-03-21
Opening of Spring Brings With it
TidingS of More Prosper
Gus Times.
THE HAT FACTORIES BUSY.
ONE OF THE COMPANIES HAS COM
MENCED TO ENLARGE ITS PLANT
TO MEET THE DEMANDS.
The Outlook for the Balance of the
Year is Very Promising and Ad-
ditiOnal Operatives are
In Demand.

Ihe spring indications in the local in
dustrial field are exceedingly favorable
that is, the prospects of the home manu-.
featuring establishments are bright,
much more so then the output at the
mines. All but two of the latter places
continue working six three. quarter days
a week, but the idleness of two of the
principal colleries, Shenandoah City and
West Shenandoah is drawback to what
would otherwise be a pretty good state of
affairs so far as the mining operations
are concerned. The days when mining
operations could be classed as prosperous,
so far as they relate to the wage earners,
went by several years ago and there is
little hope that they will ever return
Full time at the collieries is a matter of
history. The present system of opera
tions is such that full time will quite
likely remain a matter of history to the
miner and his laborer. When the market
is not blocked with coal the companies
keep the product on their hands Tor
higher prices; when the demand and
prices are good some of the collieries are
found to be in need of repairs and at no
time are all the collieries given the
benefit of a simultaneous schedule of full
time. If crowded market, low prices,
or repairs, are not in the road, then some
place is declared Improbable, or worked
out. By some hook, or crook, the opera
tions are so regulated that the good old
times cannot reach us.
But the industrial outlook so far as it
applies to the home manufacturing con
Germs is quite the reverse. 1t is such as
to afford unlimited qualification to those
who have been in the ranks of the advo-
Gates of home industry and those who
had the courage to put their beliefs in
practice. Take for instance the Schuyl
kill Hat & Cap Manufacturing Company.
This concern started few years ago with
about half a dozen operatives in very
limited quarters on North White street.
1t is now located in large brick building
on East Coal street and has an immense
force of hands employed. The new
quarters were first occupied about
two months ago and at the time they
were supposed to be large enough for
all requirements, but the company now
| finds itself again pressed for quarters and
yesterday force of men were put to work
to erect a two-story addition, 30x40 feet in
size, to the rear of the building. The
company has sufficient orders in hand to
keep its present force of operatives work
ing full time until January 1st, 1896. The
force will be increased as soon as the new
structure is completed.
Report of good times also comes from
the New York Progress Company, manu-.
facturers of hats and caps on North
Bowers street. This company has also
met with prosperity and is extending its
business rapidly. It's orders are multiply
ing daily and there is demand for opera
tives. In another column of this paper
Il an advertisement calling for number
of girls, to whom steady work will be
given.
The Shenandoah Hat & Cap Manufac-
turing Company is another industry that
has realized that great things from little
acorns grow. n his company has a paper
box factory in connection with its plant
and the former is kept busy keeping up
with the demand for boxes required for
the hats and caps the factory turns out
May the evidences OF prosperity increase
and may Shenandoah hats and caps
spread throughout the country.