The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-26
FROM THE LABOR WORLD.
A CAR ANIME.
Furnaces Are Unable to Obtain Fuel and
Ore as Needed.

! There Is n car famine in the Pennsylvaia
yards are bare Of stock, and their owners are
bounding the roads day and night TO give
them enough material to keep running.
The assertion that the corn crops OF Mis-
| souri,. Kansas, Illinois aud Texas alone will
| give SOC. 900 carloads OF surplus for ship
l fnCnis j. made ON good authority. md as tho
| wheat crop OF the West Is also large II Is
| evident that the good fortune Of the ngricul-
| tural States this year will be shared by the
railroads and the holders OF their securi-
/ ties.
Express companies in youngstown are ar
ranging 10 DO away largely with horses and
| wagons except for heavy trailic, aud will in
| ttoduce bicycle express wagons for the de-
! liverine OF light parcels. The bicycle wagons
will be placed ia service by one company tho
coming week aud the others have ordered
them.
The Kentucky distillers Association adopt-
ed nn agreement to limit whisky production
In Kentucky for the next three years to 5J
per cent. OF tho average output during the
fiscal years oi 1890 1891 and 1892.
Tho Bellaire. o.. bottle works resumed
operations giving employment to 200 persons.
The shenanco glass WORKS. the largest in
the New Castle. Pa section, resumed opera
| iious in iUll. The company employs nearly
| 500 men. half Of whom are new comers a.
the works have doubled their capacity since
the last IRE. The laurence factory will re-
sumo the first Of the coming week.
At Altoona Ia. Tor the nrst time IA two
years the Pennsylvania Railroad shops EN-.
ploying 200 men. are working full 10 hours.
For more than year past they were laid of
on Saturdays.
The Union Manufacturing Company are
culurging their plan: at Toledo. aud will add
u largo ruuUcr Of mol Ia their bicycle de-
par,mcn;
j. H. Young. OF Chicago. Is In Toledo. ar
ranging to- open new bicycle manu'actory.
Operations will commence this week, and
large force O.! men viii Ind work.
Turubull Z son. Of Loudon. Tenn, having
leased the plant tho LOudon Lumber Com
pany. will establish II wagon factory and em-
ploy 100 hands.
Tho work at the American Plate Glass
Works in Alexandria, Ind, preparatory to
starting. has almost been completed and the
big plant viii start before the end OF this
month. New hands will he put on from time
TO time and 1t l. expected that by the frst
Of the year so new men will DO employed.
The Ohio Tube company at Warren. has
decided 10 begin ht once the erection OF an
other furnace. which will furnish employ
ment Tor from scyenty-nye TO one hunnred
additional men.
A company has been organized in New
buryport Mass. to manufacture street cars,
aud 1t will be- knawn ns the Newburyport Car
Manufacturing Company They will want
men following that line Of business.
The Harrisburg Pa. roll works Is to be en-
largcd. An additional lot has beea purchns-
ed and there will ue erected a brick building
with imbroNed mtchinery which will employ
more men.
The Union steel Works, OF Alexandria.
Ind, is rapidly nearing completion, and over
800 men are al 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 1,G00 and
500 operatives
An ele"iric railway. TO cost $4,000 per
-..V,y.4 to-Sg built shortly IN Richmond. ind.
They will need a number OF laborers ON the
work.
The Virginia Glnss Works OF West End.
Va. started up this weed, having been closed
all summer. They viii want sixty or seventy
hands.
The 400 employees OF the sheet mill OF the
new plant Ot the salisbury Iron Company.
Salisbury. Pa, have organized themselves in.
TO II branch OF the Amalgamated Iron and
steel Association The new mill OF the Salts
burg Iron Company has been started and a
complete sheet plant Is now in operation.
The general resumption OF work among
the glass factories ~ E,iwood, Ind, will give
every eMpicyo Ia the city employment
Wages this year IN the glass and iron in
dustrics are about 10 per cent. higher than
last year