The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-11
AT SOME OF THE FACTORIES
BUSINESS NOT is DULL rs IN MIGHT
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w viz GUINNESS III VIC WI
riage Trade-A Few Busy Spots in Town
An Interesting Retrospeot-Day When
There Was No Use for Sugar Trust-A
Boom Due to the Consolidated Road.
The l.. Candee Rubber company and,
1t is said, other branches of the United
States Rubber company, Is preparing
to engage in the manufacture of cheap
er grades of rubber shoes in addition
to the grades which it has been making
thus opening still larger field for the
sale of its products 1t is understood
that the Immediate and ultimate re-
suits will be a large increase of the
increase of the trusts business with
corresponding increase Of the net
profits Of the business. The sale of
the L. Candee company's goods are
said to be unusually large for this
time of the year, owing to the excess
sively rainy season and the large areas
of country where wet weather has been
prevailing during the last few weeks.
1t is said that the outlay of expense
in order to make and put on the market
the cheaper variety of goods will be but
small, and that the entering Of this
| field will no doubt prove quite profit
able.
| Mr. William H. Forsyth, formerly of
! the Forsyth Dye Works and Laundry
company, Is now located in his new
| dye works place In Westville. 1t is on
the site where the Harper paper mill
| was, and some of the Harper buildings
are utilized and Mr.. Forsyth has erect
| ed quite a number Of new buildings to-
gether with much new machinery re-
! quisite for the business.
Mr. Schuster. proprietor of the John
Adj & Son mandatory, has been
obliged to greatly shorten the vacation
| or shut down of his works, which he
| had contemplated, owing to the arrival
of many new orders. He had proposed
| to have a shutdown of several weeks
| in order to make number of addition
al improvements at the works rendered
| necessary by the large increase of his
| business. Many improvements have
| been made at the factory in the past
year, and the additional room has been
| utilized.
| The Winchester Army company is
now occupying the very large new and
| fine building 1t has erected opposite its
| main factory on Winchester avenue,
and the new factory is connected with
| the building across the street by an
| iron bridge with a passage way across
for the two upper stories. AS has been
| already stated the Arms company Is
increasing its working force by recall
| ing to work some OF it's hands who
! were laid off a number of weeks ago.
The carriage business Is in depressr
ed state. business at some of the fac
| tories being very quiet and at others
1 almost at standstill A few are quite
busy, notably among which are the
| Hooker factory and the Armstrong fac
| tory, while at the Demarest factory
business in picking UP quite little. At
the Killam factory, which is in receiv-
er's hands, only little is being done,
I ana that being order work.
| AT the New Haven Clock company s,
one branch of the work, the manufac-
ture of the little watches and marine
clocks, is quite brisk. In the other de-
partments work is very slack. The
| shop has been practically shut down
for four weeks for the annual summer
| vacation, but work will be soon re-
| sumed
Business continues quite good at the
Marlin Gun works. About $50 hands
mostly skilled mechanics, are employed
in the manufacture of sporting guns.
Business has been excellent at this fac
tory right along for years with slight
exceptions.
Affairs at the Peck Bros & Co. fac
| tory are assuming a brighter aspect,
and the prospect Is good for an early
termination of the receivership. At
present the works are practically shut
down, and for some time past the en-
| ployes have had but about one third
working time. The shop starts up again
next Monday.
! At the great Sargent factory the
hands are working five days q week,
eight hours day, and the business is
far from brisk.
AT the New Haven Bicycle works
business is exceedingly brisk.
One immense group of workshops in
town has it's full number of regular
employees at work on the usual good
times basis. This place is the Consoli-
dated railroad shops Here the great
force of workmen is kept busy and
never, in fact, in the history of this
big corporation was so large a regular
force employed as at present A small
number of extra men who were put
on to keep up with the spring rush of
work has been laid off, but the regular
men are busy. Every spring much ex-
ira work has to be done to put the roll
ing stock in order for the big summer
travel The consolidation of the COM
pany's mechanical department of bust
ness here has been and Is great bene-
fit to the city and the big demand fol
the rental of houses convenient to the
shops has helped build up that Sec
ton of the city amazingly Scores OF
new houses have been erected ia the
southwestern part of the city and good
rents are quickly taken.
At the b. II. Douglass & Sons fac
tory business is again f1ourishing and
although midsummer is at hand with
it's attendant dullhess, the outlook for
the fall business is considered very ia
vorable. This old established business
always has been one of our esteemed
home enterprises. An interesting his
torical sketch concerning this company
has just appeared in the Confectioners
Gazette, from which the following is
taken: 'B. H. Douglass, the venerable
senior of this house, came to New Ha-
ven in 1888 from New Hartford, Conn.
| and took employment with his uncle