The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-10
THE BLIGHT OFF.

ginning this morning the wages of a large
number of the workmen of the Dold
Packing Company in this city will be
| raised from 25 to rs cents per day. This
Is entirely due to the election of A1cKin-
ley The company is also contemplating
important Improvements in its plant.
The wholesale merchants in the West
Bottoms are experiencing the benefit of
the results Of the election. Inquiry among
them reveals the fact that the immense
branches has been felt by the jobbers,
who are sending out extra travelling men
to gather their share Of the increasing
business
PIQUA, Ohio, Nov. 10. 1Ss6.-The Cur
rugating Works, the rolling mill, the Sny-
der Bent Wood Works and the Orr Lin.
seed Mill started yesterday, giving en-
ployment to five hundred men. The Amer
lean Strawboard Works will start as
soon as repairs are made.
MOLINE. ILL.,, Nov. 10, lsss-Deare &
Co. resumed work yesterday with 500 men.
The Moline Plow Co. started up last
Thursday morning and has Increased its
force to 500 men.
BALTIMORE. Nov TO- 1S9s.-The cot
ton mills at Hampden, in the outskirts
of Baltimore, are about to start up On
full time. The orders for work have
been coming in with rush since election
day, and nearly all the spindles in the
different mills will soon be turning out
cordage cotton and ducking as fast as
machipery can drive them.
HannIa,1- sS lruaxur l,air1or tho
of the largest cotton duck mills in the
tories employ $500 hands, and so per
cent. of the worlds cotton duck is sup
piled through this channel yearly TIE
mills have been running on only about
half time for some months.
A meeting of the stockholders of the
Baltimore Sugar Refining Company will
be held on Thursday at which the ques-
ton of re-opening the big plant at Cur
It's Bay may be decided. The refinery has
been idle since it was burned more than a
year ago. 1t was rebuilt and it was ex-
pected to start up early in September,
but the hesitaney in business affairs
brought about by the political campaign.
deferred that desirable result. Now that
the election is over it is believed that
the manufacture of sugar will soon go
on again at the company's establishment.
ELWooD, Ind, Nov. TO- 1Sss-The Pitts
burg Plate Glass factory will start up in
full force on November 20 with 500 men.
The Wetherald Rolling Mill at Frankton
will resume in full and the window glass
factories will start soon with full COM
plement of hands.
WAYNESBORO, Pa, Nov. 10, 1S96.-The
Geiser Manufacturing Company started
up yesterday after being shut down about
six weeks ON account OF tine uncertainty
of the political situation.
This company employs about five hum
dred men and the management now looks
forward to a prosperous year.
READING, Pa, Nov. 10, 1ss6.-The Mon
ticello Brick Company, which has only
been working four days a week, will go
on full time commencing on Monday. SUI
perintendent Gerry said:-"We have one
order for 100000 bricks for a large indus
trial plant to be erected at Edison, N. J.,
which was conditioned upon the election
of Mckinley, and we have already COM
menced work on it. Other orders, which
were held back until the result was known
are now coming in and the plant will be
very busy for some time to come. We
employ 1o4 hands at present.
The boom is also felt in the cigar bust
ness, and all the manufacturers report
great increase in orders since the cleo
tion.
LEBANON, Pa. Nov TO- 1S96-Orders
have been received here from Scranton
for the completion, at the earliest Dos
sible moment, of the repairs to the No.
Colebrook furnace of the Lackawanna
IRON and Steel Company, where opera
tons will be resumed as soon as possible.
A double force of men is now at work
on the stoves at this furnace.
The big plant of the Pennsylvania Bolt
and Nut Works also resumed yesterday
giving employment to upwards of 1850
workmen.