The Meeker herald., 1896-11-14
GIVING ORDERS NOW
THE RETURN OF PROSPERITY
nsss Hoesss Show Signs Of Reaevsd
Activity.

nsoe AoosSo BhoW DaGns OF kene0eo
Activity.
Chicago, Nov. 9.-The Philadelphia
correspondent of the Record last FRI
day wrote as follows to his paper:
The revival of industry that was
promised In case of McKinley's cleo
tion was no campaign blum so far as
Philadelphia was concerned. for on
Monday morning more than 100000
men In this city and It's suburbs will
take up their tools for the first time for
several months. At the Manufactur-
ers' club, which is social rendezvous
for the manufacturers of Pennsylva-
mia, New Jersey and Delaware, and
at the Bourse. which is the business
rendezvous Of the wholesale dealers,
manufacturers, contractors, commits
sion men, freight agents. Of transpor-
tation companies and country buyers,
1t ID said that the close Of this month
will see more activity in industrial and
commercial circles than has been en-
joyed since the panic of 1893.
Statisticians are at work making an
enumeration Of the contracts that
were contingent upon McKinley's cleo
tion, and the value Of the material and
labor involved, 30 that 1t may furnish
an object lesson for the benefit OF
those who desire to continue the con-
troversy over the finances still further.
They already have Information Of con-
tracts involving many millions, upon
which work has been commenced al
ready, or will be the coming week.
The wholesale men on the bourse re-
port that they are sending out drum
mers as fast as they can get ready,
and that there has been an unexpected
increase In the number and value Of
mail orders from every direction since
the result of the election is known.
Freight agents report active demand
for transportation facilities, which is
a most favorable sign. Manufacturers
say that merchants in all lines Of
goods and in all parts Of the country
have let their stocks run down to the
very lowest degree possible without
damaging their trade, that customers
have been economizing and postpon-
ing necessary purchases, which will
now be made, and that all these condi-
tions and distribution of money among
workingmen who have been unemploy-
ed for months will make retail busi-
ness brisker than 1t has been for three
years. Everybody is cheerful and con-
thuN r1n fc OF trpr n
liant that gives a tone to financial and
commercial circles that has not been
felt for long time.
Everybody I have met here Is GER
tain that better times have come, and
that before the end OF the year all the
shops in the country will be open and
all the idle workmen employed. AT
the Manufacturers club every man I
met told me of factories Of his person
al knowledge around this city that
have been closed or working on half
time for months, but will start in with
full hands and full time on Monday, or
soon after. Every merchant said that
he already felt the revival in his cor
respondence and through customers
coming in from the country.
In the Cramp shipyards 1000 men
will go on the pay roll, who have not
earned dollar since last spring.
The representative of a bridge com
pany told me that he had already for
warded orders for more than mil
lion dollars worth OF structural iron
which would absorb the entire capaci-
ty of the works for some time, and
necessitate the employment of two
shifts of men working day and night.
A gentleman from Delaware reports
that every manufacturer in that state
is getting ready to resume work on
full time, and that he knows of more
orders contingent upon the election
than have been received there for a
year past. A woolen manufacturer
said he had refused emergency orders
from Philadelphia merchants for the
winters trade, because 1t is impossible
for him to fill them on account of con-
tracts with regular customers In New
York and the West that were held up
until after the election.
A wholesale notion merchant said he
had a telegram to-day from one Of his
drummers, who started out on We'd
nesday, ordering full lines Of all sorts
of goods sent to two dealers in an In.
terror city Of the state. He wired that
everybody was short of stock, and ad-
vised them to get ready to fill large Or
ders.