The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-11-11
LOCAL ELECTION EFFECTS.
Improved Business and Better
Feeling.
PORTLAND Is SHARING THE GEN.
ERAL PROSPERITY.

Merchants and Manufacturers Say the
Good Times Are Coming-Foreign Or
ders-The Lumber Trade Better-State
of Country Business.
The PRESS made an effort yesterday
to determine from various local mer-
chants and manufacturers whether the
election had left happy effect on the
business interest of the city. The result
of this inquiry has been most cheering
The return Of prosperity is not dream,
but Is at hand
MI. CheneIy of the Chenery Manufac-
turing company said that Immediately
after election day the travelling statesmen
of the firm began to pour IN their orders
for goods. Some Of these orders were
among the largest the company has ever
received, and one in particular. Prior to
election the stocks had been very low and
people had been buying from hand to
mouth, but the advent of cold weather
will change all this. The starting up of
the mills in Saoo and Biddeford will
start up business. Some of the Lewiston
mills are now running every loom where,
prior to election, there was little doing.
At one of the Biddeford mills there had
been no pay roll to amount to anything
since last July, until election when the
pay roll bounced ur to $50, 600. Mr..
Chenery said his firm placed many orders
abroad but all of them were contingent
upon Republican success at the polls and
since the election of Mckinley and
HOBART the oablegrams followed quickly
samples of which were shown the re-
aorter-.asking if the senders should fill
the orders to which an affirmative reply
was made. The Chenery company has
also invested in large quantity of new
machinery for the manufacture of their
goods.
At the Burrowes Screen company's
large establishment on Free street, the
reporter saw Mr.. Cole, the treasurer.
That gentleman said that every notifioa-
tion the company bad received from their
statesmen in the field since election was
an order for goods. Most of these sales
mon are dealing with parties who are
projecting private residences. The report
of the Philadelphia architects was to the
effect that more building was contem-
plated than for five years past, but that
it all hinged on the election of McKin-
ley. Now that election is over the
architects are flooded with business. The
statesmen say that before election there
was great hesitancy in building resi-
dences. Men doubted il their business
would warrant, but since election they
are satisfied and are piling in their orders
for screens. Men also, who have money
to invest. have regained confidence and
are putting the money into residences
and apartment buildings for they say the
indications for good business in this
direction, were never better for the next
few years. Formerly the builders of
apartment houses did not buy screens
for them but they are doing so now. The
same news Of activity in the building
and screen building comes from Buffalo
and other large cities, as we'll as from
Philadelphia. Mr.. Cole said that " hile
the Burrowes company. had nothing to
complain of in the way Of business tor
the past ten years 1t was evident that the
developments of the fall and winter
would far surpass expectation.
Maine Central officials said that il they
had not felt that the election of McKin-
ley and Hobart was of vital Importance
t is not at all probable that every one
would have cast his vote for the Repub.
lican candidates as they did. The effect
of the election even so soon, is shown by
the animation exhibited in manufacture
ing of every kind, from the smallest to
tbs largest establishment all along the
extensive line of the road. To the presi-
dent of the road the result Of the
election is reported to be exceedingly
gratifying for not only. upon him, as the
head of this great corporation, rests in
great measures it's SUCCESS or failure but
he is also president of a savings bank at
Bangor and trustee for large number
OF estates.
OTHER LINES,
E. B. Winslow, Esq, of the Portland
Stoneware company said that reports
from their Boston office indicated a
general and immediate improvement ia
business conditions as result of the
election. The large factory ut Deering
has been running all through the bard
times, with large volume of business.
But the good times promise a greater
output.
In Boston the agents of the local
steamboat lines have boen interviewed.
The International Steamship company