The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-07
ANNUAL MEETINGS YESTERDAY
The Old Directors of the Various
Companies Reelected.
Philadelphia Capitalists Here An In
dustrial Article Showing the Present
Healthy Financial Condition OF the
City and tho Amount OF Money Dis.
tributed Monthly by the Various In.
>stitutions-But Few Idle People.

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holders Of the Norfolk and Westefu
railroad and more than Q dozen otherA
allied corporations were held here yes.
terdsy. These annual meetings always
bring number Of capitalists from other
cities here. Among those in attendance
were: Jos. 1. Dorsn. c. n. Clark, J. h.
Dlngee, VIM. B. Campbell, Logan M.
Bullits, A. j. Hemphill and b. q. Ger
hard. OF Philadelphia; Jas. s. Browning,
Pooahontas; E. G. Bath and w. A.
James. of Petersburg; Samr. A. Grocer
and Francis E. Weston, of Upland, Pa.
q. d. himoall was detained at home ON
account of sickness.
In connection with the annual meet
ings OF the various enterprises The
TIMES has taken the pains to gather
| some interesting data concerning the
various industrial establishments o. tie
city, which will doubtless be read With
much interest. the information <fven
tshows that Roanoke Ia in healthy
Financial condition and ia in q fair way
to recover from the effects of the recent
stringency of monetary affairs in the
| city.
The Norfolk and Western railroad.
with Its 10000 employees, has q monthly
pay roll of s45o,0oO. Of this the Ma
chine Works, Of this city, employs 1850
| men with an average monthly pay roll
OF about $4,000. The general offices
give employment to 400 men, and the
pay roll runs up to S35, 600 each month.
The yard employees of the road num-
Der about 900, and receive each month
in wages from $40, 600 to SI2, 600, m akinR
y total of about S1O7 600 paid each
month to the employees of the Machine
Works, the general offices and the ward
men in this city.
Stone Printing Compsny-This is,
perhaps, the largest establishment of
the kind in the State, employing fifty
four hands constantly. They have also
recently placed considerable labor
saving machinery in their establish
ment They do greater variety of
commercial work than any similar house
! In Virginia. They are now doubling
their plant by the erection of new
building the same size as the old one.
Ii Is believed that there Is no other town
In the South that sends so little work
OF this character away from home as
Roanoke. 1t seems that the people al
preciate the facilities offered by the
Stone Printing Company and pasronizs
home industry. This establishment
pays weekly.
The Grocer Iron Company employees
at the two furnaces ESQ men with q pay.
roll OF about $4,000 per month, and at
their coal and iron mines $50 men are
employed, making . total payroll Of
something near SCI 900 monthly.
The West End furnace employees 100
men with a monthly payroll of 81, 600
The monthly output of pig iron Ia 8, 600
tOnR. Tho AhnUa ferta no ka aAor 49,.
the iron industries In the city are In
healthy condition and are doing much
toward upbuilding the city.
The wholesale grocery houses in the
city employ about 60 men and pay out
about 81, 600 monthly in wages. The
firm OF Huff. Andrews & Thomas have
81 men on their pay-rolls, besides two
members of the firm. Their individual
payroll Is estimated at $1,000 per
month. This firm is also doing q whole-
sale business in Bluefield with IS men
on their payroll.
The Roanoke Roofing and Metal Cor
nice Company. which does galvsniz ID
iron cornice work, tin and slate roofing,
employs from ten to twenty skilled
workmen. with monthly payroll es-
imated at from 5000 TO $1,000 per
month.
The Roanoke Chemical Company,
which makes 9 specially of the manu-
facsure Of baking powder, employs
from IL 80 Is hands.
Hammond Printing Works--This es-
tablishment does book-binding and
general commercial printing, and give
constant employment to 10 men. Pay
ments are made weekly.
Po5toffioe-The city postoffice en-
ploys fourteen clerks and carriers,
with Q monthly payroll OF about
$1,000.
Central Manufac.u ring Company
This establishment, which does gem
eral lumber business. As we'll as the
manufacture of wood work OF every de.
scription, works 30 men.
ROANOKE TIMGs-This paper gives
employment to 90 people. with sn ex-
pense account OF about 81, 400 monthly.
Evening World-Gives employment
to about twenty people in all.
Hotel Roanoke-Thisfs famous hostelry
in order to run the various departments
employ ffsy men and women.
The Ponce de Leon-Tnis hotel gives
constant employment to 40 people and
cannot be satisfactorily run with less.
The st. James-This hotel while not
quite SO pretentious as the others, gives
constant employment to 90 people.
The schools-The city m4intains Ave
white schools with 80 teachers, and Two
colored schools with nine teachers.
More than 5000 children are enrolled
and the monthly pay roll exceeds Sc, 600
Bonsack Bros, Manufacturers OF