The evening times., 1896-11-17
PROSPERITY IN FULL BLAST
Factories and Mills Everywhere Re-
suming Business.
sHIPYARDS GET ORDERS
Thousands of Men Now Employed
in Pennsylvania Iron and steel
works-R Railroads Sending In Or
ders for rIGcomotives-Dres Goods
Factories Taking on More Hands.


ton business has been booming IN tDis
locality Most of the mills are now running.
The last to resume was the large dress go Jds
mill OF George G. Hatzel x Co., which start
ed this morning with 200 employees
Additional good news to the people or
Chester was announced this morning in the
securement OF a contract for the building
OF n new steamship at Roach's Ship Yard
for the Old Dominion line. This means the
disbur rsement OF between 100000 and
$3.50 900 in wages in this city
The new ship will be about 315 feet in
length and forty-iiyc feet beam. She VIII
be much IKE the Jamestown and Yorktown
in construction and appearance, and but a
trirle larger. The work viii have to be
pushed very rapidly upon her as she is 10
be completed by August l, 1897.
STEEL WORKS IN BLAST.
Pittsburg. Nov II THE Consolidated
Steel and Wire Company, at Braddock,
have started their works In full, EN-
Dying 500 men.
The Edgar Thomson steel works are
again in full operation on large order
for steel rails for use in Japan.
The Homestead steel works OF the Car
negie Company are now working full in
all departments, $500 men being I'm
ployed
Tie force Of employees at the Wcsting-
house electric works was Increased today
by 100 men. Preparations for starting
the Westinghouse air brake works in full
are well under way
a large number Of the air brake work
men VIII be transferred to the WestinE-
house Canadian plant when it is opened.
Norwich, Conn, Nov. 1.-THE Falls
Company's mill, one OF the largest cotton
mills in eastern Connecticut, which has
been shut down for several months, will
start up on full time Monday, November
80, employing about 500 hands. The goods
made are duck, canvas and heavy cotton
fabrics.
Bethlehem. Pa. Nov. 1.-THE Beth
lehCm Chenille and Tapestry WorksTesumcd
operations today after long period of
idlencSs. Third class operators started to
work today and the industry Will run full
time and full handed all winter.
oMoTIvES IN DEMAND.
Schenectady. N Y, Nov. 1.-THE
Schenectady Locomotive Works has re-
ceived several goOdsiz orders for ell
gines and boilers. IL will probably not be
long before The entire working force VIII
again be employed.
Among the railroads now ordering loco
motives are the Northern Pacific, Port
land and Mumford Falls, Delaware and
Ulster. Michigan Southern and Michigan
Central.
Cincinnati. Nov 17-Forty men started
to work yesterday at the hydraulic power
mill OF the Addyston Pipe and Steel Works.
in Newport. II had Leen shut down for
eight II onths.
one hundred and twenty-five men VIII
he put to work during the week, and within
the next month it is expected that 500
men viii find employment at the old SCALE
of wages.
The American Bolt and Nut Works, near
by, Will also resume in d few days.
PoughkeepSie Y. Y, Nov. IA driance,
Tlatt & Company's Moving and Reaping
Works. which has been at u standstill n
several months, started up yesterday with
a full force of nearly 800 men.
Winsted. Conn, Nov. 1.-THE factory of
Aetna silk Company, in Norfolk, started OPP
eratons yesterday with full force
OF hands, after several months shutdown
Work has been resumed at the ore mines at
ore Hill. and the Sawyer Cotton Mills at
Colebrook river, which have been closed
since last February, viii rcsune operations