Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-11-21
What Business Men Say.

There is no lodging the fact that bust
ness men feel more confident and hopeful
now that election is over. The following
were asked what effect the result of the
election was having on their business.
Sidney Gage, manufacturer of baskets
81 don't see very much difference yet III
our business, but | am confident that bust
ness is going to improve everywhere"
G. w. Osgood, of Osgood & Barker
machinists, eve notice no appreciable
difference in our business so far. We have
received some orders since election, one
for shipment to Japan. However business
is bound to be better. The hotel business
in the cities is much better and livelier and
this is pretty good index of what people
are doing and going to do"
N. G. Williams, manager Of Vermont
Farm Machine, 1--WE are feeling much
easier since election. Enquiries bv mail
etc. have more than doubled. A very
notable feature is that collections are easier
People are able to get hold of money,
banks are making loans and discounting
While this is the dull season with us, we
are looking tor good business in the win
ter and spring.
MIR. Williams said that when in New Y ork
last week an acquaintance told him that
Mark Hanna had made the statement that
the Republicans could have carried Ten
nessee, North Carolina, Virginia and
Texas if they had seen fit to put money
enough down there to pay poll taxes for
the negroes. In all these states voter
who has not paid his poll tax of $3.50 or
50 cannot vote and many of the darkies
will vote only after some one has paid the
tax for them. However, the Republicans
did not put the two or three million dollars
down there because they felt sure of the
election without the expense.
Enquiry was made at the various freight
offices in town, and the concensus of opin-
ion was that the election has not increased
the volume of freight. The number of cars
going through here has bern increasing
steadily for the past two months, but this
is always the case at this season of the year.
w. f. Perley said that between November
l and 16 the Fitchburg road had handled
80 more cars than during the same period
of last year.
F. II. Babbtt of the firm of Allbee &
Babbitt was seen. He said, .sWe have a
large volume of business on hand and think
the promised Mckinley boom has taken
good start. We are doing the plumbing
and heating in M. H. Rays new house,
the plumbing and heating work in the new
school building, putting furnaces in the
residences of l. B. Newman and Harry
Smith, bath rooms and closets in Mrs
Mary Flavin's house and large hot water
heating apparatus in the residence of w.
d. Woolson at Springfield, VT, and an
other for p. E. Griffin OF North Walpole.
We also have contracts for hot water
heater for A. c. Reed of Charlestown and
hot air furnace for Mrs. Nutting on Henry
street. These, together with contracts for
a hot air furnace in the school house at
Westminster, the plumbing in the new
summer home of Il. n. Bellows at Walpole.
the placing of closets, toilets, etc., for the
Abenaque Machine Co, in their new brick
building at Westminster, and the heating
and fire protection for the Fellows Gear
Sharper Co. in their new works at SPRING
field are keeping us unusually busy even for
this time of year."