Evening star., 1896-11-06
Industry Feels the Effect Of Re- -Estab-
ished Confidence.
IT Is NOT CONFINED 10 ANY SECTION
President-EIect Mckinley Presses
a Button at Canton.
GOOD TIMES IN PROSPECT

At exactly $3.50 o'clock yesterday after
noon President-elect Mckinley touched an
electric button at Canton. Ohio. which
lighted a fire in furnace B at the works
of the Tonawanda, N. T., Iron and Steel
Company. The lighting Of the furnace
means work for 45O men. The furnace
which was blown yesterday has daily ca
pacity Of $50 gross tons of foundry iron.
1t is operated by the largest blowing en-
gine ever built. The engine Is over 40 feet
in height and weighs 1856 tons.
The manner of igniting the fires was
unique. Electric wires were strung around
the furnace, and at each Of the Seven cpen-
ings an incandescent lamp was placed. with
a portion of the glass removed. Powder
was poured around the films, and above
this was suspended cotton waste. saturated
with oil, which ignited ten cords of wood
and several hundred tons of coke inside the
furnace. When the button was touched at
Canton it completed an electric circuit at
the furnace, the incandeScent lamp films
ignited the powder, which i'll turn isnited
the cotton waste. There was no hitch In
the working of the long-dtstance match.
Tonawanda celebrated The event with an
immense procession of Its citizens, aug
mented by a special train from Buffalo and
a number of bands. The town was illumi-
mated last night brilliantly in honor Of the
occasion.
There are many indications at Buffalo
of a revival of business. The nut and bolt
works of Plum, Burdict & Barnard, which
have been running for months with but
handful of men, started up yesterday with
force of nearly 800. Mr.. Barnard said
everything is looking so promising that he
expects to have the full force of 45O men
working soon.
The Howard iron works, employing go
men, which have been working on half
time all summer, started in yesterday on
full md xxyifh fl,ll
Mr.. George Sandrock. president of the
German-American Bank said that the
large sums of money which had been with
drawn from Buffalo banks some months
ago and transferred to banks in Toronto
and other Canadian cities had already be-
gun to come back.
Mercantile and manufacturing, concerns
at Syracuse are preparing for increased
business. The jobbers have already started
commercial travellers on the read. Large
manufacturers of bicycles, farm imple-
lnents. iron products and typewriters have
increased their forces and begun to fill
The estimate that 5000 men now unem-
ployed will be at work in ten Gays Is con-
ServatiVe.
In New England.
The Spalding Pepper Manufacturing
Company has started up Its factory at
Chicopee, Mass, after a few weeks shut
down, pending the results of the election.
Inc company mas d large VI
conditional upon the Mckinley victory.
The woolen and cotton mills Of the Ips-
wich, Mass, corporation, which have been
shut down for some time will start on full
time early next week. Employment will be
gwen to about 1000 persons.
The Knowles loom works at Worcester,
Mass, which have been running nine hours
day, five days week. will start up next
v eek on full time-ten hours day and six
days week. This concern. which en-
ploys several hundred hands. has many
large orders which were contingent on Nc
klIley's election.
The Winslow skate factory will next week
be gin working titty-two hours a week. 1t
has been running forty-five hours. Col.
Winslow, the proprietor, says his custom
ers have been holding back orders to see
how the election was going, and that now
there will be enough TO keep the factory
running with a full complement of help to
the end of the season.
There are many evidences of an impetus
to business throughout Connecticut as the
outcome of the election, notably at New
ain.
At Bridgeport, Miners & Johnson, car
rage manufacturers, took on nearly 200
additional employees yesterday; Eaton. Cole
and the Bridgeport malleable iron works
will have 1000 men at work Monday, which
is an increase of fifty per cent. Warmers
corset factory will be run on full time af-
ter November 15, and nearly 1000 girls will
be employed.
The Stanley Rule and Level Company Of
New Britain has posted notice that here
after the shops will be run six days each
week, instead of four days, which had
been the schedule for the past few months.
The mills of the Glastonbury Knitting
Con- pany at Manchester, which have been
idle several weeks. will start Monday. The
Mount Carmel axle works will begin rum
nirg on full time Monday.
The Ingraham Clock Company of Bristol
states that 1t has orders enough to keep all
its hands at work for a year. The orders
were given to the company conditional on
Mckinleys election.
Activity at Pittsburg.
A special dispatch from Pittsburg to the
Philadelphia Press says: The price of pig
iron has advanced considerably since yes
terday morning, when 1t became known
that Mckinley had been elected, and that
the uncertain times were over Today pig
iron is selling at the furnaces in the Ma
hcning and Shenango valleys at 1925,
which means that the price in Pittsburg Is
from $12.6O to 1880. Some brokers report
that large sales have been made at the ad.
vanced figures. The advance was the ef-
feet of the election, being made by the
owners of pig iron. who expect a better
market and to allow them a profit on their
product, which they have not had for some
months.
In connection with the advance in the
price Of pig iron comes the rumor that
four of the valley furnaces are to be blown
in within the week. There are two Of the
Carnegie furnaces at Braddock out Of
operation, one of the Carrie furnaces at
Braddock and the furnace Of the Pittsburg
Iron and Steel Company at Soho that are
ready to be blown in as soon as conditions
warrant.
The big plant Of Howe. Brown & Co., on
18th street, resumed this morning, after
being idle for over a week. 1t employs
ever 800 men. and had not been running full
for quite long time In fact, the mills
that have been running full for several
months past are few.
The Hainsworth Steel Company will put
its plant in operation Sunday night. 1t
had been closed in all departments for sew
eral weeks. The Oliver Steel Company had
many conditional orders and will put its
wire mill on full time next week. The Mo-
nongahela Tin Plate Company will also put
it's works in fuller operation and the Black
Diamond Steel Works are expected to 20.
on in full in a few days.
The Shoenberger Steel Company has
nearly completed the new open hearth fur
naces, which will be completed as soon as
possible to be in readiness to fill the orders
that the company expects to receive.
1t is expected that the Carnegie Union
mills. which have been idle for a month,
will start up some time next week.
The II. K. Porter boiler manufacturing
Dlant will resume in three weeks Mr.