Evening star., 1896-11-11
ENGAGING NEW MEN
Employment Furnished for Many
Idle Workmen.
GREATER ACTIVITY IN PENNSYLVANIA
English Capital Ready to Seek In
vestment Here.
GENERAL INDU USTRIAL NOTES

York. Pa. is enjoying a business boom.
| number of the leading manufac turers
| who had been on short time have resumed
! full work. and many Of them have accepted
| large contracts, which they would not have
| done had Maj Mckinley not been elected.
! The York Manufacturing Company. which
employs several hundred hands. will at
| once go to work on two large contracts,
| amounting to $4,000. Hench d Dromgold,
who had received a number of contracts,
| subject to countermand unless Mckinley
was elected. have started up with full
force. The York Wall Paper Company is
| running full, and has decided to build
other large building to compare with the
present one. The York Carriage Company.
| which has been working only five days is
now working full. The Weaver organ
Company would have only been working
forty hours a week. and is now working
sixty. J. c. Schmidt & Co.. chain works,
| who had expected to shut down had Bryan
! been elected, are now running full time.
| Myers & Adams. who had been limited,
started UP their new industry yesterday for
a capacity for thousand hands. The a.
| IL. Farquhar Company, which had been
working five days in a week. nine hours a
day, is now working six days and ten
hours day.
The Taylor Vaughan & Taylor Company
| Of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. is working night
and day, making machinery for wire nail
rnlll, Nhlch VIII occupy the old wire mill
Cuyahoga Falls. Cleveland capitalists are
said to be interested in the new concern.
Interviews with the majority of Akron
Ohio. manufacturers show that since cleo
| ton there is a settled condition of affairs
| conducive to good business. The Globe
| Sign Company and the Werner Printing
| Company both expect to enlarge their
| plants. The Werner Company will erect a
| four-story Office building at its factory az
Akron. and several of the editorial depart
| ments and other branches of the general
| offices will be removed from Chicago. The
| Whitmore- Robinson Company. whose big
pottery plant was destroyed by fire a short
| time ago. has decided to rebuild. and work
| on part of the reconstruction has com
| menced- The Akron Iron and Steel Com
| pany will resume operations. with a full
force. about next Monday. The Akron pot
teries and China companies say they are
all doing a good business, and expect to
| work full forces all winter.
More Men Taken On
There has been a decided increase in the
number of men employed in Wheeling, W.
| Va, iron and steel industries and, as a
natural result. in the mining and trans
portation industries. The Riverside iron
works yesterday put on two more blast fur
naces. making an increase of 2.;s0 men
| employed since the election. The Wheeling
| Iron and Steel Company and the Whitaker
| Iron Company are on full time after sew
| eral months partial idleness, employing
| 1900 men. All the glass factories In the
| W neeInS district VIII be at work by next
Monday. and two more nail mills will get
| to work by the end Of this week. There is
| big call for timed plate, and every fac
| tory is on full time. Reports from the prin-
| cipal mining regions of the state show i'm
| proved demand for coal and coke, and the
| number of men employed will be doubled
within week or two. Several develop
| ment enterprises are reported as in the
| formative stage.
The Bath. Pa, knitting mills resumed
operations in al! their departments Monday
| lack of orders. The mills have orders
enough on hand to keep them running dur
| ing the winter
The bottle manufacturers of the United
| States held a conference in Chicago yes
| terday. 1t is understood that, in view of
the expected improvement in business.
advance on a level of 10 per cent Will be
| made in ordinary bottles.
| The second mill at Gloucester. n. j., 10
| resume operations since election Is the
| Gloucester cotton mills, which started and
| Will employ from 80 to 800 men and wo-
| men.
English Capital Available.
Exhibited States Senator Stephen W.
| Dorsey has Just arrived at San Francisco
| from London. For several years the ex-
/ Senator's home has been in Denver and
| for a year and half past he has been in
terested in a large group of gold mines
| near the Colorado river, twenty-eight miles
| from Yuma, in southern California. He
| went over TO London TO get money 10 de-
| velop the mines. He succeeded, and VIII
now erect a 100 stamp mill and employ 400
| to 500 men. Mr.. Dorsey SAYS he WAS
promised the needed money conditionally
| on Mckinley's elec ,ion. If Bryan had been
| elected he would not have gotten a dollar
| He said great deal of money will come
, to the California gold fields for develop
| ment during the ensuing year.
| The furnaces of the glass works on eth
| and Townsend streets, San Francisco " hich
| have been resting in idleness for a .ony
| time, are once more aglow. James H. Da-
| Wis, manager of the works, said: I'VE have
| started in good earnest and have the best
| of prospects for a prosperous future"
Work Resumed on n RafIroad.
Contractors Caldwell & Dayton who
were compelled to discontinue work on the
| Belington and Roaring Creek railroad in
West Virginia on account of scarcity of
money, have put force of 1se men to
| work on the last five miles of the line
| This road opens up the Roaring Creek
| fourteen-foot coal vein for twenty miles
| and 100000 acres of the finest timber in
| the state. Himmelrich & Co. have selected
| site for sawmill, to be built at once
that will cut 10000 feet per day. Mable q
| Mcclure of Pittsburg, who own several
| miles of pine timber will also build a big
| mill. Arrangements are making for OPEN
| ing mines at four points along the new
| read. The road connects with the Balti-
| more and Ohio and West Virginia Central
| and Pittsburg.
! The Erie railroad has given orders to
| start all its car shops along the system.
| This will give employment to at least 5000
| men.
| All the furnaces in Sharon. SharpsvilIe
| Hubbard and New Castle Pa, will resume
| operations within two weeks The Green
| vile rolling mill started up In full, giving
| work to 800 men.
| The Farnum cotton mills Lancaster Pa
| which have been running half time
since last May. yesterday posted notice
| that hereafter the mills will be operated
| full time. About 1.5o0 operatives are. eff
| fected.