The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-01-30
THE WORLD OF LABOR,
Echoes of the Busy Mill and the
Workshop.
INDUSTRIAL FOLKS GOSSIP
News and Happenings of Special Interest
in the Various Fields Where
Mechanic and Artisan Hold
Sway Night and Day.

! There's coffin trust.
Colorado coal is So a ton.
Sapan has one leather shoe mill.
Oakfield, \. Y, hasn't dentist.
Panama Canal employs 5000 men.
Arizona Indians are buying bicycles.
A machine corks 1000 bottles daily.
Europe has $50 miles of electric road.
Vienna policemen must be telegraphers
Chinese teachers get one cent day per
pupil.
London's street lamps number rs, 900;
New York, $500
In Africa and India So, 200 elephants
were killed last year, yielding over 900
tons Of ivory.
Almost all the farmers at Wheatland,
Wyo., have the ground prepared for spring
seeding.
A mile minute has been made by an
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cnne. Wyo.
Washington, d. c., street cars may now
be propelled at the rate of twelve miles per
hour, the Commissioners having issued an
order to that effect last week.
The town of Guingamp, France, which
has about 10000 inhabitants, has not a
trace of the cotton cloth mandatory which
gave its name to the fabric once the staple
product.
Governor Budd's recommendation for the
imposition of license tax OF S1OO a year
on every saloon in the State of California
does not meet with the approval of the
wholesale dealers in wines, beers and
liquors.
After being in steady service for quarter
of century POO looms at the Eagle and
Phenix Mills, Columbus, Ga, have Just
been destroyed. They were old English
looms, which will be replaced by the mod
ern Crompton machine. The old looms,
ponderous affairs, were brought across the
blue water from England at a time when
machinery was high, and when big duty
had to be paid upon such importations.
John Cain, of Port Angeles, Clallan
county, Wash, is in Plttsburg in the inter
ests of the Port Angeles Steel Company.
Mr. CAIN says that about 30 per cent. of
the 81, 5000, 600 capital stock has already
been disposed OF and ground will he broken
for the plant on April |. When asked
where the company proposed to get its iron
ore from he said that there is more coal and
iron ore and lime stone in the State Of
Washington than in any other State in the
Union.
The most pleasing feature of the hat
trade is perhaps the increased value OBJ
tanned for hats exported. As at present
made up, the returns show that during the
eleven months ended November 80 last
there were 1,096, 1913 dozens of hats of all
kinds exported, the value being Ct ,O23, 2O7,
as compared with LII $50 dozens exported
in the first eleven months of 1898 of the
value of el ,009,5ll. This is one of the
features that has produced the optimistic
feeling which now pervades the trade
Manchester ENG. Courier.
Coal mining is one of the great indus
tries of Washington. During 1896 that
State produced over ,14O, 600 tons of coal
of which about $50 600 tons were mined in
the first district and Alb, 900 tons in the
second district. Washington coal is used
on the Washington < Columbia River Rail
road, in the southeastern part of the State,
by the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company, and Union Pacific in Washing
ton and Oregon, as well as by the Great
Northern, Seattle and International, and
other roads in the State.
President Ripley, of the United States
Glass Company, says: 1T has been at least
four years since the prospects were so en-
couraging as they are at present, and |
think that every department. of the glass
trade will boom during the coming year
No better illustration of this fact can be
given than the interest that is being taken
in the exhibit of the Monongahea house.
The buyers are now beginning to arrive,
and are placing orders to larger extent
than they have since 1892. There will be
work in abundance for the flints until the
regular shutdown, and the firms and the
men should both prosper"
1t may interest you readers to learn of
the wonderful success which is attending
our efforts to intrduce japanese hemp into
California, especially as | firmly believe
hemp, prepared as we are preparing it, is
destined to supplant cotton in the manu-
facture of various fabrics at present pro-
duced from the latter fibre and also from
flax. For instance, by decorticating this
japanese hemp, and steam rettng it for a
longer period than usual, then bleaching
it, we obtain fibre short stapled like
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