Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-08-25
GOOD TIsEs IN HurnEa STATE.
Where Industries Respond to Encouragement
Of the Dingley Tariff.

Hartford, Aug. 24.-At the Quadic
woolen mills, not far from Putnam, there
Is demand for help to fill the large
amount of orders now pouring in. The
representative of the concern says that
this factory will be run until 10 o'clock
at night for the future. He regards the
Dingley bin as Godsend and says that
reports indicate that all the mills In this
part of the country will be busy, bring
Ing good times once more.
A delegation of capitalists from Boston
have been looking over site for pro-
posed new woolen factory to stand on
gard the outlook as especially fiattering
for manufacturers of woolens. and will
erect large plant somewhere in the
state this fall.
have been turning out large quantities
OF goods all summer. and the Eastern
Machinery Co. of that city. makers Of
brick machines. has shipped more ma
chinery in the past three weeks than in
the six months before. Mayor Farms
worth of New Haven. who Is interested
in this firm. says the increased sale OF
brick machines indicates that more
bricks are being made. The machines
are shipped to all parts of the country.
Business is improving with the granite
quarrymen just over the Rhode Island
state line. in Westerly. James Gourley,
superintendent of the New England
Granite Works there, reports better
received one contract that alone will keep
a large force of men busy for a month.
An excellent test of the business i'm
provement in this state is made by COM
York. New Haven & Hartford Railway
with those of a year ago. The company
covers this state with a network of rails
and feels easily the increase or falling
OF in the amounts of freight from the
manufacturers. who are usually the
heavy SINNERS
It. Is learned from officials of the road
that large freights are now being carried.
that the freight business is constantly
increasing. and that the indications point
to. a steady Improvement.
The shipments of freight from the New
Haven manufacturers will continue
heavy. with the orders already in sight.
for some time to come. The road Is
handling an unusually heavy quantity of
fruit trains.
The Atwood Machine Co. at Stonington
is experiencing a revival of business. and
is now at work on a shipment of goods
for Moscow, Russia.
Charles Fetherstone, who is largely In
terested in the paper trade in the Con-
necticut valley. says the four years of
poor business in paper making is being
followed this fall by strength that is
gratifying in the highest degree. There
was abundant room for Improvement"
said Mr.. Fetherstone, for trade until
now has been dead for months. The de-
mand is coming up. Inquiries, too, are
for the best grades of papers-papers that
have had no sale for long time
These inquiries come from all parts of
the country. and are the true forerunners,
he has always found. Of good times Mr.
Fetherstone also said the improvement
in the market for papers will also quicken
business in other lines that are dependent
on the papers mills for business, such as
the making of new machinery for the
paper trade. which has been introduced
steadily to keep pace with the times.
All signs point to a heavy fall trade in
almost every line of the many products
of the manufacturing commonwealth.
Buyers are active to an extent not
known for several years. and there are
almost continual reports from the manu-
featuring districts of large contracts
having been placed.
In woo.ens the outlook seems especially
bright.
AT the factory of the Mountville Wooden
Co. in Palmertown, near Norwich, busi-
ness has increased rapidly, until 1t was
never better than now. This concern has
orders for months ahead, has advanced
its wages, and will have to put on double
gangs of help and run night and day. The
proprietors feel sure that the boom is in
large measure due to the new tariff.