The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-09-28
STRIKING COMPARISON.

TRATION COMPARED WITH lliE
SAME PERIOD UNDER PRESENT
REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION.
The following striking comparison Is
nublished by the Pittsburgh Dispatch;
The following data, gathered largely
from official reports, presents picture OF
III, 6O.day period of the year 1898, with
which the two months Just ended cores
rord both as to the portion OF the year
and the perlOd of the presidential admin
tstratinn, and also proximity TO tarin
legislation;
THE RECORD OF DISASTER.
Week ending July "a, 1S93-Faiture of
p,zsman, Mont, National Bank. -. Four
Denver banks close their doors... Bank
spspenslons In other western cites,,,.
Tw5 bank failures In Milwaukee and.
,l,ns on numerous other banks..., Com
marcIal Bank of Denver fails; capital,
S556 O0O 80. Bank failures OF Vernon, Tex,
and Knoxville, Tenn; capital, S2OO,OOO;
also failures of banks at Great Falls,
Mont, and Orlando, Fla,;capital, 100000
Suspension of work In manufactures
reported from all sections,
Week ending August /, lS93-National
hanks of Manchester, n. H. and Indian
opolIs. Ind, fail; capital, $5OO,O .., Fail
IRE of First National Bank OF Spokane,
Wash. capital S250,00O. Ten banks
susppnd IN one day (July 20; capital, 81
01103d. Bank failures In South Dakota,
Montana, Illinois, Kansas, Texas, Wash
Ingt5n New Hampshire, and correspond
ingly large number of business suSpen-
E.Ons
Week ending August S. lS93-Collapse
of Chicago provision deal and many fail-
ures OF commission houses, Failure OF
National Bank of III Paso, Tex. Fall
urc Of National Bank Of San Antonio,
Tex, Failure Of National Bank of
Nuncle, FIfty-third Congress
meets in special session to begin its de-
etruc,lon Of the Mckinley law.
Week ending August %, lS93-Encoun-
ter between the anarchists and socialists
ayerted by the New York police. Meet
ing of anarchists broken up by New York
police. Failure OF national Bank az
Hndman, Pa. Failure Of national
bank AZ Tacoma. Wash Suspension Of
manufacturing establishments in numer-
Gus states. Announcement by Comp
trollor Of the Currency that l55 national
banks and $50 private banks had failed
during the year ending August 2S,...
Railroad receivers appointed during Au-
gust for Northern Pacific, Philadelphia
and Reading, New England, and Pitts
burgh, Akron & Western.
eptomber-Railroad receivers APP
pointed for Wisconsin Central, Chicago,
Peoria & St Louis. Cleveland, Canton &
Southern and Evansville & Terre Haute
railroads The mileage of roads placed
In the hands of receivers during the year
1898 was 1886, nearly One-seventh of all
the lines in the United States and the In
debtedness $l,2l2 2l7, 0S3.. During thd
year there were l6l l5 mercantile suspen-
sluns, involving liabilities amounting ID
S3i6 779.SS9.. During the bank suspen-
sions of July loans were made on call ut
the New York stock exchange as high as
az per cent
MCKINLEY WORKS A CHANGE.
The following statements of revival of
manufacturing inductrles during the
days following the enactment of the
DIngley law, the period corresponding
with the similar dates in the first year of
Clcvcand's second term, show the con-
trast between present conditions and
those OF the corresponding months of the
preceding administration. The state
monts which follow are from Brad
streets Financial Journal:
Week ending July "a, lS9T-Twenty
thousand worlSmen resume work in the
iron and steel industries. .Bfgelow Car
pet Company Mt Clinton, Mass, resumes
work: 900 hands. Packer Colliery at
RRppahannocS, Pa, resumes work: 1000
hands. Columbus Buggy Company re-
sumes; 400 hands,. c., b. e. Q. Il. r.
reports full complement OF hands at
work in it's railroad shops for the first
time in several years. Chattanooga
Tradesman announces large number OF
iron furnaces in the south resuming
work. .McKenna Steel Works. Joliet,
H.. resume; 400 nds.."Spinners at
silk mill. Paterson, N. j., receive increase
IN wages from to 20 per ent...,Pitts-
hurgh Plate Glass Company, Kokomo,
Ind resumes, 800 hands 81. Maine Cen
trail Railroad increases wages of en-
ployes.
Week ending July 81, 1S97-Tod Fur
Haces. Youngstown, o., resume work....
Numbers of manufacturing concerns In
Connecticut and Pennsylvania resume
work -. Furnaces at Birmingham and
Bessemer, Ala, resume work. ..Algon-
quln Wooden Mills, Passaic,N. j., Increase
wages 10 to Is per cent. ..Atchison Rail-
road Company announces inability to
supply new cars to meet demands OF
shippers.
Week ending August Z. 1S97-Enslgn
Car Manufacturing Company. Hunting
ton, W. Va, resumes work.. Cleveland
tO) Rolling Mills resume; 1000 hands.
Sugar producers Of Louisiana advance
wages 16 per cent. Cotton mills at
Lancaster, Pa, resume; 1000 hands....
American Watch Company, Waltham,
Mass, resumes in all departments.
Iron works at Mahoning and Lebanon,
o., and birmingham, Ala, resume.
Week ending August Il. 1S97-Fall |
River Iron Works resume on full time;
200 hands,. Fall River Printing Com |
pany resumes on full time. Columbus |
Hooking Valley &Toledo railroad shops |
Increase from half time to a ten-hour |
Hchedule... Illinois Steel Company an
nnunces resumption of work. Union |
Iron and Steel Company, Youngstown, |
o., resume work after long shutdown |
Pennsylvania railroad shops at Al |
toona Increase schedule TO ten hours....
Washington Pa) Steel and Tinplate |
Company doubles working capacity"
Birmingham (Ala) railroad shops ex-
tend schedule TO ten hours. Lawrence |
lMass) Hosiery Mills resume: 1000 |
hands"..Car Works at Michigan City,
Ina, Increase schedule to twelve hours. |
with two years work engaged; 1900
hands
Week ending September IL. 1So7-Cord-
age Mills at Ieainh, o., purchased by |
$4,000 70 be rcopened at once after sew. |
gtal yenrg' idleness.. East Lake Wooden |
M'Ils, Brldgeton, Pa, resume after three
years Of ldleness.. Wend Paper Mills, |
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