The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-23

How the Business Boom IL Helping Nutmeg
state Conccrns in Many Linea.

How the business Boom IL Helping Nutmeg
state Concerns in MANY Linea.
HARTFORD. Aug. 22.-All signs point to n
heavy fall trade in almost every line of tho
many products Of the manufacturing common
wealth. Buyers are active to an extent NOT
known for several years, and there are almost
continual reports from the manufacturing dis
tricts OF large contracts having been placed. :
In woollcns the outlook seems especially
bright. At the factory Of the Mountville Woollen
Company in Palmertown, near Norwich, BUSH
ness has increased rapidly until 1t was never
better than now. This concern has orders for
months ahead. has advanced it's wages. and will
have to put on double gangs of help and run
night and day to keep abreast of the business Of
fering. The proprietors feel sure that the boom
is in a large measure due to the new tariff.
At the Quadic,woollen Mills not far from Put
nam there is a demand for help to I'LL the large
amount of orders now pouring in. The repre-
sentative OF the concern says that this factory
will be run until 10 o'clock at night for the fu.
ture. He regards the Dingley bill as a godsend.
and says that reports indicate that all the mills
In this part of the country will be busy. bringing
good times once more. a
A delegation of capitalists from Boston have
been looking over q site for q proposed now
woollen factory to stand on Great Brook. near
New London. They regard the outlook as es-
pecially fattering for manufacturers of.woollens
and will erect q large plant somewhere in the
State this fall.
The Candee Rubber Company In New Haven
has been turning out large quantities of goods
all summer. and the Eastern Machinery Com
pany Of that city. makers of brick machines.
have shipped more machines away from Its fac
months before: Mayor Farnsworth of New
the increased sale of brick machines indicates
that more bricks are being made. The machines
Business is improving with the granite quar-
rymen just over the Rhode Island State Zine in
the New England Granite Works there, reports
a better feeling in that trade. His firm has just
i Iefeev force eH Of m ron.f busy for tnes MONTH nt1nf WILL Keep
An excellent test of the business improvements
In this s af tSd is I made So by e%Sm sR Yin Seb the And fF HsIi
ford Railroad with those Of a year ago. This
road. with it's various divisions completely
covers this State with a network of rails. and
amounts OF freight from the manufacturers
learned from offfciais OF the road that large
freights are now being carried. that the freiGhs
cations point to a steady Improvement. The
shipments OF freight from New Haven manufac-
already in sight, for some time to come. The
road Is handling an unusually heavy quantity
The Atwood Machine Company at 81 onington
is experiencing a revival of business AID is now
at work on a shipment OF goods for Moscow.
Charles Fetherstone. who is largely interested
in the paper trade in the Connecticut Valley,
says that the four years of poor business in
paper making is being followed this fall by q
strength that is gratifying in the. highest de-
gree. There was abundant room for improve.
ment," said Mr.. Fetherstone. for trade until
now has been dead for months. The demand %
coming up. Inquiries. too, are for the besb
grades of papers. papers thatthere have been no
sale for for n long time
These inquiries come from all parts of the
country and are the true forerunners. he has
always found, of good ines. Mr.. Fetherstono
also snid that the improvement in the market
for papers will also quicken business in other
lines that are dependent on the p~aper-mins for
business. such a. the making of new machinery
for tho paper trade. which has been introduced
steadily TO keep pace with the times.