The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-04
Notes Of the Labor World
MAN AND MACHINERY.


try produce twenty-five times as much
as the old, and in manufactures of cot
ton one operative now makes thirty-two
times as much as his predecessor in 1853
New avenues of employment open with
the increase of production. Better quail
tiles Of goods, decrease Of cost to consum-
ers and higher rates or wages 10 opera
tives are also the usual sequences. Car
roll D. Wright has shown that wages
in 1891 were 6S.6 per cent. in excess of
those of 1860, and Sc per cent in advance
of those of 1910. The purchasing power of
money was probably 10 per cent. greater
in 1870 than in 1S6m0.
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
Italy has go minis
Glass bricks gain favor.
Japan has no chiropodists.
Italy makes artificial marble.
Maine contains II spool mills.
Maine has IS starch factories.
A machine is to thaw ground.
Rockefeller earns $41, 095 a day.
John Bull uses American paper.
Dresden announces pepper watch.
In Kansas 20 counties contain coal.
Michigan boasts pine stump shingles.
Virginia coal is to be sent to Uruguay.
Indiana has a State Florists associa-
ton.
Emperor William has $50 female ser
wants.
Brooklyn has twelve women black
smiths.
Krupp uses 100000 tons of steel an
nually.
Germany has $50 frst-cIass machine
factories.
Atlanta has a hotel in which the rooms
are designated by the names Of the states.
The Cuero (Tex.) Hosiery Manufacture
ing company may be formed to establish
a factory.
In the orange fields of New Zealand the
crop has been known to net as high as
$1,000 an acre.
The Crawford wooden mills Of Martins
burg. w. Va, are running three nights a
week until o'clock.
In run of twenty-five hours last week
the Anderson Qnd) Wire Nail company
turned out $500 kegs of nails.
German locomotive engineers receive a
gold medal of $500 for every ten years Of
service without accident.
The Oriskany Falls IN. " Knitting
company has nearly finished new mill
which will soon be employing 200 people.
Canada's imports from the United States
increased 50, 100000 last year, and her i'm
ports from England decreased $500, 900.
If 3O0.0 900 go to the Klondike it will re-
quire 300 vessels to convey enough sup
plies up the river to feed them over next
winter.
At Hannibal, Mo-, company has been
formed to commence business with 125
employees in the manufacture of shirts,
overalIs, etc.
Chattanooga will hereafter exact a
years license from fire sales and other
enterprises that usually stay a week or
so in town.
A bill has been presented in the New
York state legislature providing for tax
of 10 cents per day each on laborers who
are not citizens.
The present Maryland state legislature
may be asked by the Grain Dealers asso-
citation to pass a bill providing for the ap-
pointment of state weighers of grain.
Tacoma, Wash, is experiencing a boat
building boom. Orders for eight steam
boats has recently been placed with local
builders, who are figuring on several
more.
The largest mass of pure rock salt in
the world lies under the province of Gal
licia Hungary. 1t is known to be $50
miles long, 20 broad and $50 feet in thick
ness.
In Germany a man who has lost both
hands in an accident can claim the whole
of his life insurance money on the grounds
that he has lost the means of maintaining
himself
Within the first ten months of 1897 Ala
bama produced 4,17S,60O tons of coal. $685.
6S4 tons of coke, 6S2, OIL tons of pig iron,
1e7 .275 tons of iron ore and 256, 2S6 tons
of limestone.
The Troy Knitting company has been
Incorporated at Albany. with a capital of
100000 TO operate the plant formerly
owned by the Wyantskill Knitting COM
pany of Abba, n. Y.
The foreign trade of the port of San
Francisco, Cal, in 1897. was the largest on
record for any calendar year. the exports
amounting in value to s46,0O0000 and the
imports to $S9, 900, 900.
Italy produces annually 20, 900 900 gallons
of olive oil, the market value of which
is $120 Oo0 California editors assert
that in twenty years their state could be
made to yield the same amount of oil.
A curious character in Paris is a man
who makes his living by strolling along
the boulevards and making wagers that he
can answer correctly any question that
relates to the history of France. He al
ways wins.
The sowing of the American cotton in
The Trans-Caucasus and the Central Asian
provinces is annually assuming more ex-
tensive proportions. In the Trans-Caspian
district there are now over 10000 acres
under American cotton.
The Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe
railroad has completed in its own shops
at Topeka 240 box cars with cast steel
trucks. These weigh 100 pounds less than
the old pattern. and cost considerably less,
though they test to 100 600 pounds.
The Massilon COhio) Bridge company
has received an order for the construction
Of cantilever bridge 562 feet long and
IS fet wide. which is to be built by the
New York Dredging company at Honda,
on the MagdaIena river. in Colombia,
South America
Everyone familiar with LongfelIow's
/ "Hiawatha'' remembers the references to
the famous red pipestone quarry. which
is situated at the extreme eastern boun-
dairy OF South Dakota. This is the only
! quarry Of the kind known 10 exist in
| the world.
The Natural Gas comuanv Of Richmond