The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-12-31
WE MAKE GOODS
FOR THE WORLD
Richmond Rapidly Becoming a Man
ufacturing City.
THOUSANDS ARE EMPLOYED.
old Concerns Reaping Prosperity ana
New Ones arc Starting up-some
Forced TO Establish Branch
= Factories 20 as to Fail Orders
THOUSANDS ARE EMPLOYED.

,nanufacturing city. business men who
have for several years insisted that this
city must become either way-station
on trunk line railways OF be made
manufacturing place, see now the re-
aIization Of their hopes not only begun
but very far advanced.
Richmond has made rapid strides IN
manufacturing enterprises during the
year. Many new Industries have sprung
up. Ola ones have been invg0rated and
reJuvenated
Richmond is a manufacturing city.
The people, as a rule. have not appre-
clated the industries that We have had
with US for many years, until the estao-
Nshment OF new ones have attracted at
tention 10 the old.
talked with d manufacturer who gave
me some interesting figures concerning
Richmond. He sad there were AT least
5000 Wage-earners steadily employed
here. In his estimate ne included male
and female.
There are not less than 1900 women In
the city who earn their own living he
said. in this estimate / include those
who work In factories, In stores, steno-
Graphers and typewr ters. The average
person has no conception OF the magni-
dude Of Hichmonds industries. Our city
is rapidly becoming a great manufactur-
ing centre and the outside world is being
attracted by the advantages we have 70
OFFER"
A HEALTHY BOOM.
There IS no question as 10 the fact that
Richmond Is on healthy boom as man
ufsctur.ng town. One Of the most public
spirited cltlzens-one who has fOr~ long
In hat efforts chpnfd he dl-
rected toward locating factories here
says there are two reasons for the pros
perlty We are enjoying. In the arst
place the establishment of the Trigg
Shipyards has given the city wide adj
yertisement and, secondly, the fact that
the Richmond Locomotive Works could
secure contracts TO make engines for
foreign countries has been worth much
10 the city.
Richmond II a manufacturing city.
Articles Of nearly every description are
made here AID shipped to all parts Of the
world.
The last six months have been period
Of remarkable development and improve
inent II Is useless in this article TO
sneak Of what is being done on the river
front. for that Is told almost daily I'm the
newspapers.
The old industries that have made sac
rinces IN order 10 pass through the pc
RODS Of business depression and to keep
up their existence are now beginning 10
reap the rewards they have labored for
Richmond is rapidly becoming a man-
.efacturing city.
- RICHMOND ENGINES.
The Richmond Locomotive Worlo
makes engines Tor foreign countries. This
concern has contracts on hand for about
one hundred and seventy-fve engines. 1t
has enough orders to keep the present biz
force employed until next october. The
company has spent about 100000 in i'm
provements to its plant and is planning
10 expend much more.
The Richmond Tredegar Company has
not had as many orders in ten years. The
company IS reaping its share Of the pros
perity and IS giving employment to more
people than at any time in many years.
Who doubts that Richmond is rapidly
becoming a manufacturing city?
The Randolph Paper Box Company,
since July. has received more orders than
81 can III. Its great plant in Richmond
has proved 20 be inadequate for its bus
mess. a branch factory has been es-
tablshed in Manchester Sixty girls are
employed there and the number will be in
creased
The Mlilhlser Manufacturing Company
has started branch factory in Jackson
Ward where colored labor IL employed.
its factory in Fulton has been unable TO
iii orders
Richmond. as n manufacturing cetre, Is
attracting the attention of investors in
all parts OF the country.
The Old Dominion Nail and Iron
Works. one Of the oldest and most con-
eervative concerns in the South employ
cd during the past year an average or
between six hundred and seven hundred
men. whereas The average number IN
the employ of the company durig the pre-
1-jous year was between three hundred
and four hundred men. In twelve months
the volume OF business has Increased
one hundred per cent. The company has
orders on hand which will occupy the
Workmen FOR several months TO come
AS city 81 manufacturers, Richmond
/ ranks with The best IN the country.
THE CEDAR WORKS.
Mr. I Scott Parrish. of the Richmond
cedar Works Company, said:
.srhe year 1879 has been very good
one in regard 10 demand for our goods
but owing to \ strong compeutFn from
other factories. prices have been very
low. considering heavy advances IN an
raw material that enters MO the manu-
fsetlre OF our goods
There has been a very good demand
for our patented srsciaides, which low
compose ninety per cent. OF orr Whole
business In the last year We used over
5000 miles OF wire IA makirg cur eiec-
bic welded wire hoop tubs and buckets
s-rhs outlook for 1900 Is GOOD. ana we
hone 10 keep our 200 employees uusy.
thus helping in the great prosperity OIL
Richmond.
eve have recently built a large briof
warehouse go fee. by 60 feet, FIVE stor'e
high We now have the largest wooden
ware factory IN the world, and make near
~ every article OF wood that Is useu III
The household
HARDWARE TRADE.
On being interviewed as 20 the outlook
a. his line of business for 1900 as COM
nared with the year Just past Mr.. G..
Harvey Clarke. president OF the A. y.
clarke Co. replied that the year 1888 will
he n memorable one in the hardware
trade. Said he. During the thirty years
that have been In this business ! have
never beard Of such activity and such de-
,napd for goods in all the lines We handle.
..Tvhis great demand which tho rnanufac-
.urers have not been able 10 supply with
any degree OF prcmptness, together with
re advance IN raw materials, has had its
very natural effect in the raising OF prices
considerably above what they were for
gone years past
However, as prices had declined TO
about their lowest point IN the year 90,
the advances which have been made in
the past year have not raised them TO a