Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-19

81 last the value Of the breadstuffs sold
abroad was $317, 900, 900; provisions, STA
600, 900, and cotton, $23S, 900, 900, making a
total Of 1924, 900, 900 worth of farm products
exported and sold at better prices than were
ever known before.
An eastern trade paper says a machine
has been invented which will turn out TO-
900, 900 matches a day. Also hat a new
typesetting machine, which will do twice
the work Of the Mergenthalers, will be put
on the market this summer, while a Con-
necticut man claims he has invented n new
rotary cylinder that will enable ships to
travel so per cent faster than at present.
State Factory Inspector O'Leary Of New
York opposes the movement to abolish
'sweatshops' in that state, which, he says,
give employment to SO, 600 persons in New
York and Brooklyn alone in the making of
clothing. MIR. O'Leary claims that If the
drastic sanitary laws are enacted as recon-
mended in his report to the present legis-
lature, and these rigidly enforced, the chief
objections to sweatshops will be removed.
1t is announced that all OF the unions
affiliated with the board of walking delegates
in New York City have ratified the pro-
posed agreement between the organization
of employers, known as the United Building
Trades, and the board, whereby sympathetic
strikes are to be abolished and all questions
in dispute are to be settled by an arbitra-
tion board composed Of an equal number Of
employers and workmen. The agreement,
1t Is said, will be signed by both parties at
an early date.
The American Packer says that more than
SIS, 900, 900 has been invested in the canning
Industry in the last four months. The total
pack Of tomatoes in the United States and
Canada was &, 1877, 500 cases in 1898. In 1897
1t was 4,149, AL cases. In 1898 the pack for
the United States was 1862 ,249 cases, as
compared with-S, 1854, S55 for 1897. There was
an output of canned corn in 1898 largely in
excess of 1897, but the average quality of
the pack in several states was lower than
usual. TIL total corn pack of the United
States and Canada for 1898 was 1895, 567, as
against 2,90S, 740 cases i'm 1897.
A recent report issued concerning the
textile industries of Fall River shows the
number of corporations doing business there
as Al; capital stock dncorporated), $25, 1885,
500; number of mills, SO; s%pindles, 2,901 ,O56;
looms, 7O,S7S; employees, 2S,297; pay roll, per
week, Sill 300; weekly production, $50 900
pieces; yards of cloth made per annum,
S4S, 400, 600; bales of cotton used per annum,
357, 900; number of water wheels, 10; en-
glnes, ITO; total horse power, 7S,64S; tons
of coal used per annum, 221 $50; gallons of
oil per annum, 2b3, 300; pounds of starch
per annum, 3,06S, 500.
The worlds product OF tobacco is esti-
mated at about 800, 000, 900 pounds, valued
at about 5000, 900, 900. OF this the western
hemisphere raises about $50, 900, 600 pounds,
the United States contributing 4S0, 900, 900
pounds, and Cuba, whose tobacco Is the
widest known and most highly esteemed,
only producing 81, 900, 900 pounds. Europe
raises about 500, 600, 900 pounds; the East
indies, 400, 600, 600 pounds; Australia, 10. 900, :
600 pounds, and Africa not enough to be
counted, By the addition of our new terri
tories the United States will increase its
product by, Cuba, so, 900, 900 pounds; Porto
Rico, $4,000 pounds, and the Philippines,
As, OOO, 900 pounds, which will give us a
total Of 603, 500, 900 pounds. OF the states
i'm tba union Kentucky leads with nhnut
1856, 900, 900 pounds, which is far in excess
of any other state, North Carolina coming
next with only 40. 900, 900 pounds and Virginia
next with 80, 600, 900 pounds.