The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-18
nv ne these companies is $4,000, and one
~ = az ano ooo.ca o+Iaar fo1. &c ll0 900

anv of these companies is $50, 900, and one
is for SIS, ZOO, O00; another for SOCIOLOGY.
The depletion of the state forests In
Maine by the papermakers, VINO secured
ing on SO rapidly that bill will be pre-
sented to the legislature forbiddlng Inc
cutting of spruce for term OF years.
AS an indication of the enormous de-
velopment of the lumber and kindred IN
dustries now going on In the southern
states it may be mentioned that no Jess
than sixty new mills and manufacturing
establishments are now In course OF con-
struction in that section.
The official returns of the treasury bu-
reau of statistics, just issued, gives the
total value of manufactured exports or
the United States during 1899 as $3.50, 49,
800. The figures show an enormous IN
crease over the two proceeding years; IN
1898 the amount was 1907 1924, 1894, and In
1897 $219, 652, I2O.
One hundred engravers. of the keystone
Watch Case works, Philadelphia, were
locked out few days ago because 1t was
said they 9rganzed New meg er
sey) branches Of the company's works
struck In a body when the news of the
Philadelphia lockout was received
The largest Orders ever constructed in
one piece were shipped last week by a
Pittsburg manufacturing firm. They are
for the Riverside viaduct, New YORK
city,, and each weigh over 81 tons. They
gre of the box type, 100 feet long, 10 feet
6 inches deep and feet wide. -FOUR plat
form cars were necessary for the trans
portation of each girdef
..England's withdrawal of a vast army
of men from productive pursuits. says
the Artisan, land the concentration of
the national energies of that country
upon the prosecution of the war natur-
ally lessons her Industrial output and
leaves a larger proportion OF foreign mar
kets to be supplied with American goods,
giving additional employment to labor in
this country and. increased earnings to
the railways.
President Samuel Gompers, OF the
American Federation of Labor, is now in
Cuba and will give a series of lectures
at Havana. Santiago and otner towns,
explaining the methods employed by the
workingmen In the United states IN %.
tanning laws looking to the protection of
the lives of employees, the sanitary in,
spection of factories and workshops and
the curtailment of child labor.
y Chicago electric car company has q
plant in Belgium furnished throughout
with American machinery and conducted
throughout along American lines The
company has Just sent over. to Belgium
seventy-five skilled operatives who will
spend a year at the works teaching Bel
gian workmen the uses of the machinery
and the manner Of constructing electric
equipment by American methods.
DR.. William CaIver,e "a Washington Cd.
CO scientist, claims to have devised a
process to utilize the heat OF the sun as
a substitute for fuel in developing motive
power. His discovery is based upon the
simple principle of the burning glass, and
he claims that1by an arrane ement OF mir
rors he can gather to a focus Of few
inches all of the suns rays that fall upon
an acre of groand, and asserts that by
his invention he can melt iron and steel
as if they were ice, and obtain heat Of
several Thousand degrees Fahrenheit.
Employment will be given to an addi-
tfoflsI large number of men by the be-
ginning of the work in the new erecting
shop of the Pressed Steel Car company
at McKee's Rocks, Penn. Operations
started last Saturday. In all about 200
men will be given work They are divid-
ed as follows. 1.-TWO hundred riveters, 400
helpers and 600fitters. The works will be
operated day and night. The company
has also put its new addition to the erec-
ton shop at It's Allegheny plant in oper-
alton. This will employ 600 additional men
300 filters, 200 helpers and 100 riveters.
Riyeters get from s275 to S3.25 day,
helpers from $3.50 to s2.75, and filters from
So 10 up.
A general alliance of employers to en-
brace all lines of industry is being organ
ICED in Germany with the idea of opposing
the work and influence of the general
union of workmen already existing in that
country 1t is proposed that when labor
troubles break out In any one industry
delegates from all branches of the em-
ployers union shall assemble to consider
the matter of joint action. A fund viii
be created for the benefit and assistance
of weak employers In cases of strikes
and lockouts, and blacklist OF strikers