The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-12-14

ators imported negro labor" instead
of the incorrigible Hungarian, Polander
and Italian of the socialist and an
archist persuasion.
| While the claim is sometimes made
that southern labor is not as efficient
as that obtained at the north. the
numerous tests so far made have re-
suited satisfactorily and proved that
, this contention does not hold good, for
negroes have become good mechanics,
such as carpenters, bricklayers, en-
gineers, etc, but it is admitted in work
which requires delcacy of manipula-
ton and taste, ability for skilled work.
manship, he has not shown much anti
tude, owing to lack of training and op-
portunity. but in ore and coal mining,
as well as in iron-maling industries.
he is very largely employed and fills
many little, though none the less i'm
portant inches in the conducting of
the numerous business of this section.
This fact should not be lost sight of in
these troublesome times of strikes in
pennsylvania and elsewhere
Common day labor is paid ninety
cents day for ten hours, and skilled
labor is proportionately low.
The destiny of Birmingham is guild
ed by IN able set of men. The greatest
single influence in the being of the
city and most powerful factor in its
material upbuilding and advancement
is the aggregation of up-to-date busi-
ness men, known as the commercial
Club of Birmingham" ii model organ
ization of its kind We are indebted
to j. b. Gibson, it's secretary, and to
1 (,anerD1 p
board of directors, who is also proprie-
tor of the Birmingham News. for val
uable memoranda, and polite attention. |
Among the two other dailies and the |
fifteen weekly and monthly papers |
published in birmingham there is only |
one straight Republican, the Birming- |
ham Times, and it has established a
good business. The News is Alabama's |
leading daily. 1t owns and occupies
the most commodious building, it is the
largest sheet, and prints more news,
local and telegraphc. 1t owns the
Associated Press franchise and receives
the full day report, amounting to 15.-
900 to 10000 words, over IL special wire
running into its editorial rooms, and
has connections with local and long
distant telephone companies through
out the country. 1t carries more ud-
for home and foreign pat
rons, it employs more people. and
spends more money, and has the larg-
est circulation of any daily newspaper
in Alabama. With it's $4,000 three
decker press, it prints $4,000 complete
newspapers per hour.
REHABILITATION.
Eo>y portbarp Dooplo fulI,, ,ooI,,o tbo
resources of this great "boom city"
md mineral district. It's ineXhaustible
natural resources are not more mar
reous than the development of the
same. Less than twenty-five years ago
he first coal mine was opened. In
S7S, fires We're lighted in T. first fur
lace There aie now in ) district
% coal mines, with a capacity Of 90
100 tons per day, 800 coke ovens with
/ capacity of 5000 tons coke output per
lay, 26 furnaces with capacity of
800 tons per day, two steel mills with
capacity near 1,2OO tons per day a
wire rod and nail mill, with capacity
If 800 tons per day; also 80 foundries
md machine shops, rolling mills. 3
structural works and IL brick works.
besides so more small manufacturing
oh'clliS. lHe output VI COul TOT l5UU
vas S,75O,000 tons: coke, over 1000, 900
ons; iron ore, 100000 tons; pig iron, (
81 5000 tons.
In the vicinity of Birmingham dur S
ng the last twelve months plants have ,
been completed, old ones enlarged and u
extended, new enterprises begun and
made amounting to ST. !,
25,OOO. New companies of various i
? In dc. NNt t,.Al 1,I
'een organized with capital ST. 653, 900, t
md LOO new buildings have been \
rected, costing $2,OO0,O00, making
;rand total, $l1,27S,00O, and throughout !.
he state it is not a rash claim to say =
ully $lOO,OOO,OOO of outside capital have
,ecome interested in the development a
# industrial Alabama In the last d
welve months. All hail! Birmingham. /
j, Il. Richmond. a
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