The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-02-09
THE WORLD OF INDUSTRY.
Echoes Of the Busy Workshop. the
Mill aud the Mines.
SOME GOSSIP OF THE BRFADwINNERS
Review Of the Weeks Work Where Man
ufaeturers. Mechanics and Arti-
sans Hold Sway.
NE GOSSIP OF THE BUFADwINNERS

the Maine coast last year.
The Kansas supreme court has sustained |
the olght-hour labor law.
Thomas A. Edison has taken out nearly |
500 patents on his various inventions.
Stcycdores OF Honolulu have organized 10 !
secure protection against ASlatie labor.
II is estimated that New England turns
ont 100000 pairs of unlon.made shoes each
The mileage OF railroads built in the
l Eail'd states during 1901 HPDroi'm''''
Enough timber is destroyed by Ore in this
country every year TO supply all the pulp
mills,
The American Palace Car company has
placed orders for 100 OF Its cars ON Euro
pean roads.
Motor vehicles to the value Of S4i0T were
shipped from New York to the Philippines
recently.
Sewing cotton and pockctknlves are thu
only Brtlsh-made goods that now hold
their own In Brazil.
The Gllders union OF New York reports
unparalleled prosperity In that trade. Not
q man is ont % work.
Ohio manufacturers last year paid In
wages So4 od1.3li, an Increase of sl0,4i4.
oia over the previous year
Tho American Sheet Steel company will
invest SLOOO,OO0 In the extension OF It's
plants when spring opens
lply'S expectation Of silk has increased
within ave years from 100000 pounds
weight a year to nearly 100000
The Barbcrs union Of san Francisco has
more than lOOO members. IL Is the largest
BARRIERS union In America.
In Japan 1000 hands are required for A
spinning MIL Of 10000 spindlcs In Amer
lea about 200 mon do the same work
Agents Of tho Boot and Shoe workers.
International union are cnnvuSsiuG tho
country In the interests OF the union label
over 5000 operatives are thrown ont OF
nj he lg.aig 9F
can Wooden company at Providence, Il. l.
The San Francisco Labor council. from
April % to November 80 OF last year. DO
mated SIl,2l719 to aid the strikers in that
atty.
The manufacture Of silk In Franco has
not Increased since 1895, In 1900 II was
81 GS per cent Of the worlds commerce in
silks.
The gold mines OF Mysore. India, are
worked bv American electrical devices, the
power being from the melting Hin hayap
snow,
The recent remarkable advance in the
| Industries Of Italy Is owing largely TO tho
development OF electricity as motive
power
President Roosevelt has threatened with
dismissal all government employees who at.
tempt TO influence legislation in their own
behalf.
The membership Of the Brotherhood of
| Locomotive Fircmcn has doubled since
! 1904 being now 0,l2S, against fewer than
$1,000 In 1894
The telephone service in Sweden is about
10 be taken In hand by the state, the two
| telephone companies being bought out for
/ f810,0O
/ In the United states the number OF miles
| of railway In proportion 10 the number
| Of inhabitants T. nearly double that OF any
EuropoGu country.
/ an Illinois inventor IL urging the substl.
| tuition Of printed slides for the brnkcmnn's
7 voice In the announcement OF stations In
moving trains.
/ The Sorthern railway and the Northern
/ Alabama road have authorize improve
ments II At vii! cost over 100000 during
| The present year.
! london Is SIN obliged to import poly
( glot clerks for her mercantile houses. aa
{ tho English too seldom take the trouble
| to learn foreign languages.
The plant OF the Indiana Pulp ana Pm
! per company at Marion, Ind, burned last
August, will rebuild and double It's cnpa-
cltv employing 500 men.
Tho average salaries ~ school teachers
/ In Maryland Is less thgn S2f5 yc1r, Hud
/ tht Teachers pRocigti1u is 20 petition tho
/ legislature for az liner ease.
The pittshurg, Fort Wayne ana Chicago
Railroad cou.pquv has advanced tho wrrc,
Of 800 men employ cd IL tine shops OF Fort
Wayne hCtWcon 3 and per cent
Nearly Sl0.OOO,OOO was expended by Bet
gium last year In establishing new gov
crnment railroads and increasing traction
The Afahana Consolidated Coal aud Iron
company ~ selling every Bit Of Iron It eau
make nnd II working all its coal, ore and
doomite plants 70 their full capacity.
The proposed gigantic coal combine OF
Indiana and Illinois miners has gone mp
in smoke, The operator OF the latter
state demanded too high a price for hold
iHgs.
A Russian mining engineer has already
started for the United States TO concnds
arrangements FOR the purchase Of copper
mines in Southern Siberia by Senator w.
A. Clark.
February disbursements for dividends
and interest by railroad and industrial
companies and Including government and
municipal pas ments are estimated at ABOUT
SGO.OOOO0O.
freight cars were bdilt In this country
last year, the railroads lost more Inan
100000 because Of the scarcity Of such
equipment.
Tie Cancellation board OF the Norm OF
England iron and steel trade has Appealed
| to English wOrsmen to support employ cra
10 the enort TO Tecapture the w0rd's
trade.
, bin has been introduced In the mary.
land Legislature lnnt no child under tbe
age Of rs years shall be allowed 10 worB
in any establishment where spirituous OF
mah liquors are daudled.
over 1910 employees Of the Washington
navy yard have petitioncd for IN uddi
tional fifteen DAYS annual leave, thirty In
al. tho came consideration mat II granted
other employees Of the government.
TWenty-one labor inons In Milwaukee
| Insist that the present wage schedule VITA
the brewers which expires Ia May, mus
be renew cd and that the workmen musl
be gran ed an elght.hour day.
The amount Of the cotton crop brought
Into sight for the hye months from Sep
tembe 10 January, Inclusive, Is ailOJ,
Z bales over last yea, LOS 90 over year be
fore last and 10000 under 1893
Employees Of the New York Rubber
works al MatteaWaB. n. y, we're giyer
two weeks pay for one last week In ap
probation OF IT'S skilled labor rhe plant
has been In operation for nifty years
American capitalists have proposed e
the Paris municipality, says the Vie tinan
ciere, 10 build Eas works for the city anC
! supply he iiluminnnr at prices varying
from I'd to l1zd per cubic yard,
During the six months ended December
. 81, 1901, there were built In the United
States M rugged vessels Of l3i,U73 gross
t0us compared with Sos rugged vessels o.
1929 gross tons for the corresponding
six months OF 1900.
Most OF the clerks OF j. p. Morgan q
Co., the great banker and promoter, com
PEELED TO work after closing hours at Till
time Of the year, get supper money &
buy thelr dinners. Supper money Is 81
. nan, 70 all alike.
All labor organizations connected witt
af NOFl