, 1902-10-17
lids tod that the gross membership
apf fhefabof organizations who are CON
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An attempt is being made to con-
solidate the leading malleable iron
foundries of the country, with capital
from $15, 0o0, 600 to $2O,O00,O00
One of the results for England of
the Boer war is that the wages of the
working pe6ple fell off nearly $4,000
600 last year, as compared with the
previous one.
New York capitalists are promoting
a $685. 900, 600 trust to take In all the ak
manufactures, handle manufactures
and grindstone factories in this
try and Canada, the plants to be OPP
Grated under n management.
The production of iron ore in France
is centered principally in three districts
that of the northeast, or the Meur-
theet-Moselle, is the most important,
producing 100000 tons of the $500
600 tons or iron ore mined In France
annually; that Of the Pyrenees, pro
ducing 100000 tons, and that of Nor.
mandy, 10000 tons.
The monks who manufacture the
Chartreuse liquor in France have let
to an American syndicate for ninety
nine years their cloister, factory inc
grounda including the mountains
where II wild plants required for the
liquor ART gathered, together with the
recipes and good will. The rental is
said to be 100000.
A census report on the manufacture
of locomotives in the United States
during the census year 1900 fixes the
number turned out at 3.046, of which
2,774 were built in twenty-eight indie
pendent establishments and 272 in
twenty-six railroad shops. The indie
pendent concerns employ an aggregate
capital of $780, 13, 1893, and pay $780,
s.9,614 for wages.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, the millionaire
inventor, keeps half a dozen nechan-
ical draughtsmen busy on drawings
Of his inventions. When in New York
city Mr.. Vanderbilt spends most of his
time with these drauphtsmaANN&h luis of.
flee on the seventeenth floor of a bust
ness block on Broadway, where may be
seen models and drawings of fire boxes,
coal cars and other devices which he
has patented.
Statistics compiled by Carroll D.
Wright show that the business of TAX
ing summer boarders footed up the
rather startling sum of $6,609, 1854 in
New Hampshire alone in 1899, and it
has, to all appearances, steadily in
creased since. Not sentimental results
alone have followed Governor Rollins
ingenious conception of the institution
of "Old Home Week" The annual visit
of so many of the IONS and daughters
of the State from all over the country
has revived their recollection of the
agreeable New England summer eli
mate and has doomed the summer
boarder industry.
Ben Tillett, who has returned to
London after a tour among the labor
organizations of the United States. has
issued his report on the position of
American labor. He dwells upon the
buoyant and hopeful demeanor of the
workers, and the prevailing franker
and more businesslike relations be-
tween capital and labor than prevails
in England. The power of unionism
seemed to be growing. American EN-.
ployers are more scientific than those
there, and the worker does net give the
maximum of work for the minimum
Of wages, as he does in England. Til
lett maintains that in England the
highest quality of skill and energy is
claimed by the employers to constitute
what they. call average ability. In
America, on the other hand superior
proficiency always received extra com
pensation-