The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-09
Remarkable Increase in
Newark Since Last
Month.
BUILDING TRADES ARE
HAVING BIG BOOM
Factories Are Starting Full
Time, Full-Pay Sched-
ules.
MANUFACTURERS REPORT
INFLUX OF BIG ORDERS
Twenty Per Cent. More Busi-
ness Already Since the Elec-
tion of1Taft.

One hundred thousand dollars a week
more than was spent a month ago in
wages is now pouring into the en-
veIopes of Newark workmen, and on
every hand Is told a tale of returning
prosperity with lavish promises for
skilled and unskilIed labor during the
closing days of 1908.
"One thousand idle men In the build
ing trades will be at work within the
next thirty days." was the prophecy of
v. J. Hedden, president of the big
building contracting firm which bears
his name. "Since the election we have
been almost swaInped with requests for
estimates on new work. Soon contracts
will be awarded on the Jobs and there
will be a splendid revival of business
This comes, too, in the face of the fact
that the building trades are generally
the last to revive after slump"
| "over 5000 men in the leather indus
try who are now idle will be working
full time before January 1 IL present
Indications count for anything" de-
clared Elmer e. Lee, treasurer of j. H.
Halsey & Smith. big leather manufac-
turers. Prospects for better business
was never brighter, and before the New
Year we expect to be humming along
at our regular gait with a full compile
ment of workmen.''
Il should say that 1,500 men had
already been affected by the revival in
the leather business" said William G.
Ressiand. treasurer of II. P. Howell &
Co., leather manufacturers. 1--WE are
not running on full time yet, but we
have been short of raw material. But
for this, we would be going full time
now. There has been a revival within
the past thirty days in the cheaper
lines of our product such as usually
comes first after a slump, and the
future looks rosy"
More Car Men.
The Public Service Corporation will
shortly increase it's force of conductors
and motorrnen in Essex and Hudson
counties by 300 men. In addition, the
work Of constructing the Hoboken ter
minal, which will cost $250,000, will be-
gin within the next two weeks, and,
according to the estimate of Secretary
Edwin l.. Hine, will give employment
to 200 men. Within the past month
work has been begun on a new electric
light station on the Hackensack river.
Already 200 men are at work there,
and within a few weeks there will be
500 more. The Improvement will cost
81, 100000.
The 5000 employees of the Clark
Thread Works and the Mile End Spool
Cotton Company started to work this
morning, for the first time in a year,
on a fifty-five hours a week schedule,
full time. Heretofore they had been
working fifty hours a week. The In
crease In their pay envelopes will be
10 per cent. or approximately $4,000.
we have Increased our force 20 per
cent. since election. are now running
full time and will shortly have to run
overtime" declared Frank E. Campbell.
superintendent of the Watts-CampbelI
Engine Company. I'VE had number
of orders which were contingent on
Taft's election, and have been getting
more since then The prospect is ex-
cellent for a big business BOOM"
New Machines Needed.
Albert H. Biertuempfel, the president
of the Newark Cork Company, declared
that his business had SO increased
within the patst thirty days as to neces-
state his Installing new machinery.
Two months ago, he said, his force
was runnings on half time; now he is
running full time. and will soon have
to augment. his regular force of work.
ers. Mr.. Pbertuempfel was one of the
few manu- Eacturers who did not dis
charge a rran during the period of de-
preston End filled his factory with a
large sto'sk. The stoisk is now rapidly
disappea ring, he says.
The piano factory b Lauter & Co.
started ten days age to run on over
time and is now rufGiing night and
day. Three weeks ago the full force of
men st airted to work, following a re-
duced thrce, which had been employed
ever siirce the slump came last year
1.-Two, hundred and fifty men are af-
fected by the revival in eur factory"
said r. b. Radcliffe, president of the
Natio NAL Saw Company Since election
our bu siness has increased fully rs per
cent, and is still picking UP. We are
getting all the work we can do. Rush
orders have poured in during the past
week. We have been running on half
tine, but are now on an increased
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