The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-03
General Resumption of Normal Business Business Has Has Already Already Begun Begun Throughout This
 State,
 ---s.----------------, STEADY IMPROVEMENT ON Retail Dealers Beginning to Feel the Better Conditions Big Plants Going on
 Full Time.

The Journal-Courier this morning presents to its readers 8 general re- view ot business prospects locally and throughout the state. The reports ara all given oonservatively and record conditions rs found by this papers special correspondents in the various cities in Connecticut. Tn word these reports ara most hopeful and certain and show generally improved condi. lions, In New Haven and other cities tne retail trade has improved in pro- portion to the wholesale.
 Tn This City.
 IL YVES stated al WinchestAr's that business was now normal ss 4 has been at this time of year in formar years. The men are all working on full .ir1e and 6 few of them overtime. The full quota of hands are employed and as a whole. conditions arc highly satisfactory.
 Lewis IT, English. secretary and treasurer of The C. $. Merslck x Co.. dealers in hardware. iron. steel, metals and carriage ma kers' supplies, took very pleasant view of business pros poets. From September his com pany has experienced considerable improvement and, as its business Is largely among the manufacturers Of the state. 't Is taken to indicate a generally more robust activity Con servatively." Mir. English stated. ''our business has increased In its volume about ten per cent
 q. Lewis Sargent, treasurer of tho wholesale hardware firm of Sargent < Co, said when intervieved Bust ness as far as we can see is picking un slowly and very slowly at that Wa do not expect any material improve. rent before the first of the coming yesr Al present our output is about two-thirds normal; at the hardest times of the strinEency if fell to about one-half. From this may he seen what the trend of business is
 Edward l.. Fox. treasurer of the Ma tonal Pipe Bending Co, said "Rusi- ness Is looking up slightly, but as vet there is nothing strong about the man ner in which if Is picking up After election we expect that there may hs considerable activity in the business world. till then we shall have to man. age to do business on B slightly ro- duced scale PC heretofore. While our employees are husv. nevertheless orders are not coming in as fast as we would like to have them
 George S. Barnum. vice president ot the l3igelow Co. spoke on the subject as follows: Business is steadily i'm proving and Is well on the road to recovery from the recent financial strngency. We do not expect any sudden increase and arc only looking for the continuance of the Improve ment. Our output ls between sixty five and seventy DOT cent normal This Is quite considerable increase over what 1t was at the lowest ehb of the panic"
 ' ness does not seem to be much i'm proved as vet according to two manu- facturers who were interviewed yes terdav These were W. IT. Brown, secretary and treasurer of the New Haven Manufacturing company and r r. Farnsworth president of tho Mai.aRon foundry
 Roth of these gentlemen were high lv optimistic as to the future, hut did rc. see any immediate prospect of 2 great increase in business, Both have hoen short handed for many months, and have not az yet heon able to put many men back to work
 MT rrown said the following about present business conditions in his con cern: Tn the machinery manufacture ing. business has been rather duiet it will be some time yet before wc ara on our old footing. Things have been little letter since July however. Machinery manufacturing always feely the depression first and the returned proeroritv and increase of business last General business has to be good before we are able to do much, Peh- plo have to have enough business to usc the machinery they already have and require moro before we feel the upward trend of orders. We have heen short handed since last winter only carving a third of our hands Most of these are skilled machine hands Ap fast as business warrants we will put them back
 Mfr, Farnsworth spoke of conditions In the McLagon foundry in this way, "Busnoss k moi coming in as we would Ike it and as we expected lt would We arc confident that it will. return some day, and live In hope. Traveljng men speak of improved cou- ditions, but r'e have seen little of them We are running nearly 5O per rent less hands than in former times, and most of them on tUo-thirds time. No nov mon have been put on receut- lH We are in tho aamc Inc as the genera machinery trade Business must he good before we are able ro improve and put on new men,
 Edwin |. Root, secretary of the New