The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-17
Trade Revival in New England.


Boston-The business inactivity
which marked the prediction period
has given way with rush in New
England, announcements of resump-
ton of operations having been made
in all directions within the last few
days. Many industrial interests are
affected, although the reports indi-
cate that the textile concerns have
acted more promptly and in greater
numbers in ordering longer hours
and more operatives.
Other lines which already have ar
ranged for increased operations are
jewelry and rubber factories, thread,
yarn and knitting mills, machine and
tool making plants and railroad re-
pair shops.
Wooden jobbers report an unpre-
cedented rush of business since cleo
ton day. Tailors from all over New
England are coming to Boston and
placing orders for cloth, most of their
customers having held up their or
ders for winter clothing until after
election.
The present rush is so great that
wooden houses are working their
clerks overtime in an effort to catch
up with their orders, and woolens that
have been carried in stock many
months are being shipped so rapidly
that in some lines new goods cannot
be obtained fast enough to fill the
benches cleaned up by shipments.
New Haven, Conn.-Revival of in
dustrial activity will be felt in Conn
ecticut in nearly every branch of
trade, particularly along the Manga
tuck Valley, which is the centre of
brass and copper goods manufacture.
The increase in orders to electrical
equipment concerns will Immediately
be followed by active resumption on
full time of many plants in Water
bury and Bridgeport, which turn out
fittings of copper used in electrical
machinery. In all the metal trades
a busy winter is expected, interviews
With manufacturers at Waterbury in
dicating that inquiries for estimates
on contracts have begun. The Maui
gatuck Valley was hit hard by the
industrial depression, for more than
$4,000 highly skilled workers in cop
per and brass have been on part time
for months.
Bristol, R. IA full time sched-
ule was begun at the mills of the Ma
tional Rubber Company, where one
thousand hands are employed. The
Warren Manufacturing Company,
cotton goods, has also adopted full
time schedule.
Winsted, n-Confirmation of
the report that the Mount Vernon
and Woodbury. Cotton Duck Company
is to reopen it's mills at New Hart
ford has reached there. Officials of
the company inspected the property.
One thousand hands will be employed.
The company owns one section of the
town known as Dublin, comprising
besides it's mill fifty dwellings, all of
which have been empty since the in
dustry was shut down.
Hartford, Conn.-There are unmis-
taxable signs of business activity all
over Connecticut since the election.
In New Britain, Hartford, New
Hartford and the smaller upstate
towns, where the business of the
wooden and silk mills provide thou
sands with work, the same sentiment
prevails and already an Improvement
In demand has been shown.
On the New Haven road, no doubt
the largest employer of labor in the
State, the increased operation of the
factories naturally results in a great
er demand for railroad workmen. AS
an example the company started its
big Readville repair departments on
a full schedule of six days week.
About 1900 men will be benefited by
this change.