The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-03
IN HARTFORD
Improvement Noted. But Full Opera
 ilons Not Yet on.
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 Hartford, oct 2 While 1t will re- qulre months for tile many manufac- turing industries of Hartford to recoy the last year. which has caused a gen eral lull in business circles, since last october an Improvement has already been noted especially i'm tho mann featuring circles While certain of the officials of various factories months ago predicted that business would again he fin full swing hy October 1 tho more conservative ones said there would not he any decided turn in tho tide of industrial affairs until after election Az events have subqouuentlv proven. there s an element of truth in both these predictions The factories are receiving orders again bur they arc coming in slowly and about all the output of the factories s only on order. that is to say, they are not filling their stock rooms as they usually do when business Is not brisk
 The improvement has heen especial ly noticeable during the last thirty ar sixty days. according to some of the manufacturers, and they regard tho way business has started as tho most satisfactory way In this city most of the factories have been working from three 10 Ave days week all summer, and at that with about half the regular 6f ,,AoNINotttgg fat A.. group after group of mechanics vas dismissed during the late fall and ear ly winter. they were promised employ ment again at the earliest opportunity, and to mako good this promise the em- ployers ara taking back their old mo chanics but arc obliged to keep oil short time 10 do it However. there arc more men working n the city now than at any time since the great slump Of year ago although it doos not readily appear on tbe surface owing to the fact that most Of the shops arc vet working four and five days Had business started up with tho rush that was generally expected, according to some authorities on the question, thera would have been danger of another slump near November but the present rate of increase in business Is regard cd az the surost and most satisfactory return of prosperity
 The Pratt & whitney company. on, of the largest in the city. s working on this plan. as is also the Hartfo Rubber Works The Pope Manufactur- ing company which has been under the cloud of receIvership, has secured permission from the courts 10 build 900 automobiles and number of thousand of bicycles This means that within n short time that plant will be one of tho busiest places in town Many testers have been testing out engines on the road and now their work Is done and the building and assembling of the parts will begin, making work for all kinds of mechanics, laborers, and painters The Hartford Rubber Worfs has been steadily ncreaah its force of employees for the last month. not In taking large numbers on nt once. but receiving back their old employees.
 There has been no lack Of work for the cheaper grades of labor all win ter, for the Connecticut bridge and highway commission has had need of all of them that could be securel. and With tho part tho city has taken in behalf Of the unemployed. by doing work in tho dull season sc the ,nonl- ploEed could have chance, has kept that class of labor well supplied with work Then Hartford has the tobacco fields all around and all summer fine tobacco farmers have been seeking moro aid than sometimes could be found Good wages are paid to the to- baeco workers, and thIs started freer circulation of money in the re. tail circles than had been felt for some months.
 he department stores. and the post. office, always good barometers of tho business world have been making ahoWings that are decidedly euconrag ing. Buyers have been stocking their various departments in anticipation Of a trade tbet will at least be normal and the postofljce's bust ess has been un tho increase gradually for aevora
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