The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-08-28

HARBINGERS

WASHINGTON, August 1O.-A corn
ucopia of prosperity seems &c be tilt
ing over the country, ready to pour
down a golden stream of benfcence,
Judging from the trade and financial
reports flashed from every section OF
the land. Nature and the republican
party, by team work, are said to bel
pulling off a big stunt. But let it be
understood that it is a distinct con-
cession on the part of the republic
can party to headline nature at all,
! in this double turn.
Yesterdays government crop reports
predicting bumper crops of grain and
financiers who keep finger upon the
reasonably good crops of cotton, warm
ed the cookies of the heart of the
pulse of trade. They foresaw big re-
turns to the farmers, gratifying freight
receipts for the railroads and a rake
off" to ALL the middle men. Coinci-
dent with this good news came dis
patch after dispatch telling of re-
sumption of activity in manufacturing
employment of labor and preparations
for big business for the future. The
settlement of the tariff agitation and
the preservation of protection to Am
erican industries are claimed to be
the causes of these happy conditions,
and that is where the republican party
steps to the front and bows to bou-
quets.
BIG ORDER FOR LOCOMOTIVES.
An order for $1,O00,0O0 worth Of
/ locomotives from one railroad compa-
ny was placed with a Philadelphia
shop yesterday. That means, it is
claimed, the taking on of more ma
chinists and laborers. There are now
$500 men in the shops, against 1880
this time last year. The maximum
of employees in these works is 1900
in good times.
In one county alone in New Jersey
Essex county,, 900 additional work.
men are to be taken on in one branch
of industry-leather manufacturing, as
direct result of the tariff legislation,
it is announced. The leather MAX
ers have been running with limited
forces up to this time.
From Chicago came the announce
ment of the placing yesterday of or
ders for over $4,000 tons of steel rails,
and the Hartman lines are to buy
100000. Lubricating iron is selling $40
above the low point of the year. The
South Chicago rail mills of the steel
trust are bioked ahead until Decem-
Der with orders and the Gary plant
until October.
The Denver and Rio Grande Rail-
way Company borrowed $5,000,0OO
from a bank in Holland to increase
it's facilities for handling the increas-
ed traffic on the Pacific coast. The
Hartman lines have 100000 in
cash in the treasury, and the financial
world is all agog to know what it
will be spent for and where. Mr. Har-
riman, who is taking the waters at
Bad Gastein, let drop some casual re-
mark about his properties, and the
natives made a pool to buy 5000
shares of one of his railway stocks.
Mr.. Hartman recently placed an order
for 105 locomotives about as ofhand
as you would order a pot roast feI
wash-day dinner.
SIGNIFICANT NEWS ITEMS.
Little dispatches such as this are
pointers, too: Passenger travel over
the western railroads is now the hea-
West in years, and it is doubtful il
there ever was as much traffic as at
this season. The business has in
creased to such an extent that the
Blank railroad is running two trains
a day through from Chicago and St.
Louis to Seattle, and all are crowded
to the limit"
The Pennsylvania railroad ordered
1000 steel coke cars from one COM
pany and 600 from another. The At
Gibson ordered 100 new passenger cars
from the Pullman company. All the
car foundries are said to be increas-
ing their forces, except one where
there is strike of 5000 operatives ov-
er the open or closed shop question
Texas farmers have organized a
trust" to control the output of cot