Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-10
POINT TO GOOD TIMES WRIGHT GOES Abroad
Prosperity Bulletins Coming in 0vie Has Flying Machine
From All Directions Business in Europe
SHOPS TAKING ON HANDS HIS SISTER ACCOMPANIES
Settlement Of Tarf Causes the Pac May Fly Celebration
ing of Orders. Later.
BIG CROPS ALSO LARGE FAC1oR GERMAN CONTRACTS
Nature the Republican Party
Dividing Credit for Return 70 TRANSPORT Mails in
nesA Near Future
Prosperity Bulletins Coming in
From All Directions.
SHOPS TAKING ON HANDS
Settlement of Tarff Causes the Plac-
ing of Orders.
BIG CROPS ALSO LARGE FACTOR
Nature and the Republican Party
Dividing Credit for Return of
Business Activity.

: cornucopia OF prosperity seems to be
fitting over the country, ready to pour
down golden stream of beneticence,
judging from the trade and financial re-
ports flashed from every section of the
land. Nature and the republican party,
by team work, are said to be pulling
off big stunt But let it be understood
that it is a distinct concession on the
part of the republican party to head
line nature at all. in this double turn.
Yesterdays government crop reports
predicting bumper crops of grain and
reasonably good crops of cotton, warmed
the cookies OF the heart of the financiers
who keep a finger upon the pulse of
trade. They foresaw big returns to the
farmers, gratifying freight receipts for
the railroads and ''rake-off' to all the
middle men. Coincident with this good
news came dispatch after dispatch tell
ing of resumption of activity in manu-
featuring. employment of labor and prep
arauonS for Dig business for the future.
The settlement of the tariff agitation and
tine preservation of protection to Amer
lean industries are claimed to be the
causes OF these happy conditions, and
that is where the republican party steps
70 the front and bows to bouquets.
Big Order for Locomotives.
An order for sl.oooOoo worth of loco
motives from one railroad company was
placed with Philadelphia shop yester-
day. That means. il is claimed, the
taking on OF more machinsts and la
borcrs. There are now g. 800 men in the
shops, against 1000 this time last year.
The maximum of employees in these
works is 1850 in good times
In one county alone in New jersey
Essex county-2,6o0 additional workmen
aIe 10 be taken on i'll one branch OF in
duairH--feather manufacturing, as direct
result of the tariff legislation, it is an
nounced. The leather makers have been
running with limited forces up to this
me
FROM Chicago came the announcement
81 the placing yesterday of orders for
over a0.GtD tons Of steel rails, and the
iis,i iiman lines are TO buy ll6.VO0. Fab
IL atIus IRON Is selling $40 above the low
i'otnt of the year. rhe South Chicago
rati mills of the steel trust are booked
aHead until December with orders and
tn" ,iary plant until October.
Tie Denver and Rio Grande Railway
ON pany borrowed Sott0,UOO from a bank
in Holland to increase its facilities for
handling the increased traffic on the Pa
cilic coast. The Hartman lines have SO
nUu,vW in cash in the treasury, and the
financial world is all agog to know what
ii will be spent for and where. Mr.. Harri-
man. who is taking the waters at Bad
'JdSltlH. lrl uIop SOI1e CASUAL TeEndTh
about his properties, and the natives made
u pool 10 buy 500 shares OF one of hls
railway stocks Mr.. Hartman recently
placed order for 1oJ locomotives about
as offhand as you would order a'pot roast
Tor wash-day dinner.
Significant News Items.
Little dispatches such as this are point
ers, too: Passenger travel over the west
ern railroads is now the heaviest in years.
and it is doubtful if there ever was as
much traffic at this season. The bust
ness has increased to such an extent that
the Blank railroad is running two trains
day through from Chicago and ST. Louis
TO Seattle. and all are crowded to the
limit.
The Pennsylvania railroad ordered 1000
steel coke ears from one company and 6.p
from another The Atchison ordered 1870
new passenger from the Pullman
company. All the ear ioundrles are said
TO be increasing their forces. except one
where there is a strike of $500 operatives
over the open or closed shop question
Texas farmers have organized trust"
10 controi the output of cotton and sus-
lain prices. They claim TO control ys per
cent of the Texas cotton crop, and with
warehouses with d capacity OF storing .
:,,1,0uo bales OF cotton. will try to mold
the crop for better prices.
A Few Dark Spots.
The foregoing are only random notes of
tho revival Of prosperity and general bust
ness straws to show the direction of the
trade winds for one day. There are other
side9 OF the shield. OF course. Here Is
something from the scene of the strike
of the Pressed Steel Car workers:
To-day will mark four weeks since the
%tfike Ot III" b.bss, workmen began. !"
To-day Is eviction day, and the strikers
have been ordered out of the company's
houses. and reinforcement OF deputies
has arrived at the scene overnight.
only TWO little cIoudS appear on the
business horizon, neither larger than
man hand al present. One is the possi-
bility of labor troubles over the open shop
contest, as mills start up, and the other a
possible scarcity OF money 10 move the
enormous crops. Chicago predicts > per
cent money by September 1. There will
he, IL is predicted, renewal of demand
Tor reform of the currency, and il will be
accentudted, IL is said, by the wonderful
prosperity calling INTO service d Ilouo or
currency in excess of the capacity OF the
present currency system To meet the ris-
ing tide.