Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-10-25
BIGGER AND Buster BRATTLEB0R0
Record Breaking Volume Of Business in Industrial Plants end
Commercial Houses--Eveybody Employed

for a Saturday half holiday through June,
July, August and September, and we
would put on night shift II we had the
men," This company uses maple, beech,
birch and oak, most of which Is bought
In this locality, and makes substan-
tial and durable line of goods. From
35 to 40 carloads of lumber have been
received the past two weeks. From one
to two carloads are put in every day,
averaging from $4,000 to 10000 feet. The
chairs go to South Africa, Australia,
South America, Mexico the West Indies,
Philippines, Hawaiian Islands and else
where.
At the S. A. Smith company's factory
on Frost street So men are working 10
hours a day except Saturday, stopping
at o'closk Saturday afternoons. f. l..
Hunt, manager, said this week that the
men were getting out the orders for
Christmas and that the shop would be
busy until these were filled. The firm Is
behind on it's Christmas orders. Because
of the present situation of the Hard
ware & Woodenware company's bust
ness, of which the local toy and wood
enware factory is a branch, Mr. Hunt
could not say how business conditions
would be at the plant here after the
present orders were filed
The Carpenter company, makers of cot
tage organs, are employing about As
hands in their factory on Elliot street.
Here, as elsewhere, difficulty is expert
enced in securing additional employees.
I'VE employ about the same number of
hands the year around" said Martin
Austin, jr manager but we could use
a few more if we had them. Our bust
ness since July has shown an increase
over the same period last year, and we
have practically months business book
ed now 1t Is a peculiar fact that in our
correspondence not man has mentioned
politics as having any effect on bust
ness"
Felch & Pier manufacturers of chairs,
who occupy a building on Williams
street. formerly the Williams carriage
shop, report that business is excellent,
that they have orders that will keep
them busy until January and that with
out doubt orders will continue to come
in to Keep them running at full pres
sure. An order came last week calling
for 60 dozen chairs to be delivered in
January and similar orders have been
received with regularity. Twenty men
are employed 10 hours a day, 60 hours
week A few of the employees have
been putting in some overtime the past
few weeks. The chairs now being made
are intended for export trade and are
sent to an exporter in Brooklyn, who
sends them to Australia. Business with
this firm has been on the increase since
August and today there is a greater de-
mand for the better grade of chairs
than there was a year ago. Frank w
Pier said that when the shop started
the owners decided to make cheap
chairs and gradually improve the quality
of their output, which has been done
with gratifying results. Most of the
wood used is bought of Holden G. Mar
tin
1t will surprise some to know that Hol-
lA,, q
ers, have GA hands on their pay roll
This is more than twice the usual num-
Der, and the increase is due largely to
the increase in building operations. 81
| never saw anything like it," said l.. L
Holden senior member of the firm, when
asked how business was with that firm
I'VE can't get carpenters enough. We
would put 10 more at work in minute
If we could get them We have put UP
So tenements the past year and have
started 16 more" Holden & Martin en-
ploy 10 hands at their factory on Frost
street. The firm will use about 1000, 00(
, feet of lumber this year
! w. II. Haywood, proprietor of the c.
| II, Eddy e Co bottling factory on Frost
| street. has six men at work making
| carbonated beverages and navoring eX-
tracts. The men work about 60 hour.
a week. The tonic season has passet
| for the year 1912, but a few advance or
| ders are being filed besides the regular
orders from sources which use carbon.
/ ated products throughout the year. Dur
ing the summer just passed bushes:
was unusually good and IL men were
| kept hustlng filling orders. Prospect.
point to. another busy summer next veal
and probably more men will be at worl
| there than during the season of 1912
| The flavoring extract end of the bust
ness is better than usual and everything
/ points to a prosperous future, while tn,
soda business is as good as in othel
years.
At the Brattleboro Machine company.
shop on Elm street nine men are a
work SO hours a week regular time ant
are laboring nights and Sundays in or.
| der to catch up with the orders 81,
men are in the machine shop and thre,
| in the automobile repair shop. Thre,
men have been at work this week put
ting in place the boiler engine anC
shaftng at the Vermont Last Blocl
company's new building on the Vernon
road near Broad Brook. New orders ar,
continually coming in. This firm re-
ceives much work on repair jobs from
the Holbrook, Cabot & Rollins corpora
ton at the present time, but withou
this extra work the men would be KEEP
busy with other orders.
L. II. Stellman & Son, machinists an,
vi machinery, employ nv
men in their shop on Arch street an,
could employ extra hands If first cas
men We're available. Wilhelm E. Stel
man said this week that the firm ha,
all the work it could take care of. Tn
manufacture of fire escapes and the re
pair work on paper mill machiner.
makes up the greater part of the work
The machinists are working SO hours
week regularly and at present Sunda,
and night work is the rule. Mr.. Stell
man says that throughout the countr.
conditions are good in this line of bust
ness, An kinds of metal have advance,
sharply in price within the past thre
weeks and it is difficult to get orders fill
ed at the mills. This shows that meta
workers everywhere are busy.
Leslie Smiths mill on Flat stree
| keeps 10 men busy 50 hours a weel
and the firm is rushed with orders 70
building material and lumber Franz
lumber is hard to get and shipments OF
southern pine are slow and the price /
high Business is good at this plant an,
| has been good all thrOuph iimn,e