The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1914-07-01
FACTORIES HUM
IN CONNECTICUT
Unprecedented Activity Is
Now Shown
IN GREAT INDUSTRIAL FIELD
Comes at Time Of Year When
Sweeping Reductions
Have Been Rule.
NEW BUILDINGS ARE STARTED

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Especial to the New York Herald.)
Derby, Conn, June 29.-With the
brass mills, rubber factories and
iron foundries, which line both
banks of the Naugatuck river from
this city to Winsted, enlarging their
plants and increasing their working
forces, the Naugatuck Valley is en-
(, tering an unprecedented era of in
dustrial activity and expansion.
What makes the present boom in
business the more remarkable Is the
fact that it comes at time of the
year when sweeping reductions In
working forces and shut-downs IN
variably have been the rule. For
several weeks in summer 1t has been
the custom, even i'm the best OF bus
mess years, for the manufacturers
of the valley to silence the hum OF
industry, and during this seasonal
stagnation there has been little in
the way of remunerative labor for
the thousands of industrial workers.
For half a century the Naugatuck
has put forth the claim of being
"the greatest industrial valley on
earth" and that claim will be sus-
tanned and enlarged this summer as
never before. From this city, which
is the head of tidewater and the
gateway of the valley, to Winsted,
which is the valleys northern out
post, there is for fifty miles an al
most continuous chain of workshops
ir-which we'll nigh every conceiva-
( BILE article is made.
The Birmingham Iron Foundry
Company is the mainstay of this
city. This company has just begun
the building of extensions which
will double the capacity OF its I'M
mense plant.
But the company's step in begin
ming the erection of new rolling
mill is the best news that Derby mas
had in nearly quarter of century,
for this rolling mill is to rise on the
site of the old iron and steel works
of the Peck. Stone & Wilcox Com
pany. which dismantled its plant
and moved to Southington twenty
years ago. Until now the deserted
site has been only an eyesOre and an
emblem of one-time industrial great
ness. 90
At Ansonia the Ansonia Brass
and Copper Company is about to
build two great extensions to its
brass and wire department. The
company, which employees 1000
hands, is running day and night
shifts. The Farrell Foundry and
Machine Company is building an
enormous extension and is running
nights. The Osborne & Cheeseman
Company. which makes shoe laces,
webbing and corset laces, has just
completed a large extension. has
prepared plans for an even larger
addition, and will triple its working
force.
At Naugatuck all the rubber fac
tories of the Goodyear and allied
companies will start on full time to-
morrow. Five thousand operatives
are employed in the Naugatuck fac
tories, and there are enough orders
ahead to keep them busy for year.
One OF the orders is for 10000. 900
pairs of rubber oyershoes.
In Waterbury, the American
Brass Company ID building two
enormouy extensions and is running
its mills day and night. Twenty
thousand operatives are employed
in the brass city factories. and the
number will be greatly increased as
soon as the machinery is installed in
the new plants.
At Torrington THE Coe Brass
Company is driven to its utmost ca
pacity to keep pace with quicken
ing accumulation Of business. and
another mammoth pill is being con-
structed, IL is working several
thousand hands day and night.
At Bristol the New Departure
Manufacturing Company has COM
pleted an impofrng new building
and is running full blast,
At Seymour plush. tool. brass.
nail. cable apd pen factories are
runping full handed. and several