Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-11
PUBLIC SERVICE GAS COMPANY
THOUSANDS IN NEW JERSEY
FEEL THE WARS EFFECT
Many Thrown of Work by the Halt in Transatlantic Ship
ping Seek Other Employ ment-Business Depres-
sion and AcceIeration.

, petition cut off, the domestic factories
are working overtime and have added
to their selling forces. The pottery
concerns are in this class. The prin-
cipal centres of this industry are
Perth Amboy and Trenton.
With the potteries in Germany,
France and Austria shut down and
with plants in England about ready
to close, the demand in North and
South America for sanitary and gem
eral ware must be met exclusively by
the concerns in New Jersey and the
West
While much of the clay used in the
production of pottery in this country
is imported, it is said that local
manufacturers have a sufficient sup
ply to last them for many months.
At the end of that period, providing
it is impossible to make importations
from abroad, 1t may be that suffi-
cient quantity can be secured from
Tennessee, Florida. North Carolina,
and Delaware to make possible a con-
tinuation of manufacture.
South Jersey. on the whole, is re-
joicing for one reason. 1t will be able
| to get rid of the superabundance of
crops in a profitable way. Much of
the produce, chiefly tomatoes, will be
canned and sent abroad If means can
be found to ship them.
The effect of the war on SUBMITS
only manufacturing concern, the
Summit Silk Company, will doubtless
prove beneficial-for short period
at least.
Because of the Interference with
commerce, little or no foreign-made
silks are expected to reach this coun-
try, with a consequent boom for
domestic silks and increased prices.
Tho C,,v,a
hundred hands and at present the
company is rushed with orders. The
company is probably better off than
many other concerns engaged in a
similar business for the reason that
1t has supply of raw material on
hand which will permit of rush work
for at least three months. Most of
the raw material shipped Is received
by the mills in this country from
Japan, China and Italy and, of
course, should present war conditions
extend for a period of several months
the mills in this country would be
crippled.
Dyes Come from Germany.
Again the prosperity of the silk
business here will depend largely on
the chemists who will be called on to
provide the dye stuffs which are
used in coloring silks. Practically all
of the dye stuffs used in the silk col
oring with the exception of black is
! imported from Germany.
Building Conditions stagnant.
The conditions in Summit in the
buililng trades has been absolutely
stagnant for several months and, of
| course, there is now no indication
of Improvement, there being but a
half dozen new houses In course of
/ construction or planned at the pres
ent time. These jobs are being car
ried on by out-of-town contractors,
/ who have their own mechanics. On
one of these jobs the superintend-
emit declared that he could get all the
laboring men he needed at the pres
ent time out of this city for $1.25 per
day.
| John j. McGrath, a Summit con-
tractor, who employs usually about
100 men and thirty to fifty teams, said
today that unless he received addi-
tional work by Wednesday night he
would be obliged to lay off not less
| than thirty men, many of whom have
worked steadily for him for many
years.
Madison Feels Little Eject.
Up to the present time the Mlro-
pean war has penetrated with no
deeply felt results in the little town
of Madison. The prices of certain
provisions, however, have been raised,
and number of men are out of work,
although this cannot be proven to be
a direct result of the war on the con-
tinent.
The price of flour has advanced sew
enty-five cents per barrel This raise
was as sudden as was the jump in
wheat on the stock market. House.
wives are also complaining of the
raise in beef. Steak has increased six
cents per pound, with a proportion
ate advance in all other products.
Sugar, generally bought in three-anj-
a-half and pound bags, has
been raised four cents in the latter
amount. Butter has increased two
cents per pound.
There is at present an abundance
of garden vegetables in Madison on
account of the many gardeners, both
amateur and professional. But
housekeepers feel sure that the raise
in these products will be one keenly
felt in the fall
There are no factories or manufac-
turing plants In Madison. Authori-
ties In that field this spring predicted
a real estate boom for Madison dur
ing the ensuing warm season. But 1t
would seem that the war has fright
ened all prospective builders. Prop
erty improvements are practically at
a standstill. More mechanics are out