The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-07
.mERE are increasing indications

Industrial situation will have
been materially improved. Big
merchants and great manufacturing
concerns are certain that substantial
be;terment will have been effected by
that time and are making their plans
accordingly. As a matter Of fact not
a few concerns are having an increase
in their business even now. one of
the best indications Of that was the
public announcement made by the sec
rotary of the Bedford branch OF the
Young Mems Christian Association in
Brooklyn last Sunday at the after
noon meeting in the auditorium which
was crowded to its full capacity of
about 1000 men.
"Our employment bureau" he said
finds itself unable to supply the in
creased demand for office assistants.
] do not say that this is true of all
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton branches in the city, but it il
true of ours. Employers are calling
upon us every day for stenographers,
clerks and officeboys and we cannot
find enough to send them
"lf any OF you men can All any Of
.
give you places to Call-places where
they want clerks or stenographcrs.
And If you have boys that want jobs,
or know of any, or II YOU know any
men such as ! have described, send
| them along We cannot guarantee
! that they will exactly meet the re-
/ quremcn's OF the employers. but We
can at least give them "A chance to
find out.
After such a long period of BUSH
ness depression | consider this a good
sign that prosperity Is not far off"
| But this is only one indication. and
( not a large one in comparison with
others. More than a dozen men of
large affairs when asked what they
/ thought of the prospect Of return
TO normal conditions before a great
while expressed the confident belief
I that within two months very great
number Of the idle in New York and
other large cities throughout the coun-
! try would be at work. They base this
belief upon their expectation that by
next May the European war will be
| practically at an end. This does
not mean that they expect the
armies now in the field to he dis
! banded. or that hostilit.es will have
| given place " an actual declaration
of peace. 1t does mean, however, that
/ they expect that at least three Of the
countries now at war will have re-
turned TO an almost normal condition
/ Of manufacture and industry.
/ One of the largest contracting con
Germs in the world. whose operations
are so extensive that Il Is literally
/ true that the sun never sets upon its
work. whose whistles call men "a
! labor in almost every country under
the sun and whose undertakings
amount TO many millions Of dollars
annually, was one OF the first to fix
the first OF next April as the time
| when real substantial start would
I he made Just what this opinion is
based upon. definitely and specifically
none of the officers OF the concern
seemed inclined to say, but it is a
fact that foreign contracts are being
negotiated probably even closed, al
| the present time and the dates fol-
! beginning and ending the work are
being set.
Besides this. contracts for supplies
for England and France, as well as
other countries which formerly die
business extensively with Germany
are pouring into the country and
some provision must he made to care
for them, to produce the goods de.
mandod and TO ship them to the Coun'