Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-15
mo LET UP IN
INDUSTRIAL RUSH
DURING NEW YEAR
Full Time During Christmas
Holidays and For Months
to Come
HAVE THEIR TROUBLES
Bituminous Coal and Dye
Shortage Effects Manufac-
turers

No let-up in the rush of industrial
business in the big plants of the city
| is in sight, according to managers
of the manufacturing concerns. Full
time during the Christmas holidays
and for months during the new year
is the outlook at present, some of the
plants only closing down on Christmas
Day and others on Christmas and New
Years Day.
a number of the firms when taking
the annual inventory of stock usually
close down the factories. but this year
the accounts will be made in a number
of cases while the plants are running
full time.
Rush orders to be filled and deliv-
cred as soon as possible are keeping
the employers and employees on full
time, with no relief or shutdown in
sight for many months, some of the
manufacturers having orders that will
keep the machines busy for five or six
months at least.
Rumored advances in the price of
pig iron and the difficulty in obtaining
shortages, are a few of the troubles
of the managers, but most of them,
foreseeing the conditions, prepared the
companies by laying in a sufficient
supply of the products.
Never before in the history of the
city have the majority of the indus
tries been kept on full time during the
holiday period with prospects of a
busy season during the first three OF
four months of the new year, accord
ing to officials in a number of the
plants.
Only Two Holidays
At the New Idea Hosiery plant the
annual inventory will be taken shortly
after the first of January. with the
plant on full time on rush orders for
immediate delivery. Christmas and
New Years Day will be the only two
holidays given employees, it was an
nounced.
At the Harrisburg Silk Mills only
two holidays will be given, owing to
the big rush in business.
At the Moorhead Knitting Company
Liant the employees will be given four
days, Friday and Saturday of Christ
mas week and Friday and Saturday
over the New Year holidays. The off,
cials of the company have planned a
big Christmas dance for the employees
for Friday night, December II, to be
manufacturing company. Three big
trees will be trimmed, not only with
the gilded balls and tinsel, but with
gifts for each one of the 10 employees
of the company. After these have been
presented q dance will be held during
the remainder of the evening.
Officials of the Lalance- -Grosjean
Manufacturing Company have not de-
cided on the inventory of the plant,
but it was said yesterday that if neces-
sary this might be postponed for a
short time because of rush orders be-
ing handled in the mills.
The 1,6O0-odd employees of the Har-
risburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Works
will be given only the Christmas holi-
day. following the custom that has
been in vogue for number of years
at this plant.
Plants Going Full Speed
Employees of the w. o. Hickok
Manufacturing Company are being
kept busy with a steadily increasing
business and at present are slightly
handicapped because of the removal
of machinery from the old to the new
plant.
Other plants running full time on
big orders with prospects of busy
season during the first months of the
new year are the Central Iron and
Steel Company, Elliott-Fisher Com
pany. Harrisburg Shoe Manufacturing
Company. Harrisburg Cigar Company,
Morton Truck and Tractor Company
and the Harrisburg Foundry and Ma
china Works