Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06
HUM OF INDUSTRY
 IN WiLLlMANTIC MILLS.
New Trade Orders Putting the Towns
 Industries on Busy Basis.

Under a Willimantic date line, the New York Evening Mail of February said:
 Ernest P Chesbro, a member Of the lower house of the legislature from Wiudhan county, understands indus trial conditions in his own town and inc nearby territory about as well as any man in Connecticut.
 This is Q hill center and the pros peritE of the shopkeepers is Iaeasur- cd by the activity or idleness of the workers There is no denying that Willimantic and the two Windhams have felt the pinch of hard times, but a rife in the clouds Of depression is visible and everybody is hopeful
 The spring will bring things back to normal, said MT. Chesebro, and all the indications point to a better and consequently an increased output. If the war keeps on for a long time, no living man can tell the final out come, so far as conditions here are concerned.
 This district does not benefit from tho sale of war supplies, because none are sold. Our banks are sound and are greatly encouraged by the hopsfuiness and courage of the peo- pie. Tn this region we overcome diff faculties if there is presented the slightest chance"
 Working Forty Hours.
 The American Thread company is the principal industry here, and when running full time it employs twenty signs of 8 return to normal condi = tjons referred to by MT. Chesbro was the adding last week of one day making forty hours of labor in the six days, compared With thirty-two hours during the dull period.
 The NEjl1iD1SnTiP Taci1jron corn na n7, increased it's working time to fifty hours in the latter part of January. While this is not a big plant, rela- lively speaking, the renewed demand for it's product is significant
 The Rossie Velvet company en- ploys 12o hands. Its business has noL been interfeFre6 with materially The mill is running full time, and with good prospects for an increased trade The Vandernan Manufac- turing company is running full time The Holland Silk company, is rum ming forty hours a. week, although the probability in the early fall was that it would be reduced to half time oI even less.
 There is TO little satisfaction over pany has been running ful time fo1 the last four weeks. This mill has 200 hands.
 Resumes Work.
 The QUidnick Nindham cOnDanv manufacturers of cotton sheetings, is one of the most important industries in the town. It had been closed dowr altogether, but is now working forty hours 3, week. This is a big concerr and employees between 800 and 1,O0( operatives. Its idleness or activity is a serious thing for the shoplzeeper
 Over at South Wil>dI1am the biz machine shops have been feeling the effects Of the war in 8 falling off oi machinery, but the period of slack orders fer paper mill and laundry work has passed, apparently, for the 29G mechanics are putting in forty hours a week. c. R. Harris, 1nanu. facturer of ieNe1ry, is not getting any orders from the war gene, but his fifty employees are steadily at theil tasks.
 In North YYindhana, L. NJ. Harstor < Co, who deal in silk mill sup plies, have a stock of orders and are on full time
 Bird students find much pleasure even now, as one of them expresses it following footprints in the snow anc elusive notes of winter birds.