The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-16
PROSPERITY WILL |OUTLAST THE WAR
 STAMFORD BELIEF
Not Dependent Upon Muni- tions Orders Increasing
 Demands for All Sorts.

said and written, these days, about
 the country's prosperity, the causes of l it, and what may happen at the end | of the European war. Much is being said right here in Stamford on this | very topic, and fear is expressed, in
 many quarters, for the general trend of affairs when the war comes to an end and there is no longer a. demand | for war materials. On the whole, how ever, Stamford manufacturers have no F fear whatever of this promised" end of prosperity. In the first place, they say, the end of the war is not in sight and war orders are still coming; in the second. place, they claim that the concerns now manufacturing war ma terials will be needed to manufacture other commodities when the war has concluded.
 It is pointed out, too, that most of these prosperous concerns, in our own vicinity, are manufacturing goods which have nothing to do with war, except that the European war has tied up many European industries that cannot be rehabilitatedN during war times, and United States experts, who
 have considered this question, claim
 that they cannot be rehabilitated for
 some years after the war. These ex- perts point out that Europe will have to be almost entirely rebuilt after the
 war, and they ask who will supply
 he material for this rebuilding but the United States. Some folk have an erroneous im- pression that local concerns, such as the Stamford Rolling Mills and the American Cupro-Nickel company, are for war purposes only, and that they
 will disband immediately after, the war. The management of these and
 other concerns say there is not the slightest foundation for such an idea. In the first place, the Stamford Roll- ing Mills taking this plant as an ex-
 ample, since it was not established here until after the start of the war is manufacturing articles which will probably never see war zone'b or an army camp. A For instance, 1t re- gently handled a big order of brass for the Ford automobile concern. Surely that concern is as far from war as any pac1f1st could desire Many peo- fple attribute the rapid growth of Richards & Company's plant, in Lud- low street, to the European war. Here again comes the demand of MT. Ford
 for one of the biggest items in this concerns business is artificial leather for Ford cars: There is no doubt that some Stam- ford industries are manufacturing ma terials to fill war orders,'' but it can be positively stated that no single tconcern in this city is depending upon war orders, or is manufacturing ma terials for war consumption entirely. The Stamford Rolling Mills Company asserts that it is here to stay; the Ann al
 which is now joined with the Rolling Mills, claims that it has orders ahead. for many months, that have nothing to do with the war; the Yale & Towne Company, everybody knows, did a thrifty business before the European war was thought of; the American Synthetic Color Company of Water side has established demand for its dyestuffs that it will be hard for for eign competition or aught else to up- set; the Stamford Manufacturing Co. is experiencing prosperity; so is the i Stamford Foundry Company, the otf1- CT local foundries, and practically ev- cry manufacturing enterprise in the town isahandling just about as much
 work as 1t cares for at this time. There is distinct spirit of op- timism among manufacturers. If there were any fear of dangers ahead, one manufacturer argues, local indus
 tries would not be paying bonuses. His claim is that the bonuses would
 go into savings for meeting dull times' which the pessimists are so eager to see for the nation when the European war is over.
 At a recent dinner of the Stamford Manufacturers association, Thomas yu11n fC aF fhn Init ed States Naval Advisory Board, talked on the subject of Industrial Preparedness" which hinged on the, question of what it would cost in time, money and energy, to turn the indus tries of the nation over to the making of war requirements. in case the country was drawf into war. The in vestigatioms of his committee, he stat ed, were decidedly encouraging Local manufacturers feel that there would be no concern felt in tk.s ci/ about such a matter for Stamofrd's indus | tries are just as varied as are the de- mands which nations war puts upon her industries. When war orders came to local concerns, there was no great outlay of money required to put | the various shops in, condition to fill these orders. It is said that there has been considerable discussion on this
 matter among local manufacturers
 since Mr. Robbins opened the topic.
 and 1t is known that local men feel
 very free of mind about what part
 Stamford could play if industrial pre-
 paredness were called upon to manf-
 fest itself.
 l Larger wages are being paid in To-
 cal factories, today, than ever before.
 Not only in the factories are the wages higher. but in the various
 trades and Stamford, in general,
 seems to have little fear for what the i future may have in store for it.
 1 An outbreak of cholera at Nagasaixi
 has resulted in 48 deaths