Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-19
RlSINESS NOTES

Tho number of locomotives shipped ror
the period of November ! to NoVenip,st
% was ses .aIr namIeiy; Amer,SsdIiti m ADDITION to
tho aboye,- American Works sn'ppeSS p,,S
eighteen miscellaneous domestic an au
completed fifteen foreign and the me nu,,,- pa
win Works shipped three m,sllt, m,sceilanreon. ro,.a.
domestic and completed 2S7 foreign Ioco-
motives.
Important industrial Developments arc
impending In England, according 70 tne
Daily Chronicle, which says nire . an
expenditure Of fb, 100000. Chief among
these is the building of a large rehnerE
ut Swansea by the Anglo. persian ~ y.
Company. This company is preparing
10 spend 2, ,ooo, 900 on wharves. railroad
tracks and equipment: Many mr,ns ms,l e w
terprises also are projected. according u
tho newspaper ..,a .... ..
.AfsrshalI, Field a Co.. announce 'i.S ~
rstirerfnent from the executive force OF
one Of the Oldest and most valued, as.
soeiates. Thomas, g. Blayne.i h.aI l1;s 10 de-
notion department, wholesale. iis
eision Is TO. retire as OF peeemner pee nasn an an
Z pointed to the position made vacant ny
Mr.: Blayney's withdrawal .,,.
1t has been decided to name the new @
organization Of dress manufacturers tne
aS,d have the scope of the association
Z national in character. Manufacturers
of tchildren's dresses will aiso De eiiSlole S
for membership, thus making ~ repre-
sentative of. the entire dress indutsry'
There was little or no new business
eported in the burlap ma:ke's 1oI .ne
day. Where buyers must nave meIcnaii-
disc TO go on with they are purchasng
in very moderate quantities phere rs
Z some uneasin expressed concerning
The wisdom of trying TO, hold thg mar
kets well into next year tnr9osn iurt.o ,,,.or
ls being discussed among dtHsre'l iac-
tors.
More than i0Oe unfiiied coal cars are
reported standing at mines and scales
inthe Huntington, ". Va, district, most
Z OF them. along the lines Of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railroad, owing TO re-
\ cent zoning orders Of the fuel admins
tratlon which limit Huntington terri
tory to about 20 per cent Of its former
selling area. Under. the rule OF the ad-
, move to Tidewater each twenty-four
hours In the Big Sandy and Guyan
Valley fields a number OF mines Will
be obliged to suspend operations for an
indefinite time.
Tho new Cuban sugar crop. according
TO conservative estimates, will total
5000, 900 tons. 1t will be, the largest
Out~turn IN tne nlSNOTS VI tile lbidip'
The ie17-t91s season resulted IN the
production of 3.446,0O0 tons, Grinding
Of. cane Is going forward actively, About
twenty centrales are now at work In
Cuba. cane is planted almost every
month i'll the year, but the principal
months are April to September. In
like manner. harvesting is almost per-
petuaE but most OF the mills work from
January to June.
Just now serious strikes on the island
are. Interfering with sugar operations.
These strikes started several weeks ago
ut several ports among the stevedores,
who were quickly emulated by railroad
employees in Camaguey and .oriente
which planned an early start of the
campaign have been unable to carry
heir plans into effect Recent advices
Indicated that the ports of Havana, An
i lila and. ,Neuvitas were almost COM
Dletely tied up, hut that loading was
going forward at most of the other
Z ports
women's Employ ment Bureau Of Pitts
burgh says vacancies exist there for
l70o women and that only 172 women
have been discharged thus far by indus
trial plaItts.% - - "
Tho purchase Of the bridgeport Morn
Z ing Telegram, the Bridgeport Evening
Post, and the Bridgeport Sunday Post.
all issued from one plant by Edward
Flicker. formerly publisher of the GIN
cinati Enquirer aud Russel r. whit
man, publisher OF the New York Com
and Kenneth W. McNefh- announced