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GLOBE---M' NOVEMBER 4, 1895. THE DAILY NOVE3IBER 5 4 I 1 MECHANICS KEPT BUSY. MPPIT i VITtin Trnnm TVTTrEtt Continued from the Fourth Page. Clobe Want Ad Stations. establishments have gone along with, a ness Interests will soon be on as firm el this summer and many beautiful homes plant is Charles IL Currier, manufacgradually increased output, and the basis as ever.

now adorn lots that were vacant one turer and dealer In dyestuffs, who has town is an exceptionally prosperous and Wages remain about the same. In one year ago. built an annex two stories high, contented one. or two instances manufacturers who In reviewing the industrial situation the lower part of which is used for Real estate has had a phenomenal were obliged to reduce wages in 1S94 of central Essex county, it is apparent ofitee purposes and stock room. and the 'ioom.

and prices of buildings and have been able to restore the old ached-. that the people are as prosperous and upper story for the manefacture of ing sites have advanced fully 50 percent ule. hkpoy as mssiblv could be expected, produeqs. He has a's built a laboratory on the average. while the demand for The number of able bodied men unem- while the chan-es of eontinued success two stories high, 25x25.

These improve- i tenements is away beyond the supply. ployed is remarkably small, as corn- are very promising indeed. mento have given work to four new Norwood never knew better times. in pared with the same period in 9,1 Then all of its history. they could be found loitering about men The are of wood and are well appointed.

Mr Currier states busi- Market so, eager for work, but unable to find any, and the same holds good LYNN. better than a year ago and is of the opinion that it will continue good. HUDSON. for the year previous. Now very few The Boston blower works has built a men are out of work.

Those Who Know Concider the Growth wooden annex. 315x-10. and two stories Real estate values are fully as highs high the lower part of which will be From a Bed of Ruins the Town Has Re- and in many instances the assessors of City Phenomenal in the Matter of used for storing bar iron and rte tipper have made advances. Building sites, covered its Lost Ground and itsPros- Industrial Buildings. floor for finished goods.

The cost is about slim. The comnany has moved perity is Remarkable. thiliend LYNN. Nov 2A Icki stride forward its correstlantipnro nart ne it eten Those Who Know Core Ilder the Growth of City Phenomenal in the Matter of Industrial euildings. LYNN.

Nov 2A big stride forward men The buntlines are of wood and are well appointed. Mr Currier states business ts better than a year ago and is of the opinion that it will continue good. The Boston blower works has built a wooden annex. 315x-10. and two stories high, the lower part of which will be used for storing bar iron and rte upper floor for finished goods.

The cost is about $1100. The comnany has moved its correspondence part of its Boston 100 to 150, the number uow employed. Just at present the business is quiet, but generally better than two years ago. The wages rmain the same. At the Massachusetts reformatory Cloutman Dunham of Boston have 250 men employed making boots and shoes.

turning out the same amount as last year. A. Merriam Co's piano stool factory of South Acton turns out about 25.000 stools a year, employing 30 men. The business has been a little better this fall, although the collections were not quite so good. Wages are the same.

The style of work has changed to wooden stools instead of upholstered. prices haying been lowered somewhat by manufacturing companies going into the The general business and Wages in this district remain the same. The value of real estate in the center of Concord Is rated higher than a few years ago, most of the desirable building lots having been purchased and built upon. 1,,, li 10 I fl I I 1 i I Vi if 1 1111'' 11 11 lb I I'llt I I office to this town and built new office quarters, 173E35, in one of its main build-Ines. Tileston Hollingsworth.

manufactur -rs of fine print paper, have built an addition to the storehouse at the Matta-an mill. 54N100, of wood. at a cost of about $10.906. At the Eagle mill at Dorchester, a new river water filtering plant bss been installed. with a capacity of 230.0001100 gallons.

at an estimated cost of tt20.00o. Superintendent R. D. Mossman reports a great improvement in business of over a year ago. Henry Arnold, superintendent of the American tool and machine company, states tbat business is better than It was one and two years ago, and that wages are better.

H. Brainard of the Brainard milling machine company, reports business good, and has employed additional hell) during the past year. The board of assessors report real estate values ita having increased from 5 to 10 percent, according to location, during the past year. the work during much of the past year that it was necessary to work nights In order to keep the work up and fill orders on time. As compared with one or two years ago the industrial situation Seems much better and the business outlook In every way better.

As an evidence of the brisk work done it may be said that so full was one of the factories at one time of workmen end material that a lively hunt for barns and sheds had to be instituted to store leather in. But perhaps the most convincing proof of prosperity is the fact that in spite of the heavy taxation on account of the water system so many homes are being built for the common people. At least a dozen are now building and as many more projected. If all the buildings erected during the past two or three years could be grouped together they would form a village of respectable size with beautiful stone church. publin library and hall and bank building all equipped for the life of a town.

Since MO the population has increased 26 percent. There have been no cut downs and no labor troubles of any moment, so that the purchasing power of the workingmen is not impaired. Real estate is high and tenements in great demand, so much so that they are engaged before the foundations of new houses are all in. In West Brookfield the boot and shoe business never was better than it is today, and the new comet shop of the Olmsted Quaboag corset company, three stories high and 125x30 feet. is a new Industry that has been running for about one yeer, and which much to the of the town.

The pros. pect for in the future is excellent. and wages are generally as high as they have been in recent years. rapidly that they are behind. The Pittsfield brass company, which has some connection with the Stanley company, has Just been established.

and will occupy, the old Coogan property on Elm rt. The Crane manufacturing- company. the westons, the Hurlbut company, and other paper manufacturers in the county, are having a good business. NORTH ADAMS. Most Prosperous Time in the History of the Old Town, or the New Corning This Season.

NORTH ADANIS. Nov 2 Tbe mew city government will be elected this year. and whoever is -mayor will be the executive of the most prosperous time in the history of the old town, or new city. This is the general feeling. But by long odds the thing that 10 making the people feel good is the fact that the Arnold print works coroOration and Canny) Houghton are now spending substantially in the erection of two superb additions to the Eclipse nd Reaver cotton mills.

At the Eclipse mill an addition 200x75 feet nd four stories high is being erectci. machinery will be nut In as soon as possible and the first of the new year will see It In successful operation. The product is to be fine cottons. At the Eclipse mill the number of persons empinved Wilf 11 the addition Is completed will be O. This will be more than the present number.

What has been said of the Eclipse ntiU applies also to the Beaver. for the worli Is being done by the same contractors, and the additions were both planned by! F. P. Sheldon of Providence. the mill engineer.

The addition at the Beaver. like at the Eclipse. is 200x75, and both additions are of brick. Not only are the two additions being built. but the two mills are being put in the finest possible condition.

Of course all this work brings in money In large amounts in the present. and there will be more work and larger pay-rolls next year This means a larger population. more building and all the ramifications that come with prosperity. It is fair to say that real estate in the vicinity of the two new mills has Increased in value from 15 to 20 percent already. so quickly is prosperity discounted.

Taking a general average, It Is fair to Fay that wages in North Adams are fully as high as they were in 1892. and that next year. as there will be stilt more work, they promise to be higher still. MEDFORD. It is a Residential City, but What Few Factories it Has are Getting Their Share of Prosperity.

MEDFORD, Nov 3Medford has made tremendous strides in many directions within the past year. It can Only be viewed in its growth and progress as simply a residential city. There are no mannfacturing in.dustries or large business enterprises requiring any great number of operatives or employes. Most of its residents are wealthy or well-to-do. The J.

F. Street print factory, near Glenwood, tht Anderson pressed brick company's buildings, the wagon factory of J. R. Teel and the Oliver Whyte screen works near the center of the city, with the Medford felt boot works, situated off Riverside av, comprise the larger business factories of the city. There are large coal and lumber yards, a mattress factory on Salem st and a small chemical works establishment in West Medford.

but the employes of all these places combined would not number more than 300 or 400. The business in most of these places. however, is reported by those employed as being much better than a year ago. The wages have not perceptibly increased, only in one or two instances. These stations are established In different parts of the city and Its suburbs to accommodate adver tigers and save them the trouble of coming down town to The 'Globe office.

The price on all Ads Is the same as at The Globe office and each agent has the instructions and Globe rules and can give all tecessary information about want Ads. This is simply to accommo1. date individual advertisers and not business firms. The Inter'. este of the latter require direct communicaticA with The Glob.

office. 4 BOSTON, CITY PROPER' 11 WI S. FOLGER Druggists, 125 Tremont It. O. R.

INGALLS. Druggist. 792 Tremont at. BOYLSTON PHARMACY. 123 Massachusetts ay.

CHARLES COLEMAN, Druggist. 20 Cambridge it. 4 A. D. SHEPPARD Druggists, 1129 Washingtoo et.

W. E. NICHOLS, 4 Columbus sv. Dartmouth and Chandler et. Sr R.

WRIGHT SON. Druggists, Cot. W. Cedar sod Severs sta. WARREN.

3No town could have shown greater recuperative power than has this in the last 15 months, and such a rise in real estate, and the erection of so many buildings in so short a time, has no parallel in New England. The cause for this was not the introduction of new business, nor the additions to factories in existence, but was the result of disaster. July 4, 1894, a conflagration burned 44 buildings, large and small, valuable and cheap. and all were within pistol shot of each other. When the ruins had been cleared away and new buildings had commenced to arise, and there were prospects of much better structures than the town had before, the value of the land comprising the burned district began to go up until the taxable property had increased in valuaMon $97,500.

In Wood sq and fringing the square are 11 large, handsome new brick blocks which in value represent $267,767. The fixtures represent a valuation of Thus there has been given to the town a great improvement in real estate value in that particular locality. There has not been any noticeable activity in real estate transactions in other quarters, for the town had a dual misfortune in buffeting the hard times and struggling against the disastrous effects of the fire. The shoe business, which is the staple Industry here, has not advanced, according to the testimony of manufacturers. In fact, the tendency has been the other -way on account of two factories''being burned, which have been rebuilt.

and the condition of leather market, which has not given an impetus to the factories running. The rate of wages remains substantially where it has been for two years or more, with possibly a slight advantage gained in one factory, but there has been no general change worthy of mention. The popular opinion is that with all the obstacles confronting Hudson, its rapid rise from the immense beds of ruins in a year and a quarter Is sufficient evidence of the pluck and characteristic prokressiveness of the business men of the town. The townspeople are highly gratified at that showing. prices.

While there has been no boom in the manufacturing interests of the city, there has been a healthy growth. During the year the Dodge Bros shoe manufacturers, have mat enlarged their plant. Another story, of wood. 202x42 feet, has becn added to the main factory. The brick- boiler house is being eniarged to 50x40 feet, or twice its former size, while the electric lighting plant is being extended from $0o to 450 lights, with a new dynamo.

A high brick chimney Is also being built. These improvements will cost $80,0, and will enable le firm to employ at least one-third mbre help. At the present time tbey have twice as many at work in the cutting room, compared with the same period in 1894. In 1694 several of the buildings of the Newburyport car company were deitstroyed by fire. The company was doing tery little business, and the fire came as a death blow to the industry.

An effort was made to establish the plant In Woburn. taking the old name, but this fell through. Finally several of the progressive business men, with the cooperation of a few master mechanics, decided to reorganize the company. This move was successful. Sufficient capital was secured, and the company, with State Treas Shaw as president, is now constructing a four-story wooden building, 97x38 feet, to replace the ones destroyed by fire.

The work of building cars is already in progress in the old buildings, 22 men being employed at present. This number will be increased to 50 or 60 as soon as possible. The estimated cost of the new building and machinery is $5000. Burley, Stevens Co, whose shoe factory was destroyed with the car company's buildings have removed to the unused Whitefield mills building, and are doing one-third more work than one year ago. They have an immense brick building 300x45 feet, four stories high.

A small wooden shoe factory is in progress of construction on Summer et. It is 35x20 feet, and will be occupied by John E. Morgan, who expects to employ 15 hands at first. The old wooden armory building on Prince pl has been converted into a factory, and is now Occupied by J. N.

Brackett Co. manufacturers of inner soles, heels, stiffenings, etc. The building has been raised, thus a(lding another story and giving excellent facilities for such work. These alterations and additions have cost about $3000. The firm employs a third more hands than in 1894.

The Victor Manufacturing company is making decided improvements at its plant on Water at. A wooden addition. 34x30 feet, is being built on the rear of the factory, and commencing at the two-story head house. another story is being added to main factory, 64x30 feet in size, also of wood. This will give the company abont 3000 square feet of room, or double the present capacity.

This company manufacture fire doors, blinds, etc. Estimated cost of improvements $3500. The Towle manufacturing company have added a small brick building in the rear of their factory, which will be used for smelting silver. A brick chimney. 60 feet high, has also been built.

Thin means employment for two or three more hands. At the Victoria cotton mills a steel water tower. 25x16 and 100 feet high, has been constructed. This by order, of the insurance people. There have been about 40 dwelling houses and stores constructed here during the past year.

NEEDHAM. WORCESTER. has been taken by Lynn this year in adding to her facilities for manufacturing by the erection of industrial bnildings. Wolk is now going on briskly on a number of new structures, and others are but just completed and occupied. The greater part of the new floor space is for the shoe and leather industry, which is steadily outgrowing its present Though stagnant just now, owing to the unsettled state of the leather market.

the business is not checked in its progress toward Improved fa cilities. Many manufacturers that as the trade improves they will need larger quarters. In im few instances the new buildings replace those destroyed by lire, hut ney are so much greater in capacity that they should be counted, in part at least, as additions to the city's industrial structures. The most netable of the buildings now under construction is the great J. 13.

Renton brick factory on Harrison ct, which will shelter Mr Renton's immense production of leather goods. heels, rands. etc. It is building alongside the Poston Maine railroad. occupying the site of a former unsightly group of wooden morocco shops.

It is flatiron in shape, seven stories high. 218 feet long and 58 feet wide at the widest part. It is considered one of the most substantial structures in the city, and will add about 50.000 square feet to its manufactoeing floor The Hemmingway building, the tion of which has eommenced on the lot at the corner of Oxford and Mulberry sts, will be devoted to the manufacture of shoos and shoe machinery. It will be of brick, six stories high, 61x71 feet in area, giving about 24,000 square feet. The Burpee Rumsey factory on Blake St is hut recently completed, and is counted a proud addition to the best of the cityls factories.

It is seven stories high and contains 45,00 feet of floor space. Its facade is a handsome feature. buff brick having.been utilized in an attractive architectural des'gn. Mr Rummy has the entire building in use In manufacturing fine ehoes. The twin Clark and Hutchinson blocks on Munroe St.

built on the site of a recent disastrotis fire, evil afford room for manufaettring as well as mercantile business, and are regarded as model buildirgs. They ate, constructed to match in architectural design, and present the appearance of being one build' ing. They are four etories high, the facades are of buff Mick, and solid construction exists throughout. Taken together the buildings are about 104x1OS feet in dimensiurs. The Kelly Green morocco factories at West Lynn, also to replace the ravages of fire, are completed, and constitute a notable increase of facilities for morecco manufacturning.

The main building is of wood, four stories In bight, tnd has 25,000 feet of floor space. A 40xSO tan and color house, a bearr house and a 22x36 engine house are included in the new plant. An important addition is being constructed to the factory structure on Willow et, occupied by D. A. Donovan Co.

shoe manufacturers. The total floor space is to be nearly doubled by extending the six stories to the rear, and a new engine room will be constructed. A new factory building is under way at West Lynn, to accommodate the shoe manufacturing business of William Porter Son. The S. N.

Breed estate Is about to erect a building on Washington at. near Broad, for manufacturing purposes. Some space will doubtless be utilized in the new Sagamore building, which is looming up as a larger and much better structure than the one recently burned. Altogether the growth of Lynn in the matter of industrial buildings is considered phenomenal, and is taken by everybody except grumblers and misguided politicians to mean very encouraging progress. The freaks of the leather market are responsible for the spell of quiet prevailing at present, and which has made a portion of the past year somewhat unprofitable.

The leather trust Is accused of dealing' out the bad conditions, in the absence of which, it is believed, Lynn would have been able to show an unparalleled record of increased prosperity at this time. As it is. employment is scarce and general business is dull. profitable. me teatner trust is accusea pf dealing' out the bad conditions, in the absence of which, it is believed.

Lynn would have been able to show an unparalleled record of increased pros- perity at this time. As it is. employment is scarce and general business is dull. REVERE Anything Like the Present Activity in Real Estate Has Been Hitherto Unknown Down There. REVERE, Nov 3There has been a constant and rapid advance in real estate values here in the past year.

A good deal of land which has heretofore been assessed by the acre was this year assessed in the form of lots at sums much advanced. The improvements by the state in prospect along the beach doubtless have something' to do with the Increase of values, and the effect has been felt throughout the whole town. Fitield McClellan. who own a good deal of in the vicinity of the Crescent Leach station and have left it in the market for some time, have withdrawn It all. All along the shore, particularly, there Is a tendency to retain land.

An example of the rate at which values have increased recently is shown by the experience of a man who has Just bought a building lot on Florence av at a price 25 percent above that at which It was offered to him last spring. The land operations at Revere he ghts, which are being carried forward on a large scale by a Boston concern, puts an entirely different aspect on this part of the town. An immense tract of land Is being opened up and bids fair to be a leading section. There is plenty of good air and an extensive view. Several houses of good class have been built and are occupied, and many lots have been sold.

Anything like the present activity in real estate has never before been known in Revere. In Spite of the Calamity Cry of Two Years Ago This Town Is Still on Earth and Business is Brisk. WARREN, Nov 2When two years ago the cotton mills at West Warren had been shut down, the Say les SC Jenks woolen mills had been destroyed by fire. and the Knowles pump works shut down for a brief time. the cry went forth that ruin had come upon the community.

The woolen mill would not be rebuilt so long as the present administration remained in power. and there would be a general paralysis of trade and business. Today one of the I finest woolen mills in the country, four stories high, and in dimensions, occupies the site of the old Sayles Jenks mill. It has double the number of looms that the old mill bad, and it has been necessary to build additional tenements to accommodate the help. It is also true that some of the employed have had to work nights to keep the work up.

There were 40 looms in the old mill, and 95 in the new one. The cotton mills at West Warren have ben put in excellent repair at large expense. and are now doing a good business. The Knowles pump works, although hampered by the recent burning of the factory. still furnish steady ernoloyment to a large number of people.

In addition to the above the Slates engine company has located here. and has a fine plant, with a foundry building and all modern improvements. Business is so brisk at the shop that a night gang has to be employed. Real estate is firm and building lots command high prices. While it islrue that In some instances wages were reduced during the stagnation two or three years ago.

they have in many instances been restored, so that the ability of the working people to pay their way is as excellent as before the hard times. A conservative view of the situation would indicate that the business and industrial outlook for Warren is MARLBORO. No Material Change in Wages In this 11 TownBicycle Manufacturing Will be a Bice Feature Next Year. NEEDHAM. Nov 3The business out.

look for Needham for the coming year Is unusually good. The Union cycle manufacturing company has recently completed a four-story addition to its large factory at Highlandville, which will accommodate 100 additional hands. The annex is 125 feet long, 44 feet wide and built throughout with heavy framing in a very substantial manner at a cost of about $3000. The company expects to employ about 300 hands this year and will turn out 5000 wheels as compared with a total output of 2500 wheels last year. All the buildings of the company have been thoroughly renovated, repaired and painted and the grounds about the factory put in first-class order.

The knitting industry is rather quiet In Highlandville at the present time. but on the whole shows an improvement over that of two years ago. Real estate values show a healthy and gradual increase and nearly all the large real estate owners are holding their land with an idea of increased values to be obtained upon the building of the electric street railway between Needham and Newton. As a general rule wages remain about the same as during the past two years. No material reduction in wages was made during the hard times of two years ago by any of the firms doing business in this town.

ROXBURY. JAMAICA P1A114. DORCHESTER HOLUM HUBBELL A McGOWAN, Druggist; 1538 Washington at. J. D.

KNOWLTON. Druggist. -Itel Wasiaington et. h. J.

JOYCE. Druggist. 1365 Tremont at. PUTNAM. Druggist, 2121 Washington at.

TRUMAN T. REID. Druggist 8101 Washingtoo at E. F. OTIS.

Druggist, Cur. Washington and Dudley ate O. H. ALEXANDER, Druggist, 940 Dorchester as. (HAS.

A. BLAIR. Druggist 44 List sq. JAMES F. Druggist 203 Washington atT.

H. BIRD. Newsdealer, T52 Dudley at. W. E.

NICHOLS. Druggist, Shl Centet St. A. D. MOWRY Druggists, 82u Warren sc.

and 476 Blue Hill se. 1G J. HART, Druggist, 118 Freeport at. EDWARD CARROL, Druggists Woolsey block. S.

11. sq. ATTLEBORO. Business Has Recovered from the Depression of 93Competition Close, But No Change in Wages. MARLBORO, Nov 3The most acute observer, one who has noted carefully the business affairs of the city the past few years, the past two particularly, cannot discover that the city has made any particular change In that time.

During the general business depression of 1893 the boot and shoe industry was regarded as remarkably good, under the circumstances. This is accounted for by manufacturers on the ground that the product for the most part was a cheap class of goods, which was in great demand by the mass of populace of the country, who could afford no better grade of goods. The principal increase in manufacturing was caused by the purchase of the T. A. Coolidge factory, which had been Idle far some time, by the q.

H. Howe shoe company, which equipped It With machinery and provided it with the facilities for turning out about 3000 pairs of shoes a day. During the depres3ion there was a lessening of the product of some of the factories in the east part, but this is estimated to have been about offset by the increased opportunities of the Howe shoe company factories. Competent judges affirm that on the whole business is somewhat more quiet than it was a year or two years ago. This is accounted for by the general conditions of the leather market, and the claim that the labor cost per pair of shoes in certain departments has increased, making competition much closer, but there has been no appreciable change in wages paid to workmen as a whole.

There has been no activity In real estate the past two years, and but little building has been done. The J. El. Billings shoe factory has been closed the past year. The business here in manufacturing may said to have been about at a standstill, so far as any growth is concerned, and the same verdict will apply to other lines of business SALEM.

STONEHAM. CHELSEA. People Are Mnch Better Employed and No Cuts In Wages Have Been Heard of During the Past Year. CHELSEA, Nov 2From Inquiry among leading business men, It is evident that the business situation in Chelsea is generally better than it has been before in several years. With a single exception, the answers of those seen were to this effect.

Thomas Martin, one of the largest rubber manufacturers, and president of the First national bank, said: In my own line, though prices are low, the volume of business is better. I should say that the business of Chelsea generally is a little better than it was a year ago. People are better employed. I have Steady Work and Good Wages Expected the Coming YearWomen Are Driving Men Out of Business. ATTLEBORO.

Nov 2Business In Attleboro is good. but not as good as before the late hard times. There are, however. more reasons than the hard times to account for it. One is that women are getting the places of the men who formerly were in demand.

In fact, it looks as if men would have to practically surrender the business to women. They are easy, to teach, SOUTH BOSTON. O. H. 100 Dorchester it.

SAMUEL MEADOWS. Druggist. 141A West Broadway. C. In FLYNN.

Druggist, U. Dorciteeter ay. Real Estate Values Have Advanced $600,000 the Past YearEssex County Prosperous Throughout. SALEM, Nov 2Unlike many industrial centers in the United States. the cities and towns in central Essex county are not convulsed with periodic business booms, followed with paralysis of manufacturing and trade.

This fact was made manifest during the financial strain of two years ago. as business in this section then, as now, was maintained at its normal standard and wage earners were kept employed. This fortunate business condition is attributable to the variety of industries. which are never all affected at once, even if hard times elsewhere prevail. Value of Building Operations In.

Two Years Has Reached SI.500.000--; Business Has Begun to Boom. WORCESTER. Nov 3The building' situation in this city has Improved greatly in two years, and. In fact, has been better than for many years. The value of the building operations will exceed $1,500.000.

The largest work In progress at the present time is the Mutual life assurance block on Main et. This will be the largest and most costly structure in the city for business purposes. and the total valuation of the block and land will not be far from $1.600.000. There were 615 building permits last year, as agast 555 for the year previous. The Worcester corset company has this year, gone into a new shop on Hammond st.

Peter Wood has completed, near New Worcester, a. new building for his bleachery and dye- house. M. J. Whittall, the carpet manufacturer.

has just finished a new store' house. James E. Estabrook and Arthur E. Estabrook have. built an addition of four or live stories to their big machine shop near the junction, and It' is reported that the new addition will be occupied by the Cereal machine company.

During the year the Rice, Barton ilk Pales works have moved into their new buildings on Tainter sL This is probably the largest shop in the country foe building heavy machinery, and the works have been running night and day. They manufacture machinery for paper mills. The Knowles loom works have also moved into their own shop on Grand al from the Estabrook buildings, which they had leased for many years. They are filled with orders. and so are the Crampton loom works.

These are the only two shops here which deal particularly with mills. Their condition give an Idea, of the cotton and woolen industries. The Crampton works are- doing as much as they ever did. The managers of the loom works here report the woolen business as somewhat dull. 1 They are somewhat handicapped.

os account of the tariff on wooL The g'eneral opiion seems to that wages are about the same as they have been for a year or two back. In some 1 cases they are lower; but the manufacturers say the cost of living Is lower. Worcester Is essentially an Iron town. They make the tools and machinery for mills in other places, and at the Present time many orders are received here from the smith, The boot shops in the city are generally idle. That is.

while-they are not closed they are running' with a reduced force. The reason is the high priee of leather. Sole leather that was bought last year for 23 cents a pound is now sold for ZS cents a pound. The advance in sole leather is from tc 15 cents. and the priee of calfskin has changed from 57 to 60 cents, where it averaged, to 97 cents and Under these circumstances manufacturers are not disposed to buy, because they feel the price of leather is not fixed.

They must buy their stock now for gcods to be sold next spring. and if. they buy now it is with the feeling that- there may be a drop In leather in the meantime, and that would mean disas---, in a general way it can be said that business has experienced a decided revival in this city. there have been no new shops, with the exception of those mentioned. The increased business has been accommodated In old shops which have been idle.

The Washburn Sc Moen wire mill has within a year become the largest industrial plant in the world. In this city they employ fully 4000 hands, and at both mills work is done day and night. The assessors report that in their rounds 9 they have found a larger amount of capital employed and a larger stock of goods in stores than they found last year and the previous one. Real estate values are also about the same. Town is Prosperous and the Future Looks BrightShoe Business is Dull, but Will Start Up Dec STONEHAM.

Nov manufacture of shoes is the principal industry In this town. Business is very dull, and many are loafing. Business, however. will start up by Dec 1, when everybody will be employed. There has been a good run of business since the great depression, and the present dullness is only what comes about even in good times.

Wages, if anything are lower than two years ago. No new factories have been erected and no additions made. The present accommodations are ample for an enormous business. Real estate values are more than holding their own. In some portions of the town there is a marked enhancement in values and there Is a gocd deal of house building.

On the whole the town is prosperous and the future bright. EAST BOSTON. WOODBURY CO, Druggists. Maverick sq. C.

V. WASOATB, Druggist, 1024 Saratoga Orient Rotates CLINTON. I CH IMLESTOWN HAVER HILL of Uncertainty Noted in the Shoe IndustryThose Who Know Say the Strike Caused It. HAVERHILL, Nov 2The great strike of last year brought an era of depressionothe like of which has not been experienced in this city for many years. The local architects and builders say that they do not remember the time when general industrial building was so HAVERHILL Feeling of Uncertainty Noted in the Shoe IndustryTheseWho Know Say the Strike Caused It.

HAVERHILL, Nov 2The great strike of last year brought an era of depres- like of which has not been ex- in this city for many years. The local architects and builders say that they do not remember the time when general industrial building was so E. F. HAINES, Druggist, 188 Main it WOBU1N. S.

BARTLETT, Druggist, Harvard sq. w. REVCV()Frr, Druggist, Csmbridge car. OM. and Maas.

serest Brookline Cstchrlageport. ItUNNEwELL. Newsdealer. 2074 Massachusetts ay. heard of no cuts In wages anywhere here the past year.

At my own factory we are paying as good wages in all departments as we ever have. "In the real estate line, I think it is quite evident that large properties in Chelsea are depreciating. residential property worth above There Is little demand for such property here now and estates of large value will, in many cases, not bring anywhere near what they have cost. Small properties offer a good investment in Chelsea. "The bank business indicates business prosperity.

There is a good deal of money Iving in the banks." George H. Buck, who is largely interested in land improvement and dPvPiopment in Chelsea. that he eo, idered the situation better In that line than it was a year ago. He is interested in land along Everett av, which is being taken possession of for manufacturing purposes, and several sals have been made to out of town concerns within a year. One of the last to locate here Is the Eastern Clock company, which is soon to begin the erection of a large factory where from 100 to 200 hands will be employed.

The Peerless Manufacturing company, makers of cork bicycle handles and other bicycle goods, is about to build a 60-foot two-story wooden addition to its factory near Everett av, and extend its business considerably. Frank A Magee of the Magee Furnace company said: "The stove business is begInning to drop off, which is to be expected at this time of year, as the stove season Is over about Thanksgiving time. It has been a good year in our business, however, better than last year or the year before." The big rubber factories are running on full time and employing the regular number of hands at the usual rates of wages. At the shoe factory the answer was that business was dull, not as good as a year ago. skilful, and the introduction of ma- ceinery has done away with the necessity of much heavy rawaaeal la- bor.

Another cause of the delay in recovering the position of the past is in the fact that so many are handling jewelry In connection with miscellaneous goods. One manufacturer states the case thus: "The demand for strictly high-price goods has fallen off, but there Is a steady demand in good-sized orders for cheap goods." Cheap goois do not mean, however, the quality it once did. Improved methods and machinery have made even the cheapest quality very desirable. Wages were cut down slightly during the hard times, and have not been put back to where they were, on account of this desionothe mend for cheap goods, which do not reperienced quire the most skilled labor, and the fact that women can be hired se much cheaper than men. The shops are all running, and some of them are very busy, and confidence in slow as at the present time.

the future of trade is the rule. Haverhill is dependent upon one great The Hebronville and Dodgeville mills. Industry. Anything that tends to crip- both run by B. D.

R. Knight, have pie that industry operates in the same not stopped. the proprietors preferring manner upon other business, both re- to pe up their stock when trade was tail and wholesale. carried oa in this dull. They made only one cut-down, of 10 percent.

which has not been restored, There are a few new buildings going but. are paying equal to those mills up about town, but they are almost which made more cut-downs. There wholly private residences or tenement has been no enlargement of importance, houses. On River at a new shoe fac- but on one building the roof has been tory, to accommodate the business of raised, in another place 56 feet have Field Maguire, has been constructed been added, and the works put into this fall, and the firm simply transfers shape by changes which allow for a its help from the old factory on Wash- greater output than the large amount ington at. This is a four-story brick which they had been making.

building. and one of the best-equipped Building operations have been few, factories in the city. but there is a prospect of new shops, According to the testimony of con- one or two large firms contemplating tractors and builders, there never was building. a better time to build than now. They There is good reason to believe that say that a man can get more for his 96 will be a fairly prosperous year for money than at, any previous time for the town, and that working people, es-the past 10 years.

penally in the mills, can reasonably ex-There is practically little demand for pect steady work and fair wages. real estatethat is, a steady and legitimate demand. Realty values are lower than two PITTSFIELD. years ago, and the most of the real es- tate dealers are simply sitting around and waiting for something to turn up. woolen Mills Are Doing a Good BusiWages are practically the same, but nessShoe Manufacturers Are Still there are a good many men idle.

especially in the shoe district. This is. per- Waiting for Better Prices. hans, due to the unsettled state of the leather market and a dissatisfied feeling PITTSFIELD, Nov 2There has been both among labor and capital concern- considerable building in Pittsfield this ine the new price lists. season.

especially among the woolen Two-thirds of the retail business men in the city feel discouraged. Merchants manufacturers. The Pontoosuc woolen believe that a itheral city administra- company has added a new wool house Con is the only show they have to keep 5Sx100 feet, two stories high, constructed their doors open anotner year. of wood, also a new boiler house which The local board of trade is doing nothing at present, but an effort will be contains three new boilers. and a new made to get the members together after round brick stack 120 feet high.

They are election and map out a canpgn that now running 20 sets of machinery. The will result in new enterprises for this mill is having a good business, turning city. out sleeping car blankets, kerseys, present the outlook is not remark- tons and rugs. Pres Plunkett says that ably bright. but Haverhill people are the wages are the same as last year.

not easily discouraged and the silver and that the outlook for the business is lining may show up before another year much improved over last year. has passed. The Russell woolen company is hay- haqinesq and has started round brick stack 120 feet high. They are now running 20 sets of machinery. The mill is having a good business, turning out sleeping car blankets, kerseys, meltons and rugs.

Pres Plunkett says that the wages are the same as last year, and that the outlook for the business is much improved over last year. The Russell woolen company is having a good business, and has started In galem during the past year, manufacturers did not enlarge any of their plants. yet it is apparent that many of the establishments are not of sufficient capacity to warrant any increase of business. At the Naumkeag cotton mills, where 1500 operatives find constant employment, wages were advanced some three months ago on a graduated scale, which equaled about IV percent increase. These mills manufacture millions of yards of cloth annually, and have not beer idle for years, save at brief periods necessary to repair or instal new machinery.

Just at present there is a lull in shoe manufacturing. a condition incident annually between trades. Manufacturers anticipate a good. trade the coming winter, however. and would be in receipt of large ordera now were it not for appehension on the part of buyers in the south and west that there will be a break in the price of leather, and if so footwear will be sold cheaper later on than at present.

Manufacturers here, however, do not anticipate any marked reduction in leather Quotations and cannot understand why such a belief should haunt the minds of buyer of boots and shoes. The manufacture of leather, especially of the lighter grades, such as kid and dongola, is conducted in this city. as well as Peabody, on an extensive scale. Trade just at present is not brisk, yet the outlook for business is auspicious. Building opeeations in Salem the past year, while not mammoth proportions, have been extensive enough to make considerable snowing.

Several brick business illock have been on the prinelpal thoroughfares. and over 150 tine residences erected in various parts of the city. Considerable has also been done the way of enlarging stores, and at present work is progressing on the remodeling of the brick mansion on Essex St. erected by Gov William Gray in 1S00. The structure, which is three stories high and of large proportiors, will be enlarged to three times its pressent capacity.

The first floor will be utilized for stores, and the upper stories as a hotel. Business at the ear works. iron and brass foundries, as well as other tries in Salem, is good, and the same wages paid as duriniT the past two SOMERVILLE, CHARLES W. Coy: Newsdealer Ilatoe eq. Cs H.

CRANE, Mutest. 154 Perkins toe. TraskIls SomervIlls. H. D.

PADELFORD, Druggist, 011mse ti H. t. SMITH, Newsdealer. 211 Elm W. Somerville, BROOK LINE' COOLIDOE CORNER NEWS DEPOT, 1847 Beacon et.

YOUNG a BROWN. 224 Waohlogtos it. industries in a Very Satisfactory ConditionWages Reduced Two Years Ago Have Been Restored. WOBURN, Nov 3The industries in this city are in a very satisfactory condition. Leather, which is the principal product, is manufactured in 23 plants.

in which some 2000 men are employed. With the exception of two factories, all are now run full handed. In the case of the two, one has changed a partnership, and the other is enlarging its plant. Both will be in operation in a few weeks. While the trade is just now quiet, the manufacturers are getting out large quantities of the finished article.

Compared with the past two years business is decidedly better, in fact, with the present plant capacity it is doubtful if more leather could be pro. duced. There has been no marked increase in wages; in some departments men have had a slight raise. but generally only in those where the unions are strong. Wages that were reduced two years ago have been put only In a few cases were they reduced.

Machinery invented within a few years has taken the place of a great deal of labor by hand. There has been no particular increase In realty. The city has not grown sufficiently to affect the price of real estate, except where new territory has been opened. The possibility of a circuit boulevard through the city has set people to thinking that there may yet be something in store for Woburn. In the glue, chemical and shoe stock 1 business there is much activity.

The two former do a steady business. The latter conforms to the shoe trade. and for some time has done a good business. A large addition has been befit to the factory of James Skinner Co. Green st.

It is of the full bight of the main factory, and when in operation at least 50 more men can be employed. Some of the other firms have recently put in new and additional boilers and larger engines, and in several the tanning capacity has been increased. The drop in the price of hides is also encouraging. Altogether business is very satisfactory. and the manufacturers look forward to a new era of prosperity.

trsiness 'there is much activity. The wo former do a steady business. The atter conforms to the shoe trade. and or some time has done a good bust- less. A large addition has been built to the 'artery of James Skinner Co.

Green It. It is of the full bight of the main actory, and when in operation at least 0 more men can be employed. of tale other firms have recently nit in new and additional boilers and arger engines, and In several the tan- capacity has been increased. The drop in the price of hides is also ncouraging. Altogether business is very satisfac- pry.

and the manufacturers look for- ward to a new era of prosperity. LEOMINSTER. Every Man Who Is Willing to Work Has Business Outlook Better than for Years Two New Industries Established and Doing a Good Business. CLINTON, Nov 2The business outlook in town is better by far this fall than it has been for years. Within eight months two new industries.

founded on local capital, have begun operation. and the success that they have met with has. been wonderful. Smiley Bros began the manufacturing of women's wrappers in the early spring with 12 employes; since that time the establishment has triple its capacity and now has in the neighborhood of 4u hands, and the management is already looking for additional floor area in order that they may still further increase their plant. In the early summer Thomas Burns and Thomas H.

O'Connor constructed a three-story factory in the western portion of the town and began the manufacturing of horn goods. The demand for this class of goods has been so great that the works have been taxed to their utmost capacity, and at present 50 persons are at work in this new concern. The Witherell, shoe company, which was established two years ago in the Swift building at Depot sq. and which was obliged to close their doors during the hard times of 94, are at present turning out more orders than ever before. Mr Witherell, manager of the establishment, stated to The Globe correspondent this week that at present he had more orders than he ever had on hand before, and he looked forward for a tremendous boom in the shoe business within the next two years.

The growth and progress of the Weekepeke woolen company has surpassed all other manufacturing plants in this vicinity. The company has outgrown the capacity of the mill on Stone st, where woolen goods are manufactured. and has bought out within two months the old mill on Water st. which has been practically closed for several years. The Stone St mill Will hereafter be used for weaving purposes, 40 additional looms having been added this tall.

In the Water St mill the yarn will be prepared for the loom. Here the number of hands has been doubled, and at present the spinning room is in operation until 11 two sets of help being employed. The Water St mill is a three-story brick mill. 150x50, and already is filled with machinery. In addition, a dyehouse and picker room have been constructed to the old mill.

The 'Bigelow carpet company report a quiet carpet trade at present. but the yarn mill owned by the company is doing a very good business. This company in the latter part of August Made a voluntary increase of wages, amounting to about 10 percent, restorine; the wages received before the hard times. Naturally the Lancaster gingham mills have not yet recovered from the effects of the 12-weeks' strike during the slimmer, and owing to the poor wages paid are with much d'fficulty in obtaining sufficient help. Especially is this true of the spinning rooms, showing that there is an increasing demand for cotton spinners.

The weaving departments are not filled because the management cannot get help enough under the existing scale of wages. As compared with two years ago, business in general is very greatly improved, and the prospects for the future are even brighter. 11101ILLIM 111(1, 0IU Will ori NA ater St. Willen has been practically closed for several years. The Stone st mill Will hereafter be used for weaving purposes, 40 addi- tional looms having been added this tall- In the Water st mill the yarn will be prepared for the loom.

Here the num- ber of bands has been doubled. and at present the spinning room is in opera- tion until 11 two sets of help being employed. The Water St mill is a three- story brick mill. 150x50, and already is filled with machinery. In addition, a dyehouse and picker room have been constructed to the old mill.

The Bigelow carpet company report a quiet carpet trade at present, but the yarn mill owned by the company is do- log a very good business. This corn- pany in the latter part of August Made a voluntary increase of wages, amount- ing to about 10 percent, restoring the wages received before the hard times. Naturally the Lancaster gingham mills have not yet recovered from the effects of the 12-weeks' strike during the slimmer, and owing to the poor wages paid are with much d'lliculty in obtaining sufficient help. Especially is this true of the spinning showing that there is an in- creasing demand for cotton spinners. The weaving departments are not filled because the management cannot get I help enough under the existing scale of iwages.

tss compared with two years ago, I business in general is very greatly im- proved, ture are brighter. prospects for the fu- NEWTON. W. F. HAHN, Druggist, 850 Center et.

JOHN F. PAYNE, Druggist, New tonville. A. F. WRIGHT, Druggist, NIckerson's block.

W. Newton. J. H. GREEN.

Druggist, Newton Higniaocis. B. B. BUCK. Bray's block.

Newton Cent, READING. New Box Factory is Now in Process of Construction and 40 Men Will be Employed When It is Finished. READING, Nov 3The only Industrial building in process of construction in town at present is the O. P. Symonds Son box factory on Ash et.

This Is a new industry here. The structure is of wood. The main building is 96 feet long, 40 feet wide and three stories high, with a wing on the north side 30x70. The boiler room and engine house is 35x60. The approximate value of the plant is $2000.

The principal business of the firm is the manufacture of packing cases, which are used in the shoe factories in this and adjoining towns. The company will employ 40 hands. The present condition of business in this district, comprising the towns of Reading, North heading and Wilmington, is somewhat improved over that of a year ago. at this time. Real estate has slightly advanced in value.

and wages are about the same. Found EmploymentMany Now Fae. tories are Being Erected. LEOMINSTER, Nov you want to get a man to saw wood you must speak for him a week in advance. There is not a man loafing in this town of 10,000 inhabitants who is good for anything as a workman and desires to obtain work.

That is about the condition of affairs here today so far as I know." said S. A. Stevens, president of Leominster's ever active board of trade. During the past year the town has jumped right away from the bard times and is forging ahead at a marvelous pace. In 1893 business was rather i poor, but not in a distressing condition.

The principal industrial building of two years ago was the factory of Whitney Co. box manufacturers. The firm erected a wooden block, 40 by 120. four stories high, at a cost with equipment of about $30,000, which gives employment to about 40 hands In their line of work, and about as many more in button making, for which a part of the factory is let. This year the increase of taxable CRICHTON.

114 R. WILLEY, Drugzist WWI car. Market at. ALLSTON. HENRY L.

GREENE. Druggist. Union sq. CHELSEA, J. S.

McOILLIVRAV, Drugs Is 231 Brum ay. crILILbLiA, J. S. McGILLIVRAV, Druggist, 221 Bruado ay. upon a light weight goods for next season.

Prices are low. and competition is close. L. T. D.

Peck Co, are running more machinery than they ever did before. The outlook for the winter is fair. A woolen man from Boston says that wool has gone up two cents a pound. and the manufacturers say that they cannot get a proportionate advance on their productions. Tillotson Collins, who have large knitting mills for woolen underwear in the eastern part of the town.

have just broken ground for doubling the capacity of their mills. They have bad an excellent business all summer and the outlook is much better than a year ago. William Tillotson, who has a large worsted mill near, has demonstrated that worsted goods can be made in Berkshire successfully. The addition to his mill will be about 100x50. Theodore L.

Pomeroy, who runs the Pomeroy woolen mill, is laving a good business. His specialty is the cadet blue uso-d at West Point and other military schools. The Hinsdale Bros of Hinsdale are also running on full time. Waves at all these mills are the same as a year ago, but the outlook for business is much bet ter. The shoe manufacturers are not doing much.

Pres Burget of the Cheshire shoe CANTON. susiness Shows a Big Improvement Over Two Years and the Factories are Running Full Time. CANTON. Nov 2Business in this town is much better than it has been for some time. Two years ago Draper Brothers' woolen mill was only running half time.

At the KInsley iron and machine works, the Revere copper works, the silk mills and the bleachery it was the same. Now every mill is running full time, and the manufacturers find a ready market for their goods. Wages have neither decreased or incnitsed. The valuation Oil real tlFate is considerably higher than it waS two and three years ago. Continued ou tbe Ninth Pane.

Phenomenal Boom in Real EstateNorwood Press Works and Tanneries All Running Up to Their Full Capacity. NORWOOD, Nov 3Few towns in the commonwealth hal.r3 progressed and prospered as this one has since the panic of 93. Our leading industry is that of sheep-skirl tanning. conducted by two rich and substantial concerns. One of these )henomenal Boom in Real EstateNor- wood Press Works and Tanneries All Running Up to Their Full Capacity.

Nov 3Few towns in the haws progressed and prospered as this one has since the panic of 93. Our leading industry is that of sheep- skirl tanning, conducted by two rich and substantial concerns. One of these years. Real estate values, especially in the newer sections of the city, have al- vanced during the past year, which is attributable to the demand for house lots. Commerce shows no appreciable over last year, the principal traffic al.

present being coal. The Philadelphia Reading coal company will soon imSome prove their plant, and the same is true of the wharf accommodationa of the Wilkesbarre company. Real estate valling ues in Salem are over, $600,000 greater than one year ago). Building operations in Beverly have been extensive the piesent year. and Innlude several large brick factories and upward of 170 nice residences, the whole valued at over $500,00.

The BeVerly building association hal NORWOOD. made additions to its plants, which equal two brick factories 190 feet long. rbo feet wide and five stories high. Two commodious brick blocks have been erected on Pleasant st, and several factories and blocks on Rantoul. River and other streets.

At the present time the building assoNORWOOD, ciation is negotiating with an out-ofommonwealth town firm for the erection of a three. story brick building. a00 feet long ard 75 feet wide, to be erected on Rantoul et. This building will be a manufacturer of machinery. Recently 500 acres of land on Elliatt st.

Beverly, was sold for building lots. Beverly, like other places in central lailuring sex county, is prospering, because it is not dependent upon any one industry for suceess. 4 In Ipswich the present year the hos------ NEWBVIPOIT. tiehrey dmeml lalsn(ihsaa o-cf bblelseinneesns. ia and a ll wooden bloeka, each three high, were erected on Main and Central sts.

Health. Growth of BusinessFew Men A number of nice houses have been erected town. Land values are coi- Unemployed NowRevival of the ble to the extra indocements recently Newburvport Car nildri tRi oll'iPoTliThisNcoit; hancing in Ipswich, which is attributa- tiered tor resiaence in the shape ef a trial cWO 3The sienndtu s- ep till ibeliiten 1 water fr tshucp fie idt ne pd a irrtellriT.e.ni i improved from what it was a ham. Rowley. Essex, Lannfield, Hamil- greatly i present is in Topsfield, Boxford, country before the panic.

year ago. ton and Manchester the buildin opera- press works were established here at an in 1g93-91 was experienced here About 18 months since the Norwood The depression felt throughout the tions the peesent year have been con- outlay of about $80,000. and have since 4 In Peabody the leather basineas is the. tined to residences. given eentinuOUS employment to 500 or to a corisiderable degree, but the reac- tion has principal Industry, and during the past already set in, and, unless all l' 600 workingmen and women.

season trade has been exceptiona iy The other and lesser manufacturing signs fail, the manufacturing and bust- good. New streets have been opened I YELL' KNOWN PHYSICIANS HYDE PARK. Very Little Done bi Way of New Euild illy's, but Wages are Reported to be Higher This Year. CONCORD, MASS. Through Nearly All Branches of Industry MEDFORD.

wages Remain About the Same OLD CORNER DRUG STORB, Some Changes Were Made. 2 lid Ala it. CONCORD, Mass, Nov 3B. M. Kim ball Son.

located at South Acton, erected a morocco factory three years W. P. atilEI.DoN, Druggist, ago, 50x90 feet, three stories high, and Ti Slain at. the roof, which is used for drying, is practically another story. The first of the present year an 112 stories high.

EVERETT. about 40x20 feet, was added to it, and a KIMBALL et Druggists, drying building, 212 stories high, 75x30 445 iliwnlival. feet, was Joined to the main building. The business has been' remarkably good during the past year. Between' MELROSE.

9000 and 9000 skins are shipped each It week. These are used for ladies' slip- L. W. CROSSDruggista, pers and button shoes. 531 Maio it.

Over 50 hands are constantly employed at the works. The buildings, which are of wood, with machinery, are WYOMING. valued at about $15,000. C. A.

BAILEY, Newsdealer, The DaMOrt manufacturing company at Concord Junction do about the same business as they have during the past ASHMONT. few years. The wages remain the same, 1 with the exception of a few individual W. F. ORELN fl, Druggist, increases.

2 Mhos iiv. The main building of the Boston harness company at Concord Junction is Branch offices are open every even- two stories high. and about 150)60 feet. Ing except Saturday until 8.30 R. Added to this, the first of last year, was another two-story building, 144x413 feet.

Saturdays until 6.30 P. Ids i This increased the help. employed from oemiruays until 0.30 r. sills I prescribe it for affections of the Throat and Lungs, Colds, Coughs, La Grippe, and Pneumonia. Pleasant to take, sure to cure.

"I have frequently prescribed Aier's Cherry Pectoral. and have foutid it good for these affections for which It claims to be a speciffc." M. P. DILLARD, M. Henry, Va.

durirg the time mentioned has enlarged Its plant to the extent of many thousands of dollars, and has added a department of wcol pulhng from South American skins, which was all done as a matter of eommercifil neoes3ity in other countries up to the Orne of the change in our tariff laws. This additional departmint has given employment to about E0 mut, while the general improvEnpant in other departments gave work to 50 or 60 more new hands up to the recent break in the leather market. The other tannery has been running to the full of its capacity, and both are paying essentially the same wages as the time mentioned has enlarged Its plant to the extent of many thou- sands of dollars, and has added a de- partment of wcol pulhng from South American skins, which was all done as a matter of commercial neeesaity in other countries up to the tame of the change in our tariff laws. This addi- tonal departmint has given employ- ment to about man, while the gen- eral improvemsnt in other departments gave work to 50 or 60 more new hands up to the recent break in the leather market. The other tannery has been running to the full of its capacity, and both are paying essentially the same wages as ord.etrainsgaral that TIYDE PARK, Nov the in- von.r.any says that leadier is unsteady dastries in this town little has beou I it it Farr: ceq: athat it liitit is unsafe to purchase clone the past year in the wAy of adding new buildings cr otherwise further ex- instead in the fall of the year.

are waiting untl tnditig the capacity of the the business is on a firmer The manufacturers, with scarcely an The.re have no aIditlons made to i exception, report the past year a most the snoe factories Pittsdeld this sea- prosperous one, and in some branches t.trie of the principal industries in this the increase has been particularly no- locality is the Stanley electrical mannticeable. convict-ay. This tient, which From the present standpoint they pre- employs over men, has quadrupled diet a further increase in business, the its busines this year, built a large future indications looking very favor- three-story addition to the factory, and able. is constantly enlarging the plant. Or- Among those who have added to their ders for the transformers come In so Ayr's Cherry Pectoral Hlzhest Honors at World' Fair, 4o.

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