Boom Comes as Tariff Revival Stirs Business
Business leaders across New York express confidence that the tariff bill will trigger a rapid revival. Bloomingdale Bros and others predict a swift boom once signed, with clothing and consumer goods sectors leading the way. Bankers and trade agents foresee renewed immigration, increased imports and exports, and stronger employment as investors unlock pent-up demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. G. Bloomingdale
Bloomingdale Bros., Dry Goods
Fifty-ninth Street
Third Avenue
John Daniell, Sr
John Daniell & Sons, Dry Goods
Broadway
Highth Street
B. de la Vergne, Jr
Smith, Gray & Co., Clothiers
Thirty-first Street
E. C. Button
Sheppard Knapp & Co
Sixth Avenue
Thirteenth and
Fourteenth Streets
Dumont Clarke
American Exchange Bank
Gustav H. Schwab
Obelrichs & Co
North German
Lloyd Steamship Company
United States
Boom Ahead Says New York Merchants After Tariff
New York business leaders predict a sharp revival in trade once the tariff bill is signed. Dry goods firms like Simpson Crawford & Simpson and Edrich Bros. expect factories to restart and idle workers to gain employment. Nathan Strauss of Macy’s foresees a nationwide boom as uncertainty ends and demand returns. Other merchants urge swift passage to stabilize markets and stock up for fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
New York
William Crawford
Simpson, Crawford & Simpson
Sixth Avenue
Twentieth Street
John Mansfield
Edrich Bros
Twenty-third Street
Nathan Strauss
R. H. Macy & Co
Friesham
B. Altman
Avenue
Nineteenth Street
Newark Works Restart in Newark New Jersey Factories
Aug 19 Newark New Jersey reports a manufacturing revival as several plants resume full time. Atha Illingworth Steel and New Jersey Steel Works begin 12 shifts, with over 600 workers, armor plate plant planned. Edwin Lister Co and Balbach Metal Refining add hundreds more. Zinc Works, blue works, and other factories also report higher activity and full employment nearing 3,000 workers across listed plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Newark
N. J
Atha & Illingworth Steel Company
New Jersey Steel Works Company
Atha & Illingworth Company
Harrison
Edwin Lister & Co
Balbach Metal Refining Works
New Jersey
New Jersey Blue Works
Dwyer, Reilly, Stengel & Rothschild
Glue Works
Simon’s Trunk
Maher, Robinson & Flochart
Balbach’s
Meyer Mercy
Tin Plate Plant Planned at New Kensington
Pittsburg August 19 report confirms negotiations closed for a new tin plate plant to be named Duquesne Tin Plate Works Company. Ten acres on the Allegheny River at New Kensington will house four hot and four cold rolls with ten stacks, costing 30 to 40 thousand dollars in buildings and about 250 thousand dollars in total investment. 300 workers will be hired. active stockholders include Dreifus Block Co. iron brokers with Cincinnati capitalists. This marks a second tin plate works at New Kensington as Goldsmith negotiates for a third plant nearby. The iron and steel sector showed improvement last week while flint glass houses resume operations at midnight Sunday after a previous idle summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Duquesne Tin Plate Works Company
New Kensington
Allegheny River
Dreifus, Block & Co
Cincinnati
New York
Portland
German tariff bill boosts U S trade hopes in Berlin
Berlin reports manufacturers and exporters optimistic about increased business with the United States following Germany’s new tariff law. Textile relief is noted but press reaction is cautious. Koelnische Zeitung calls the act provisional while Tageblatt says the McKinley revision arrives too late to救 help the sector most tied to American trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
United States
Washington
Koelnische Zeitung
The
Tageblatt
Ovens Near Blairsville Resume After Four Months Idle
Johnstown Penn August 19 The coke ovens near Blairsville employing 300 men resumed operations yesterday following a four months idle period caused by a strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnstown
Penn
Blairsville
10 000 Spinners Strike in New Bedford Mills
Ten thousand workers across twenty three mills go out on strike in New Bedford over wage reduction notices. Spinners back their action with a $40,000 treasury while some mills stay open or close for a month. Union meetings and planned campaigns set for tomorrow amid hopes of arbitration and a swift settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bedford
Post
Rotch
Howland Mills
City Mill
Spinners Push 10,000-Strong Strike Into New Bedford
At a Boston executive meeting Secretary Samuel Ross led the New Bedford spinners in reaffirming their坚持 position in the strike. The committee voted to levy 50 cents weekly from all spinners for three weeks and then call a national convention if no wage concessions arise. The movement, growing from Fall River to New Bedford, includes 10,000 workers with 23 mills affected, signaling a hard battle for manufacturers as silent looms and dormant spindles loom tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Samuel Ross
New Bedford Union
New Bedford
Fall River
Wamsutta
Potomska
Hathaway
Acushnet
Rotch
City Manufacturing Company
Howland
Grinnell
Columbia
Bristol, Peirce
Matthew Hart
Weavers’ Union
Samuel P. Ross
J. J. Conley
Post
Ross
Vigilant centerboard not lost jammed in trunk
The Vigilant at Southampton was examined and officials found its centerboard was not lost but firmly jammed in the trunk. Morning papers discuss rumors from Cowes about the Yankee sloop’s management.
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London
Southampton
Cowes
Sunday Post outsells Herald in Fall River crowds fight
A Boston Post telegram reports Fall River sales beating the Herald and nearing Globe distribution. Eight hundred papers arrived but none remained by 10 am as newsboys hustled to meet demand. Post hopes for more copies next Sunday to expand distribution to excursion boats and Lincoln Park.
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Sunday Post
Herald
Fall River
Globe
Fall River Mass
Boston Post
Boston
Mass
The
Lincoln Park
Herald and Globe
Wreck Found Off Devil's Bridge Possibly Golden Rule Stern
New Bedford Aug. 19 Captain William Cook of Gay Head towed the floating wreck ashore after discovering the aft section of a vessel cut in two by a steamer. The craft, possibly a fruiter, bore fine cabin fittings and copper rolls with rum barrels aboard. The name was underwater. origin uncertain, but may be the stern of the schooner Golden Rule destroyed by the Atlanta near Norman's Land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bedford
William Cook
Gay Head
Devil’s Bridge
Norman
Golden Rule
United States
Atlanta
Three Brothers Drown In New Brunswick Reefing Incident
At Martin's Head the tug Maggie T ran ashore and three Mowery brothers, plus another man whose name was not released, drowned in the mishap near St. John New Brunswick on August 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. John, N. B
Maggie T
Martin’s Head
Mowery
Forty Chinamen Leave Boston for Home in Patriot Fealty
About forty Chinese men from Boston departed on the 8 o clock train to Vancouver via Montreal to aid China in its war, amid festive Chinatown processions and fretting farewells. A Free Mason reportedly stirred patriotic resolve, while families and sweethearts in Oxford place mourned, pledging reunion next summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford Place
Hong
Union Station
Vancouver
Montreal
China
Japan
Josa House
Frightened husband kills four in Newark tragedy
In Kearney a 44-year-old man Thomas Hewitt, deranged by typhoid fever, fatally wounded his wife and injured his wife's brother Fred Purcell, while also injuring his children before leaping from a window and dying. Mrs Hewitt and Purcell survive, though badly hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N. J
Kearney
Thomas Hewitt
Fred Purcell
Hewitt
Mrs. Hewitt
Murder Attempt In Rockland Strikes Kavanaugh
Stephen Kavanaugh lay unconscious on his stable floor late Friday night. After thirty six hours of medical effort he regained consciousness but remains in a critical condition. No arrest yet though a young man with prior bad terms and a woman are suspected in Rockland Maine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockland
Stephen Kavanaugh
Kavanaugh
Oldest Citizen Colonel Elisha P Jennett of Montpelier Dies
Colonel Elisha P. Jennett, Montpelier's oldest citizen, died at his home. Born in Lebanon New Hampshire ninety three years ago he moved to Montpelier young and became a prominent banker merchant and railroad promoter. He served as state treasurer in 1846 and was a presidential elector in 1872. He delivered Vermont's electoral vote for Grant and Wilson to the U.S. Senate. He helped organize the Bank of Montpelier and served as a director for over fifty years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier
Elisha P. Jennett
Lebanon
N. H
Hubbard & Jennett
Jennett & Howes
Central Vermont Railroad
Old Bank of Montpelier
Vermont
Grant
Wilson
United States Senate
Weather forecast for New England states
Washington dispatch notes an August forecast predicting increasing cloudiness with south winds for Maine New Hampshire and Vermont and southwesterly winds for Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut, issued at 8 p.m. Monday.
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Washington
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
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Waitt & Bond Blackstones
Havana
Waitt & Bond
Family Trade
James J. O'Connor
Solomon
Phelps
State
Tate Agt
FERAR
Spinners’ Union
New England
Standard Furniture Co
Washington Street
Eliot Street
Harrison Avenue
Chinatown
Bob
Wong Sheung
Hewitt Was
Longwood Avenue
Roxbury
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