30 Noble Combs For Sale.

Constructed by Skene & Devallee of Roubaix, France. 10 made in 1895, 20 made in 1899, and all in perfect con dition, with circles for combing 3-8 wool. Will be sold cheap-quick sale desired to make room for other machinery. SPEED & STEPHENSON, 170 Summer St., Boston, Mass.

the man with half a dozen chickens will
find them already on their backs with their
feet crossed to be tied."

which is always of good size. In one mill
village an interesting family of five was
visited. The oldest child was going to
school and the next in age was working
in the mill, but expressed a preference
for school. The two alternate going to
school and working. The other children
are too young to work. The father is em-
ployed in the cloth room of the mill and
the mother cares for the home. In an-
other mill there was a splendid boy of
fifteen years, who with his mother, an-
other son of nine and an infant had gone
to the village two years before. The boy,
then thirteen, was put to work in the
mill: the family got in debt $75; the nine-home-makers by having their living con-
year-old boy would go to the agent of the
mill and say: "We've nothin' t'eat." The
agent took care of them and they gradual-
ly paid their debts. The boy-head of the
family is pointed to with pride by the
agent of the mill, who claims that he will

make a head man of him.

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The work people are so independent and quick to move to a mill where their young children will be employed with the other members of the family, that the temptation of the superintendent with idle machines is very great. Undoubtedly the shortage of labor inclines the superintendents to employ more children then they would otherwise. It also causes them, as one put it, to "become rascals by stealing labor from one another." The employers are trying to teach the people to become ditions as attractive as possible. One of the three presidents active in bringing about the movement for shorter hours stated: "The need for recreation is very great. At the end of the year after the people have come to the mill, they only know about twenty others in the village. By arranging time and opportunity for recreation so that they will become acquainted, we hope to secure an attachment for the village to decrease the migratory tendency."

than could be

When some of the manufacturers were
asked why they did not discontinue the
building of more mills
"manned," the reply came that they must
"fill orders" and would take their chances
on being able to get enough help by draw-
ing from other mills.

Some of the Problems Involved. The farming element, which constitutes the dominating influence in the legislatures, does not yet realize the necessity of providing ample taxation for schools. The resources of the several states visited would permit greater appropriations for the public welfare. Child labor legislation without compulsory education laws has proven inoperative. This is due to the unwillingness of the parents to send their children to the schools in preference to the mills. With inadequate school facilities where the child labor law has been observed, the children become moralized in running the streets. When convicted of crime they are chained to hardened criminals, and their downward course is assured. Through the influence of club women a reformatory has recently been secured in Georgia and one is authorized in South Carolina, which will prevent the mingling of juvenile offenders and adult criminals in those two states. But until compulsory education, for which the mill owners have been agitating more than five years, is secured, with adequate school facilities, the argument that the children are bet- few convictions. Commissioner Watchorn ter off in the mills where they gain self-states this general inclination well when reliance and an industrial training cannot be refuted.

While the vagrancy laws, which the mill men would be glad to see strengthened with "spikes," are practically unenforced, the tendency of fathers to live on the earnings of the children has greatly decreased, due largely to the creation of public sentiment against it. Where there are idle fathers, they are chiefly invalids or drunkards.

Child labor has been accentuated by the scarcity of labor due partly to the high price of cotton, which has lured many of the families back to the farms where they rent a few acres for a season; or one crop of cotton, which is mortgaged in advance. They are called "croppers," because as farmers they move annually, and the roving characteristic is so marked that after becoming operatives they move frequently from one mill village to another. Sometimes the employer will be enabled to hold a family by permitting it to move from house to house,-even across the street. This story was told by a jester: "The people change their abiding place so often that when a wagon stops at his door,

The scarcity of labor is not only caused
by the increase in the number of mills,
but by the hesitation on the part of im-
migrants to enter the South. This is due
partly to the sensational literature which
has painted so dark and unforbidding pic-
One such effort received the "blue
tures.
ribbon," in Belgium, as the best sociologi-
cal production, and was used by certain
interests abroad to discourage immigra-
tion to the South. This literature, which
has been published supposedly in the in-
terest of the children, has operated against
them and actually accentuated child labor.
The immigrants are further deterred by
rumors relative to numerous murders, and

he says: "Immigrants seek places of
which they have heard the most favorable
all-around reports." Another element
contributing toward the lack of a suffi-
cient number of operatives is the rise in
wages which has enabled the women to
leave the mills and become home-makers.
Furthermore, it is claimed that wages
have advanced thirty to fifty per cent. in
five years, more rapidly than have in-
creased the needs of the people. Their
needs must be increased to equal the rise
in wages to get them to work steadily.
Even where the premium plan of adding
to the wages for regular attendance has
been tried in the spinning room, it has
been found ineffective. Of the total num-
ber of operatives upon the pay-roll there
are always from 15 to 20 per
cent.
"loafing," as the people can make enough
in four days to live six. One president
stated that "the people are not sufficiently
ambitious to care to work all the time,
but as we are throwing about them elevat-
ing influences their needs are growing
greater and the next generation will be all
right." Naturally, the increasing of the
needs of the people to the consuming

"WHITE
WITHOUT
WEAKENING

powers of their wages would be a slow solution of this problem, even though "the next generation" may be "all right" in some of the long-established villages such as the one mentioned. Several mill owners estimated that if all the operatives listed upon their pay-rolls would work day in and day out, there would be an adequate supply of labor. When asked why they did not reduce the wages to meet this "scarcity due to higher wages" and thus force the operatives to work full time, it was stated that competition among the mills for labor would not per

A KINDERGARTEN CLASS OF OPERA-
TIVES' CHILDREN.

manufacturers also claim that they must
compete in the world market-with the
wages much lower in Italy, France, Ger-
many and England, while in India they are
but a small fraction of what is paid else-
where.

As to Immigrant Labor.

If one of the solutions is immigrant labor, it will have to be family labor, owing to the nature of the work. The work in the spinning room, at present so largely performed by children, should be taken up by young women over fourteen; the other adult members of the family being employed in other trades outside or in different capacities in the mills, a living wage would be secured. The individual immigrant would not be attracted by the wages which can be paid in the South when he can go to the Northwest and secure a higher rate. Nor does he take into consideration final results due to cheaper living, but he sees the amount of wages paid by the day. Immigrants of few nationalities would mix with the native whites, and it therefore seems that they must go principally to the new mills or to the city mills, thus driving the natives into the country districts.

learn It was interesting to that the greatest scarcity of labor occurs in the spinning room where the children work. For business reasons purely, if for no others, the employers do not desire child labor because the spinning machine is the most delicate and expensive in the mill, and the higher the grade of intelligence to the mountain people first went into the manipulate that machine, they claim the mills, although the wages were much better will be the product and the greater lower than now, the total amount earned the amount of output. Furthermore, the by a family so far exceeded its earnings children are very destructive,-broken upon the farm that it meant almost fabu- bobbins frequently were observed scatlous riches. The solution of the child la- tered upon the mill floors by the doffers. bor problem through a further increase Again, the loss through wasted material in wages would be a slow process, for caused by unskilled labor is greater in the the wages of the adults would have to be spinning room than in the preceding prosufficiently high to permit them to support cesses because it is so near the finished their families; and taking into considera- product. To prove the economic value of tion cheaper living, the wages are now older operatives, one employer, who manapparently as high as in New England ufactures colored goods, said: "We want in the same line of manufacture, but there children over fourteen because the youngwhile the families work in the mills there er ones cannot tell the difference between are greater opportunities for the fathers the shades." Even the sweeper boys are in skilled trades outside. The Southern inefficient because of their youthfulness,

Gum Tragasol Size is wellnigh revolutionary in its

effect on Yarn in the loom.

Expert tests by trade authorities show Gum Tragasol to increase the tensile strength of yarns 50.75 per cent. as against 13.4 per cent. with sago and chemical mixing.

The increase varies in different counts, but the great advance in production through non-breakage wins firm friends for Gum Tragasol.

Molecular absorption, i. e., en-. trance of the gum through the fibre pores, also at open and tip ends, contributes an element of strength entirely absent with ordinary surface-coating sizes.

This action also swells the yarn, and so aids in securing good cover and face on the cloth.

Still more facts next week. DANKER & MARSTON 247 Atlantic Ave, Boston, Mass.

and one mill president has introduced negro adults to sweep the floors, while another has substituted superannuated white men. Another said: "It is to our interest to keep the children out of the mills, for otherwise they will not grow up to be strong men." The leading mill men go so far as to say that they do not believe children should work under the age of sixteen; that that would be the ideal condition which they would welcome.

The scarcity of labor in the cotton mills cannot be reduced by the use of negro labor. While reliable information shows that negroes are used in the tobacco factories, where they simply have to strip the tobacco leaves, and have made good locomotive firemen and yard switchmen upon the railroads, it has been proved thoroughly that they cannot be used successfully in the cotton mills. While there is no reason why negroes could not be trained to be good operatives, it has been shown that in the cotton mills they could make enough in two days to meet their needs and that they would not work the balance of the week. Furthermore, it is the characteristic of the negro to roam at night. Being drowsy, therefore, during the day, the rythm of the machinery puts him to

sleep.

The child labor problem may be met partly by the invention of machinery to

A STREET OF NEW HOUSES, WHICH
SHOWS THAT MORE SPACE HAS BEEN
GIVEN BETWEEN THE HOMES.

displace the children. A letter from the president of the Saxon mills in South Carolina, calling upon The National Civic Federation to aid in this matter is quoted here:

room.

Looking Forward.

to the process of doffing in the spinning beginning July 30; Lockwood cotton
mills, Waterville, Me., amount not stat-
ed, beginning July 30; Bates and An-
One of the greatest needs is the crea- droscoggin mills, Lewiston, Me., 5 per
tion of public sentiment in favor of the cent. each, beginning July 30 and Aug.
modern legislation required, which at the 6 respectively, and Pepperell Mills,
present time is advocated and understood, Biddeford, Me., 5 per cent., beginning
principally by the employers. Generally
July 30.
speaking, the agitation has been promoted
by well-meaning but misguided theorists
who have not acquainted themselves with
the conditions under which the people
work or the business management and Plans
financial problems of the mills. Compul-
sory education is the first essential. As
this means a considerable increase in

taxation, public sentiment will be required
for that one reform more than on any

other.

SAMUEL FOX'S SONS.

Prepared for Extensive Addition to Their Woolen Mills. This business was founded at La Porte, Ind., by Samuel Fox in 1864, and has been managed since 1894, when Mr. Fox died, by his sons, being incorporated in 1902 under the name of Samuel Fox's Sons, and always operated sucwith provision cessfully. The plant has steadily grown in capacity and volume of business until now the time has come when it is to be doubled in size.

The legislation needed in South Carolina is:

Compulsory education

for truant officers;

Factory inspection to strengthen the child labor law;

Amendment of the child labor law to increase the age limit from twelve to fourteen years;

Birth registration; and

Marriage license law.

With the exception of the last two subjects listed, the requirements are the same in Alabama, and in Georgia even the child labor law is yet to be secured.

Plans have just been accepted for new buildings and arrangements for purchasing the necessary machinery have been perfected. To the new structure now under way there will be added two large new buildings, a new power plant will be installed and a stack 100 feet in height will be erected.

On the north side of the present structure there will be built a brick building three stories high with basement covering 70 by 200 feet.

For the present, the cotton mills are industrial training schools as well as refuges for the unfortunates. Too much praise cannot be given to the mill owners who, in spite of the unfair criticism which has been made, are not only giving food and On the south side another addition, shelter and an industrial training to the 20 feet by 70, is to be located. A new illiterate descendants of the first inhabi- engine of 250 horse power will be set tants of the colonies, but, through their up and the boiler capacity will be Welfare Work, are a great civilizing influence and are steadily raising the stand-doubled by the addition of two large new boilers. There will also be installed a 1000-light generator. The new woolen machinery, to be added, will include one This mahundred 92-inch broad looms. The superchinery has been ordered. intendent of construction has orders to be ready for it by October 1 and will probably not fail in the three months that are given him for the building operations.

ard of citizenship.

Wages Increased by Other Mills. Lowell, Mass., July 17.-The textile council will hold a special meeting tomorrow evening to act on a communication from the cotton manufacturers' association in reply to the council's letter of last week. In the letter the facturers say some advance may be granted, but it will not not be as early as July 23. They intimate there will be a readjustment of the schedule of wages, and in some instances the amounts to be paid will not equal that of today.

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Lowell, Mass., July 18-The Textile Council tonight referred to a committee the communication of the Lowell Manufacturers' Association regarding an advance in wages. That committee will report at an adjourned meeting of the Council Monday evening.

[The above items of news came to hand after the paragraph which appears on Page 8 had gone to press.]

This is strictly a home industry, being owned by La Porte people. The present Maurice officers of the corporation are: Fox, president; Robert C. Fox, vicepresident; Herbert W. Fox, secretary and treasurer, all of whom are residents of La Porte. A large force of operatives and office help is employed, which will soon be largely increased. Fourteen or more traveling men are kept continually on the road selling the product of the mills. Branch offices are located in Chicago and New York.

Mr. John Riley is superintendent; William Dane, assistant superintendent; P. J. Quinn, dyer; Jos. Genovely, carder; hand; The following mills have just posted Bert Bates, second Tom Hennotices announcing an increase of dricks, spinner; F. Hommelsheim, warpIf your organization can influence the wages: Amoskeag Mfg. Co. and Stark er and spooler; Will Trusdale, weaver; Draper Company or other leaders in inventions to perfect machines to doff the spin- Mills, Manchester, N. H., 5 per cent., A. C. Aitchison and Dick Gough, fixers.

ning frames and to catch up and insert between the rolls the broken sliver, you will in my judgment be aiming straighter at the mark of the final solution of the child labor problem than any one who has yet interested themselves in it. I wish sincerely that you could put the whole influence of your organization upon an agitation of the need of automatic machinery in the spinning room where the problem is, in the judgment of many, no more difficult than has been solved in both the weaving and drawing-in rooms, and the need is far greater.

He suggested prize competitions bring the question to the attention of inventors generally. The automatic looms and drawing-in frames are so marvelous as to be uncanny, and surely it is possible to provide for doffing by machinery, which would reduce the number of operatives required for that work. The drawing-in frame takes the place of seventeen girls, and will perform in eight minutes work that used to require about four hours.

The automatic loom, which has lessened the number of operatives required for weaving, has an adjustment for supplying mechanically fresh bobbins filled with yarn when those in use have become empty. This operation is not dissimilar

New Mills and Additions

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Columbia, S. C. Southern Aseptic Laboratories have incorporated with William J. Keenan, president and treasurer, and William M. Davis, vice-president and general manager. Absorbent cotton will be manufactured; daily pacity 10,000 pounds. A bleachery 40x150 feet will be erected at once. Wm. M. Davis, vice-president and general manager, will have charge of the construction of buildings. About $50,000 will be invested.

Summerville, Ga.-A company will be organized to build a cotton mill. Its president will be John D. Taylor of Summerville, and Ralph L. Wilson of Lindale, Ga., will be superintendent. Construction will begin at once.

Rensselaer, N. Y.-Workmen have begun installing new machinery in the new shoddy manufacturing plant of William Barnet, on North Forbes avenue. The brickwork on the building has been completed and the carpenter work will be

on the roof will be begun at once. Or- Johnson City, Tenn.-The Watauga Hos-
ders have been placed for additional iery Mills, incorporated last week with
machinery.
capital stock of $10,000, has organized
with L. W. Wood, president, and L. P.
Wood, secretary-treasurer. The company
has ordered machinery for manufacturing
ribbed hosiery.

Somerville, N. J.-The Somerville Mfg. Co. will put in some new looms. The plant is equipped with 14 sets of cards, of which 12 are now running.

Whitinsville, Mass.-The Whitin Machine Works will build an addition. Birmingham, Ala.-It is reported that Montgomery is to have another large Bert Weil, former general having plans drawn and estimates made manager of the People's Cotton Mills, is for a large mill, and announces that the new plant will soon be established.

cotton mill.

Huntsville, Ala.-It is reported that the Merrimack Mfg. Co. (cotton) will erect a finishing plant.

Matoaca, Va.-It is reported that the Matoaca Cotton Mfg. Co. has awarded contract for the installation of a new steam plant that is to cost from $8,000 to $10,000.

Concord, N. C.-The recently organized braiding company is setting up its machinery, having a building which will contain a hundred braiders and accompanying apparatus at the start. The concern will manufacture shoe laces, etc. rushed, as Mr. Barnet expects to be able New Haven, Conn. The Columbia to occupy the building by September 1. Hosiery Co., which came to New Haven Washington, R. I.-George B. Brooks from New York and located in a small of Providence and James McCormachie formerly superintendent of the Washing- has increased its capacity until recently shop as an experiment several years ago, ton Mfg. Co.'s absorbent cotton plant, larger quarters had to be found, and the will, it is said, establish a plant near entire building at 18 Wooster street has hear for the same line of work. been leased. There are four floors with Housatonic, Mass.-E. H. Shaw has extra storage room. This will give about started the foundations for the new pick- 36,000 square feet of floor space.

At the

er mill to be built by the Monument present time there are about 100 girls

work.

Meriden, Conn.-The American Braid Company, recently incorporated, has completed organization by the election of Benjamin W. Collins, president; A. F. Evarts, vice-president; Horace W. Kingsley, secretary and treasurer, and William D. Harned, general manager. The company will occupy leased quarters for the present, but it intends later to erect a plant of its own. It will begin manufacturing in a few weeks.

Tupelo, Miss.-At a recent meeting of the stockholders of the Tupelo Cotton Mills, it was decided to double the capacity of the plant at once. This will be done by the purchase of the hosiery mill property, to be used as a weaving plant. At the meeting J. H. Ledyard was elected president and general manager, J. J. Rodgers vice-president, and W. W. Trice secretary and treasurer.

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Ashley, Pa.-Additional machines are

being placed in the knitting mill operated by Ambrose West. The building has been enlarged.

Ft. Smith, Ark.-R. E. Abbott, of Boston, who represents a number of Eastern panies, is in the city for the purpose banking institutions and cotton mill comof establishing a large cotton mill here if the conditions are right. He says that he has landed here after an eight months' trip through the cotton-growing States

and he has come to the conclusion that

Fort Smith is

Mills Co. Three hundred thousand brick employed, and the capacity of the facan ideal location for a will be used in its construction and it tory is 509 dozen pairs of stockings a cotton mill industry and will put up one will take three months to complete it. day. Later the force will be increased. here if the people wish it; if not he will Contractor Shaw will do the brick work, In addition to stockings, underwear will go to Dallas, from which city flattering and the Monument Mills the carpenter also be made here. The "Winona Mills" inducements have been offered. Mr. Abbrand is made by this firm. The main bot said that if arrangements for putting Mount Vernon, N. Y.-John G. Wint- factory is located in New York, but up the cotton mill here are made $800.000 be will milli- more invested. . The mill be jen, manufacturer of silk braids, is or less trouble experienced will nery trimmings and hatters' supplies, is there in obtaining steady help. equipped 50,000 spindles, with the idea building an addition to his factory which of increasing the number to a million as Walterboro, S. C.-It is reported that will more than double its capacity. The the Walterboro Cotton Mills has awardsoon as the people here can be educated building consists of two stories and in the operation of the machinery. Local ed contract for additional machinery; basement, is of brick, and when compresent equipment 6,500 spindles and 275 labor will be employed almost exclusively pleted will be 50x80 feet. A feature of and 500 men will be employed in the bethe construction will be a large fireginning. proof vault for the storage of stock. The most improved machinery, driven by electricity, has been installed.

looms.

Denison, Tex.

the firm a
yarns.

for

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The Denison Cotton Williamstown, S. C.-Work will be beMills has awarded contracts looms and other machinery to be added gun at once on an addition to the Wilto its present equipment of 12,135 liamstown Cotton Mills which will add Gastonia, N. C.-The Clara Mfg. Co. spindles. This improvement will give about 4,000 spindles and 100 looms. The has awarded contracts in connection with weaving plant to use its present equipment comprises 25,784 spinits new mill and has increased its capidles and 600 looms, and its product is tal from $80,000 to $100,000. The building print cloths. This mill has been very is to be 80x267, to hold 5,000 spindles Philadelphia, Pa. The Philadelphia successful and has not been affected by and supplementary machinery for mak- Tapestry Mills, have found it necessary the general scarcity of help. J. P. Gosett ing fine yarns. R. P. Rankin is president, to increase the capacity of their boiler George A. Gray vice-president and C. M. plant in order that their factories may is president and treasurer, G. L. AnderArmstrong secretary and treasurer. be run to full capacity. They are build-son, secretary, W. E. Redd, superintendent. Frank Cox Dalton, Ga.--An addition which will be Montgomery, Ala.-It is reported that ing an addition 36x41 feet. is to add a fifth story to his hosiery mill equipped with 12,000 spindles and which Bert Weil will organize a company to at the southwest corner of Cambria and will cost about $350,000 will be built to build a cotton mill. Plans and specOrmes streets; it will cover the entire the Crown Cotton Mills. plant and will be 130x53 feet in dimen-ifications are being prepared for the buildings, and it is reported that John Hill, of Atlanta, Ga., Southern representative of Shop, of Lowell, the Lowell Machine Mass., will be the engineer in charge of construction. The present equipment of the Crown Mills is 20,000 ring spindles and 544 looms, and they manufacture duck and osnaburgs. Geo. W. Hamilton is president; F. T. Hardwick, secretary and treasurer, and G. W. Hamilton, Jr., superintendent.

Springfield, Ill.-The Springfield Woolen Mills will be removed to the northeast part of the city and a new factory building erected close by for the manufacture of men's and boys' clothing.

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sions.

Statesville, N. C.-The work of excavating for the foundation of the Bradford Knitting Mill, to be located in West Statesville, is expected to begin soon. Elmira, N. Y.-Some time during the present month the Campbell Knitting Mill Co. will occupy the building Elmira Heights, formerly occupied York City, Pa-The Joseph Black the Call Mfg Co. as a spinning and of the Vassar Sons Company, hosiery manufacturers, finishing plant. By taking over this Chicago recently and purchased a com- will erect a large new factory building outfit for the manufacture plant the company will find it necessary plete of in West York borough which will be one to add 75 to 109 hands to its employees. hosiery and underwear, which he of the largest plants of its kind in the his The new mill will be used for spinning add to the equipment of knitting State when completed. Contractors have and finishing. The company already works here. been asked to submit bids on two sets of employs 275 hands at the East avenue Plainfield, Conn.-The mill of the Law- plans, both of which are being prepared It is engaged in the manufacture ton Cotton mills will, it is estimated, add by the firm of Hamme & Leber, architects. of cotton-ribbed underwear for women 1,500 population to the town. The work The Black Hosiery Company has been and children. Charles E. Bruce is presi- on the structure is progressing as fast located in the building owned and occudent and treasurer and is in charge as possible. pied by the York Wall Paper Company, here. A. J. Armstrong is secretary of and has for a year or more been considerthe company. ering the advisability of erecting a plant

mill.

will

Birmingham, Ala. The Commercial Club is negotiating for the establishment of an underwear knitting mill.

of its own.

Amherst, N. S.-Several car loads of hard pine have recently arrived at the Birmingham, Ala.-Ike Adler has pur- Covington, Ga. The capacity of the Hewson Woolen Mills to be used in the construction of their new knitting fac- chased the mill property formerly owned Covington Cotton Mills has been increased additional tory. This building is 200 feet long and by the Southern Textile Co. and may in- by the installation of 5,000 the work on the foundation is progress- stall modern spinning machinery, or he spindles and a number of cottages for its ing rapidly. The brick work on the new may lease the plant to other manufac-employes have also been built. The plant has now a total of 18,000 spindles and emdye house is about completed and work turers.

ploys from 350 to 450 hands. N. S. Turner was a short while ago elected president of the company, vice T. C. Swan, deceased,

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.-The Wilkes-Barre Lace Manufacturing Company, which is making extensive additions to its present equipment, has placed an order for revolving flat cards, speeders and twisters. Rockville, Ct.-The J. J. Reagan Mfg. Co., has started 20 more looms and are preparing to build a new dye house at No. 4 Mill.

Lowell, Mass.-The contract for the new

Clinton, Mich.-William J. Kearney, boss finisher, has left the employ of the Clinton Woolen Mfg. Co., and returned to Philadelphia. Kathryn Dolan, who was boss burler and sewer with the Riverview Worsted Mills of this city has Mass., where she will have the same position.

Imill of the Shaw Stocking Company has gone to Concord Mills, Concord Junction, resigned as second hand of ring spinning

been awarded. The building will be 245x 118 feet. The main walls will be of brick, and the basement of reinforced concrete. The main beams in the building will be of steel.

Manchester, N. H.-Work is progressing

on the addition to No. 1 mill of the Stark Corporation, to be used as a bleach house. This addition will be 30x35 feet, three stories.

Fall River, Mass.-Small Bros. are arranging to make an addition to their millbanding and rope manufacturing plant. A two-story brick building, 39x76 feet, is to be built close to the present structure. Gas engines and electric motors are used for power in the present plant, and the new building will be similarly provided.

Montreal, Canada.-The Dominion Textile Company has filed plans for a new seven-story mill building on St. Ambrose street, this city. The new building will cost about $50,000.

to $150,000.

Methuen, Mass.-John T. Mitchell who in the Arlington Mills cotton department, and went to the Boott Mills, Lowell, as No. Uxbridge, Mass.-Louis Trudeau, overseer, has been succeeded by Wm. Overseer of weaving in the Uxbridge H. Dyer who comes from the Boott Cotton Mills has been succeeded by Mills. Robert Hill is overseer at the Mills, Robert Parkinson of the Farwell Arlington over the cotton ring spinning. Lisbon, Me. Uxbridge, Mass. forHenry A. Cole of Mechanicsville, Conn., has taken charge & Brown of finishing for the Davis Woolen Co., succeeding S. Walker, signed.

Berkeley, R. I.-Geo. H. Clark,
in the
merly second hand of spinning
Berkeley Mills, has taken position as
overseer of spinning in John K. Stewart's
yarn mill, Amsterdam, N. Y.

New Brunswick, N. J.

cards.

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G. Indian Orchard, Mass.-George Hanaoverseer of burling Brown who has been employed at the way has resigned as Norfolk & New Brunswick Hosiery Co.'s and sewing for the Rhode Island Worsto Norfolk, ted Co. mill has been transferred repairs on the N. Billerica, Mass.-John J. Deavitt, Conn., to make some boss weaver in the Talbot Mills, has retaken charge of the No. 1 spinning_room Cohoes, N. Y.-John Bickley, Jr., has signed to take charge of a weaving plant that is soon to be started in Lowell. in Harmony Mills No. 1 in place of James Mr. Deavitt has been with the Talbot Brackley, foreman of No. 1 who will mills for more than six years, coming take charge of a similar but larger room here from Keene, N. H., where he had overseer of weaving for in the old part in Harmony mill No. 3. been William Heslin, it is said, will have charge of the new part. J. E. Allen is now in charge of both parts, but has resigned and intends to make his future home in the east.

years.

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Montgomery, Ala.-M. E. Stevens has resigned as superintendent of the People's Cotton Mills and is succeeded by J. M. Foster of Lawrence, Mass. Mr. where Stevens goes to Columbus, Ga., he will be superintendent of the Columbus Mfg. Co.'s plant.

Augusta, Me., July 17.-Virgin Bros. of Rumford Falls, have purchased the old coat factory in Mechanic Falls, and it is understood that the building will be torn down and a towel factory erected on the Isaiah Perkins property, previously purAugusta, Me.-A. Shannon of Brunschased by the Virgin Bros., situated near wick has entered the employ of the Edthe Portland & Rumford Falls Railway. wards Mfg. Co., as second hand of cardBaltimore, Md.-The Blue Ridge Knit-ing. North Adams, Mass.-Joseph Costello ting Company of Hagerstown is to en- Lawrence, Mass.-William White has has accepted a position as overseer of large its plant by building another mill accepted a position as fixer in the draw-carding at the Airedale mill in Pittsfield. and will buy the Black Rock Knitting ing department at the Arlington Mills. Bloomsburg, Pa. Joseph Ratti has Mills of Mechanicsburg, Pa. Bonds are Winooski, Vt.-Clark Faulkner of So. been honored by the King of Italy, who being issued to the amount of $100,000 and the capital is increased from $25,000 Royalston, formerly carder in the Whit-conferred upon him the order of Knightof Mr. Ratti is treasurer the ney Mill in that place, has accepted a hood. position as assistant overseer of carding Bloomsburg Silk Mills, and is noted for at the Burlington Mills. Mr. Faulkner his philanthropy. He is in Italy at preswas formerly a resident of the village. ent, and expects to return to BloomsMrs. Faulkner and children will arrive in burg early in September. a few weeks. Blackstone, Mass. number A of friends and fellow employes tendered a reception to L. A. Gilbert at his home a few days ago. During the evening Mr. Gilbert was presented a chair by the of the Leominster, Mass.-Hilbert Parker has carding department operatives the Leo- Blackstone Mfg. Co., as a token of their resigned from the employ of Mr. Gilbert has minster Worsted Co. and accepted one as esteem and friendship. in Blackstone for the past six loom fixer in the Assabet Mills, Maynard. resided Woonsocket, R. I.-Allen C. Arey, for-years, and has made a host of friends. Pawtucket, R. I.-It is rumored that merly boss carder at Manchaug Mills has taken similar position in the Nourse Robert Burgess may resign as treasurer Mills. of the Slater Cotton Co., and may succeeded by James R. MacColl, of the Lorraine Mfg. Co. Another rumor states that Mr. Burgess is about to establish a mill of his own to manufacture colored goods.

Norwich, Conn.--C. M. Williams has been awarded the contract for alterations to the mill in Fitchville owned by the Palmer Bros. Co. The roof will be raised and two stories added on.

World's Visible Cotton Supply. New Orleans Secretary Hester's statement of the world's visible supply of cotton, made up from special cable and telegraphic advices, shows a de crease for last week of 147,652 bales, against a decrease of 116,393 last year, a decrease of 128,294 year before last and

a decrease of 152 272 in 1903.

No. Billerica, Mass.-W. S. Taylor has accepted a position as boss finisher in the Brookville Woolen Mills of Brookville, Pa.

Wilton, N. H.-D. J. Dooley has taken charge of dyeing in the Wilton Woolen Co.'s mill, succeeding Harold Crosley re

The total visible is 2,733,461 bales, against 2,881,113 last week; 3.199,803 last year, 1,849,669 year before last and 1,908,876 in 1903. Of this the total of signed. American cotton is 1,500,461 bales, Seymour, Conn.-A. Hutchinson, foragainst 1,616,113 last week, 1,967,803 merly of the Arlington Mills, Lawrence, last year, 905,669 year before last and Mass., has taken position as second hand 965,876 in 1903, and of all other kinds, of spinning and twisting in the Tingue including Egypt, Brazil, India, etc., 1,- Mfg. Co.'s mill. 233,000 bales, against 1,265,000 last Rockville, Conn. George Pettengill, Bound formerly of Brook, N. J., week, 1,232,000 last year, 944,000 has year taken charge of dyeing and finishing in before last and 943,000 in 1903. the Regan Mill, succeeding Mr. O'Keefe, who went to Clinton, Mich.

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The total world's visible supply shows a decrease compared with last week of 147,652 bales, a decrease compared with ployed by the Barnaby Mfg. Co., for a last year of 466,342, an increase com- number of years has been advanced to pared with the year before last of overseer of dyeing. 883,792 and an increase of 824,585 N. Y. City.-Orlando Wall, formerly of compared with 1903. Woonsocket, R. I., and Fitchburg, Mass., Dobson, Knicker

Of the world's visible supply there is is now with J. & J. now afloat and held in Great Britain bocker Building. and Continental Europe 1,430,000 bales, Salem, Mass. The Naumkeag Steam against 1,655,000 last year, 1,074,000 Cotton Mills have secured as overseer of year before last and 1,057,000 in 1903; carding Horatio Edgerly, formerly with Chicopee Falls, in Egypt, 59,000 against 103,000 last year, the Chicopee Mfg. Co., 96,000 year before last and 23,000 1903; in India, 818,000, against 879,000 last year, 452,000 year before last and 577,000 in 1903, and in the United States 426,000, against 563,000 last year, 228,000 year before last and 252,000 in 1903.

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Leominster, Mass.-M. C. Mullen, who resigned as boss carder in the E. M. Rockwell Mill, is to be succeeded by Thomas E. Ainley of Uxbridge.

Rockville, Ct.-J. A. Bentley, who has been loom fixer in the Buena Vista Mills, Buena Vista, Va., has accepted a position in the New England Mill.

Derby, Conn. John McGovern, boss finisher in the Alling Mills, who recently resigned, returned to his old position in the Paragon Knitting Mills. Mohawk, N. Y. His successor is J. E. Merrill, formerly of the Wood Mills, Lakeport, N. H.

Fitchburg, Mass.-W. E. Keach, Supt. for the Grant Yarn Co., returned on Menday of this week, from his vacation.

Moosup, Conn.-Alfred D. Benoit, has entered the employ of the Aldrich Mfg. Co., setting spindles.

Appleton, Wis.-John D. Bullard, boss carder and spinner, has left the Reedsburg Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Buck, second Woolen Mills on account of ill health. hand of card room in the Northern Ohio Blanket Mills has resigned. His succes- Stevens Point, Wis.-F. Louis Barr of sor is George Eaton of Saugus, Mass. Chicago, Ill., has taken position as boss The mills are putting in three new Bar-knitter and finisher at the Racine Underker rubs, making in all ten sets of Bar

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