Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 1, 1915, Page 24

AGGREGATE BUSINESS IN EASTERN CONNECTICUT COUNTIES A Total of $608,474,426 In The Past Year---Manufacturing, Banking, Jobbing, Building and Road Work---$408,416,828 In New London County---$200,057,598 In -Smaller Figures This Year Than Last In Some Manufacturing Lines In common with the general business experience in New Bngland in the past year, particularly in the textile branches and through them largely affecting general business conditions throughout New London and Windham counties, Eastern Con- necticut experienced a year below the normal. vet an optimistic epirit for the coming twelve months is expressed in many quart- ers and a conviction that better conditions are just ahead, The fAgures annually collected by The Bulletin to show the volume of business for Eastern Connecticut in manufacturing, banking, building, and the jobbing trade show for 1914 a grand total in New London and Windham counties of $608,474,426 where it was $637,006,698 in 1913, a decrease of $28,532,272. For the two counties the two years compare in their total as follows business total was 3445, 6,008 In 1913 New Tond 1914 it was 3408,416, 180. Total manu- i res made 609 in 1913 to $60,- . There was 8 gain of . from $18 799,000 to $18,960. 000. an increase /L’ $ 1 the 1 jobbing trad In total banking the agerezate of $367.907.399 became $328,666.2 in 1914, a loss of $38, 3, principally through the wuhdmwal of about $35,000,090 done by two Norwich banks no longer e siness for the year in 1913 was ain of $8,256,908. a_decrease of $13,876,000_was a gain of $98,000. Bank gure of $139,023,631, whic in he total NORWICH MILLS AND FACTORIES DISBURSED $3,754,064 IN WAGES IN 1914, In 1913 the Figure Was $3,541,864—Brass Goods, Firearms and Silk and Velvet Were Lines That Showed the Most Gains. in Norwich 191¢ was generally remarked upen as a slack year manufactu , vet summary of the zes paid and the product from mills and factories produces a larger figure than in 1913. In the wages account the disbursement was $8,754, 064, a gain of $212,400 over the 33,511,864 for wages of 1813, while in value of product there was a gain of $385,124, the 1014 total beinz $18,704,788 in comparison with the 1913 figure of $13,119,664. How the year showed in different classes of Industries is shown as follows: With the cott what less than f l”< the wage account for 1914 was some- 3 and production showed a corresponding amaller u For the past year these industries distributed 21,314,000 in wages and produced $4,300,353 In manufactured product, whereas in 1913 the wages were $1,346.000 and the product $4.48 The woolen the money whic wise running in mills which are annually large contributors to enters the husiness life of Norwich were like- he past vear on shorter time than before, vyet the large business increase recorded by one plant made the wage total for 1914 at $259.741, where it was $2556.917 in 1913, while eir production was $1,010,124 in 1 as compared to $1,149,580 n value of product in 1913, manufacturing business, however, re- 1 an in the year before, on payroll 59.000 and product—value compared w: Manufacturers of nd belting were another industrial ine in which a larger iess than in 1912 was shown by the figures for 1914. They showed a gain in wages from $194,390 to 244,035 and in manufactured product from $1,225,900 to $1,443,400, Short time duri the last six months of the year in the Jargest iron working plant in the city showed its effect in the payroll account of this class of industries, while other plants in the same class had a normal year. In 1914 the iron working plants of the city paid $138,060.in wages and turned out $386,465 In product. In 1913 thsse figures were respectively $169,995 and $470,430. Largely through the addition of one new industry to the man- of brass and bright metal goods, this class shows a in 1914 over 1913 business. The wage disbursement where it was $57,7%9 in 1913 and product increased from $307,000 to $400,000. In firearms and cutlery ilnes there is'a substantial gain for the vear as the two large firenrms factories both report one- fourth more business done the year than the year before that. The aggregate wages paid in these lines was $621,512 in 1914 and ; $526,550 1913 wiile their product was $1,105,989 in.one year nd $1,020,544 in the other. “ In the Norwich industries placed in the miscellaneous class, ¢ which includes paint works, wood workers and carriage makers, mattress, pants and shirt waist manufacturers, enveiope machine makers, U. S. Finishing company and American Thermos Bottle company there is a gain in the total of wages paid from $632,150 n égn lo $675.447 in 1914 and in finished product from 32,203,180 t0 $2.519,94 The Norwic howed a slight increase in the totaling $11,164.000 where it was NEW LONDON'S WORKEHS IN MILLS HAD MORE WAGES IN 1914 THAN IN 1913, Gain of $67,720 in Wage Distribution in the Past Year—Manu- facturing Plants Paid Their Employes a Total of Nearly C $2,000,000. the returns made from the manufacturing concerne of . it apparent that this city at the mouth of the enced 1 an any in this section the curtailment acturing plants, due in one way at fact that it contains no such large woolen and cotton found in the other parts of New London county and the industrial conditiogs have borne most heavily. ew London, in fact. showed a general gain in its manu- 5 From uring lines, the total wages paid in 1914 being given at 20 to $1.836,700 in 1913, a zain of $67,720, and the value of wiured product adv from $9 600 to $10,037,290. neral machinery and marine ma- vhich are tr wage distributors in New London showe n an increa in - payrolls from $90: 'y while product valued at 84,000 in 1913 and at 447 \ ount acture The big silk m quilt mills with one or i their wages ao- in 14 and their manu- d produ the me copper 11 the tot'xl of '$114,900 mu their production showed a in 1913 to $520,810 in the cturers reported a slightly ributed. $40,400 in wages 206 Reatet x 1914, ha rned ou in finished product in 1 341,200 and $13 rresponding item In the miscellan classification includes manu- acturers of glue coth powder hemicals, carpet ning, wagons. ken feeders, the or 1614 account in wa. comparing BUTNAM’S MILLS PAID $759,600 IN WAGES IN THE PAST YEAR. Susiness Conditions Were Not so Favorable as a Year Ago— Wages Correspondingly ‘Less. Putnam and vicinity, v #pally cotton. woolen and s been generally one of manufacturing interests are prin- Ik mills for whom the past year has depressed business conditions owing to ‘ariff changes, experienced short time and decreased payrolls luring the twelve months of 1914, 1e difference is shown in a total wage distribution flzure of 3759600 for 1 inst 3788,000 in 1913 and value in product of $,600 in 1913, report a wage distribution of $370,000 than i 1913, with their product $975,000 0 the year before. Among the woolen manu- i ¢ in wages account from $186,000 40.009 in 1914, while the silk industries, which dis- sursed $123,000 in wages in 1913 put about $109,000 Into the hands »f their emr s in 1914 and turned out $990,000 in product in he one vear and ,000 in the other. Among industries in the as in increase in payrolls, the year and product growing where § ‘acturers n 1913 to § 1914 fiho\nnk’ rom $393,000 : The businc ight increase in 000, in Putnam indicated a on flgures of $4,084,000 and In Other Towns of the County. In the of the mills of Windham county in Danielson, Killingly and the parts of the county outside of Putnam and Willimantic, a generally smatler business was shown on figures W $2,376.965 for ‘payrolls and '$9,115,000 for product in 1914 in omparison with $2,403,85¢ and $3,535,938 for the same items n 1813, Among the cotton mills better husiness on the part of one or wo of the big cotton mills made a slight gain in the figures of pial wage distribution for this year. but smaller business was re- “arted on the part of othefs. In 1914 the wase total naid by the NORWICH BULLETIN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 7915 ‘indham County FACTORY OF UNITED METAL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INCORPORATED, On Shipping Street, Norwich et e et cotton mills was $1 400 as compared with $1,695 product was valued before, while manufactured compared with $6,439,000 in 1913. In the woolen mills there was a substantial falling off in the amount of work they did as their wage figures for 1914 were §4 501 to $512,934 in 1913 $2,130,938 in the two vear and their product was respectively. Somethir also shown among other 00 and production figures industries by the wage of $850,000 in 1914 to $195,000 and $919,000 in product in 1913. $1,823,750 WAS THE WAGES ACCOUNT OF WILLIMANTIC'S INDUSTRIES IN 1914, Siackened Business Made a Generaily Lower Figure Than in 1913 For the Thread!' City. The record for th r 1914 made in the manufacturing in- dustries of Willimantie showed a general result that brought the wage distribution figures below those reported for 1913. The mills and factories put into circulation in the past vear a total of $1,823,750 in wages and turned out product valued at $8,362,000 where -their business before had made these items $1,982,500 and $9,569,5 Among the silk mills a in the year as wages were $ 1913, while the production figures indicated $1,890.000 and $1,- 415,000 respectively in the two vears. Somewhat less business by the machinery and inetal working classes was shown on_wages of $153,000 in 1914 {o $162.000 the vear before and production figures of $475,000 and $483,000. At the same time there was smaller pusinass in the miscellaneous class, as demonstrated by wage total of $1,194,750 last 5 2 with production of $6,367.000 and $6,384,500 respectively. mills as well were le: quently less, being $182,000 in 1914 to $207,000 in 1913 with product at $730.000 and $787,000 rospec omething of a gain was in the jobbing business which sreased from $9,745.000 in 1913 to § 000 in the past year. 1in in wages paid is shown )0 as compared to $290,00 in Cotton ve and their payroils were oconse- NEW INDUSTRIES IN NORWICH Brass Goods Manufa;:t_u;ars; Makers of Magazine Pistol and New Woolen Mill Company Were Among Those Added in the Past Year. The addition of several new manufacturing piants to the in- §ustries of Norwich was a matter of importance in the record of the past year, each one of the demonstrating by its success since coming here t ey are to be valuable factors in the general business life of the communi Others of the older tablished concerns have extended tb siness, among wh are noted the following: Crescent Fire Arms Gun Barrel Department. One of the e jons in the business of a Norwich manu- facturing -industry that came about during the year was in the Crescent Fire Arms company, which put in a department for gun barrel work, when the European cut off the Belgian source of supply for gun barrel material tional space in the In- dustrial building was artment by the com- pany, taking room which was pied by the Lester & Wasley company, which remov oy Laundry ‘compan: building on Franilin new barrel boring machine: operated by a 100 hors motor, were installed, an epower elec a 50 horsepower motor was put for the reaming and other machines, which are all of the proved male. The gun barrel material now obtained from Ohio and fintshed up in the Crescent Ar ompany plant in the Industrial building, this development ployes in the local plant ness and its value to the of the important industr er number of em- ease in its busi- as long been one meani nd a consel mmunity wherec of the city. Thermos Company Had Year of Business Gain. e curtailed payTolls have been the experience of S0 many all over the country i 0 vears, the Ameri- Bottle comps the new industries : value to the industrie: ty as a wage showing a total p and actual s: in volume than in : went more than $1 day advertising the zines, Sunday and daily estimated total of « name of Norwich and hermc California and from Manitoba t In at least four different lines, the Thermos business meant no fnconsiderable increase in volume of business in the past year, the local telegraph, the post office, siness of a local paper box factory, and_the ht b ss of local office of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad. As is usual In January, th Thermos company wil 914, greater the year In its holt- argest maga- reaching an and spreading the from Maine to ver r the half mi on nufacturing department of the lown until the 18th of the month for the purpos al inventory, repairs and clean- and at s time also of some disturbance of 3 larly in 1 account of the European Admore Woolen Mills Company. One of the industrial changes that took place during tire vear change in ownership of the Yantic Woolen mill property. owing the failure of the Yantic Mills company, the new Admore Wovlen Mills company was nl:’u"nfld in January, taking over the entire woolen mill bt mill property a carrying on th mumung this big Firm Manufacturing New Automatlc Magazine Pistol Has Located in Norwich—Business is Building Up Fast. Omne of the new manufacturing concerns to locate in this city capitalized sTesses &n(l fn the past year was the Warner Arms Corporation, at $100,000, and promising much as the husiness pr develops in the manufacture of the automatic mag which is its product. Since the first of May the corporation has been located property on North Main street, formerly occupied by the T Arms Manufacturing company and the Globe Ball Bearing com- pany, where the business of the Warner company has been going forward, largely in the experimental stage. The company bought the -property and moved its busin Brooklyn, N, Y., selecting this location after inspection of a num- ber of sifes in other citles. At the present time ten men are employed, but the business is gaining fast and it is anticipated that this number will be con- stantly Increased and that prebably inside of 13 months the equip- ment will be increased so that from 45 to 50 men will be employed and the factory will be turning out from 50 to 75 pistols per day Under a German vatent bousht by this camnany. it is mwanu- facturing the new Schwarzlose seven-shot magazine pistol, of . calibre, and in two types. F. B, Warner of Brooklyn, N. Y. is president of the company and T. H. Baldwin 1s the resident su- perintendent. The property occupied is a main bullding, 40x30 feet, with the machine room on the first floor and the tool room on the second floor. It has an addition, 20x40 feet, and there is also an office building and a blacksmith shop. Since the coming of the company a new water wheel has been put in by which power upplied from the canal of the Norwich Water Power Committees of the wich Board of Trade and the Norwich n's strumental in interesting the x heir successful efforts have to the manufacturing and wage distributing ng ration in i one mo BRASS GOODS MANUFACTURERS. United Metal Manufacturing Company, Incorporat- ed, Doing a Growing Business in Factory on Shipping Street—Came Here from New York. The United Metal Manufacturing compa incorporated, man- ufacturers of brass zoods, has just completed its first year as one of the manufacturing plants of Norwi and in that time has fulfilled the prcmise made for it when its coming here was an- nouncad in the fall of 1913. After 20 vears of successfui business life in New York, the company sought a more advantageous location and bought the property on Shipping street former occupied by the Sterling Machine company to which it w: directed largely through the efforts of George V arroll. The result has been the location ere of a manufacturing concern, whose payroll averages $1,000 er week at pre: giving employment to 80 men, and having an annual uu((,ut of from $120,000 to $150,000. s a growing one and by next August it is the 50 men will be employed and that the output will be increas $180,000 or more. The coming of the company here added a n of new families to the city as about 60 of the men in its employ at present were emploves in the New York factory who followed the company here. -ements in the equipment and machinery are constant- and an appropriation of $5,000 for new machinery is ; other extensive expenditures in this line. The ures anything in brass, such as gas fixtures, ures, and automobile supplies. 1ding, v s of three stories and brick, is oc- irst floor he screw machine department and material department, ! as the offices, the different being so arranged that the raw material coming in on the asses throvgh the successive stages until it reaches 1e shipping room on the third floor, from which an elevator is 1o be put in to facilitate the shipping. On the second floor is the machine room, and assembling room, while the flnnl processes, the third floor in plating, buffilng, lacquering and polishing. are also the stock room and the shipping department. The plant includes also a brass foundry of elght furnaces, which was built after the company located here, a store room building and one or two other small buildings. The company ed at $115,000 and its offi: are the following: H, M. Stcele, Waterbury, president; C. F. Wells, Nor- wich, general manager and treasurer; directors, H. M. Steele, R. 5 tchfield and New York, Ralph Royal of Lebancn, Carroll and C. F. Wells of Norwich. anticipation t cock department re carried on on Here KILLINGLY’S BUSY MILLS. Its Diversified Industries Have Passed the Turning Point of Industrial Depression—Confidence is Felt For the Coming Year. wo months Dayville, which § pping point md manufacturing plant illingly, has station between Worcester and New & Worcester div on of the N. H R R several times during this st month the side track and unloading facilities at this station have not been of sufficient capaci- ty to accommodate fn- coming freight, so that from twenty to thirty fully loaded freight cars consigned to Dayville have been held up at Plainfleld Junction for from four to "ten days, and this week flve cars of cotton consigned to the Killingly Manu- facturing company at Dayville had to be un- loaded at Danielson. Wide Varfety of Manu- factures. Whether society has war or peace, our indus- tries continue to expand, our pavrolls to increase, and our industrial prom- inence becomes greater than ever as the years roll by. Our industries ‘We manufacture cotton goods that weigh as light to a pound, while other local miils manufacture cotton g¢ that weigsh as heavy as one and three-quarter pounds to the vard; our woolen mills meke fabrics for the i ¢ Europe that are struggling in the Titanic conflict: other mills make woolen goods for the working man and .the gentleman of leisure, as well as for the soclety lady; buff wheels are manufactured by two prosperous concerns, their products being used for polishing metal of every description: handkerchiefs are manufactured for the world’s markets; our absorbent cotton mill is running day and night, with an output of nearly two. tons a day, miost of which goes to the battle fields of Europe. Whip sockets are manufactured in this town, and shirped all over the _While the products of the E. H. Jacobs Manufacturing 1 straps, loom pickers, and mili strapping, are used been the London or W. IRVING BULLARD are ai d. as sever over E :1.& world. It is this diversity of manufacturing and in- dustry that accounts for the expansion <f our busi and our payrolls in this town. From Raw Cotton to Auto Tire Fabric, The Killingly Manufacturing company, which is controllied by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber company of Akron, Ohlo, hag manu- factured 1,200,000 pounds of mutonrobile tire fabric during the past year, with a total value of $600,000. To manufacture this product, there is required 1,600,000 pounds of the finest grade of Sea Island cotton, and a payroll of $89,000. This month this corporation has added one-third miore machinery, which will give a total product ©f 1,600,000 pounds of tira fabric during the ¥ear 1915, or a total - consumption of Sea Island cotton of 2. ,100,000 pounds, at an aver- age value of 20 cents per pound, or a total cost of $420,000 for the cotton used in this one milt. The payroll will be about $130,000 during the vear. The fabric of the Killingly Manufacturing com- pany is used exclusively in the.largest sizes of Goodyear automo- e tires, and pronsunced to he the highest grade of automo- bile tire’ fabri¢c manufactured, with an average breaking test of 440 pounds to the square inch of fabric. The Killingly Manu- facturing company one of the largest complete automobile tire fabric manufacturing mills in the country. It takes the raw cot- ton and manufactures every process to the finished fabric 6,000,000 Pounds Output Per Year. Another very successful textile mill in this town is ;hx‘ Con- necticut Mills company, which has an output of nearly Pounds of automobile tire fabric -er year. This mill bu and weaves it into fabric. It has one of the fines and cost organizations of any mill in fidently believed that it will not be many ve sefore the man- agement of the Connecticut Miils company will put up a large spinning mill, so that they wi! thy own yarns. ‘This mill is running on a da: s making a high-grade of tire fabr of the most sful tires on the market, Overcoatings For Abroad. ration of great ortar ted at woolen highest ¢ management. of Grieg, is one of Absorbent Cotton Going to Europe. the fore The International Cotton Manufacturing ontrolled by the American gist Syndic < v, has been increasing its output n usl v the addition of ne hinery, 1d more effi 1t and organization. output is sold a pped daily to the vea absorbent « of about of absorbent located : and § ter abo Polana Spring water, purest water ok water for bleaching g stem, oduct of ernationa Cotton Manufacturing c so high 1 world's markets. It is the defin ers & oosnipan to continue to incre, iditiona modern bleaching an Had United States Government Contract. Un the very able management of James F Danielson Cotton company t rmwe.l or tial indu T modern 1 ins the mill has discontinued manufactur now manufacturing ail fa new department for a cotton mill, nam cotton worsteds and. all worsteds for men's v ment has proven very succes: ul, and eve: increased business duun thc year to rr)me large contract fro Mr. Hathaw orporation for i completely reme 15 will by led with $160,000. roll of this s new equipment power piant throughout. Ready For Business to Open Up. 1 compa e of goods t ed fuil this past een seri ously affected vora) ruesdell, the agent of th has installed inery during the past year, including spinning itions to their ower pia They operate three payrolls of which are one of the tile work- in this town. The m: ow modern, and when business in their lir mill is in a position to manufac possible cost. ture the hi s at the lowest Cotton Mills Expect Bettar Bus ness, The other textiie mill the past i year, outside of those mentioned very poor bus- | iness, but with the present advantage of low prices n cotton, there { s 1 ; i the textile | industry, that this important department of our ec ¢ welfare | will show a pronounced improvement this coming year. The un- | dertone of the textlle industry is decidedly favorable. Not only is raw cotton at the lowest poimt in but there are mo finished goods on hand, and if the Eurs; centinues, the world’s market must come to thi The smaller industries in ou own, ch as the Brook Hill | Manufacturing company, the Willlamsy E ‘Wheel Manu- facturing company, and the E. H, Jac. 18 company have all shown a s factory increa year, and it is the opinion of the office: that the new year will bring a return of ¥ Confidence For the New Year. In conciusions, it is the writer’s candid opinion that we passed the turning point in our general industrial and commerci depression, which has overcast the country for many months The manufacturing interests of this vicinlty are represented by men who are in close touch with the economic count) and a careful canvas among the: the writer that they are not all wrong, that to the dogs, but that the new year will b ©of optimism and industrial activity upon grand and noble countr All that we need is confidence. gladly welcome the heart, ese corpo A.nd mtlvltr conditio men has busin g some zolder the horizon convinced With Yyear 1915 with an op onfidence we shall ail n hand and an open W. IRVING Chairman BULL Manufacturing ¢ Danielsc 1914 ARD, smmitt 2T rade. Danielsozi, Conn., December PLAINFIELD’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH To Be Erected at Cost of About $7,000—Corner- stone Was Laid October 10th—Formal Dedi- cation to Be on February 13th. In Plai; ‘wilere a year Jr., rector of St: Albans’ Episco a small mission -in a hal that a small Episcopal church is now of Babcock and Plainfleid sireets, near t ing, and it is expected that the churc on the 13th of February cornerstone w: - the Ar L. George, son, organized forward so well ted at the corner gh school build- v dedicated urday af 1Geacon J. Eldred Brown of Trini PLAINFIELD EPISCOPAL CHURCH assisted by Rev. James H. George, Jr., tor of church, Danielson, and Rev. Mr. Kneil of Brooklyn. The_ church when commel?rx wiil cost, without anhslnngs St. Alans’ about $7,000, and is to be consiructed of wood on 4 Stone and brick foundation. It is a feet long and. 39 feet in widtn and there is a small tower at the southeast corner. There are three entrances, one at the northeast side, anothe east corner, where the tower located, southwest side. In the bisement is the Sunda¥y school room, and at one end of the basement will be the steam heating p The church will have a seating capaci of 250 at the least. There are to be handsome stained glass windows which have been presented the parish by Mrs. B. L. . Robinson of Hartford. There will also Dbe a gallery at the south end of the church which will add to the seating capacity. r at the south- and the third at the 1 ! of the | |