Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 1, 1917, Page 19

0 Bullnuu ng M..pf“ x‘;:l . azgregate total for 1915 was $594,395,556. The figure representing the business total for New London Qnmty is $422,635,990.30. In 1915 the total was $394011.903, showing a gain of $25,624,088.30. The total manufacturing for the county was $76,794,563.92 for 1916, while in 1915 it was but $64,- 210,874, this being a gain of over ten millions. In banking lines the gain m the business volume was about fifteen millions. An . indication of tha general increase in banking lines may be seen from flmmwe total transactions of the Thames National bank of this city for 1916 were $92,200,116.72, while in 1915 it was © $77,987,272. The Chelsea Savings bank with 12,205 depositors also figured in the increase with the other banks in the.city for thelt gain ‘was $326,561.10 for the year. In Windham County the total volume of business transacted in 1916 was $243,837,005.39, while in 1915 it was $200,383,654, show- ing a gain of approximately $43,000,000 for the year. The total manufacturing volume for the county in 1916 was $74,767,419.66 as compared with $47,569,560 im 1915. The banking velume for the vear 1916, $153,599,085.73, shows a gain of $14,- 878,491.73. NORWICH CONCERNS PAID OUT WAGES AMOUNTING TO $5,168,781. Six Millions in Volume of Manufacturing Bus- iness Carried on in This City. A gain of about six millions in the volume of manufacturing business carried on in Norwich for the Year 1916 is shown by the canvass made of the manufacturing concerns. The total volume for the city in 1916 was $30,895,966 while the total Yolume for the vear previous was $24,928,336. Wages paid out by all local concerns for the year 1916 amounted to a total of $5,168,751 and this sum was divided among 8,600 or more hands. The total valué of the manufactured product for this city for the vear just closed amounted to $18,089,685. Cotton mills manufactured prod- et to the value of $5,980,000, woolen mills, $1,350,000, paper and Dbelting, $1,538,190, silk and velvet concerns, $4,338,000, boiler con- cerns and iron plants, $317,800, metal goods were manufactured to the value of $489,000, firearms and cutlery, $1,083.063 and all .other industries grouped together, $3,016.832. Wages paid out by Norwich cotton mills were approximately 3$1,866,000. Woolen mills paid out about $358,400, paper and belt- ing concerns, $216,271, silk and velvet concerns, $481,200, boiler plants and fron concerns, $150,360, metal goods plants, $870,000, firearms and cutlery plants, $883,677, and all other industries, $543,973. NEW LONDON MAKING BIG GAINS IN INDUSTRIAL WORLD. Ina'eue in Total Volume of Business For 1916 Over the Year Previous Was Close to Five Millions—Over Four Millions Were Paid Out in Wages During the Twelve Month Period. New London is climbing up in the industrial world by leaps and bounds for during the twelve months in the year 1916 there was an all around gain of approximately 25 per cent. In 1916 the total volume of business carried on along industrial lines was $24,661,060 while the total volume for the yvear preceeding was, but $18,744,545 this showing a’gain of $4,896,515. All manufactur- ing concerns in the City by the Sea grouped together paid out in wages the enormous sum of $4,468,660. This fisure represents a substantial gain over the sum paid out in wages in’ 1915. There are approximately 7,500 hands employed in New London concerns at the present time and as goods made in that city are finding a ready market there is every reason to predict a gain in the size of the payrolls in the year 1917. The manufacture of machinery including marine machinery is New London’s largest industrial circle. The year just closed was featured by a total valuaton of $6,345,000 for the goods man- ufactured in that particular class. Compared with the figures of the year previous there is a gain of about a million dollars. Wages. to 32,834,000 3,500 hands. Wearly 500 are emploved in the manufacture of metal and iron products in New London and they received for their services in 1916 a total of $419,350. Their manufactured products were valued at $1,270,000. Boilers and iron work to the value of over $150,000 were manufactured in the year just closed and the ‘wages paid out for this work was approximately $55,000. The other industries in New London employing all together This amount is divided up among approximately about 350 hands manufactured goods to the value of $868,000, and - paid out in wages about $232,000. Jobbing business in that city “ during, the vear was increased anywhere from ten to fifteen per cent.- and more in some cases. OTHER TOWNS IN THIS COUNTY FELL. BEHIND TOTALS OF YEAR PREVIOUS. . But Increases in Norwich and New London Beest Total Volume For the County Nearly Ten Towns ifi New Lendon county, Norwich and New London ex- cepted, did not maké quite as good a showing during 1916 as in the year previous. In fact the figures dropped down several hundred thousang dollars. Both Norwich and New Longlon showed a decided increase and so the total volume of manufactur- ing business for the entire county was boosted nearly ten millions. The figures collectéd for the entire county show the volume of manufacturing business for the year 1916 to be $73,144,544, while the corresponding figure for the year previous was $64,210,874, showing a gain of $8,933,670 during the past year, ‘Wages: paid out fn New London county towns, Norwich and New Lendon: excepted, -amounted to $2,581,426 for 1916. The products. of the varions concerns lumped together amqunted to $10,602,79%. " These tws ffems including the cost of the raw ma- terial bring the fofal manufacturing volume for these towns up to $17,597,513. gaflls in these towns paid out-in wages a _ total of $438,000 d out goods to the value of $1,345,500. Woolen mills paid in<wages for the yesr the sum of $573,136 and the value of their.mapufactured goods was $2,888,241.81. In in- dustries given over tb the manufacture of velvet and silks paid out im wages, $255,000 ‘and turned into the market goods to the value of $310,000. Iren works and the manufacture of machinery are classed among ore important concerns for they paid - out In wages $265,912.18 and turned out goods valued at $1,136,000. Congerns. employex shipwork paid out in wages $400,0%0 and the value of their icts is approximately 3600,000. In the ‘manufecture of paper goods the half dozen concerns paid out In wases and the value of their manufactured products was u,lm.noi All other industries employing about 800 hands paid dut In wages $453,178.47 and turned out products to the value of $2, 186,051. The number of hands employed in all concerns in these towns is 4,226. NEW LONDON COUNTY MANUFACTURING Ffifl 1916 A Summary of the Manufacturing Business of New London County For the Year 1916, Show- * the Approximate Wage Total and the Value of the Products Tumed Out. Closing Twelve Months Showed Glln of About. d out in 1916 by plants included in this class amounted | . perous | what - stimulated by 'fwo and a HAKMWQQ Put ln!o Cm-l cuhhon Through the hy—fa;flape in 1916. e Manufacturing in Willimantic- had an-unuswally busy and prosperous year in 1916. 'Wuages were increased anywhere from ten’ to twenty per cent. and th® genéral output of the various concerns showed a corresponding increase in mest cases. For the year manufacturers in Willimantic put into circulation through the pay envelope a total of $2,529,749, this being a de- cided increase over the amount put intc circulation last year. In 1916 the total value in proluction was : 0,039,081 as compared ith $8,938,022 the year previous. The \olume for the city, in- cluding wages, value of manufactured product and the cost of the raw material was $17,477,430, the figures in 1915 being $35,277,685, this being an increase of some two millions. A canvass of the various plants in Willimantic shows ap- proximately 5,000 hands on the payrolls during the twelve months. Cotton mills paid out in wages a total of $188,889, silk mills about $288.000, machine shops and. foundries, $162,860 and all other industries, $1,790,000, the total paid out in wages by all concerns being $2,529,749. In jobbing circles there was a gain of $1, total in this line of business up to $10,967,600. PUTNAM MANUFA_CTURING SHOWED BIG GAIN FOR TWELVE MONTH PERIOD. Total Paid Out in Wages Was Well Over a Million Dollars—Manufacturing Volume For the City Was Over $13,000,000. 3,600, bringing the 2 large gain for the vear as the indease in the volume of business in that line is something over $4,000,000. Putnam plants employ about 2,200 hands and these emploves received in wages for 1916 the sum of $1,226,000. The value of the products manufactured by Putnam plants during the year was $8,461,000. Counting in the cost of the raw material, the volume for the city was $13,534,000. Cotton mills employing about 825 hands paid out in W 000 and produced manu- factured product to the value of $1,725,000. In the woolen in- dustry about the same number of hands are employed, and they received practically the same amount for their services. The value of the manufactured product was $1.776,000. Silk mills 190 hands paid out in wages $115,000 and pro- duct to the value of $1,100,000. All other employing about 406 hands, paid out in wages the sum of $231,000 and manufactured products to the value of $3,860,000. All towns in Windham County, except Willimantic and Put- Putnam manufacturing shov and Wmdham Gountxes-—Norw:ch Co the employees' of out-mills, the ownérs of our mlills, the farmers | who are getting higher prices for thelr products than ever be- fore, the -professional men who profit by increased population and wealth in direet tio. Frankly, T-am optimistic to a point that may seem.absurd to many sober-minded individuals; but if some of these doubters could see the:blue prints and the plans for the development of our two great tire fabric they would confess to me silently but candidly that I have. a legiti- ¢ mate reason for being enthusiastically optimistic. Two Great Industriai Developments. The two great ihdustrial developments in the town of Kifl- ingly during this past year have becn made by the Connecticut Mills company and the Goodyear Cotton Mills, Incorporated, the successors to the Killingly Manufacturing company. ,Farly in the year the Connecticut Mills company was refinanced by a large and conservative banking institution in Boston which placed an issue of preferred stock bearing seven per cent. divi- dends on the market. The stock was eagerly purchased by con- servative banks and individuals at about $105 per share. This refinancing - placed the Connecticut mills in a position to pur- chase a large yarn mill in Taunton, Mass., which had been operat- ed by the New England Cotton Yarn company, to supplement their other sources of yarn supply for the two weaving mills at Danielson. This was a very wise and profitable purchase for the Connecticut Mills company for there has been an acute shortage of yarn suitable for tire fabrics during the last six months and prices have reached 100 per cent. advance over one year ago. Owning their own yarn mill makes them independent of the wild and dangerous yarn market that always develops during boom times in the textile industry. 5 A large four-story mill 209 feet long by 50 feet wide has just been completed at the plant of the Connecticut Mills com- pany. The new mill connects the two weaving mills and adds over forty thousand square feet of floor space to the property owned by this company here in Killingly. The first floor of the new mill will be used for weaving tire fabrics while the other three floors will be filled with twisting and yarn finishing ma- chinery. I understand the company has quite a number of looms on order to be used in the new mill. This will give the Con- necticut Mills company about 150 tire fabric looms, a farge part of which will be opcrated on a day and night basis for the entire vear to come as the products of tha company is sold far ahcad. By operating on a day and night basis it gives the plant a ca- pacity of 300 tire fabric looms which makes the Connectlcut Mills company one of the threc largest producers of automobile tire fabric in the country. At Industrial Place, there has been erected this past year, for the Connecticut Mills company, nine very artistic dwelling houses which were designed by R. J. Cald- well the president of the company. Two of tiacse houses are for four families and the balance for two families. Several more houses will be erected at once, it is stated. Yarn Mill Predicted. It is confidentally predicted by those who management of the Connecticut Mills company that a large yarn mill wili be built at Industrial Place and that work will start sooner than most people realize. It would take a yarn mill as large as the Quinebaus mill to furnish the Connecticut mills with yarn that they are now forced to buy in the open market. are close to the WAUREGAN MILLS, NOW OPERATING UNDER CONTROL OF J. ARTHUR ATWOOD nam, paid.out in wages $3,481,119.77 and produced goods valued at $21/991,260.89. The 1 volume of manufacturing business for these tawrs was $34, RECORD BREAKING PROSPERITY AHEAD FOR KILLINGLY’S TEXTILE PLANTS. “Watch Killingly Grow”” Says W. Irving Bullard in Industrial Review For 1916 — Four Story Building Completed For Connecticut Mills Company. Dyring 1916 the town of Killingly has enjoyed the most pros- i histery. varied industries have been some abnormal demand for American com- modities by the warring nations; but without this unusual market our indust; would have flourished and boomed on dometsic business alone. Many of our tex- tile mills have operated on a day and night basis throughout the year so urgent has been the de- mand for their products; while other plants have run to their fullest ca- the pacity on a normal day basis. Nearly fifty new dwelling houscs have been erected during the year in our town and our large tire fabric two mills have made large ad- ditions to theit plant and machinery equipment. Labor has shared liber- ally in the great pros- perity; merchants report the best vear on record —in brief the great awakening that came to Industrial Killinely last vear has ex- panded and developed during 1916 to a point that almost stag- gers our more optimistic citizens. As we turn over the page in Father Time’s book to the year 1917, We see nothing ahead for the town of Killingly but pros- perity, progress and wealth. It is record breaking prosperity that is coming—it is increasing the assets and population of the town to a figure that seems beyond 2 prophecy. Everyone will share in this great prosperity whether he be Master or servant; farmer or manufacturer; banker or preacher. This statement may seem over drawn but when I recall the great increase in the deposits of our banks in Killingly during the .year just closed it feans wealth to the depositors and the depositors are . BULLARD « Other Towns. This would mean a payroll in addition to the present Connecticut. mills’ payroll of over $5,000 per week for the new yarn mill. The Connecticut Mills company is owned and operated by substantial conservative men and vet very progressive men. The develon- ment of this great tire fabric mill in the town of Killingly will only be limited by the economic conditions of the country and by local conditions. It is up to us all to take our coats of and work to the limit of our strength and ability for the accomplish- ment of anything that the officers of this sreat company may ask of us, elther as individuals or as a body politic. The Danielson Cotton Company. Another textile plant of great value to the town of Killingly is the Danielson Cotton company which is controlied by interests closely identified with the New Efgland Cotton Yarn company. The payroll of this mil] is a most important item to the mer- chants of Danielson. I understand that this.company has had an abundance of orders during the vear and could have done a very much larger gross business hal they not been handicapped by purely domestic conditions such as a shortage of varn, labor, etc. This is a weaving mill with about 1,500 looms of the most modern automatic type and their product is high-grade special fabrics such as corduroys and heavy fabrics that take a special finish. During the year they have done a great deal of night work to balance up certain departments. I have great faith in the success and prosperity of the Danielson Cotton company. While the yarn market is so very erratic as at present, 2 weaving mill is not apt to share in the general prosperity that the textile industry as a unit is enjoying: but this mill of the Danielson Cotton company is thoroushly modern in every respect both as to machinery and prosperity, and is in a position to compete in the world’s markets for their share of business. Fred E. Cuncen, formerly agent of the Danielson Cotton com- pany has established a michty fine industry known as the River Weaving company which is located in the woolen mill on the Five Mill river directly back of the Danielson freight station. The products of this new industry are meeting with great favor in the textile market in New York and we are all locking for further expansion to this plant. The fabrics woven are all special construction that command a splendid premium in a market like ¢his. Mr. Cuneen has added an office bullding to his mill and contemplates further machinery additions in the early part of this vear. The Goodyear Cotton Mills. The Goodyear Cotton Mills, Incorporated, which was recently organized under the laws of the state of Connecticut with a capital of $5,000,000, has acquired all of the assets and liabilities of the Killingly Manufacturing company. The new ccrporation is practically a subsidiary of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber com- pany of Akron, Ohio, and its large capitalization is for the pur- pose of expanding its manufacturing facilities for the production of automobile tire fabric in the town of Killingly. One year asgo, I gave a description of the new weaving mill, that was then under construction, and which has since been entirely completed and filled with the latest and most efficient textile machinery for the weaving of high-grade tire fabric. This new weaving mill has been operating on a day and night basis for the past six months while more than one-half of_the machinery in the spinning mills has been running day and night during the entire vear. I regret that because of my official connection with the Good- WINDHAM COUNTY MANUFACTURING FOR 1916 A Summary of the Manufacturing Business of Windham County For the Year 1916, Showing the Approximate Wages, Total and the Value of the Products Turned Out. " the town of Killingly have had an unu ik L X T = ‘year Cotton . Mills, lnborpomma mj; fiumnb.e for mé to give an é of ‘the pldng that we have under consideration for the expansion of our manufacturing and housing. facilities. Our me- l;hl‘nlfi.l ;uemjgfl and . textile ‘enginéers. have renderéed their ports. 16 of our company and. within a'few days wo wflt‘ Iiow. the extent of our development during the year 1a17. %] he moment, we deem it advisable not to make any official announcement. On account of the extremely Sensitive market for bullding materials we must cover our re- quirements before we defintitely announce ot plans. 1 have mo hesitation in stating that there will be a larze industrial development in our village during the year 1817 and our plahs’call for further development: in the next five years that will smash to atoms all of the traditions and precedents of industrial expansion in New England. The growth of the Good- year Cotton Mills, Incorporated, will he ‘baSed upon economic conditions. The Goodyear Tirée & Rubber cof@pany of Akron, Ohio, is increasing its manufacturing facilities to' the extent of several milllons of dollars every vear and ‘our fabric mille which produce a certain proportion of the fabric needed in the manu- facture of Gocdyear tires must keep pace to the growth of our Akron customer. The Goodyear Cotton Mills, Incorporated, have been very seriously handicapped by the congestion of freight at Dayville and by the lack of transportation facilities. Two weeks ago, we had twenty-five cars of coal, eight cars of cotton apd four of yarn all spread out on the rails of the New Haven railroad be- tween Plainfield and Dayville. The transportation problem is one of our most serious issues and unless the New Haven railrond can extend their accommodations at Dayville we shall be forced to curtail our plans for the development of the Goodyear Cotton Mills, Incorporated. The splendid service rendered by our local representatives of the great public service corporations should be mentioned as having a very important bearing upon the great industriel ex- pansion In the town of Killingly. The Dayville freight situation is due entirely to inadequate facilities and entially a local problem that I feel sure will be solved by the New Haven system during the year just beginning. The hearty co-operation of the local representatives of our great railroad is greatly appreciated and particularly are the manufacturers pleased with our new Danelson freight agent D. F. O'Connell whose active and earnest efforts to render the service that most of us consider ideal is to be highly commended. Inereasing business bhas been done over the Rhode Island company’s lines to Providence and Agent .Harry J. Hyde has been a capable and most satisfactory repre- sentative of this company. J. L. Strong, as an addition to the operating force of the Western Union telegraph lines, has made himself ingaluable to our social and industrial community, The Southern New England Telephone company has generously re- sponded to our demand for prompt and efficient telephone service by glving us ten operators in our local exchange who are under the supervision of Miss Katherine Aylward one of the most effi- clent chief operators In the state. Our telephone service is ideal. Quinebaug Mills Share in Prosperity. The Quinebiug mills, which are located just over the Quine- baug river In the town of Brooklyn, are just as important to in- dustrial Killingly as the mills located on the Danielson side of the river. These mills have shared well in the general textile prosperity during the year. As stated in last year's review, the Quinebaug mills have installed considerable new machinery dur- ing the past two years to replace old machinery that had be- come unprofitable to operate. The fabrics made by the Quinebaug mills are medium counts such as pillow tubing, medlum grades of shirtings and similar fabrics. No additfons are contemulated by this corporation, but further replacements of old machinery will be made from time to time by the most modern type The Attawaugan and Ballouville mills in the nérth:part of ally successful vear. The fabrics madé by this mill have been in cellent demand at a fair margain of profit. Recently new looms were installed in “the new"weave shed, a new power plant was added and con- siderable qnew machinery installed so that the tw "Wf the fd b - Attawaugan-company are in a modern condition able to compete in the world's markets. At Dayville, the Assawaga mills have been operating tb their fullest capacity on wonlen goods for the cutting up trade. This company is constantly putting in new machinery to keep. thieir plant up-to-date: in every respect and it would nat be a véry gredt surprise to the manufacturing interests in the town of Killingly ‘to learn that Mr. Park had plans for an addition or:a new mill: - 'We 'khow of:no such plans at present but we feel that the great popularity of Assawaga woolen fabrics will force some such action as is suggeSted above. { Chase Waolen Mill Sold. The C. D. Chase Woolen mill at East Killingly has been sold recently to.Davis & Brown of Uxbridge who have operated this mill for.many vears under the management of Mr. Chase, Dur- ing the entire vear the mill has operated at full capacity and has shared its full measure of prosperity. It is mos{ gratifyinz to chronicle that Mr. Chase will continue to manage the mill for the Davis & Brown compan The Killingly Worsted company and the Whitestone Worsted company, both of which are located at ‘Elmville, have operated full time during the entire year and I am advised that hoth com- panies report a very favorable balance on the. right side of the ledger. Both plants have installed some new machinery during the year and could have done a very mnch iarger business if they had had. more equopment. The outlook: for- the worsted and woolen business is excellent and these two mills should have an excéllent busihess during the next twelve months. The International Cotton Manufacturing company. at East Killingly. has operated to. its fullest capacity on orders for ab- sorbent cotton for both export and domestic gonsumption, No expansion is probable at this plant for the present unless gun cotton or other products are to be manufactured. The Willlamsville Buff Wheel company report a very satis- factory year with every prospect of a contipuange of good busi- ness for some time to come. ‘ The E. H. Jacobs Manufacturing company have operated over time this fall and winter on account of the general. textile prosperity. In all this gfeat prosperity in the town of Killingly it is most gratifying to note that labor and capltal have co-operated to the fullest extent. Three times during the year, the textlle mills have increased wages so that labor has shared handsomely in our great industrial actlvity. In refurn for all this our mill operatives have proven loyal and true and have made a milghty effort to co-operate to the fullest extent with their employers for the success of our industries. To the readers of this Industrial review who live in Killingly, 1 ask for your earnest co-operation with the manufacturers of our grand old town to make Killingly the banner town of Wind- ham county with a population of 16,000 by the year 1922, and to the world I say, “Watch Killingly Grow.” W. IRVING BULLARD. Danielson, Conn., December 31, 1916, HAVE PURCHASED CAPITAL STOCK OF THE WAUREGAN MILLS. Change of Ownership of the Control of Wauregan Company Welcome News to Manufacturing Interests in Eastern Connecticut. It was officially announced, about the first of Novamber, that J. Arthur Atwood, general manager of The Wauregan compan: with associates, E. V. R. Thayer, president of the Merchants National bank of Boston, Ma; Charles B. Wiggin, vice-presi- dent of the Merchants National bank of Boston, Mass., and W. Irving Bullard, assistant treasurer of the Goodyear Cotton Millg, Incorporated, of Killingly, Conn., had purchased all of the capital stock of Wauregan company. Later on the company was rein- corporated under the general laws of Tonnecticut and an issue of $500, {v preferred stock sold to a prominent Boston banking house. This stock was sold at $104 and quickly subscribed for by banks and private investors. retained by Mr. Atwood and his assoclates. All of the common stock was The board of df- Norwich. New London. rectors include J. Walter Atwood and J. A. Alwood Jr., of Wau- Wages Value Products ‘Wages WajueProducts Wages Value Products Willlmantic. Putnam. Other Towns. ! Cotton mills -$1,665,000 $ 5,980,000 A< 5 438000 3 1,345,500 ¢ lue Pi regan, Conn. . Woolen mils T7355400 1,350,000 573,000 2,885,241 3 P e Drodcter Wegss. VelMpEiotuots “Wakts, Yaino Frnduots This change of owhership of the control of The Wauregan ! Paper and belting.... 216,271 1,538,190 196,200 1,567,000 Cotton "mills. .........5 158,389 § 650,000 §$ 427,000 $1,725,000 $2,428,319.77 $16,400,269.89 company to J. Arthur Atwood was most welcome news to, the ‘ sms and velvet.l.(. = ;:;.m 4,338,000 l‘.g.boo 919,000 Silk, silk throwing.... 288,000 1,415,250 115,000 1,190,000 manufacturing lm.uu in Eastern Connecticut. For 30 years ' Boilers, iron work, etc. X 317,800 265,912 1,136,090 = 800, ,101,000.00 shave been under the management of J. . 870,0 460,000 —— 3 172,860 e SERN.. LTy K7 v ;;brother, J. Walter Atwood, and before 3 88,571 88,003 ! 3 /382, Y [ * Machjmery, jhipwarls. - 600,000 7473,000 10,000.00 * 1,490,000.00 b < Other mm« .. 543,978 2,186,051 - hahm M —— ‘bul!nnmflhmuldtofluw " the country. The Wauregan sbirtings zuu«h mmm&mmm:mmh $10,602,792 $12,218,867 $42,240,477 .$5,168,781