The evening world. Newspaper, February 3, 1916, Page 6

“oe renee or non-union forces, that there is an extraordinary dearth of unemploy- ment, Gteel kings are losing sleep trying to deviee how they can meet the summer crisis of this year when close 0 100,000 men may walk out of the mills for more attractive labor during the hot months. Some mills complain even now of a shortage of labor, in spite of voluntary advances of from 15 to 20 per cent, There are mills, too, that had to be forced to give labor a reasonable share of the prosperity they have been enjoying. WORK IN PLENTY, HIGH WAGES IN | | PROSPERITY WAVE Employment Increase in City and State Runs as High as | These gave it under stress of « -, strike, 60 Per Cent. But the high note is thie: At the present moment there are more people in New York City and State ly enjoying the widespread pros: than at any time in recent years. Statistics of the Labor Department, the savings banks, the labor unions, the several manufacturers’ associa- nd retail firms handling the n 8 of life—and then |#ome of the luxuries—show that fully " 80 per cent. of the people throughout New York, in common with the rest line State are, in one way or another, of the country, is experiencing note- | experiencing its beneficial effects. worthy prosperity. It has been ob-| With the exception of the building sorved by hardened critics that the|and women's clothing trades—and, oid town was never so aby of the!cna, with the exception of the 1dle-workers-of-the-world s9, 90 |"“Hauor business” (yes, it’s a fact that ing in che form of entertainment |iote of men cut out cocktails recently of che sort furnishod by patrons of /!n the mad competitive rush to the the Hote: de dink. savings banks)—there has been in Everywhere you go there are to be! genera’ av iucroase of from 3 to 60 found the earmarks of prosperity.|per cent. in employment during the It ts shown in the very demands, at|inat atx or seven months over the the present time, of varioun same period of 1914 unions for an incrense in wages.) EMPLOYMENT INCREASE “We want a Jarger share of the HIGH AS 60 PER CENT. Prosperity” t# the 1916 slogan of| In order to give an adequate ido every trade union whose wage con-|of the actu) state of employment tract is about to expire. Nowhere| during the last six or seven months fa the charge made, either by union! and to show what u large perces SAVINGS IN CITY GROW. $30,000,000 Tucked Away in! Six Months—Evening World Figures Show Big Boom. if figures have a meaning, THE OMLY STEAM-COOKED OATMEAL v4 $$$ 1? MAKES LITTLE: PIPER EN OR WHAT YOU NBED—A WORLD “WANT” WILL GO OWT IT. OE —— — ———— ————— TOMORROW AT AEOLIAN HALL NEW YORK 29 West g2nd St. BROOKLYN 11 Flatbush Ave. Outfit Aeolian Player-Piano HANDSOME MUSIC CABINET $10 WORTH OF Music ROLLS 10 Company admittedly leads building quality player-pianos. AA Complete Player Placed in Your, Home for a First Payment of PRICE OF OUTFIT $420 T last a Player-piano of genuinely the world in fine musical quality at a popular price! Here is an instrument which will really provide music with all its greatest charm and beauty—a superb instrument, of standard Aeolian make and Aeolian guar- anteed. 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For playing by hand, the perfect action and beautiful, large-volumed tone make these in- struments all that could be desired. As Player-pianos, it is only necessary to remember that they are Aeolian-built. For The Aeolian Come to Aeolian Hall tomorrow—see and try these fine players—discover for yourself the very high quality of every item of the outfit. The instruments, remember, are on display at both our New York and Brooklyn Stores AS} ch ER AE DCRR REE i Se eee eeneeabine . deal THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1916. of the people have been doing with ‘thelr earnings during this period, The Evening World presents to-day statistics from three important sources, namely: The reports on em- ployment aa filed with the State De- partment of Labor, the actual in- crease in @avings deposits during the last half of 1916, as compared with the corresponding period of 1914, and, finally, and for illustrative pur- pores only, an up-to-date report of the Charity Organization Society of New York on unemployment as that body views it, Tho latest statiatics available show a general increase in employment throughout the city and State. In fome Instances this increase is as | high as 60 per cent. Returns from | nearly 1,800 representative manufac. turing establishments, employing nearly 600,000, show that up to Jan. 1 the increase in employees was 17 per cent., of wages 21 per cent. Marked improvement is shown in the group listed “metals, machinery and conveyances.” Here the percent- age of employees Jumped 81 per cent, over 1914 and the wages 45 per cent, Within the above group are Included the boat and shipbuilding industry, firearm, jewelry and aliverwhre, steol and machinery. Shipbuilding reporta 9 per cent, increase of em- ployees and 40 per cent. in wages; pig iron and rolling mili products, 60 | per cent. in employees and 80 per cont. In wages; machinery, 33 per cent. In employees and 48 per cent. in wages, In the group headed “furs, leather and rubber goods” employment went Up 21 per cent, wages 33. The tex- tile group, including silk and silk goods, wool and cotton, reports a 16 per cent. increase in employment and 25 in wages Wood manufactures, In- jing sawmill products, cabinet- work and the making of pianos has | an 3 ed employment of 10 per cent. and 19 per cent. in wages In this group one piano Industry | jumped its wages #0 per cent, last ember, but Kot down to 26 up ti 1 of ‘this year. Chemicals, oils, a aMliated ustries in. sployment 1 per cent. and Wages in the clothing, y and laundering group went % per cent. but employment dropped 8 per cent. At the present noment the largest percentage of | idleness occnrs in the building trades in women's clothing. ‘¢ have been rumors abroad to ect that idlenoas in the building es had been more than normal | ng the last six months. When a| reporter for The Evening World called on Roswell Tompkins, Executive 8: suburban winner. Diemel had been je for weeks. In company with | Michael O'Connor, the vel ealled last Tuesday Cuban climate, a his death, Mr. shipped to New Y cuperate from a@ recent flincws. Race- SIM DIEMEL, HORSEMAN, goers best remember Sam Delmel as DROP DEAD ON BOAT. | one oF the mom conspicuous figures tor years around the clubhouse and pad- | docks of tracks. Last season he was one of the permanent commiesioners in a the chubhouses. A catiogram from Havana to-ay| Deimet, In partnership with Charles told of the eudden death of Bim Dinenel, | Durer, Campeened a Rode ye # stable, ° 4 & well known figure on the turf, hho | Includes roel A ne it fe per-| LONDON, died last night on an ted Fhuit | Arricander, winmer of many bie stakes jertist and tra , steamer while en route to Cuba to re-'on Maatern tracks, and Nealon, a dey, He was born In Brussels is Stern Brothers 42nd ond 43rd Streets West of Fifth Avenve Well Known jace Courses Once Ow: Great Afrie- All Our Men’s Suits and Overcoats HAVE BEEN REPRICED IN TWO GROUPS FOR TO- MORROW, TO EFFECT [IMMEDIATE CLEARANCE. at $15.00 at $21.50 Heretofore $20.00 to 25.00 Heretofore $30.00 to 35.00 THE $15.00 SUITS provide the season’s |THE $21.50 SUITS offer a wide selection of newest styles in single-breasted two and| our finest materials in two and three button three button Sack Coat models, in checks,| Sack Coat models; neat mixtures, checks, plaids, plain blue and black, quarter, half} plaids and plain blue and black; some quar- and full lined; sizes 34 to 46 chest. ter, some half and some full lined; 34 to 46. THE 815.00 OVERCOATS present the sea-|THE $21.50 OVERCOATS present a wide son’s newest models in style and fabric, in-| assortment in black and Oxford, Chester- cluding grays, browns, green and Oxford] field models, full silk lined, self or velvet mixtures; also rough effects; self and velvet | collars, fancy mixtures, in brown, green and collars; some quarter silk lined; sizes $4 to ray, quarter silk lined; also a number of 42 chest measure. Jisters; sizes $4 to 46 chest. Men’s Gloves The Men’s Shoe Dept. (Duplex Doe Fabric) (Main Floor, Sixth Avenue Entrance) Spear head backs, pique sewn, English thumb, one Directs attention to the new shapes and styles in shoes for golf, tennis, walking and dress wear; also correct ne Agents of | Unions, he said: “At the present moment I should | say that about 81 per cent. of the | total membership of the untons is em. ployed, There is some idleness, but it is due to weather conditions. Busl- neas, T should say, is good. We have three which reports are mad Fair, Bad, There has not ne report under tho last heading: ‘W YORK A THRIFTY TOWN. guide to the status of great economist wrote, ngs institutions. Let me s of these institutions and see the ‘Til tell you how any city or nation stands, If the deposits show a gradual increase they may be regarded as a | fair index, not only to the thrift of a | people, but to the actual state of em- | j Ployment . a, If savings bank reports mean any- | |thing New York thrifty town. | Put this in your book: In the last six months a considerable portion of the population has tucked away in the fifty-nine savings banks of the town over THIRTY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS total of new ac counts opened i these banke dur- ing that period is ¢! to half a | million. | special report of ten of the biggest savings banks in the city, compiled for The Evening World. For obvious reasons the names of these bagks are not given, Seven are Manhattan tn- stitutions; the remainder are in other boroughs. With one exception each of theso ten institutions increased deposits from $1,000,000 to 000,000 during the last half of 1915, as compared with the same pertod of 1914. the total de- posits in all the bas » 1915, was $446,969,229.1 for 1916 the Ngures were $466, 00.33, The number of new ac nts opened during the last half 15 ranged from $65 in one bank to 992 in another, and the total for all ten was 67,591, LESS DEMANDS ON CHARITY. The increasing demand for labor! took its biggest jump about the mid- Me of last August. In fact, the rec- ord of the City's Employment Burean show that empinyment tmproved 47 per cent. in August, 1915, over that of the preceding month of the same year, rhis bureau supplied thousands of and women to up-State farmers, October Charles B. Barnes, Di- | or of the State Employment’ Fu- reau, said: “Acute unemployment has \ disappeared.” ‘There ts no lack, how- ever, of chronic unemployment, and there are a lot of men and women out lof work at present, owing to disp: about the readjustment of wage \scales, which usually occur at this | season, | The Charity Organization Society! has experienced the encouraging signs of prosperity. W. Frank Pere |sons, Director, in a statement pre- | |pared for ‘The Evening World, gives | these facts: In the last twelve months the un- employment situation has completely reversed itself so far as the work of |the Charity Organization Society ts }ooncerned, Last year conditions were | lacute, with hundreds of men out of work coming to thé society for help, |'This year the number of persons out jof work has been reduced to a figure |that is lower perhaps than usual. | No matter how prosperous the times |are thero is always a certain amount | of unemployment. Unemployment is a ‘chronic disease. ‘The figures of the socloty, however, show that at present | it has'been reduced to a minimum among families under {ts care. Last December of families under its care there were only 103 men out of |work. The earnings of twenty-one others were so small as to compel them to seek assistance. In December, 1914, the number of families numbered 4,266 and the number of unemployed men 990, while the earnings of 129 were ingufficient. oF Ra Deputies Guard Court Where Negro In Being Tried for Murder, (Spectal to The Brening World, ) SYLVESTER, Ga, Feb. 3.—With the entire square in which the court- house and jail are located, surrounded by an armed of sixty deputies, Jim Keith a ent on trial in Worth Count jor Court here of having mur- oveland last De- rs Mc roes also sald to he basis for this statement ts a|[f clasp fastener; in gray or natural chamois color. Riding Boots in black and tan, at moderate prices, Our Shoes for Men at $5.00 Are made on good-fitting lasts, in patent leather button and lace styles; black kidskin, tan and black calfskin; stylish or conservative models. Special To-morrow at 68¢ pr. Regular Value $1.00 pr. Men’s Underwear and Hosiery AT INTERESTING PRICE INDUCEMENTS TO-MORROW: Imported Black Cotton Half Hose, 45c unbleached soles; medium weight, 85c Balbriggan Shirts and Drawers, medium weight, each 25c 35c Gray Merino Shirts and Drawers, Fine Cotton Half Hose, hand seam; medium weight,........... eac in black, navy and gray....... Gray Merino Union Suits, me- Pure Silk Half Hose, in blac dium weight,.............064 at $1.35 navy and gray............... 69c Excellent Values in Sleds, To-morrow ON THE FOURTH FLOOR, AT THESE LOW PRICES: Flexible Steering Sleds Flexible Flyer Sleds with hardwood seats and flexible steel runners, with steel runners, No. 1, 36 in., $1.00 No. 2, 44 in., $1.50] No. 1, $1.95 No. 2, $2.50 No. 3, $3.50 We are getting ready to move—pulling up stakes and pulling down prices. 2333 Men’s sack suits, fancy mixtures, blue and black. Mostly Spring weights, a liberal sprinkling of Winter weights. $15 Were $20 to $35 887 Men’s Overcoats, mostly Spring weights and rainproofed fabrics, some Winter Overcoats and Ulsters. $15 Were ‘18 to ‘35 Now $3.50 Now Now CARTAN 1208 Men’s odd Trousers About March First we shall remove to our new building 1457-1463 Broadway at Forty- second Street. BROKAW BROTHERS Astor Place & Fourth Avenue Subway Station at Door ve been implicated in th er, e lynched about two wee! a wer