Construction Work Progress
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01 The Evening Sentinel
. . . (Garment. 1925M '
I'NEW YORK. April liar—Building
constructidn in the cities outside
_Nsw t¥ork continues to hold up re- , g a:
markably. This is especially notice. v g ‘ , ,. ~ , ’
able in the South and Central West. ., , ' , <
The work outside the cities has un- ' I ” '
m ”it: ..
seven days
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dbubtedly shown‘a marked increase - I‘ . U . V , _ . . .. l ., v ., ,' . , . _
, . , ., “'4“, g 7- - i _ 1“, .> . , .- “ .II, I_I ‘.. 4/. I: ..I -: :: 7:19. ,> .1. 1 ,7 r ‘ . . times the. Ed
. compared with last year. There is
. no indicatioh' that the volume of
‘ building and road wprk tor the year
Willilump. This tendency is borne
out by the tact that contacts tor .,
c9nétructlon lot from January 1 to
the middle or April in the United
States totaled approximately $624.-
584 000 or 818. 968.000 more than
for the corresponding period or
1924.
Actual construction work is pro-
grossing
This is evidenced by the shipments
ot cement tor the first quarter: Ce-I
mm is one or the most accurate
barometers oi' the building trades
since cement is normally used very
shortly alter it is shipped. Much of
this material is wet and poured
within twb weeks or receipt by con-
signees. Shipments for the first
quarter totaled 21. 456, 000 barrels or
slightly more than tor the corres-
Iponding period last year.
It is true that at this period or ‘ I
the year dealers are stocking up on
cement for the early mason trelde
aid-contractors for road 'work »~sre
.pntting stocks into storage. But
svenxso. this the opinion of experts
. that not m‘ore than 3 weeks nor—
mally elapses from the time cement
leaves the mill until it is used.
Despite the heavy production. 38.-
145. 000 barrels to rthe first quarter.
mills in general have been running
at about 60 per cent. of capacity
which is'cstimated at 180,000,000
barrels'per year for the country as
nwhol, . -It is evident that there is
little 1 elihood of a cement short-
age'and that only slight fluctuations
in price are to be expected.
The importance of the activity in
farm work can be estimated from
the fact that 20.6 o! the cement
consnnse'd goes for miscellaneous
term purposes. Public , and com-
merdal building consume 24.9 per
cent. and paving and highways 2i
per cent.
As the first of May approaches.
there do not appear to be many
wage adjustments in prospect in the
buildingI'trades. Most crafts seem
willing to renew the 1024 scales al-
though there may be some slight
revisions upward in the larger
cities.
Workers in many localities circa-
day have contracts with employers
extending until April 80.19.26. In
twenty-one. .citlee reporting. only
W0 have wage disputes pending. A
- truce has been declared in the fac—
tional dispute between the plaster—
.ersI and bricklay’ers here. In Chl—
cago marble setters. ornamental iron
workers carpenters and hoisting en-
gineers have been granted an in»
crease of 12 1-2 centsan hour. The
supply or labor generally appears
sufliclent.
The Mciency or workers in the
building Itrades now is at a higher
point than at any time since the
» war. The bonus system. so univer—
sally in effect a year ago, has dis-
appeared and the slightly larger ls.-
bor supply has enabled contractors
to pick their men and. this has
- raised the efliciency at individual
workers. \ ,
‘ There is every probability that
thecountry‘s building program for
this year will entail expenditure of
at least $5. 000. 000. 000. The elect
' of this activity Iis bound to be great
on the prosperity of the country as
a. whole. Assurance of building act
tivlty in the months ahead will tend
to counterbalance to no small degree
the forces operating in other parts
or the business structure for reac-
tion.
With the building trade artisan
the: highest paid workers or the
country. well employed. the buying
rained. Goods will continue to be
bought in volume as a result and
utacturers will turn out ”the
II " goods for the merchants to sell. The
direct will be the more widespread
., since building actiflty is so than-‘-
I' onghly distributed this year 11:13th
I or. being odnilned to 25 or so ofth‘e
‘~ laEger centers_ of population.
Busmess Topics
" cpnvnumn o'h'l‘o. son-Ill; 25.—
gem projects mung
$40. OIOIO. 000 and ’50. (mo. 000
filed to can: in Ohio on.
3 .,
I ‘11: 1141:: is territory withnn e ‘
at extraordinary speed. I
~ tion or California crude is shown is
. tory since March, and the Saturday
' has been notified by 3Argentine pa k-
*3. cousin. About 3. 500 cases are ex-
Even Mrs. W. K. Vanderbfit,
dictator of America's hizhwt so-
cietynhes succumbed to the ra-
rio. She-is seen bro-dusting an
appeal. to New Yorkers to sup;
port it local charity.
bought by the Standard Oil of In-
diana. The Crusader was a subsidi-
ary or the British Mexican Petrol-
eum~lnterests. The purchase price
is known to have been in excess of
82. 000. 000. The rusader has e:-
tonsive holdings in Arkansas and
Louisiana.
ARKANSAS CITY. Kan. April 26.
—-The Rainbow Bend pool. with 32
producing wells. now is making ,a
totalot $500 barrels of crude a day.
Thirty—tony additional wells are be-
ing drilled and heavier production is
anticipated. , .,
4%
SAN FRANCISCO. April a5.—-A
slight reductionfin the daily produc-
recent reports.” State production is
running somewhat under- 800.000
barrels neckly at. present.
‘ - DRY GOODS.
ATLANTA. April 25.——Fina.l de-
tails ofwthe purchase of the Davison.
Paxon. Stokes company of Atlanta.
by R. H. Macy & Company of New'
York. were completed here this week.
The transactions include a. contract
tor the erection o! a $7. 000 000 store
and theater building.
, AUTOMOBILES. ‘ ,
DETROIT. April 25. .Night work
has been in effect a; the Hupp fac-
halr holiday has been eliminated"
Before may 1 the company will have
turned out 5.000 eight-éylinder csirs.
Demand for bdth sights and tours is‘
active and de’alers'. stocks aroflower
than ever before.
PACKING EOBSE PRODUCTS.
PHILADELIPHLA. April 25.—-’1‘h:
international Freighting corpora
ers that'Argentlne canned bee! will
be shipped here in large quantities v-
for distribution as tar West as Wis-
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PRECARIOUS POSITION IN i"
GAME 3mm RIVA].
Searchlights Stab TropiCaI Sky, 113'
Planes of Blue Fleet—Rumor That Alia
craft Base Has Been Established on wand
In Pacific Worries Defenders '
By Assocletéi fiesta-VII ‘
HONOLULU April zit—Through-
out Thursday night searchllghts stab
bed the tropiicai sky oved the islnad
othhu. searching for planes or the
.Blue fleet. which is attacking the
island in the Iwnr game pin the
Pacific. A tense feeling or sus-
pense was evident eterywhere among
the defending Black forces as the
impending luvaslan oi. the island
grew nearer. ,
Persistent rumors that the Blue
attacking forces have established an
aircraft base on theislandb! Kauai.
Salaam.
In Ie yard or Mrs. William B.
Eddy. ‘
preparation tor-seeding was toned
this morning tabs: coVsrsd with a’
network or small
were attributed to the earthquake.
In the vicinity oi‘ Mlddleboro the
shocks were most pronounced in the
sections about Lake Assawsnspsett.
Pocksha Pond. the Marion road.
Blsbee's Corner and North Rochesa
ter. ,. . . a
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CHICAGO. April ZEF—Prices on
pig iron in the-Chicago district have
eboen out another dinner. and new.
range trom $23 to $33 as _quoted‘ by .
the leading sellers. Producers count ‘
on Luis reduction causing ga
revival
at buying on s. lei-gs ‘
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CLEVELAND. April
producers o: Western ,1?
mermaid
and Ohio fear they will be compelled
American Pub ere
ElechNewngfflcers
1r Havenstariien soil which ’
had been smoothed outlast night in
fissures. which
mecca
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with which communication on been
out bit are evidently; taken cation-r
1y by the defending Bib/ck throes.“
which kept the heavens illuminated
throughout the night by Night:
in an effort to. prevent night bomb-
in; in npossibieurraid. . .
For the first time in history a
Lieder General commending n be-
leagured garrls9n Thursday radio»
cast his precarious position to} oil
America, when Major General its”.
Lewis. commanding the Kiwanis
department spoke from station KGB.
V. \W YORK. April :&.-— 8.1:; E5;
Thomsscnsol' the Chicago remix-5n.
wu rs-elected president «fifths Ain-
erican Newspaper Bublishers mod
elation yesterday.
Other olhcers also were requested I
N egotlatlons E n d e r
Way for Purchaseof
Loft Stores-— Self-
Made Men -
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lions are under way for the sale or
the 810. 000. 000 candy basins. bum
upbyGeorgoW. LorttothoSchIIlto
Retell Stores Corporation. c! which 4
David a. scum. a nun. "\- ' I
It is understood that the. deal is TI
still at an informal stage. but that
Schultes absorption or. Lott. Inc.
hinges entirely upon the encoder: or
price.
Mr. Lott; .who owns the cliche!-
llng stock in Lott. Inc. declined yes-
terdastosaywhetnerhedeslrodto
dispose ethic hisf‘holdin‘gn' and an or.
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toiclose. They say, they «not pay ; 7
the union wage or “.6043. «in and.
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