Show THE INDU industrial SIMIAL SITUATION under the headin sr local business outlook look I the chicago Dis dispatch paiM of the ibe dinst has bm an editorial article giving figures relative to abe tb industrial ila ih that city which certainly have an encouraging appearance appears uce though there Is ie a perceptible political flavor with thema rom w blob uch statistics ought to be entirely free the industrial condition of chicago is ie an index to that condition throughout a vast area and as aa the fiure figures purport to be official a value attaches to them which la in increased Inore aeed by the decidedly cheerful conclusion to which they lead they are sub subjoined joined there are about 2500 2600 manufacturing firms in chicago employing approximately lands landa of th this number mr Gruen gruenhut but selected representative firms in protected industries including all lines of trade and personally secured from the superintendents official statements ments of the number of men employed now the number employed during the worlds fair season and the number employed during daring the period of industrial depression which began to affect manufacturing fac turing trades in june and july and reached its height in august 1898 the following figures are interesting number of employed emp loyes in may number of employed emp loyes in aug number of employed emp loyes oct 1 this shows shown that nearly two thirds of the employed emp loyes in protected industries were dropped when hard times came it proves that business has again improved until today nearly all the employed emp loyes discharged in 93 have bave been re employed it should be remembered that the lar large e number of employee emp loyes in 93 wax was partia parti partially alTy due da to the influence of the woolda fair gotoh gave to all unes lines af busi bubines bu sines an 1 artificial boom mr adds aads sch is W I 1 ia good hape for the coming winter lat year we had an army of the numbering fully this army has baa disappeared A large portion of it has baa found employment the remainder has scattered and left town the local workshops and factories are busy there are a few exceptions but the figures prove beyond any question that business is healthy and increasing w speaking locally it may be bevald said that while the situation is not nat such as aa to relieve the he well to do from the necessity of siding aiding the unfortunate it is far butter better than it was a year BRO ago while there are idle men and families who will be desti destitute tuVe unless they receive aid in excess of their own resources the dumber of such oases cases is small la in comparison with last fall furthermore there to Is more employment now than there was then home manufacturing institutions as a rule running J to their full capacity this creates a state of affairs which affords great relief there has been a very general adjustment of domestic economy to meet existing crops have been heavy the prices price of almost all the necessaries necea saries or life have been much reduced and th the situation as a whole in this city and territory to ie not by any means as gloomy as it was a year ago |