TABLE No. 8.-(Continued). Increase or Decrease in Wages or Working Hours, from October 1, 1914, to September 30, 1915. TABLE No. 9. New Manufacturing Plants Erected and Old Establishments Enlarged During the Twelve Months Ending September 30, 1915. This table shows, for the twelve months covered by the record, such additions as have been made to property in use for manufacturing purposes in the form of new plants and also enlargements of others already established. The names of firms or corporations concerned, outlay of money on account of new construction or enlargements, are, with other essential details, given on the table. The record shows that a total of 70 new factory buildings were erected during the twelve months which it covers, at a total cost, including machinery equipment, of $2,126,800. The number of plants enlarged to a greater or less extent during the same time was 90, and the outlay represented by these improvements reached the impressive total of $5,158,770. The new construction and impovements to old establishments together represent an addition of $7,285,570 to the capital invested in the manufacturing industries of New Jersey on account of lands and buildings during the twelve months covered by the record. The industries in which the largest number of new plants will engage are: Auto tires, aluminum cooking utensils, asphalt paints, anthracite coal briquettes, calculating instruments, chemicals, cigars, cut glass, electric lamps, embroideries, hoisery, loading fuzes, munitions, nitrating cotton, paper boxes, plumbers' sup plies, piece dyeing, iron enameled sanitary ware, tool steel, silk dyeing and finishing, synthetic dyes and colors and vacuum bottles. A summary of all the data relating to factory and workshop expansion, including the localities in which they are situated, the number of plants-new and old, and the cost of the same, is shown on the following table: Summary of Factory and Workshop Extension, for the Twelve Months Ending September 30, 1915. The above table shows Newark leading in number of plants, with a total expenditure of $798,287, and Camden leading in the matter of expenditures, which amount to $1,940,673. In the matter of total expenditures, Harrison comes next to Camden, with a record of $942,000, more than 90 per cent. of which was for the enlargement of old plants. In expenditures for new plants exclusively, Trenton is first with $360,000; Elizabeth second, with $234,000; and the little town of Yardville third, with $200,000. The greatest expansion of old established plants occurred, as a matter of course, in the larger towns of the middle counties of the State, the only exception being Camden, in which city factory additions requiring an expenditure of $1,891,873 were made during the twelve months ending September 30, 1915. Harrison is second, with $907,500; Newark third and Trenton fourth, with expenditures of $661,787 and $576,700, respectively. In reality, the outlay on new factory and workshop construction was considerably larger than the total ($2,126,800) shown on the table, as in the case of thirteen plants referred to in the foot notes, statements regarding cost could not be obtained. Kind of Goods Made. Location of Works. TABLE No. 9. New Manufacturing Plants Erected and Old Ones Enlarged, from October 1, 1914, to September 30, 1915. New Dec.... Koch Waist Co.... Old. Dec.... 11 3,000 Trenton Potteries Co...... Old....... Dec.... 12 10,000 American Piston Ring Co... New Dec.... 12 21,000 Franco-American Rubber Cloth Co. International High Speed Steel Co.. Endurance Tire & Rubber Co... Chesebrough Mfg. Co...... Seidenburg & Co., Inc....... Mecca Tire Co..... Essex Traveling Bag Co., Inc.. Artcraft Co. ...... |