Shut Down

Gband Rapids, Aug. 13.- Berkey & Gay, the most extensive furniture manufacturing concern in the world, closed down their immense plant Saturday for three weeks. The Royal Furniture company also suspended operation. Leonards Sons' refrigerator works are closed indefinitely and wages have been reduced 25 per cent. in their retail and wholesale crockery houses. The Nelson-Matter company has given notice that its employés must submit to a temporary reduction in working hours. The Oriel Cabinet company has ordered a reduction of 30 per cent. in wages and the men have accepted. The Widdlecines company has laid off 10 per. cent. of its employés and reduced the wages of the remainder. The Phoenix bas closed its machinery department and ordered a 10 per cent. reduction in wages in other departments. It is the general opinión that all the factories will be running on full time by September 1. The western trade this f all is almost completely lacking and the demand from the east is light, and a curtailment of the product is necessary. l.umber Mills Will Run. Menomineb, Axig. 18. - At a meeting of the lumbermen of the Menominee river Saturday af ternoon relative to the closing down of the milis on account of the depressed condition of the lumber business, a joint resolution was passed to the effect that the milis would continue to run, but in order to do so would be neeessary to pay for all labor in sixty-day drafts or time checks on monthly pay days. Copies of the resolution have been posted and circulated among all mili men. This action has had a tendency to restore confidence. The time checks can be used among all mereantile establishments and the drafts are neg-otiable at slight discount. Chapin Mine Shuts Down. Iron Mountain, Aug. 12.- The Chapin mine, employins' 950 men, closed down at noon Saturday in obedience to orders received from Milwaukee. Inan address to the miners, Superintenddent McNaughton counseled moderation and gave assurance that work would be resumed in thirty or sixty days. R. C. Planagan, attorney for the company, offered, as the best the company could do, to pay 50 per cent. of the wages due the men, about $49,000, at once and give bonds of the company due in six months at 6 per cent. interest and secured by first mortgage of all thecompany's property for the balance. This ofier was accepted. Workmen Get Theïr Wageg. Ishpeming, Aug. 14. - ïhe inineïs of the Arragon property, at Norway, have received nearly all the wages due thein out of money advanced od ore. They attached the mine, which was one of the Schlesinger prroup. The prospects of the other creditors ever receiving any money are considered dubious. The managers of the mine offer to set the married men at work again at a reduction of wages of about one-third f rom the former scale. Shïpyards Closed. Detroit, Aug 11. - The Wyandotte steel shipyards, loeated at Wyandotte, have closed, throwing 500 men out of work. The dull season ou the lakes hasstopped ship building and the "118," a sister ship of the Selwyn Eddy, the lanjest vessel on the lakes, is left unfinished in the yards because her owners do not want her until next spring. Copper Mine Suspendí Operations. Calumet, Aug. 12.- The Copper Falls mine, which has been worked for nearly forty years, and is one of only two mines left in Kevveenaw county, closed down permanently Friday, throwing 200 men out of employment. The low pric e of copper is the chief cause.