"The worsted goods industry has been marked by fresh life since the new tariff has, to a great extent, cut off the importation of the lowest grades of such goods. All the old factories have started up, and are making goods on safe orders; and new mills are being erected by European and British capitalists with a view to manufacturing a finer class of dress goods, etc., than ever before has been produced in this country. The woollen goods industry, apart from ladies' cloths, does not show any perceptible signs of improvement, but keeps on a slow, steady gait, apart from carpetings and woollen underwear. Both of the latter industries have been unusually busy during the last six months at fairly profitable prices." To give a complete list of the new industries started since the passage of the McKinley bill would be impossible, and would occupy more space than THE ARENA could spare. I give, therefore, a partial list compiled from the _Boston Commercial Bulletin_, and covering only the first three months after the passage of the law, that is, from Oct. 1, 1890. These are the months most unfavorable to the bill, but the statistics show what the growth of new and old industries has been under the tariff of 1890 in three months, and indicate what the future increase is likely to be. SHOES AND LEATHER. Shoe factory at Portsmouth, Va. Tannery and horse collar manufactory at Demorest, Ga. Shoe factory building by the town of Ayer to cost $15,000. White Bros, new tannery at Lowell for finishing fine upper leather. Towle's new shoe factory at Northwood, N. H. New shoe factory at Natick, Mass. New shoe factory at Beverly, Mass. New shoe factory at Salisbury, N. C. Voltaire Electric Shoe Co., of Manchester, N. H. (Capital, $50,000.) New factory at Ellsworth, Me. New factory at Sherman, Me. New factory at Whitman, Mass., for Commonwealth Shoe Co. New factory at East Pepperell, Mass. (Employs over 700 hands.) Manhattan Rubber Shoe Co., at New York. (Capital, $50,000.) Crocker Harness Co., of Tisbury, Mass. (Capital, $77,000.) COTTON.