The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-05-08
INpusTnIAI INrELLIGENcE.
what Is Going ON In the Factories and
gftiIa Iu this Vicinity.

what Is Going on In the Factories ana
Mills In this VIelnity.
The employees OF the Pittsburgh Coal
Works, below Bellaire, last Monday re-
ceiycd an advance OF ten cents per hum
tIred for digging, making the price now
paid there s. 60.
A new heating furnace is being built at
the Laughlin Mills, over at Martins
Ferry. \
The stove filters at the Arlington Works
are now working on full time.
The gathering boys at the Buckeye
Glass Works recently received an advance
Of ten per cent on their wages, now getting
81 10 per day.
Work was begun on the new stack OF
the Rtna Glass Works on Monday. The
furnace will have a capacity for thirteen
pots, and the stack, when completed, Will
measure ninety feet in height.
The new glass house at La Grange IS
rapidly approaching completion. The
stack Is nearly up, and the frames oil the
building all in position. The works will
not be ready for operation by July LIST,
however, as desired.
The Central Glass Works has not de-
cided definitely what will be the size OF Its
new furnace. One OF the three old ones
will be torn down to make room for It, and
II sufficient space for tlfteen:pot tonn-
datlon be thus cleared, that will be the
size chosen. Otherwise thirteen.pot
furnace will be constructed.
The travelling agent OF the Central Glass
Works has not been out but once in the
past season, and but for q brief trip then.
Yet the factory is pushed with orders.
Itis believed that the LaBelle Glass
House improvements will be finished so
MS to allow operations to commence by
July.
The new furnaces building at Beatty's
Works, at steubenville, and the La6elle,
bridgeport, are Nicholson thirteen poi
furnaces, built after the same pattern.
tits thought that the works oil the Nail
City Glass Company, at Bridgeport will
be ready for melting glass by the middle
OF June.
On Thursday the new ten-pot furnace
OF the Belmont glass works was filled FOL
| the first time, and it is said by the middle
OF the month, glass will be made from it
The buildings for the Union window
glass works arc rapidly assuming shape
They are situated near the BeIlaire mai!
works on the O. & P. railroad. They will
probably be completed by September l
The Etna Glass Company, at Bellaire
of which Captain Deyries Is President
will have lS.pot Gill gas furnace. The
works will be in operation in O month
or so.
furnace is going forward satisfactorily
| It will be ready for use September lst
The company is contemplating building
handsome new Office In upper Bellaire.
| A National Convention OF glass manu-
lfacturers will be held in Philadelphia OF
NAV 10, when it is expected that the init
ial steps toward forming national asso
citation will BIO taken. A proposition tc
close all factories during the heated tern
will be discussed.
The Bellsire Nail Works is one Of thu
most fortunate manufacturing establish
ments in our acquaintance in regard Y
strikes. To large extent, the mill i
operated on the cooperative plan, nearly
all the higher classes Of workmen beinl
also stockholders. None Of the employs
lhold membership in the Amalgamatet
Association, and consequently they ran OF
this week without hindrance or embar
assment. -.
| a BelIaire mechanic, Ernst Brailly
formerly an undertaken on Main street, il
this city, has invented a device for supply
ing pure air to nailers while grinding. !
also prevents the possibility OF inha!inl
dust or particles OF steel, and so remove
Ithe liability TO nailer's consumption, which
lis so dreaded by iron men. II the ma
chine works as expected, MIR. Brailly mus
beconsidered q beneiactor OF the mill men
The Baron Lantern and Pressed Ill
Ware Factory, at BellaiTe, has been oil 10
some days. The boys appreciate the rest
Col. Ben. Wilson has presented to tn
House OF Representatives the petitions o
The Laughlin Nail Company, Of the Whit
taker Iron Company, OF the Riyersid
Iron Works, OF Wheeling, and OF the Obi
Valley Works, Moundsyille, w. Va, 10
the passage OF The Eaton bill providing 10
4 the appointment OF a tariff commission.
4 We mentioned last week that Messrs. J
B. Hamilton and Hunter Richie contem
Since then their plans have ali been per
fected, and large force OF workmen !
now engaged in making preparations 10
the creation OF suitable buildings, the en-
tire management OF the affair being unde
the supervision Of Mr.. George II. Rich
lardson. The site selected on which y
build the pottery is on the bank oil tn
Monongahela river, near the residence o
Mr. William Bailey. Messrs. Hamilton
& Richie intend 10 push the business the
have undertaken, and as they are boil
gentlemen OF considerable energy, we pre-
dict for them abundant sucCess.-FaiT
mont Vest Viryinian.