Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-11-25
A MODEL STOVE WORKS.
The New Stove Foundry At Martins
Ferry-Best I'm this Section.

ferry-bcsthn tnIS SectiOn.
The Martins Ferry Stove Works is the
"boss" one in this section of the country,
and there is no doubt about it. The works
have been completed and are now in active
operation. The buildings measure l50x150
feet, one to three stories high, built of
brick, with tin roofs, with all the modern
improvements, and are a great credit to
Martins Ferry as well as the company.
The moulding room is ll0x6O feet with
truss roof and ventilatOr the entire length
of the building, with light in abundance.
Six moulders are pounding away and one
or two are added to the number every day.
There is plenty Of room for fifteen more,
and that number is wanted. About $500
pounds are being cast per day. Adjoining
the moulding room is located a building
four stories high, measuring 800 feet, which
is thirty.six feet wide and 80 feet long.
The first story is used for mounting plating
with q set of Fairbanks modernized plat
form scale. with a capacity of $500 pounds,
and fifty-ton engine in the west, which
is daisy" The emery wheels are here
set between two barings, thus insuring
safety-a great impr ovement over the old
style. Here several men are already at
work fitting up stones and getting the
plates in readiness. %he second story will
be used for storage, and in one corner
a cosy Office measuring lSX1S feet has been
erected. The third story will also be used
for storage, and the fourth story will be
used as a room for storing patterns. In
one corner of this excellent building there
is an improved elevator running from the
cellar to the fourth story. Under this
building is a first class cellar the entire
size of the building, which will be used for
the storage Of Stock etc. Next to the
above building on the south comes a two
story structur two stories high, the dimen-
siOns of which are 20XS5 feet The first
story is the boiler room with two A No.
boilers sixteen feet long and forty-two
inches in diameter. also the cleaning mills
building is the pattern shop with lots of
light Adjoining this building to the
south is the cUpola room measuring l6x30
feet. The cupOla faces the moulding room
on the west side, and has q capacity of six
tons. Just west of the cupola on the first
floor is q mill for abstracting iron from the
understanding entirely new in this
section, and great saving to the company.
Below the cupola room is another i'm.
proved elevator for hosting stock from
the ground to the second story of the
oupola room, where it is thrown into the
charging door OF the cupola. Between this
is water room where water can always
be found for the convenience of the mould
ers. A switch is now being laid from the c.
4 7. road to the foundry so that stoc K can
be received from the cars and stoves put
thereon without the use Of wagons. Some
fine stoves are already being turned out.
In wood there are fifteen styles known as
the kitchen, Bell and coal cooks" There
eight styles called the ''ChallenSe." In
heaters two styles of the Paragon" are be-
ing made, and more patterns are making
for the Paragon" Then the yhave the
Charm" smaller heater in there styles.
the Hope" in three styles, the Frank
lin, I" in two styles, the Brilliant" wood
parlor stove, and the box stove, in three
styles, known as the Champion Almost
all these stoves are new and frst-class in
every respect Other styles Of new and ele-
CANT designs viii be manufactured, the pat
terms for which are being turned out as fast
as possible.
The works are located in Paulrs addition
a short distance below the Lsughlin mill,
and present handsome appearance. The
buildings are all roomy with light in
abundance everywhere They are substan-
TALLY built and there is everything that
sould be desired for the convenience OF the
employees. Foundrymen call it immense"
II has few, If any, superiors in the world.
and in short il is model stove works. The
works, when fairly in operation, viii give
employment to fully fifty men. The COM
pany, composed of Martins Ferry capital
iets. is q solid one. R A Thompson, for
merly of Beaver Falls, Pa, is foreman,
with John Armstrong, President; III. Hell
ling, Vice President; Joseph Medill, Secre-
taIy; and w. r. Ratclif, Treasurer.