Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-04-29
Geperal Industrial Notes.

increased this season.
General Industrial Notes.
Pay day at the Riverside mill next satur-
day.
The outlook the coming season for beer
is very promising 50 say the brewery men
here.
One of the nair machines at the Belmont
mill broke shaft yesterday. %
The average production at the gas works
this week was 1s5, 900 cubic feet.
Jim Turner, a clinch mailer at the Bel
mont mill, died Thursday night
The Printers Assembly. X. OF L., meet
at their hall tonight, at o'clock.
CT. Davis, foreman of the Tack factory,
was on business at IEtnaville, yesterday.
Bodley Bros. shipping to New Orleans
large number of timber andguano wagons.
A large crowd of mill men will leave in
in the morning to witness the boat race al
Pittsburgh.
John McCracken, boss OF the Top mill
hacking department was of, yesterday, on
account of sickness.
Pat Murphy, formerly boiler in the
Belmont mill, will leave for Columbus, TO-
day. to enter the U. S. army.
Sam Smith, an old top filler at Belmont
blast furnace, has accepted similar posi-
ton at the Eliza furnace, at Pittsburg.
Sweeney & Son will place the new doc
tor on the steamer Sciota, to-day, which
they bought expressly for her in the east
&c. Glass, mailer at the La Belle mill,
has accepted q similar position in the Bell
aire mill and will leave Monday for that
city.
Redman & Co. have orders for FIVE hun:
bred nail machines. Over q hundred OF
these are for the Junction Iron Works at
Mipgo.
John STANLEY, an old resident of this
CITY. who has been at work in the machine
shops at Cleveland, returned to this city
yesterday.
The B. 30. Railroad Company discharged
thirteen men out of their blacksmith and
carpenter departments this last week or
account of scarcity of work.
Mr.. Schmulbach went to Chicago short
time ago to buy beer elevators, one OF
which will arrive here on the 9Th OF next
month and will be putt by Chicago men,
The owners OF the Belmont mill by re-
quest of the employees, put up notice on
the mill warning all peddlers, &c, not TO
enter the MILL as they will be ordered
out.
VIM. Shafer an old mailer OF this city,
who left here on crutches about seven
months ago for Hot Springs, Ark, returned
home a few days ago perfectly well and
minus his crutches.
Phillip Reider, night turn roller at the
Belmont mill, has been OF for few days.
Mike Nolan. the Irish giant" has been
working both turns. He is considered one
of the best rollers in the city.
George Bruhm, Top mill workmen who
had his head badly cut by wrench in the
band Of mailer named Ghewa short tiWs
ago. was out on the street yesterday look
ing none the worse from the wound.
The ware. house at Hobbs, Brockunier 4
Coz is fast coming to completion. The brick
masons have finished their work and the
gang of carpenters are hard at work trying
to finish it by the latter part OF next week.
The ground for the proposed new addi-
ton to the Schmulbach Brewery will be
broken Monday. Klieves, Kraft Co.
have the contract, and agree to have the
building complete and ready for service by
the 18th of June next.
Two of the LaBelle nail machines broke
down this week, which will be repaired to-
day. The factory has been run this week
by the forge engine, as the factory engines
cog wheel broke a short time ago. The cog
wheel has been fixed, and will be placed in
the engine today.
Four more pots will be set at Hobbs,
BroCkunier & Co.'S glass works, to-day.
The carpenters are working on the mould
shops laying the sleepers, etc, and have
finished the scatfoldng for the new iron
roof over the engine room. The iron roof
will be finished early next week.
The Argo Glass Works, which are situat-
ed one mile from kirkwood on Rev. S. ID.
Boyd'S farm, at present employs p men
and boys, who turn out from fifteen to
twenty gross of fruit jars per day. This
summer should the trade hold up they
will build an addition which will give it
four times its present capacity.
The sugar refinery is having a new water
pump put up for the purpose of pumping
water out OF the large tanks They have
made about 500 barrels OF A. |. syrup this
week, and il takes a carload OF corn every
day to keep them running. In an inter
view with one of the firm. yesterday, as to
whether they had plenty OF material on
hand, etc, he replied they had and plenty
of money, TOO.
The Belmont mill boys have bad prac-
tice of sitting or lounging on the b. & o.
track about noon every day, which came
near costing one OF their number his life.
AS engine No. S5 was coming up from the
shops Yesterday about noon, these boys
were on the track and all stepped off ex-
cept one, who some how did not hear or
notice the approach of the engine. The
engineer, happening to notice him, re-
yersed his engine very quickly and stop
ped it within foot OF the boy.