Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-13
IxpnsrnIAL NOTES.
The News OF the Men who Toll AM

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Produce.
Pay day at the La Belle mill yester-
day.
Pay day at the Riverside mill next Sat-
urday.
The Belmont mill start up this morning
at half-past four.
Several OF the men at the Riverside are
off on account OF sickness.
Jake Barnum, boiler at the Upper Riy-
erside, is off on the sick list.
Several new pots were set at the South
Wheeling glass house this week.
A heat tester was put on the new patent
heater at the Belmont mill yesterday.
The Belmont blast furnace made an aver
age cast, this week, of 60.tons per day.
The Boiler and helpers at the La Belle
mill resumed work yesterday morning.
A ct" head for Spence, Bags & Co. was
cast at Sweeney 4 Sons foundry yester-
day.
Capt. VIVA. Otto, who has been to Pitts
burg on business for his glass works, has
returned home.
The Sugar Refinery is receiving great
many orders from the West and South for
its brand of syrup.
i At Hobbs, Brockunier & Co s glass works
-ss:ong other things being blown are lotof
ruby oolored pitchers.
A cylinder. head was cast at Sweeney &
Sons, Thursday evening, for Spence, Bags
4 Co., of Martins Ferry.
The committee from this district will go
up to Beaver, this morning to look after
the picnic arrangements.
The Etna mill made heavy shipment
of iron to the Southern markets yesterday,
by steamer st. Lawrence.
Workmen were busy yesterday putting
down the new curbing on the east side OF
Market above Sixth street.
The Top mill blast furnace will coke
down to-day, as they have some needed re-
pairs to make about the furnace.
The Riverside mill will start making
rails for narrow guage roads next week,
and expect to be at the job about two weeks.
Last Thursday week one OF the beer ele-
vators for the Schmulbach Co. was shipped
from Chicago, and nothing has since been
heard of it,
The new doctor" for the steamer Scioto
was cast at Sweeney Il Sons foundry this
week. and is now in the machine shop be-
ing dressed.
A segment of the large driving wheel at
the Belmont mill broke yesterday morn
ing, which stopped the works for about tif'
teen hours.
A large quantity of muck iron has been
piled at the Upper Riverside, caused by the
lower mill not using its usual amount on
account of the strike.
The Council Committee on Lights will no
doubt authorize the proposed improve.
mentS to the gas works and the work will
be prosecuted with vigor during the s:m-
mer
Don't cuSs and kick man because he is
not in the union. Talk to him like friend
and show him the advantages and necessl-
ties of organized labor.-RochcStcr LGdor
AdrOc0te.
There are twenty-five glass factories in
Pittsburgh and vicinity with capital OF
100000, and employing GAP hands
Their product in 1881 was valued at 81 49,
6S3.
On Tuesday night, delegate meeting OF
the lodges in this vicinity will be held at
McLain's Hall, to make arrangements for
the picnic at Beaver on June II. Each
lodge will send three delegates.
Joe Hermann, workman at the Top
mill, who was attacked with a stroke of ap.
oplexy and fell, cutting the back OF his
head badly, a few pays ago, is getting along
nicely. DR.. Garrison is attending the case.
John Sherry, who boards at Bolts hotel,
on Main street, has been missing since last
Saturday. He formerly worked at the
Sugar Refinery, and the last seen of him
was when on last Saturday he went to the
refinery for his money.
VIM. MarQuat, a workman at Wilson,
Dunlevy 4 Co. s, fell Off the incline yester-
day afternoon, and cut very ugly cash in
the back of his head and al>e breaking the
small bone of his left arm near the wrist.
DR.. Birney dressed the wounds, and at this
writing he is resting very nicely.
The Riverside nail works have fifty self
feeding machines at work, and are putting
up On an average two a week. 1t is good
deal of trouble placing one OF these ma
chimes and getting it in running order. 1t
takes them about three days steady work
before the machine is ready for service.
The stone masons are pushing along rap.
idlv on the foundation for the west wall oil
the warehouse of Hobl Brockunier Il Co.,
and expect to have it finished by noon to.
day. The brickmasons started on the third
story of the mould shops yesterday. The
plumbers are at work putting down the
water and waste pipes in the new mould
shops.
A handsome gold watch was put up by
the ST. Johns Church at Bellaire last fall.
Mr.. Healy, of the Belmont mill, and
Pittsburg man ran for it, and the contest
was closed this week, and as Mr.. Healy had
the most money he received the watch. 1t
was bought at Jacob Grubbs jewelry store,
and Mr.. Hcalys name was handsomely en-
graved on the inside case.
The mills considered on strike by the
Amalgamated Association are GAINESVILLE
and Wellsville. O.; Knoxville, Tenn; W.
D.'Wood Il Co., McKeesport; Crescent
steel works, Pittsburgh, and Phmnixville,
Pa, and last, but not least, Scottdale, Pa.
Just as long rs men continue to go to work
at either of these places, just so long will
they aid in defeating themselves. No man
with spark of manhood will work at eth
er OF the places named.-LdbOr Tribune.
The articles of incorporation were yester
day issued to the new company formed for
the purpose of manufacturing pots for
glass houses. The incorporators are Chas.
w. Brockunier of Wheeling; c. n. Brady,
of Wellsburg; Charles NJ. Rhodes, Bridge.
port; and |. w. Gill and George Beatty, OF
Steubenviile. The sum of $500 has been
paid in OH q stock subscription OF s.. 900 and
the capital stock will be limited to 500, 900.
Steubenville will be the principal office.
The Youngstown, Ohio, Sunddg Morning
gives the following list OF wages paid in
that city at present: Railroad conductors,
81 per day; baggage masters, 81; brakmen,
81 20; painters, 81 so; printers, SOC per
1000; tailors, for ordinary coats, S.; pants,
from 81 95 to 81 IS; vests, from 81 % to
81 50; street laborers, 81 50: cigar makers,
from Sli to SIG per week; shippers, 50 per
week; blacksmiths, 81 so per day; good
bricklayers, s. 80 per day; masons, from 50
TO s. %; bod carriers work for 81 IS per
day; plasterers s. per day; good lather
can make 50 60 per day.
The Parkersburg STATE Journal is very en-
thusiastic over the river railroad and says:
"Parkersburg district is asked to insure the
right of way, to subscribe $4,000 to the
capital stock of the W, p. & c. r. II. This
is all that is asked. We could name hun
dred men in this city who couldg give a hun
dred and fifty dollars each towards that
fund and never feel it, There can be no
rational objection to the voting of that sum
as the benefits to be gained by the district
are so great that any comparison becomes
ridiculous. To think that SIS 900 is all that
stands between Petersburg and a pros