Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-03

Notes OF the Great aud Small Roads and
OF the Workers.

Notes Oh the &reat anu Smoll boouo anu
OF the Workers.
The Wheeling and Lake Erie Road will
soon be completed to Toledo.
The new car works at Huntington, w.
Va, are rapidly approaching completion.
The B. 4 o. Company are about to erect
| commodious brick depot building Som
| erset.
The Top mill owners have still two men
| at work in their stone quarry getting out
stone.
The Crescent was closed down yesterday,
on account of a leak in the boiler, which
will be Immediately repaired.
Sweeney and Son are getting ready for
their new electric light, the engine was al
most completed yesterday.
The Pittsburgh Locomotive Works are
| building several engines for the Pittsburgh,
CHARTERS and Youghiogheny road.
Eight blast furnaces in, the Shenango
Valley are in operation. There are thirty
or thirty-one furnaces in the valley.
The sugar refinery was running all night
yesterday, everybody apparently hard at
work and nothing going on that was OF
public interest.
The old boilers in the forge department
of the LaBelle mill were being removed
yesterday, as the company has received
new one to take their place, which will be
put .up as soon as possible.
Fifteen locomotives Of the Pittsburgh,
Fort Wayne and Chicago are said to be run
exclusively by coke, doing all their work
within the Chicago city limits, and thus
abating the smoke nuisance.
The Norwalk Reflector says a large number
of men employed on the Wheeling and
Lake Erie road, left to work in the harvest
field, where wages were better, and it thinks
this may delay the running of through
trains until the LIST of September.
A safety railway stove has been tested at
Washington in the presence OF railway and
automatic plug falls out and water is dis
charged upon the fire pot from above and
below, extingrishing the fire at once.
The construction OF the A., n. & A. rail
road is now complete. This Alliance, Niles
and Ashtabula railroad runs through one
of the most beautiful parts OF the State OF
Ohio, is connecting link which has long
Teen needed, and will prove nice thing for
Alliance. =
All the machinery throughout the La
Belle mill is being closely inspected. and
when a flaw is discovered that portion is
Immediately taken out and new piece
put in. This will make the mill almost
as good as new, and the large belt engine
is considered the most costly as well as the
best in the city.
John Gaftney, a workman at the pottery,
received very ugly wound in the left arm
yesterday morning. He was at work TAX
ing down ''saggers, (which hold the ware
while Drying. when one OF them broke,
striking his left forearm. cutting
cash about five inches in length and almost
severing the muscles of the arm. DR.:
Pipes was called in and dressed the wound
very neatly and quickly.
Mr.. Edison has taken out patent for an
electric brake, which consists essentially OF
a large horse shoe field magnet, much the
same form as those used in his dynamo
machines, but instead of the ordinary arma-
ture disc on the axle runs partly between
the cheeks of the magnetic poles, and when
q circuit is made the disc, OF course, re-
wolves under magnetic resistance, and so
rings its axle to rest.
The Rdillray Gazette reports - accidents
for June, in which IS persons were killed
and 1913 injured. Twenty-three OF the killed
and IS of the in jured were railroad EN-.
ployes, leaving II of the killed and III of
he injured passengers or other persons
iding on the trains. AS compared with
June, 1881 there was decrease OF one &C
cident, but an increase of four in number
killed and lis in that of injured. For the
six months of 1882 there have been re-
ported 57l accidents, 10 killed and 10S in
iured, making a monthly average OF 80 ac-
cidents, % killed and lis injured. The
month of June was below the average in
accidents, but far above it in the number
of killed and injured. There was an I'M
usually large number of casualties during
the month, caused BY several bad accidents.
Unless the strike in the Eastern nail
mills should shortly close the stocks OF
nails in the western market are likely to
run very low. Dealers already complain OF
a shortage of common sizes, and this short
age is likely to continue for some time
j. e., the mills east of Pittsburgh may fur
nish some of the new supply, and the Gin
cinnati mills in conjunction with our
Calumet Iron and Steel Works, in this city,
with a few concerns at various other points,
will do much 70 supply the demand. Yet
with Pittsburgh and Wheeling shut down,
the mills that have compromised with their
men will have all they can do and yet not
be able to keep pace with the demand. But
il is to he hoped that the strike will end be
fore many days, as in case OF much farth-
er advance in the cost of nails and other
building material, consumption will he
materially checked. -hwfuStridl World, CHI
CdyO.
The ohio STATE journal says the Pitts
burgh, Cincinnati and st. Louis road is
talking of putting on travelling engineer.
His duty is to travel on the road and keep
an eve on the engineers and tiremen, and
see that they are attending TO their duties,
and make reports to the main office. He
comes and goes as he will and sometimes
turns up in most unexpected places, and if
an engineer or fireman happens to be run
ming little too fast for the card, or has
been careless with his engine, he reports
the violation. He is to see that an
engineer is economical in the use of fuel,
oil, etc, starts his train without jerking
out draw bars, aud also to see that an
engineer is not deficient in eyesight. 1t is
how year since travelling engineers were
employed on the Cleveland, Columbus,
Cincinnati and indianapolis, and Cincin-
natl, Hamilton and Dayton. and from this
cause more engineers have been discharged
than from any other.