Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-16
INpUsrRIAL NOTES.
the New. of the Men VINO Tou amt

The News of the Men VINO Ton anu
= The helpers resumed work at the Top
mill, yesterday.
"A few machines will be placed at the
Riverside this week.
The mills were all running full turn yes
terday, nothing of much importance nav
ing transpired.
The wet weather of the past week has
thrown all the outside workmen at HOBBS,
Brockunier & Co.'S OF work.
wilbur Dick and John White, workmen
Mt the Crescent mill, left last night for
Chicago to seek their fortunes.
One OF the hot iron nail machines at the
Belmont mill broke down yesterday after
noon, which caused slight delay.
The brickmasons were hard at work on
the third story of the mouldshop at Hobbs,
Brockunier & Co.'S glass house, yesterday.
The LaBelle mill has had the break re-
paired. and is running all right. They are
shipping large quantity of nails west this
week.
Manager Raney. of the Belmont bias
furnace, who has been away for few days,
returned and took charge OF the furnace
yesterday.
The brickmasons were to have been a
work on the proposed decorating kiln at
the Pottery, yesterday, but did not put In
an appearance.
This evening, at McLain's hall, the dele
oates from the various A. A. lodges of this
Vicinity will meet to prepare for the grand
picnic on June 18th, at Beaver,
The nail feeders at the Belmont and the
cold iron nail feeders at the Riverside mill,
will be off to-day to attend the funeral OF
their fellow workman Thomas Clark.
The enterprising citizens of Massillon, by
giving a small amount of land and S6,OOo
in money, have secured the location OF
glass works there by Pittsburg parties.
Sweeneys foundry is doing a very good
business. The new doctor for the
steamer Sciota will be ready in a few days,
and will be put on her about the last oil the
week.
The strike OF the drag outs at the Jeffer-
son Iron Works is at an end other men be-
ing secured for the places of the strikers.
The works are running to-day. -SteuoenplIe
Gazette.
The braces which have been on the lower
side of the new addition 10 the Schmul-
bach brewery were removed yesterday, as
they thought the building had finished
settling.
The Norway Tack Factory yesterday re-
ceived very fine steel rope for their eleya-
tor and were hard at work putting IT up be-
fore the roof could be put on. They are
also making great many improvements 70
the building.
THE owners of the Top mill are having
self.feeding machines made and put up as
fast as possible, as there is a scarcity OF
feeders in that part of town, and several OF
their nail machines are idle now, as they
have not men to feed them.
At the Hinge Factory the manufacture
of garden rakes is about done for this sea-
son, though they are still filling few or
ders. Their rakes are in demand down the
river and through Kentucky and Tennes.
see, principally.
THE cog vince! of the factory engine at
the LaBelle mill, which was repaired only
a few days ago, broke again, yesterday,
throwing off the entire factory. They ex.
pect to have it repaired and ready for SER
vice by noon to day.
Another meeting was held on Saturday
night at Knights of Labor Hall by the joint
committee of trade and labor organizations
appointed to arrange for grand demon
stration of the strength of the organized
workingmen of Pittsburgh and vicinity.
Saturday, June II, was fixed upon as the
best day for the parade. Letters were read
from a number of points in Western Penn
sylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, all con-
tanning assurances that large delegations
will be present. The miners representa-
tivcs alone promised that 5000 miners
should be in line. The committee will
meet again next Saturday evening, when
officers for the day will be appointed
Pittsburgh Post.
A correspondent writes from New Cum
berland to tic Fittsburg Times that "our
manufacturers are renewing their efforts
for a railroad on this side OF the river to
intcrsect the Pittsburg & Erie road at
PhillipSburg, and also the Panhandle at
Wheeling Junction, opposite Steubenvile.
They are very anxious for an outlet by
rail, and when it is considered that they
ship from 5000 to 5000 cars of fire
brick and sewer pipe annually, it looks
as though paying business would be in
sured to the road from the start 1t is es-
pecially desired that this branch shall be
controlled by the first named road, as 1T IS
q competitive line to the Pennsylvania. A
meeting of manufacturers and Others inter-
ested in the new road was held here this
week to discuss the outlook, at which a
committee was appointed to confer with
prominent officials in order to enlist their
favorable consideration of our necessities.
With such excellent facilities for building
the new road, and the large amount of
good business offered from the start, with
every prospect of handsome yearly: in
crease, this enterprise should not long 60
begging"
The newly organized Canonsburg Rolling
Mill Company met in that place on the
18th inst; $4,000 in stock and $4,000 in
bonds were taken. The enterprise is to be
a sheet iron mill of from ten to fifteen tons
capacity of finished iron, single turn, per
day. The structure will be all iron and
l50XS0 feet. A Az foot vein of coal is
within 200 yards of the engine house site.
The mill will employ 200 men at the start,
and of these l25 will be skilled wOrkmen.
Ewing, Mitchell & Co. are the projectors.
The capabilities of the great testing ma
chine erected by the Government at Wa
tertown, New York, can be realized from
the following: After breaking a inch
link with a tensile strain of 772, 800 pounds
O horse hair of only 7-l000ths OF an inch in
diameter was tested. 1t stretched 80 per
cent, and broke at / pound. Then other
horse hairs were broken with tensions va.
rying from one to two pounds. A round
bar, turned down in its centre to 81 inches
in diameter, pulled apart at 1929 pounds
tension; then some horse hairs and copper
wires, shout 2-lO0ths of an inch in dame
ter were tested, and averaged a tenacity OF
about % pounds. Specimens were sub
jCCted to 100000 pounds compreSsive
strain, as we have said, although the con-
tract for the machine called for but 100000
pounds, and after these proofs, delicate
structures such as eggs and nuts, were