Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-04-27
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.
The sound Of the Machine and Ham
mer I'm Vicinity workshops.

Wheeling mills are all running steadily,
now, including furnace, forge and hail de-
partments.
1t requires $4,000 every two weeks to
pay of the men at the Edgtr Thompson
Steel works.
The miners at the Primrose mines yes
terday quit work. These works are out the
Panhandle railroad.
The Belmont factory made large ship
ment OF nails on the steamer Buckeye State
yesterday, for st. Louis.
Sweeney & Sons are making new doc
tor" for the steamer Sciota, which will be
placed on her next Friday.
The District meeting of the Amalgamated
Association on Saturday, will be full of in
terest to our mill men. The scale is the
matter to be considered.
The carpenters are at work making shed
over the proposed decorating kiln at the
pottery, which will be started as soon as
the carpenters are through.
Pittsburg may yet furnish glass bomb
shells for the defamation of armies or the
future, and carry death and destruction
among enemies OF the country. The IDEA
is novel one at all events.
The large shaft for the .Etna mill was
cast yesterday, by Sweeney q Son. IL
weighs seven tons, and they will be unable
to remove it from the moulds on account
of intense heat, before Friday.
The Edgar Thompson Steel Works record
for March shows up an excess oil Two or
three thousand tons Of steel over the out
put of any other member OF the beSSelher
Association, or over D,U0O tons.
The floor men and helpers in the casting
- mil n
Pittsburgh asked for an advance OF fifteen
cents day, last Saturday. Yesterday the
firm announced their intention oil granting
the increase.
The riveters at the Keystone Bridge
Works, at Pittsburgh, struck yesterday Tor
an advance of ten cents per hundred.
About one hundred men are out. There
have been no disorders SO far, and proba-
bly, will be none.
The proposed glass pot mandatory still
hangs fire, but we understand some def
mite understanding will be reached in q day
or two, when we will know whether this is
to be added to Steubenville INDUSTRIES
,SeuJeRriUe Gazette.
The Second district cleveland and vicin-
ity) of the Amalgamated Association has
met and fixed its scale, but will not yet
make il public. 1t is known at Pittsburgh,
and the fact that they keep it quiet leads
to the belief that the Western wOrkmen
do not stand by the Pittsburgh district in
the demand for an increase.
The Belmont blast furnace will start up
again to-day, provided the machinery,
which has been undergoing repairs, is in
order The men are all anxious to be at
work again at the old figures. Manager
Rainey has not been idle while the strike
was going on. He has plenty of material
on hand to keep the furnace running steady
for some time.
The Benwood Iron Works Company yes
terday received 30 of the patent Mcdonald
furnace screens. This screen is an ingen-
iOus device to be placed immediately in
front of the boiling and heating furnaces.
1t is kept cool by a constantly flowing
stream OF water and is great convenience
and aid to the boiler and heater. They
will be placed in position early next week.
On Saturday evening last the pipe which
conducts the gas from the Michigan we'll
burst at the elbow where the perpendicu
lar pipe starts and the gas soon ignited at
that point, and by Monday it had heated
the standing pipe To such a degree that it
melted and fell. This brought the ire
mendOuS tame to the ground, where it
was burning away on Monday, TO the terror
of some people. The noise of the gas rush
ing out of the well can be heard seven
miles away Washington Democrat.
Pittsburgh Saw-plates compete in Canada
with English Saw-plateS, and are consider
ell better. Indeed, it is their superiority
alone that makes them market there, as
the English manufacturers, on account of
their cheaper labor, can underSell their
American competitors. In saws, a. in
most tools quality is a more important
than Cheapness, and it has been
by keeping this fact in view that many
American manufacturers have won mar
KetS abroad for their productS.--imericRa
Mes,Is Ed RorerS, Vice President of the
district. & ID. Thompson, eN-Nicc PreSi-
dent. \. d. Work, and C.. l.. Davis, Of
this city, went to BcnwOod last night, TO
organize a .Nailers' Lodge Of the Amalga-
mated Association. Ii will be known Is
Herscy Lodge. The following officers were
elected:
Decentralization c. Mills.
Vice Presidcnt-William NJ. Reed
Recording Secretary-Albcrt \. Mar
shall.
Financial Secretary-Chas H. Batzell
TreaSurer-D. J. Murray.
Guide-Wind6eld Scott.
Inside Guard-William f. Reed.
Outside Guard-George Squiggins.
After the installation, the members of the
new lodge handsomely entertained their
Wheeling friends with an excellent supper
The delegation returned very much pleased
with the reception.
To the Editor Of the Register.
WHEELING CREEK Coal Works,
BRIDGEPORT, o., April 20.
WeIJbServe that III your account in Tues
DAYS issue Of the Miners Convention in
Ohio. that the miners of Bridge
port were represented by two men, Charles
Wright and {. c. Parsons. We would like
to know how they could take itupon them
selves to go as our representatives, rs
neither Of them ever dug car of coal in
their lives; nor was there ever a meeting
Of the Wheeling Greek miners to appoint
any delegates to this convention. In con.
clusion we have been led long enough by
Mr.. Wright and few other Brid.epor.
men. Hoping YOU will insert this,
We remain,
MINERS OF WHEELING CREEK Coal WORKS.
We announced few days ago, that a
man had invented cannon ball
Of glass. \ dispatch from there says:
'MeSsrs John Eastland and J. BOnshire OF
the 1lDDN UldSS NOTkS nave luilN ueIlOtl-
,trated that their glass shells for ordnance
is a success The shells tested were AZ
inches in diameter. The bottom of the
she'll is IA inches in thickness. and the
sides are Z inches. The ordnance officers
have given their opinion that the glass
shells will supplant the cast iron ones now
n use for the following reasons Economy
in price, they being about one-half the
price of cast iron; they are not perishable
Is the old kind are, 10 rust, etc, and are not
subject to the elements in any shape, and
moreover, by actual demonstration it has
been proven that the glass she'll has the
requisite strength and will do more
execution. Messrs. Eastland 4 Bonshire
are now in direct communication with the
of War and Chief of United
states ordnance in regard 10 their lrtyen-
ton"
A correspondent of the Pittsburgh Trie.
Jroph writes from Frostburg, Md: The
of affairs throughout this region
still remains unchanged. Not pound of
coal is being mined from the summit to the
Ease, other than a very small amount to be
by the miners themselves and
the business community, and the price de-
msnded by the miners. is cents per ton, is
BE- ing paid for that. Elk Garden, w. Va.
and Meyersdale, Pa, which are now work.