Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-03-18
AMONG THE MILLS.
Gathering up Chips, Scraps, and
Shavings Of News.
The Workers in Iron. Glass and Wood
The Factory. Shop and Mill fieid
Of Items, and Local
Railroad News.
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS OF INFORMATION.

The Whitaker mtt::Etss is all righ'
again.
-Four new glass pots will be set at the
| Central to-day.
The Lancaster coal bank has been bought
by the Belmont mill.
The Fishing seaaon" for the mills is
rapidly approaching.
Fishers foundry is booming. with full
force working full time.
Mill men are keeping their eyes upon
the self feeder innovation.
They employ at the Upper Riverside mill
over 700 men regularly.
Nail City Lodge No. :, A. A. OF /. and :.
W. will hold its fortnightly meeting to-
night.
The card rate on nails has remained the
same for over three months.
The spring building and repairing boom
keeps the planning mills running full time.
In the Belmont coal mine they have %
miners at work, with about 20 helpers and
bosses.
The St. Clarsyille and Northern Railroad
will certainly be ready for operation by
April lst
Bodley Bros. wagon factory is running
| on about as usual, with nothing about the
| factory OF particular note.
! Redman d. Co., the East Wheeling
machinistS, are doing good business and
lind nothing to complain OF"
Pete Fields. OF the Il. d o. road, is a
| happy father and Grandfather Miller re-
joiceth with exceeding great Joy.
The glass made in Wheeling and this vi
| cinity, is rated i'll the market at 10 per cent.
over Pittsburgh ware. Good enough.
John II. Barnes, a mailer at the Belmont,
| quit Yesterday, and the manager has not
| yet decided who will take his machines.
The Central glass company employs
! nearly 500 people, men, women and chill
dren, and pays out $1,000 every two weeks,
BIC. Clarke. large buyer from Leaven-
| worth, Kansas, was in the city yesterday,
| leaving large orders with our glass houses.
The boiler yard OF Moorhead and Vance
was bought in by the Tack factory COM
pany, at the sale, but has been idle ever
| since.
The Whitaker iron works is booming
along, with seven sheet mills going at full
tilt. OF these seven, one is loose and six
tight
The Belmont nail factory employs 10
nailers, Ill nail feeders and about - men
and boys, including the packing bosses, at
work, steady.
Harry Hobbs, son of ]. III. Hobbs, who
has been in Boston for few years, has ac-
ceptcd position in Hobbs, BrOCkunirr &
COS glass works.
Richard Ford. !aborer at the Top
mill blast furnace had cash cut in his
head by bar of iron yesterday. DIR, Garri-
son dressed the wound.
Engineers have a superstition about ex-
plosiOns and believe they run i'll strcakS.
They are expecting more or less OF them
Just at present.
The hole of an old and long disused gas
tank, on Wood street, near Nineteenth
should be filled up. 1t is now dangerous to
the children who play on its brink.
The new brick addition at the south end
of the Belmont blacksmith shop is going
up very rapidly. They will have the brick
work finished BY the middle OF next month.
The water works boilers will probably
get the Howell blower. The burning out
OF one plate will entail more expense than
the cost OF the blower, which is no new
patent.
The Curbng for the Squeezcrs at the Ben
wood mills was cast by Sweeney Il Son,
Thursday afternoon, and weighs 1000 lbs.
1t was shipped to the mill yesterday after
noon
Charlie Frye is in charge OF the Ewing &
Bill lantern factory. Mr. Bill is travelling
in the South. The shop is pulling along
slowly. hut expects to coin money after
while.
Bells foundry reports a good business,
with every department running full. The
demand is now for cooking stoves, and the
patterns for heaters have been laid away
for the summer.
The Union Trust Company, of New York,
has secured the appointment of a Receiver
for the Cleveland, TuScarawas Valley and
Wheeling Railroad Company, which is in
default of five million dollars.
The mills are all putting on self-feeding
nail machines as quickly rs they can get
them finished. There will be several fin
Shed this week for the Riverside nail
works, which will be placed Immediately.
The coming pot factory will probably be
subscribed to by Hobbs. Brockunier 4 Co.,
and the LaBelle, both of which companies
have had bad luck with their pots. The
Central will continue to manufacture its
own.
The spring building boom is very good,
but prices of material little stiff Land
lords complain a great deal OF their inabil.
ity to collect rent, and say the losses this
way amount to more than the increased
price of rental.
At the Gas works they are noticing the
decreased CONSUMPTION OF illuminating
fluid. The average productions daily is
now 225, 900 cubic feet. against 325,OOH in
December Various repairs are being made
about the works.
The patent on chilled iron for glass
molds, for which the defunct firm OF
Sweeney, McCluney & Co. used to get
royalty of two cents per pound, expires by
patent also expires.
John MCGOwan, q workman at the Bel
mont mill, had his breast badly mashed
yesterday afternoon by alargc piece of iron
falling on 1t. He was taken TO his residence
No. 27ll Chapline street, where the proper
medical attention was given him.
The hinge factory is running full up, and
then is behind with its orders, and has to
ship partial lots to keep its customers salts
fled. The big trade at this season is in rakes
and an average of 40 dozen daily are turned
out. The factory is little short on handles
at present, and somewhat delayed OH that
account
A certificate of incorporation was filed
with the Secretary of State of Ohio. last
Saturday, by the st. Clairsville Company,
a company formed to lease and operate the
st. Clairsville and Northern Railway. Fol-
lowing are the names of the incorporates:
A. c. Darrah. John Carlisle, Addison
Thompson, John Boroff, W. J. Thompson.
The Central glass works, one of the larg-
est in the world. is running full time and
its officers report trade very fair. The bad
condition of the country roads interferes
with the jobbing trade and thus reduces
orders by mail but enough are coming in
to keep everything going. The principal
article in demand is the wide mouth beer
mug.
The Tack factory iSavcraging about two
thirds full time. 1t has a capacity OF 81
machines, all of which, with one.exception
are self.fceders. The galvanizing pot is of,
just now. The smoke consumer and doub-
lie heater are not used any more. 1t is an
admirable contrivance where a steady fire
is required. but docs not amount to much
where furnace is banked at night.
The LaBclle mill employs over 400 men
regularly, Of whom ~ are boilers with two
helpers to each one. Each boiler turns out
$500 pounds of muck iron every day. They
hnya ,a;lcro onI o.