Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-11-01
,xDusrRIAL MATTERS.


A new gashouse is being built at the Top
Mill.
The men at the Top mill viii bepaid next
Saturday.
The glass works are all preparing for the
cold weather.
AtSweeuey & Sons foundry the work
msn are engaged night and day this week.
Next week the North Wheeling glass
works will have heaters placed IN their
works
The Riverside furniture factory is run.
ming along tull force, but have not great
many orders on hand.
The Top mill blast fur--.aee was lighted
up yesterday, by Art.iur Garrity, and they
expect to make 2 cast to-day.
Apppber Of the North Wheeling glass
blowers we're of Yesterday afternoon, but
will resume work this morning.
The Riverside blast furnace is running
along as we'll as could be expected, as tney
are greatly troubled about the supply Oh
coke.
James Carr, formerly of Bellaire, has ae-
cepted a position in the glass works At
Wellsburg, and has removed his family up
to that place.
Mr.. George Blankingsop, who has the
foundry at Wellsburg, reports they have
more orders than they are able to fill ut
present. and their shipments are very
heavy.
Mr.. Peter Blankingsop and a friend of
his. two of the finest mould makers in this
section. have started a shop of their own
down at Bellaire, and are meeting with big
success in receiving orders from all glass
dealers.
The self-feeders at the Riverside nail
factory are working nicely. They have
not been compelled to stop since the start
up on account OF any break. This speaks
very we'll for the self.feeding machines, as
heretofore they have been good deal OF
trouble TO the nailers.
Charles Miller, the North Wheeling tin
roofer, reports business very lively. He
stated yesterday that the majority OF the
country people were now in favor OF tin
roofs, and that to-day he would put one
on Mr.. Burners dwelling, on Long Run.
The strike among the miners at the
Mount Carbon mines, Illinois, has ended.
The miners by a vote of 40 to declded 10
accept the company's terms-l5 cent. per
ton-and the men resumed work yesterday.
Hoffman & Sons tannery is running full
force this week, and business IN their line
is picking up little with the market
shade stronger in prices. This firm has an
immense quantity of tan bark on hand,
and received several carloads more yester-
day which they were unloading as fast as
possible.
The putting in position Of some of the
huge iron girders on the new Smithheld
street bridge will necessitate the closing OF
the wagon way of the struction from six
o'clock this evening until six o'clock to-
morrow morning. No vehicles can cross
the bridge during the time mentioned,-
Pittsburgh Telegraph.
The crown of the furnace at Campbell
Jones & Co.'S tableware glass factory on
Twenty first street, Pittsburgh, which cayed
in on last Monday has been repaired, a new
bench put in and fires started this morn
ing, all within a week. This is claimed to
be the quickest time on record, as it re-
quired some time to remove the pots from
the furnace.
Beneke, Hubach & CO.. furniture factory
is not doing as good business at present as
could be expected at this season of the
year, but still they have orders enough on
hand to keep them running. Yesterday
this firm commenced making several fine
walnut tables for Mr.. Dillon, the Market
street jeweler. This is the second lot that
he has ordered from this firm.
Yesterday the machinery for Captain
Princes new steamboat was completed and
will be taken to the wharf and placed as
soon as the hull arrives. The moulders
were busily engaged on a large side pipe
for q side wheel steamboat, and also on
portion of the machinery, for Capt. Berry's
new towboat. The hull of this boat is be-
ing built at Harmer, and they expect to
have il here by the first of next week.
when the machinery will be Immediately
placed.
Mr.. Smith was appointed manager OF the
Belmont blast furnace yesterday, and will
take charge Immediately. Mr.. Smith was
formerly engaged as manager Of the blast
furnace at Frostsburg Nd. These works
may start up at any time. The owners do
not really know when they will start, as
they will be entirely governed by the coke
transportation, for at present it is impossi-
BILE to receive it fast enough TO keep the
furnace going.
Arbenz & Co.'S furniture factory is doing
a very fine business. This establishment
is situated in the southern end OF the city.
John Winder laborer employed at the
Top mill, met with very severe accident
yesterday afternoon. He and several other
with a large trip hammer, when one OF the
pieces of castings struck him on the leg
between the knee and aukle, MASKING the
limb badly. Medical attention was called
in and the wound properly dressed.
The explosion of an oil lamp in the cleo
trio light generating room of the Oliver
wire mill, at Pittsburgh, last week. set fire
to the woodwork of the electric light gen.
orator and damaged it considerably. A new
generator was secured, but tdoes not work
satisfactorily for some reasons and no
electric light can be generated. The night
turn at the mill has been off for several
nights in consequence. The damage is be-
ing repaired, however, and work at night
will shortly be resumed again.
Several of the nailers at the Riverside
nail works were complaining yesterday
about the proprietors not giving them
merchant steel TO use on their knives, as
they claim it is great saving OF labor, and
that machine that has q merchant steel
knife will cut more and cleaner nails than
those with the common steel knife; and
further. that they would not say a word,
only that all the mills west Of the noun
tains use it except their mill. In answer TO
sn-inquiry from the reporter as to the
Wheeling mill, they stated that all of them
used it and that they were putting it on
all the machines.
Trimble & Lutz are doing an immense
business. Their forces are working night
and day, and can not keep up with their
orders. In conversation with one of the
firm, yesterday, he stated that they had
Just completed their contract for putting
heaters in the Riverside Glass Works at
Wellsburg, and that they were at work
placing heaters in the Union Glass Works
at Martins Ferry. Upon completing that
job they Would have TO put heaters all
through the North Wheeling glass house,
and that they had just signed contract to
place heaters in the Inirmsry, at Guernsey,
Ohio. The above will give the reader
slight idea Of the immense business being