Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-21
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS
News Notes from the Factories, work
shops and Railroads


shops and Railroads
To-day is general pay day.
The feeders strike is in stdtu quo-
To-day is pay day at the Crescent mill.
The selffeeder at the Belmont will go up
next week.
The:Ewing 4 Bill lantern factory is now
in full blast.
Steubenyille is to have another new
glass house.
The gluose factory expects TO be in opera
ton by March l.
The Creek mill is running its fullest in
every department..
The tack factory is booming along with
! orders booked for abe ad.
Thirteen beds of iron were cast at the
Belmont furnace, yesterday.
Two self-feeders are being operated by
Billy Campbell, at the Riverside.
Bodley Bros. made large shipment OF
wagons to Southern ports yesterday.
Wheeling wagon-makers would like to
see the penitentiary shop abolished
The Central glass works is running all OF
| its furnaces full and is ahead on orders.
The boys at the South Wheeling glass
works are superstitious about the pot room.
Pretty near time for further develop
| ments on the B. & o. through line project.
Germany has taken quite fancy TO
Wheeling-made glass dishes, known as nap
pies.
The Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad au-
| thorities will met in this city on February
18th.
The d. & O. switch to the sugar refinery
! is being pushed to completion and Will be
| ready by next week.
Dan Rice, q spike feeder, cut 81 kegs OF
60 penny nails in six hours, yesterday, and
it was cool day, too.
Some of the decorated ware being turned
out at the pottery is attracting attention at
the stores of the retailers.
Nail feeding is not considered skilled Ia
Dor now, and feeders do not belong to the
Amalgamated Association.
The junction Furnace Company, up At
! Mingo, propose 10 add 10 their works a
nail mill, with one hundred machines.
The South Wheeling glass works is run.
ming full except one furnace, which Will
go on shortly. Orders are reported good.
Al. Sweeney & Son are making four
large boilers for the sugar refinery. They
are "a feet long, with diameter oi IL
! inches.
The Belmont people would like to know
what they have done that Phil. Moore
should SO persiStently represent them IN
the South.
Messrs. James Holmes and Joe Ennis,
who went to Alabama to work in new
mill. have returned to their old places in
the creek mill.
The work Of lead lining the large wooden
tanks at the glucose works was finished,
Yesterday. and the New York wOrkmeu re-
I turned home.
A determined experiment is being made
here with self-feeders. Should the machines
work satisfactorily, the strike might Us we'll
be declared a failure.
The Riverside nail factory has five self
feeders at work now, and they are suc-
cess so far. They will put OH more OF them
rs soon rs they can be made.
The La Belle nail works have seven self
feeders al work, three of which were put
on this week, and are working nicely.
They have men working night anu day
making selffeeders.
The furniture establishment of Metzner,
Shcllhase & Co. is working 30 men now and
will put on about 80 more soon. They are
shipping every day and cannot catch up
with their orders. This speaks well Of
Wheeling as q manufacturing town.
The new building that the Nail City
Brewery is erecting will be finished in
about three weeks They will begin oput
some OF their stock in there next week.
When it is finished their capacity for
making beer will be increased about 10000
gallons year.
The window glass product in ISL
amounted to nearly 2,25O,Olu boxes, valued
at about =, Oc0. 900. The con assumption de-
manded, however, has taken all, and it is
i, n,,apinu Of thu Cr,rinU trade
will Justify an advance in price, which de-
clined more than 10 per cent since the be-
ginning OF 1880
A West Virginia railroad company has
| agreed 10 stop at least one OF its trains each
! wey--on being iiaggcd-fOr passengers and
. freight at every farm where right OF way
is given. The good times hoped for when
every farmer should have . railroad in MS
own d00ryard, seems to have come in West
: Virginia. Free Press.
Mctzner, Shellhase & Cos furniture fac
tory will be made a Joint stock company
after the lst OF February. The present
owners will still hold stock in the COM
pany. Their business is increasing so rap
idly that they need more capital. 1t will
be known after the lst day OF February as
the Riverside Furniture Company
A new continuance is coming into use in
mills. 1t consists Of Q screw TO be placed
under the rolls, which will catch the cinder
from the iron rs it passes through the rolls.
! The screw revolving will carry the cinder
TO the end OF the rolls and dump it into
! pit, whence il can be easily removed. Hith-
erto the cinder has fallen under the rolls
and piled up, having to be removed by
| shOvels.
Business on the St. Clairsville and North
ern railroad is still suspended, and there
is no telling when trains will be put on the
read again. The trustees OF the road hope
to have il in operation in the course OF two
! or three weeks, but they are out Of funds
and are not able to promise definitely
when they will be able to resume. They
have decided to lease the road if they can
get suitable parties 10 take ii OIL their
hands and operate it.
\ new railway through Southern Penn
! sylvania, commencing at Wheeling, w.
Va, coal -Oad extends in q southerly di-
rcCtion to Wayresburg, the county seat of
Green county: then runs directly east TO
, / aiontOwn, Fayettc county; then curves
northeast to Connellsyille. where it is in
! terSected by a new road running down
from Pittsburgh; it then passes on to the
! Laurel Hill mountain, which it crosses in
/ Somerset county. near the Westmoreland
| county line and strikes Somerset; then 1t
! proceeds 10 Berlin, and thence passes
! through Deeter's Gap and follows the
Raystown and Pennsylvania road to VOLS
burg, this county.-Bcdford Gazette.
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
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