Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-13

To Mr.. Oliver py M!' to ,.vt,
cheapest tumbler that Is made - 20 oens''
The fine tumbler setting price is s. 20 ~
cents at first; they sold at va oo-en'
There is no money n them: $3.50,
To McMahon--A manufacturing isc
{ in Paris made special rates IN tneir yum
blers in America.
The following nsraed gentlemen repre-
sented the glass interest before the Oom
q. w. Brockunier. Wheeling.
Robert Eryce, Pittsbure.
Jessie Lippincott, Rochester.
fhos. Evans, Pittsburg.
Paul Zimmerman, Pittsourg.
w. II. Brinton, Bellaire.
VIM. Leighton, Wheeling
John Oesterling Wheeling.
w. ]. Miller, Phtshurg- ~ 80 y
VIM. DOYLE, Pittsburgh. -
Geo. b. Swift, Pittsburg. xs1sE 4
James g. Monitor, Philadelphia 4 rT $;
- I"sr Rirs brick, &c-
Hon. John Il. Atkinson, Of Hancock
county, appeared before the Commission
in behalf of the fire brick manufacturers
of his county, and read The following Paper:
have been requested by the West Vir-'
pinia Friedrich Association and others 10
Bring TO your attention the Interests OF
large number of manufacturers and WORK
men engaged in making friedrich, tile ana
nine along the valley of the Ohio. We
lake il for granted that the object OF your
labors will be to make such suggestions 70
Congress as shall enable them most surely
to legislate so that every interest ana IN,
dustry in the lam shall receive just ana
equitable consideration, and when that
tbat shall be accomplished our citizens
should be satisfied that all has been done
to promote the general and individual
The people of this county are nearly
unanimous in the opinion that large PRO-
portion OF The money needed to defray the
expenses of the Government should De
raised by duties on imports, and the Prac-
tice has been for years to combine as iar as
can labor. II this program can De uuiy
carried out there are but few to object TO the
principle, although we may differ as to the
The capital and labor that represent
has been of recent growth. Sixty years
since 100000 fire brick per annum would
have supplied the whole country west OF
the Allegheny mountains. Now they must
supn!y al the furnaces e.. :.ad fires OF oil the
iron industries OF the West. we Aaye Ia
exhaustible banks OF fire clay, not only
along the Ohio river between Pittsburgh
and Wheeling, bur in numerous parts OF
the country, while up In our mountains
we have clays that excel in line qualities
those of the old country. The production
of brick, tile pipe and pottery wares from
these clays is only limited by the demand
for the same.
For forty years our bricks have come in
competition in the markets OF Louisiana
with the fire brick Of England. 1t costs
about $40 DER thousand to carry ours TO
that market, while the English have theirs
imported much o. the time as ballast.
Owing to the cheapness OF labor in England
their brick can be produced at a much less
price than ours, as We pay about double
the wages. The present tariff assesses put
20 per cent. advalorem upon the foreign
brick, which will yield less than 81 per
thousand as protection to our labor. We
do not think this is sufficient, or that
it is as much al is Afforded
to the farmer and many other
manufacturers, and we would suggest
that the interests of the sugar planter who
uses fire brick would not be injured II the
duty were fixed at much higher rate, and
for this reason the English manufacturer
has for time undersold US in louisiana,
and when we were driven from the market
has tsken advantage of our absence, put up
prices and received back more than he bad
lost by former competition. Bricks have
sold in New Orleans at $125 per 900, while
with such duty as would give the market
to our manufacturers, the price
would seldom exceed $3: Many
Sepend shs's Of e sqfart WsS Us in the
system of protection, are convinced that
stable duty that would secure q living price
to the American brick would be the cheap
est to them.
Not only are the fire brick manufacturers
interested in such tariff as will give them
this Southern trade, but the farmer, the
merchant the mechanic, will all be benefit
ted by the home market which always
comes with diversity of labor.
We trust that Congress may, through
such information as may be gathered by
your honorable commission, be able to en-
act such tariff as will give to US an even
competition for our home market without
reducing the wages OF our workmen, whose
wages at present are not higher than those
in other Industries in the country. The
comfortable homes of of the operators, who
perform the labor and who mostly live in
their own houses, Is a strong argument in
favor of such laws as secure to them better
wages than those who toll in the old coun.
try for such compensation as leaves them
no margin with which to purchase home
stead.
Mr.. Atkinson said: It costs US $12 a
thousand to take our bricks to market. |
think the duty on them is from $1.50 TO
duty OF three times that amount TO place
us in position to sell bricks in competi.
ton with the foreign manufacture. ]
think duty of SO thousand would be all
right. We have had a large trade in
Louisiana and other Southern States in
times past, but have been driven away
from the first named State several times
by reason OF the cheaper bricks brought
into the country from abroad. With trans
portation facilities satisfactory we would be
satisfied to sell our bricks at $40 to $25 in
New Orleans. British bricks have sold at
$40 thousand there. ] have seen them
cell at $125 thousand. We sell many to
sugar planters and farmers at points above
New Orleans, where the British product
does not effect US so much, but generally In
the city We have no show.
= To Mr. Kenner-So, sir; think the
quality of our manufacture compares
with. that of st. Louis. Large builders
prefer ours because OF their hardness. One
thousand bricks would weigh three tons.
To Mr.. Kenner-Yes, we could get better
rates of freight II we had the Louisiana
trade 10 ourselves. ..-
The Wool Interest
Previous TO going before the Tariff Com
mission, the wool growers Of the Pan
Handle held an informal meeting in one OF
the parlors of the Mcclure House, and or
ganized by putting Hon. j.. c. Gist, Of
Brooke county, in the chair, and J. c. Pal
mer, secretary. After but little discussion
Messrs. Gist and Palmer, Of Brooke county,
and J. D.. Whitman, OF Ohio county, were
appointed TO represent the wool growers of
the Pan Handle, who without division,
agreed TO ask for an advance Of eight cents
per pound on washed fine wool, after which
the meeting was notified that the Tariff
Commission was ready to receive them,
which being done, Mr.. Gist was introduced,
and after few remarks, introduced J. @.
Palmer, who was the principal spokes-
man OF the wool growers. He pre-
sented the wishes of the wool
grower, and the reasons for asking an adj
vance Of the present rates of tariff. Mr..
Palmer passed through an ordeal Of ques-
tioning, which was very severe, and which
brought out nearly all the points of the
wool tariff
J.. D. Whitman, of Ohio county, being