The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-04-01
THE WORKING WORLD.
Intelligence from the Furnaces and Fac
tories OF the Vicinity,


ten pot furnace glass house.
The new Brilliant Glass Works are being
rooIed, and they are expected TO resume work
next week.
Over 200 hands are now employed at the
Pottery and oil departments arc booming.
Orders ore coming In lively,
There jy prospect Of trouble between the
Pittsburgh mine owners and their employees,
andR general strike may occur. y
Sweeney & Son are preparing 10 cast an
immense cyllndc: for use In the extension
now being built at the KtHa MIL.
Smoke and steam was pouring from every
mandatory in the city yesterday, indicRi-
ing steady work, as the busy hum Of wheels
testified,
The Kloman Iron Works, at Mouhdsville,
resumed work this week, after generally re.
pairing their furnaces, and giving the boys a
good rest,
The excavation has been completed for the
new block to be erected on Market street by
c. Hess 4 Sons, and the stone nlasons have
commenced on the foundations.
Tho 80 inch water main Is laid and the
force OF men that General Haley has so ably
commanded IRE now, like so many MicaW.
beers, waiting for something to turn up.
John Miller bought planning mill at Dun
kirk, Ohio, q month ago. He lost finger
the first week, two fingers the second, and
whole hand the third The mill Is now for
sale.
At the Central Glass works trade Is rush.
Ing. Secretary Scott SAYS they are head over
heels, II. u. Waddle, chief salesman, Is re-
covering from q severe Illness contracted In
New York about two weeks since.
The Bellaire Cement Wofks-the Ohio
Valley Cement Works-is now equal 10 max
ing 200 Dbl. OF cement per day, and will turn
out thousand barrels Aweek right along. Il
is being shipped all over the country In large
quantities.
The SteU5eRVllle Flint Glass and Vial
Works will locate ut the corner OF North and
and Seventh, the deed for the property hay.
ing been signed by II. G. Garrett today. The
probabilities IRE that ground will be broker
Tor the buildings M0Rday,-Aena|d.
Benwood furnace Is doing splendidly
again, running with one hot blast oven, and
making sixty tons daily Of the best foundry
iron in America, us Manager Bird confident
| ~ claims, This Is u stendid achievement in
furnace work, Theplaning mills ARE both
running ut lively rHte, and have plenty Of
work ahead. The coming season promises to
be most prosperoussne for all the builders.
-hdrtin's fary fTmes
The old cotton factory building should not
stand Idle any longer. II will Just suit the
purpose OF the proposed glass pot faCtory.
Winnings keg factory proprietors get their
poplar lumber away down In West Virginia.
This wood is scarce about here. The eStOb.
lishment OF two glass works In the city with.
in three months isn'ta bad showing. The
paper mill Is now doing an immense bust.
ness, running night and day.-SteuOearilIs
Gasette.
The Etna Glass Company have had new
stairway and new porch erected at the
works for the convenience Of the employees, -
The new foundry building In lower town
will be completed very shortly II fair weather
continues Stone for the foundation of the
new Goblet Company building was being
placed in position tO.day.-PrOSpects Of gen
eral reduction among coal miners Dealers
are loaded with surplus stock.-Bcllairc hide
pendent.
AdviCGs from Steubenville say that the
Keystone Coal Company, composed OF Pitts.
burgh capitalists, whose works are located at
Hanlin's station, on the Panhandle road, Is
engaged in driving new entry, which, when
completed, will enable them TO double the
capacity o! their works, employing about go
miners. Another company Is being organized
Tor the purpose OF mining coal IN the vicinity
OF Golfers station, and will commence oper-
atoms early in the summer.
The Belmont Nail Company, Of this CITY,
has entered suit against II. E Collins & Co,
OF Pittsburgh, to recover $20.t2O0O, on an
alleged breach OF contract. The plaintiffs
claim that on tho Both Of September, 1879,
the defendants agreed to sell to them 80, 600
tons OF foreign ores, to bedelivered at Wheel
ing in the early spring OF 1850, for specified
sum, and that they failed 10 deliver more
than 49OH tons, refusing TO furnish the re.
niatnder, in consequence Of which they {the
plaintiIs) wercobliged to pay much higher
sum for ore elsewhere, and thereby sustained
loss Of Sl0,S52 10. They also claim to
have subsequently lost 81, lT1.75 in u similar
manner on another contract with the defend.
ants.
The Martins Ferry Times regards the new
stove foundry as reality. The company
have bought six lots in Paulls addition ad-
joining the Cleveland & Pittsburgh railroad,
1nd lying at the upper end OF the addition,
! This gives them front OH the rallrOll of
three hundred feet, extending back one hun.
dred feet 10 the alley. The foundry proDer
will be 100 feet long and IS feet wide, and
will be situated next the alley; the ware.
room will be 50 feet long, SO feet wide and
three stories high; the engine room and
cleaning room 10 feet long and 10 feet wide,
Mr.. Joseph Mcdfli, Mathew Mitchell, ". H,
ltateltt, Henry Helling and John Armstrong,
OF the Exchange bankSarc at the head OF this
enterprise. The capital will be $4,000.
The large building erected by the Sugar
Refining Company Is to the average citizen a
place OF mystery. Large signs announce that
admission il denied TO llE A reporter how.
ever, got inside yesterday and found It a
huge place, filed with large and strange yats
and ptpes-and bad smells. Mayor ECertcr
was encountered and rushed us rapidly
through the building. it Is well provided
with apparatus for cxtinguishing fires,
About twelve men ure now employed in the
building fitting in the little details and
preparing for steady running. Some
splendid syrup has already been made.
When running steady, which will be in u few
days, two car loads OF corn will be used per
day, or 1000 bushels OF the Sheitei article;
go bushel will be used TO each converter,
and TWO runs made every day. At present,
on every floor, whichever way one turns.
queer looking presses, and large and deep
vats encounter ones gaze
Auc AIuItlA HeETy IlWeS says: The work
OF converting the old Swartz factory into a
suitable factory for the new Union Glass
Company, WINS begun this week, and the con.
tractor, Mr.. Jas, Finley, will begin on the
foundation Of the new buildings on Monday,
by which time the excavations will have
been made. Bricks for the building have
been purchased Of Mr.. MGCord. The com.
pany has bought the other Iotin that block
and the property will extend from Locust
to Clay streets on First street, and back to the
river. The company has completed It's per.
manent organisation, with Henry Helling
OF Martins Ferry, President Robert T. How.
ell, OF Bridgeport, Secretary, and a full
Board Of Directors, The capital stock has all
been taken but about $1,000. The iirebed OF
the furnace will be placed five feet above the
point reached by the June flood OF last year,
and will consequently be In no danger Of be.
ing dFencbed BY the river. The work Is be.
ing pushed as rapidly as possible,
oRpNARILya perfume has a limited appli.
cation, and admits oflIttle more than to be
dropped upon garment II liquid, or car.
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