Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-04-22
LABOR LACONICS.
News OF the Mill, Factory and Work
shop-Business Notes-Matters OF In
terest 20 Capital and Labor Generally.


News OF the Mill, Factory and Work.
shop-Business Notcs-Matters OF In
terest TO Capital and Labor Generally.
Pay day at the Riverside to-day.
Payday at the La Belle next Friday.
Pittsburg coal sells at Chicago at S. per
ton.
Seven thousand kegs OF nails were cut at
the Riverside this week.
The ruins of the old copperas works stand
out still in majestic relief.
The electric light meeting has been post
poned until q week from last night.
Bodley Bros are preparing large ship
ment of timber wagons for the South.
The Top mill blast furnacemen have
given no notification of a desired increase.
The average daily product OF the gas
works during this week, was 10000 cubic
feet.
The Top mill is putting in its best work
and running full force, from quarries to
offce.
The steel rail mills are sold ahead for
several months, and prices remain sta
tionary.
The water works force, yesterday, placed
the new valve on plug at the Second
Ward Market.
There is no Disgusting the fact that man
ufacturing business is very dull, especially
in the iron line.
Sweeney 4 Son are casting six columns
for Reymann's brewery, which Will De COM
pleted to-day.
i'm. Clouston has contracted for all the
dry feed that is turned out at the sugar re-
finery up TO May lst.
VIM. Wright, a clerk at the LaBelle mill,
was presented by his wife with - pound
boy few days ago.
The foundry business is very slow at
present in Wheeling. 1t is just pulling
along and nothing more.
A luxuriant rubber plant ornaments the
window at Bells foundry. 1t was brought
from Ohio by Mr.. Wiley.
Daniel Bruhn the mailer at the Top mill
who was cut on the head, on Thursday is
not well enough to be OFT.
A large shipment OF nails was made from
the Riverside factory via B. D. Railroad
for Lacrosse, Wis, yesterday.
The upright pipes in the eastern retort
house, at the gas works, are being repaired
and the benches OF tves were OIL, yes,er-
day.
The post in the west retOrt house OF the
gas works, that for SO many years has been
barking the knuckle. Of the men, has been
removed.
A lack of slaves threw of the North
Wheeling coopers, for a few days during
the week, but full supply was on hand'
yesterday.
The Riverside Furniture Company have
been receiving large shipments of walnut
and poplar lumber from Proctor, W. va,
this week.
Vim. Schafler. an old mailer. who has
been TO Hot Springs, Ark, for his health
for about twelve months, is expected home
next week.
The Pottery Company will commence
building another decorating kiln next week
which will have the same dimensions OF the
one now in use.
The repairing Of the Belmont blast fur
mace will not be finished before next Thurs.
day. They are receiving large supply OF
lime stone and ore.
The St. Clairsville narrow gauge railroad
has carried 800 passengers IN the last nine
weeks. This is doing good business. The
track is in a splendid condition.
John Ea>tlake, of Sharpsburg, has in.
vented a glass bOmbshcll, which i 10 be ~
inches in diameter, TO be made of hard,
tough glass, an inch and a half thick.
The Brilliant Glass Works Company lover
the river) received this week $2,64I.SI in
suranCe money on their building burned
down February Sd jcNsjTg Hcai'.
The La Belle mill has ninety nail ma
chimes running this week, which have
turned out about 5000 kegs. There will be
four more machines put on next week.
Three new pots will be set at Hobbs,
Brockunier 4 Co. : glass works to-day. The
new furnace has been working this week
The glass factory has been running IN It's
fullest capacity.
The Jefferson iron works, OF Steubcnvillc,
have contracted with the Center Foundry
and Machine Company for four additional
nail machines, which will increase their
plant to lO2 machines
The seventy nail machines ordered from
Sweeney & Son by the Junction Iron Co. at
Mingo. have nearly all been cast a they
have had a set Of mOuldcrS at work on
them steadily for some time.
The four furnaccsat the lower Riverside
are used exclusively for making nail plate
OF which they turn out Sixty-four tons
every twenty-four hours, which keeps the
nail machines running nicely.
Leading members OF the Amalgamated
Association here deny that this OrganlZa-
ton is in any way concerned, or active IN,
the alleged disturbance i'll Reading and
other manufacturing CenterS OF the State
PitSbUgh gazette.
In "blowing-in" the new Furnace ut
the Edgar Thomson steel works, near Pitts
burg, the fires were lit by Miss Birdie
Lucas, the vocalist. Furnaces A b and c,
when blown i'll originally, were all set
ablazc by ladies.
The hands at the Belmont mill will COM
mence work two hours sooner this morn
ing, a. they want to repair the Squce2erS,
change the muck rolls and fix the boiler
front which will be completed and ready
for work Monday morning.
The sugar refinery has been running all
right this week, and has made very good
turn out of syrup. About three hundred
made up to last night. Mayor Egerter has
sent samples of it to New York and Gin
Cinnati.
The miners convention at Columbus
adopted the following resolution: Rs'OiIcd,
That the miners of Ohio, whose wages have
been reduced since February /, 1882, make
Il demand for former price, and il this is not
conceded the miners of such mines Shall
not mine any more coal on and after the
oath day of April, 1852.
The new mould shops at Hobbs, Brocku-
nier & Co.'S, will be one story higher than
the one that was destroyed by the fire, and
the east end of the warehouse which was
DESTROYED by the same fire will be the same
size as it was, making no change in the ap-
pearanCe of the structure They expect TO
have it finished in two weeks.
The hot iron feeders in the Bellaire fac
tory held meeting at noon to-day, and
passed resolutions against the tenders
throwing up two piles Of iron at their ma