Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-09

been busily engaged nearly all week In
ranairfhp the tracks In the yard here.
New steel raila have been put in on all
the main tracks, and the entire yard put
in first class eonditien.
A gang ofB. & o. surveyors have been
sighting around and locating the route
for their new track Up to Bridgeport :
The Lantern factories are both run.
ming on full time, and business seems 10
be good in this line.
The timers are oyer-crowded with
work lust now. This is their busiest
season. New houses that have pee
erected during the season are all ready
for the timer at once, and everyoodyls
in a hurry to have things all snug Dc
fore the winter season sets in.
The work of pile driving Is progress
ing finely down at the creek, and THIS
has become one of the loyeliest places
in the city at present. Large crowds
of spectators congregate on the B., Il. q
c. bridge every day to watch the per-
The Ohio Valley cement works south
Of town report business in their line
booming. LAM
The gas well is now down about 800
feet and everything working smoothly.
The blast furnace is making full time
and a large quantity of metal of a finer
quality than they have been making re-
Gently is being turned out.
General Notes.
The Kelly Stove Co., of Columbia,
Pa, are busy.
The nail mill at Sunbury, Pa, is again
in full operation.
The window house at Bellefonte, Pa,
has begun operations.
The new sheet and plate mills at
Birmingham, Ala, are completed.
The hollowware glass factories
throughout the entire country are idle.
The mill at Leetonia, Ohio, is again
in operation, repairs having been COM
pleIed.
All printers should stay away from
San Francisco, Cal, until the strike
there is over.
The new stove foundry in Sharon,
Pa, will not be ready to start up until
next January.
The Trumbull Iron Co. has shut
down its rolling mill at Girard, o., to
make necessary repairs.
Brussey & McLead operate two stove
foundries, n in Troy, n. y, and one
in ChicagO.-Labor Tribune.
The two.thirty-po window houses at
Ithaca, \. Y, signed the new scale
some days ago and are running.
The a~nnealers at the sheet mill of A.
NJ. Byers d Co., this city, are on a
strike against a reduction in wages.
Edward Smith, of Warren, who
owns the New Philadelphia, o., mill,
has not decided whether to run it or
sell it,
Cleveland, Brown & Co., are success
fully operating the Russia mill IN
Niles formerly run by l.. b. Ward d
Company.
Only a portion Of M 40 rolling mill OF
andrews Bros Co, at Haselton' Is Su ~
operation. But one Oh Vuou
naces is in blast.
The Messrs. Rodgers have purchased
the stove foundry at Downingtown, Pa,
and will be ready for business soon.-
Labor Tribune.
The rolling mill of the Maidencreek
Iron Co., 8landon, Pa, is undergoing
thorough repairs, and in consequence
will lie idle for several weeks.
All the trunk makers unions but the
one In Cincinnati have voted to go in.
to the knights of Labor. They Will
probably form a District Assembly.
All of the window houses in Pitts
qurgh are still idle. The manufacturers
at a recent meeting decided to remain
idle until the 18th inst.-Labor Tri-
bune.
The ten-pot cooperative window glass
factory at Streator, ILL.,, the Wellsburg,
w. Va, ten-pot factory, and the new
Crystal factory, ten pOts,at Bellaire, o.,
started up last Saturday.
The Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
has been organized, with a capital OF
S600,000. The works are to be located
at Creighton Station, on the West
Pennsylvania Railroad.-Labor TIL
bune.
Nearly all the boss bricklayers OF
Chicago have union men in charge.
Not a bricklayer is working for less than
81 a day. Many of them, indeed, get
81 80 without the asking. The union
has plucked a victory out of seeming
defeat.
Five of the piano key makers of New
York who struck three months ago
against o reduction of Is per cent. have
started a factory of their own. They
will give employment to all the balance
of the men who were locked out.
Ofthe 127 Allentown shoemakers who
went on strike in that city in February
p have returned to work. 80 are still Out
and the others have or will receive EN-
ployment in the union shops at Cam
den, EastOn, Orwigsburg and othel
places.
The French glass blowers imported
by the Excelsior Glass Works have
been persuaded by the American glass
blowers to demand higher wages, OF
the representation that the compare
tive cost of living is higher here, Ham
iltOn, Ont, News.
Chicago furniture workers average s.
| " CIV q with III ldClOlLCot ouu HULL 81
to SO in custom shops. Some 90 new
members have recently been added t
the union. New York furniture worker
pay p cents a week a. dues and give al
out-of. work support to members unable
TO obtain work.
Perry & Co., evidently do not believe
| there will be an reproduction o
stoves this season. They have just fin.
ished an addition to the molding floor
at Sing Sing, n. Y, adjoining the
prison, in which they will employ fifty
civilian molders in addition to theil
convict torces.-American Artisan.
The window glass blowers of the
United States will no doubt proceed to
erect and operate window houses o
their W should the manufacturers in
sist upon a reduction in wages. They
are amply able to do so, IS has beer
fully demonstrated in past years. Every
strike so far has resulted in an increase
in the number OF factories, and the pres
ent will prove to be no exception.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany have issued an order making the
hours for night work eight instead o
seven and a half, and allowing extrs
paw for Sunday work. The extra ser