Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-05-06
THE WAGE WORKERS.
The Industrial Intelligence OF the
Past Week
IN THIS VICINITY AND AT LARGE.
Notes Concerning the Iron Men, Coal
Miners, Cigar Makers, Glass
Blowers, Railroad Men,
ETC., Etc.
LOCAL INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
Among the MilIs-in the Workshop
and Factories.


The La Belle mills is doing a fine
business.
Redman & Co.'s machine shops are
working as usual.
The Riverside bar mill will run full
capacity next week.
The North End Glass Works are hav-
ing very successful run.
Trade is brightning up and prospects
are very good for big fall trade.
The forge department of the River
side mill is running as usual, full time
being made by all.
Cox & NIorrison's boiler works are do
ing very little business at present, COM
paratively speaking.
Armstrong, Coen & Co., planning mill
is doing a very fair business, one OF the
managers stated yesterday.
Tie Belmont blast furnace has been
fully repaired, the brick masons finish
ed their work last Friday.
The Belmont foundry was busily en-
gagged last week casting coolers for the
blast furnace and other EeC"ssary cast
ings.
Messrs. Sweeney & Sons foundry has
been doing very little work this week
owing to the lack of orders for import
ant work.
Bells foundry was off yesterday, the
wOrkmen wanting holiday. The es-
Enlistment is doing fine business and
prospects very fair.
The Top mill is working along full in
n DANA Nnfhinu nf a naWsy N A.
ture has taken place eXcect that which
has already been published.
The Central Glass Works are doing
rushing business, having an abund-
ance OF work on hand, and prospects are
very tiatterng for future trade.
The tack factory is still plodding
along in the same groove, four days
per week, but every indication of a
speedy&resumption of working full
Hon Iday's planning mill is doing fine
business. The managers claim that
trade is frightening up and every thing
indicated a big boom in their line OF
business.
The copper works of Quilted on
Water street is doing good business
Mr.. Dufiield las gained Il wide reputa-
ton as being the finest copper worker
III the country.
The machine shops of Sweeney " Son
are very buSily engaged on steamboat
work. This frm has been very success
iul in this class of work and are making
Il speciality OF it.
Bodley Bros wagon industry is, as
usual, working fun force. No one
would suppose, Judging from outside APP
pearances, the amount of work done by
this establishment.
The Riverside nail factory is working
full. \ number Ol the turning boys Were
discharged by the nailers for striking,
and some of their place have not been
filed up to this writing.
The carpenters We're busily engaged
putting up rafterS on the new macniue
shops at the La Belle mill. This build
mg will he completed and ready for ser
vice in about two weeks.
The Belmont mill is running along
smoothly under the able management.
This industry has the best record ofany
in the CiCy for steady runs and quality
Of nails turned out per month.
Should our nail industries close on a
clock OUT this summer the building
prospect in THIS vicinity will certainly
take decided f. or set back, as no
property owners cHres about expanding
money in new buildings with a shut
ting down OF cur mills. Looking at the
situation from a machinic's standing
point, the prospects for new buildings
being erected this SeaSUa, are extreme
ly bad.
Yesterday brick mason was interview
ed by reporter to certain what was the
prospects in,this line of business. He was
informed that job work was very
brisk, and no workman need grumble
for want Ofwork, as they were rushed
with job and repair work, but he did not
think it would last any great length of
time, though he believed, Judging from
the outlook, that the jobbing trade
would hold up until the new building
fever would strike the community.