Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-01-21

stop Come around and see me next week
and / will show you something nice.
A reporter while strolling down Main
street dropped into the Riverside nail fac
tory. Here several workmen were engag-
ed on their machines making the usual
r.peirs during the stoppsge Of the factories.
Tie next place visited was the
BeImont Blast Furnace.
Nothing OF particular note had trsnspired
at this INDUSTRY. The new msnager was
unable to give any news, emily that the
furnace was turning very fortunate run
lately.
At the Belmont nail factory quite a
nuRiber of men were busily en-
gagged making great Improvements. Tne
first thing noted WAS the large
timber for the extra griudstones were ia
place, and that twenty.tkree Of the smallest
rail machines had been removed out OF the
main factory into the new annex; in fact
there was but very few OF the machines
standing. All of them will be torn down
and rearranged. The manager of the factory
was approached and asked how many nail
machines they would move to the annex.
"Well, about twenty.six small machines
will be moved out OF the main factory to
make room for the twenty larger machines;
Another improvement is the new iron bed
plates for the machines to set on. This Is
really something new and Is vast I'M
provement over the old wooden toor Tor
the machines to sit on"
The Brilliant Glass Works are running
full time, and hardly able to keep up with
their orders.
The Wellsburg Herald says: In conver-
satiOn with one of our leading builders we
learn that the prospect for building this
coming season is as good as It was this time
last year. A half dozen new dwellings Will
be erected in the Wellsville Plate aud
Sheet Iron Company's addition. A. Smith
& Co will convert The large building on
Tenth street. purchased from J. W.. Usel-
ton, into double dwelling house.
The saw mills in Canada cut last season
about $50, ,OOO, 900 feet Of lumber.
A reporter visited the Citizens Street
Car stable. in South Wheeling, for the pur-
rose Of inspecting the new lightning
horse cleaner" Upon telling Supt. Wis
sen what was the object of our visit, we was
very cOurteously shown through the entire
stable and thence into a room about l2xlS
feet Here was the much talked OF ma
chine which consisted simply of a main
shaft five and a half feet long attached to
Heavy Beam
in the ceiling upon which is fastened two
small wheels These wheels are attached
TO the engine by several belts and wheels.
At each end of this shaft is attached rod,
6k feet long with a universal joint at both
end and at the ends Of these rods are sim
liar ones with the same kind of joints, only
they are about four feet long, and to three
ends are fastened the hair brushes, which
are four inches in diameter and seven
inches long, and when working these
brushes make about one thousand revolu-
tiOns to the minute. After thoroughly ex
smining the machine the reporter asked
to see them clean horse. As 1t was very
carly in the afternoon, none OF their horses
that were very muddy were dry, but one
was brought out of the stable that had
heen Just taken off the road about half an
hour before the reporters arrival
The Machine
wss started and two men grabbed the
handles near the brushes and went to work.
The animal was thoroughly cleaned in the
space of ten minutes, except spot or two
on the limbs that was very wet. The
brushes are made of very strong and dexl-
bic hair, and owing to the great speed,
cleans the horse thoroughly and in re-
markably short space OF time. The only
way for horSemen to appreciate anything
of this kind is to go down to these stables
and see :the machine in operation. The
Superintendent, during the conversation
that followed, made the following expla-
nation of their reason for getting
this machine. ut is impossible
for our horses to be cleaned upon their ar
rival in the stable Of an evening, that is, to
do it with the curry comb and brush, and
therefore they had to stand until the next
morning with the mud on them, and, Of
course, did not thrive we'll Our
Might Horses
commence coming in about Q o'clock and
the last team gets in about IL P. NJ. Nov.
with this machine every horse will be
cleaned by o'clock in the morning and
| will be able to rest nicely, instead of stand
ing shivering with mud on him until the
next morning"