Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-16

EhsL- ne says LDaL the eastern IdCtOrles
are all running at last years prices
This In itself goes to prove that there is
necessity for a reduction In wages such
as Is demanded by the western manu-
tacturers.
The Ewald Iron Co, st. Louis, own
ers and operators of the Tennessee roll
ing mills, have q fully line of charcoal
iron on exhibition at the Louisville ex-
position. The display of boiler plate
f1aDge, fire box, sheet and bar iron Is
creditable and attracts general atten-
tion.-Age of Steel.
The vial and bottle manufacturers of
this country have decided to keep their
works idle until such q time a their
a reduction. The men had better club
together aud put up a few new houses
and go to work for themselves before
the starvation era sets in.
The Elizabethport rolling mill, at
Elizabethport, n. j., with q capacity OF
about $50 tons per month, has been re-
started by r. w. Elliott, formerly su-
perintendent of the Phillipsburg rolling
mill. The mill employs $50 hands, and
will be run on merchant bars, fish
plates, spikes, &c,
Mcintosh, Hemphill & Co., of this
city, are running to their full capacity
in building nail machinery, nail ma
chimes and heavy castings. Owing to
the fact that some of the factories are
beginning the manufacture of nails
from steel, a remodeling Of the nail ma
chine is necessary, which is one cause
for the increased demand.
The Keystone Bridge Company are
working day and night, and lately have
taken a contract for a l7-span, double
track iron bridge over the Schuylkill
river at Manayunk, near Philadelphia
1t will require about seventeen hundred
tons of iron to complete the bridge. 1t
is being built for the Pennsylvania and
Schuylkill Valley railroad.
A dispatch dated Boston, Mass, Sep
ember S, says: Owing to drouth the
Wey mouth, Taunton & Old Colony
nail works have been obliged tosuspend
work in part. A prominent contractor
in this city said to-day that he had been
obliged to suspend upon some of the
buildings he was erecting, as the nail
factories in Plymouth county could not
supply him with nails.
In the procession on the last 18th of
July, in Fort Howard, WIS.,, J. DELANEY
and j. Hughes, Of the Eagle fOun Try
and brass works, had two wagons, on
one of which was a portable engine aud
rotary blower attached, and on theother
a foundry and cupalo. The wagons
were attached and the cupalo inrunning
order, with mOlders at work casts were
successfully taken off in the street a.
the procession moved along.
The old industry of glass making has
had such a revival in Venice that 1000
people now make beads, while many
others are employed in glass blowing
and mosaic. Other arts, which have
lately revived, are artistic casting in
metal ard lace. making, and the manu-
faCture of furniture in imitation of an
tjQue designs in ebony and ivory has
been begun.
Tho g'aesbloWers OF 1.-THE SOuthside who
went 10 MeX!cUa year ago at the sui!Ci.
tation of Il glass firm there, and finding
upon their arrival at their destination
that the factory would not ne completed
for il months, have returned home
after entering suit against the Mexican
manufacturers, laying their chi n at
clO,00n. The case is being pushed by
the American representative in Mexico.
The Sunbury, Pa, Nail Bar and
Guide Iron Manufacturing Company
has built a rolling mill and nail factory
at Sunbury which will be put in opera.
ton in two weeks. The works consist
of two double pudding furnaces, one
heating furnace, n train of rolls, tif.
teen nail machines ready for work and
ten more on the way. John Hass / the
president of the company.
The Linden Steel Co., limited, have
inst completed the erection of a 20 inch
plate mill, and have everything ready
for sheet and plate of task and boiler
qualities. This makes two plate and
sheet mills lore of IS inches and the
other of 20 inches diameter, n bar
mill rs inch, one rod mill of 10 inches
diameter, one universal mill and 3
hammers, showing that the company
have increased their capacity very
greatly.-Amer. Manuf.
Spaudling, Jennings * Co. have re-
modelled their plant in their rolling mill
ar West Bergen, \ j. They have dis
connected their threc-high 9 inch tram
from the main engine, and are driving
it independently by u Westinghouse en-
CINE of l5O horse power. The engine is
IA by II, and runs 800 revolutions. 1t
stands between the train and the pol
ishing rolls, and drives each by a sep
arate belt. The belt driving the train
has a speed of ver 1890 feet, or nearly
u mile and a half per minute.
This is possibly the highest recorded
belt speed, and is entirely successful.
The Troy Standard says: The Besse.
mer steel works in South Troy, n. Y,
will stop for repairs the latter part Of
next week. The works will remain
idle for several weeks. The stoppage is
only after a steady u of six months.
There is now work enough on hand for
all the coming winter. The entire pud.
ding department at BurdeR's steam
mill is now in operation. Burdens
water mill, with the exception Of the
forge, is new running. The Burdens
are doing a heavy business in the ship
ment OF rivets. Erastus Corning is
running his I2.inch train in the mer-
chant mill, and his Belgian train in the
steam mill.
The Pottstown, Pa, Led ger of Aug
ust Odd says: The Phoenix Iron COn-
pany have made the first experiment
in rolling steel, and it vas successful.
An angle bar 8 by 4 was turned out.
The company intends making a bust.
ness of this, and will go into it for the
purpose Of supplying steel for ship
building. 1t is contemplated in the
heal future to erect immense steel con-
verting works. This will give work to
a very large number of men. The
change in the business necessi-
tates this move, as steel Is in
fact superceding iron in manu-
featuring, and it does not pay to buy
steel ingots for rolling when it is posi-
BILE 10 manufacture them.
The Coke Trade,
C0nnellspils Courier.