Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-21
rnr WORKING WORLD.

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| Tho 6arroanAing Coun1Sy Howe IL
| .dastrfcs,
The Centre foundry is doing very fair
business.
The Belmont is running full IN Ill do
partrents.
Cox q Morrison. boiler makers, srs doing
0 big business
The Upper Rivers,ds mill l. xsstiag
full in all departments E.,.
Trade among the planning mills through
out the city isgetting quite orisk.
The pottery L. making full time and
turning ont large quantities OF ware.
Twelve boiling furnaces will 60 into ops-.
ration ct the Ia Belle mill, this morning.
Work on the new telegraph rail in the
La Belle mill is being pushed along rap.
idly.
Work on the new machine shops at the
La Belle mill is being pushed along rap
idly.
The heaters and nail factory at the Is
Belle mill have been running full capacity
all week.
Paddy o'Neal, formerly heater at the
Top mill, has accepted similar position
at the Riverside.
Sweeney-& Sons foundry will be OF to-
day, as orders are not pushing this depart
ment at present.
Yesterday the castings for the sixteen
new nail machines for the LaBelle were
completed by Sweeney & Son.
The Top mill is doing Its utmost like the
others in this city. 1t Is trying to get IS
large q stock on hand Is possible during
the short run.
The blast furnace OF the Manchester Iron
and Steel Company, employing seventy
five men, started up yesterday morning.
after several weeks idleness-
The hull OF Captain Befry's new boat IL
expected at this point next week. Sween.
ey 4 Son have the machinery ready and
will place the same Immediately upon the
arrival Of the hull.
The late foods delayed Pittsburgh coal
fleets at several points down the river, aud
ness, making the cost OF coal st points be-
low Louisville somewhat higher.
The Horseshoers Association met last
evening in knights OF Labor Hall, Pitts.
burgh. The matter Of wages was referred
to at the meeting. The evening was de.
voted to the consideration Of routine
business
In the Amalgamated Association head
quarters, Pittsburgh, Is q very Handsome
organ, the property OF Bishop Lodge No.
IS, Pa, OF Woods Run, which will be
rallied in May for the benefit of the widow
and five children of Reuben Price, lately
deceased.
The Riverside blast furnace is banked"
During conversation with one Of the
owners, yesterday, the reporter was in.
formed that the blast furnace would start
up on the LIST Of the month, and further
the prospects we're very good for steady
run of the upper Rversine mill.
Yesterday the printers on the Ereaing
Sar and in James z. Harrison & Co.'S
printing house, Atlanta, Ga, refused To
work for less than 80 cents per 1000 ems.
They have been receiving % cents. The
Star has two small boys working so far. All
sides refuse to yield, and things are at a
stand still.
The scale convention OF the Amalgama'
ton, composed Of representatives. OF all the
districts. meet at Pittsburgh on the eth Of
April to settle the scale for the coming
year. The Yice-President was under the
impression yesterday that no advance
would be asked, though, of course, he
would not state anything positive.
Yesterday one of the cars used on the
incline at the Top mill while being used
to unload sand off a barge, broke loose
near the tue luClluc, COhiub oOWh
at a terrific rate. Fortunately the men
seeing it coming, had time to make their
escape off the barge. When it struck the
barge it went completely through 1t, sink
ing il almost instantly.
An effort has been made in Johnstown to
induce the puddlers, heaters and other
mill men to go to Springfield, ILL.,. to work
for the Springfield iron company, on the
representation that there is difficulty be.
tween that company and the Amalgamsted
Association, not. however, on a question Of
wages. So far this effort has been entirely
unsuccessful.
The Springfield Iron Works have
received almost all the men needed
to run the entire mill on single turn. The
lG-inch mill is running full on single turn,
and but few more men are required TO
run the other mill full. 1t is the desire to
run all departments double turn, and this
will be done as soon as the requisite num-
Der of men are secured. Men are arriving
every day from Pittsburgh and elsewhere,
and both turns are expected to be filled in
a short time.
The yesuvius MIL Men Return 10 Work,
buf without he Object iOuable Pud.