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

full blast at their factory in this city.
The foundries of Peekskill, n. Y, are
doing well. One large foundry is idle.
Sipley d Co.'s glass factory, this city,
is running steadily on section jars, etc.
The Journal calls upon the molders Of
this country to prepare for the winter
now.
Mckee Bros factory, this city, is
| busy with two furnaces, making full
| time.
The prices OF the window glass have
| stiffened somewhat during the past few
days.
The chimney houses, as a rule, are
doing a good business, with good pros
poets.
King, Son & Co., this city, have
| their new furnace about ready to make
glass.
The press house OF Bryce Bros, this
| city. is running full time and full
handed.
The machinery molding business is
dead as a door nail" in st. Louis, Mo-,
at present.
The trunk makers have a national
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teen cities.
4 large iron works is to be built at
Thurlow Station, on the line of the p,
w. d B. road.
Atterbury & Co., this city, have
their factory running steadily, with
good prospects.
The shoe industry ofPhiladelphia has
81 establishments, 1881 males and2j37
females employed.
Akron molders complain that there
are too many molderS there for the
work that is to be had.
The Independent Glass Manufacture
lug Co., this city, are operating their
factory to its fullest capacity.
The furnace men at Kloman's in
Allegheny City, all struck because of
the discharge of the foreman.
Wheeler 4 Co.'S foundry at Utica, n.
Y, j. stlll closed to all union molders.
Tie strike there still continues.
The chimney house of Challinor,
Hagan d Co., this city, is running full
handed and making full time.
ID. o. Cu%nningham's green bottle
house is the only factory of that de-
scription running in Pittsburgh.
George Duncan & Sons works, this
city, has a good outlook for fall and
winter trade, and is making full time.
The new wire mill of Lambert, Bishop
& Co. is in full operation, the galvan-
izing department days only.-JOliet, ILL.,,
Press.
The st. Louis Bolt and Iron Co., are
crowded with orders for track supplies,
and are running their works to full ca
pacity.
Trade is reported good among the
lench molders of Buffalo, y. V, but
hey claim the city is overrun with idle
mOlders.
1t is said that Evans & Co., of this
city, propose To put down a gas well at
their factory on the SOuthside. Perhaps
it is all gas.
S. Mckee & Co.'S new window glass
factory, now approaching completion,
will be one of the finest in the city
when finished.
Doyle d Co.'S new factory, this city,
underwent thorough repairs during the
late suspension, and everything is now
booming there.
The general outlook in the foundry
line Throughout the country is poor.
Everything seems dull and the outlook
very discouraging.
There is trouble among the carpenters
at Newport News, Va. They ask their
fellow craftsmen to away from there
until further notice.
The main feature of y labor demon
stratiOn at Oshawa, Ontario, a few days
anN u,oS fhh Fnalfinn nNnl1inn Qn1 cast.
ing of iron in the line of march.
Trade continues dull in all branches
of the foundry business. AgoOdly num-
Der of machinery molders are idle, and
prospects do not seem to brighten up.
The secretary of the union in Phila-
delphia announces that it is only a
waste Of time and money for bench
mOldeis to come to that city in search
Unemployment.
The Cambria iron works at Johns
town, Pa, are engaged upon q contract
for the United States Government to
manufacture steel bombshells Of ten
sile strength Of 10000 pounds.
Work on the Birmingham, Alabama,
cotton factory is progressing very salts
factOrily. The walls are pretty well
finished, the window frames in, andthe
whole will becompleted in a few weeks,
The pottery at Chattanooga, Tenn, is
certainly to to be built, two Ohio men
having agreed to take $4,000 Of the
stock, and the citizens will raise the
balance of SS5, 900, which is the amount
required.
The Union Switch and Signal Co,
this city, posted q notice last week that
on and after Monday, Sept. 10, wages
of laborers in their employ would be re-
duced ninety cents per week or fifteen
cents per day.
The new tack factory of Ripley &
Bartlett, Plymouth, Mass, is nearly
ready for business. The main for
the machinery is IS feet in length on
the northerly front, with a varying
width of about So feet.
l.. A. 1880, of this city, is having very
| large meetings now at their hall, corner
| of Eleventh street and Penn avenue.
The machinery molders are looking well
| totheir organization. This is 8 healthy
ign, and to be commended.
Eberhart's foundry at Portsmouth,
O., is closed to all union men. John
Moon is writing to molders all owe the
country that this shop Is open. The
union declares il closed, as ali who go
there will find out to their sorrow.
The difficulty between the employees
end the Kittanning Iron Company has
been amicsbly settled. The workmsn
struck for more Of the "fix,n which the
mill owners are will to allow them,
and work will begin again next Mon
day.
Delegates representing twenty thous-
and shoemakers Of the United States
and Canada held a convention in Ro-
chester, \, -, last week, for the pur-
pose of 70. 4. ing q consolidation of the
craft into q national district of the
knights of Labor.
The J~ohnstown, Pa, Street Steel Rail
Co. have commenced the manufacture
of the rails at the Cambria iron works.
The rail has the ordinary l. face used
on the street railways, but the body and