Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-24

Msnager Reister, of the Belmont mill
vss engaged last week having the
muck iron, which is covered with muG
cleaned.
The Belmont mill Is on full in all de,
paItments.
The Belmont blast furnace will start
up about the lst Of next month.
Tie Pottery will get on full force to-
morrow.
Cox & Morrison's boiler works are
busiiy engaged
The district convention of the Anal
gamated Association will meet the sec
ODd saturday in March To appoint dele
gates To attend the scale convention,
which meets the first Saturday in
April.
Tie North Wheeling glass works
started up, and trade Is reported brisk
Ia the bottle line.
Al the close of the year 1887 there
We're IN Pittsburgh six flint aui tRn
green bottle works, with an annual pro-.
auction Of S729, 200. Iu 1857 there w-te
thr'y three factories IN Pittsburgh,
t"enty-iOur OF which produced wiuduN
glass and bottles, and with the other
me HINT houses male annually 81
10000 worth OF goods and gave eun-
plUyns nt To 1000 hands. In 1865 there
we're fifteen bottle factories, fifteen win
dow glass factories, aud fifteen Hint
h' uses-fOrty-ti in all. Tae fifteen
green works produced, Of bottles and
visls, annually about 1000 gross, or
10, 1880 OF all kinds, worth about
=, lOO,NO. The annual production Of
the entire fOrty-tive Vas estimated Al
SI,Uh,OOO. SINCE that period there ha-
been no increase.
The first glass house for the msnufac-
lU-e Of bottles was buill in the fall or
1888 ty William McCUiiy, in Pits
turgh, and the firm % MCCL.iy & Co.
sttil occupy the site.
TIL conference of the bottle manufAc-
luTeI- and representatives OF the s!nt
sla~s blowers met at the NonongAhels
House, Pittsburgh, last Monday, but
allied to harmOulze their differences.
The Franklin ron Company IimitedJ
j. the title of a new company formed to
carry on the manufacture of fine bar
iron at the RoberstOwn rolling mill,
Lancaster county, Pa. They expect To
regiu operations on large scale in the
Wy near future.
TIE WasLburn Iron Company OF
VIZ, -ter, Mass, has made y contract
FORTH erection ola Besssmrr steel plant
with Two cOnverterS at its mill in Wor-
cts'er. This company has hitherto
rolled steel from imported or purchased
Blooms, but will hereafter make its own
steel.
The boiling department of the Qua
cansvi.le, Pa, rolling mill started up
last Monday morning single turn. Tle
to!.ers divide their work. The finish
Iug mills went on Tuesday morning
with Reece Price, Of Erie, a roller.
The OH Virginia Nail aud Iron
Wclk-, in LyuchOurg, Va, have st Lrte1
uu. making bar iron and nails. Iney
axe ai,u making all the light iron rails
or = rarrow-gauge road a. Indian Rock,
uesr l.ynchburS.
The prescription bottle factory At But
Ter, Pa. Is on full time.
AL Pittsburgh glass chimney fa2tO-
-'rs are running full time ali full
handed.
The window glass works at LaSaIie,
H., have resumed operation.
Blowing hiss begun at the bottle
WORKS st I.aSal,e, Ill.
None Of the green glassware factories
of Pittsburgh have as yet started up,
ard prospects for their resumption are
Lot at al fat;ering.
The window glass factory ot OLnary
BTtS., at MuGOngahela Cry, began
rlOw.fs during the early part OF the
prgseni week.
The window glass factory a. Rock
','ar.t, i'll, which has heru idle since
Julv asst. j. now running steadily, with
good respects.
Faye;,r county, Pa..'hat gas tAH-
tory in l-g-. Il was owae" ~ Aloert
C,Ai.alin. aud was located - New Cen
eva. Ii vss operated o. GeiMan glass
blowers.
\ hunter Of TIE ;atteTn makers en-
uloyed al the Westinghouse machine
shop, Twenty. tiEti and Liberty streets,
Pittsburgh, are out tgA.nst proposed
reduction Of waye". Thy recently
accepted reduction Of - cents day.
The TrIegrapher, Erotarlh2cd has
been doing great dee. OI QUIET WORK
since the StIike.
Tie Executive Board Of the y. 81 l..
have designed trade mark for the Use
OF union firms on union goods. Ile
fgure i a triangle within circle.
The Pri-on Committee Of the Nas5a-
.huss:ts Legislature will give hearing
10 these iutere~ted in the abO'isHment
uf the convict contract system In thSI
Safe.
The Lebanon. Ia, Manufacturing
Company reduced labOrers' wages ten
cents per day, and the wages Of
mechanics of all kinds from 10 10 y
per ceEt.
The United states Steel Plate Com
pany, with = capital Of 81, )OO,OOO, has
ceea organized At Republic, Michigan
for the purpose OF introducing an IN
yer,icL Tor governing iron into steel 6y
8 process consisting, it Is stated, or al
ADJ hratiOn OF chemicals To iron plates
which changes them st once 70 the
y,ry hardest steel II was invented
about \ wear ago By Mr.. VI. l.. HeaIy
nf Rrru5!Ic, AID has since been pat
.uttG.
The Cleveland Labor S,ar of last
week says: The Cleveland Rolling
Mill Company's hammer mill in the
plate department has been smut down
Tor several days on account OF n serlou:
bfeakage in the machinery af the en-
gine-rhe Bessemer steel works will
start ~ on Mouday-The new CniOr
rolling mill building is being rapidly
erected. and will be finished by the END
of next week, if the weather allows
Yuuu- Clarb, OF Pittsburgh, has beer
duly Installed manager OF the toCes
ClyS rolling mill.
Some Of the nils aud furnaces 8
CLattaEOuga anu uelgGOIrhOoi arr
moviug along steadily. la The city,th'
south rredegar Iron ard Nail Com
pary'- nail mill ~ on single turn, sS /
al-o the Lookout Rolling Mil Com
pauy'- bar mill. Tue Roam Iron Com
cary'- mill has been Idle for a numbsI
Of months, with no apparent pro'pec
offs starting up soon. This company
however, has two large bl>St EurnAce'
Al lockwood station, on the CtatinnAtt
southern road, 80 miles north of here
which are kept constantly IN blast
ay. raging about leo tons daily from ns
tive ores, with coke for fuel, manufac
turpd in the cOmpany'S own oveu=, from