Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-03-22
PITTSBURG POINTS,
The Coal Strike Will Likely Fail for
Lack Of Uuanimity.
The City Dull and Business Gansr-
ally Stagnant.
A Resume of the News OF the
Smoky City,.
To Remove the Nail Associa-
tiOn's Headquarters.


PIrrsBuRG, Mach 2l.-Pittsburg budd-
ing prosperity has been under au incubus of
ice end snow this week. think draw il
rather strorg, however, in my qualification
OF the word prosperity" There is no pres
ent prosperity here. There has been none
for months and local manufacturers and
merchants almost without exception assert
that they find nothing OF q substantial char
acter upon which TO base prediction OF
good times. 1t is true that some OF the
glass furnaces are vomiting smoke, that
the Edgar Thompson steel plant is in full
blast, but the results OF these outward ap-
pearances OF prosperity are not found in the
satisfactory comments Of those who work
in these factories and furnaces, in the grum-
blings OF the unpaid grocer, or butcher, or
baker, or the Disconnected expressions Of
the banker who boards his unproducing and
Improbable thousands from day to day and
complains of the dull times" Working
men of the higher class, such as nailers,
glass blowers rollers and carpenters have
kept their families from want this winter,
and they have done we'll Work has been
very irregular, pay days occasional, rents
high and luxuries very high. II is true that
the purchasing power Of dollar has not
been so large since the halcyon
Beforc-the- -war-Days,
but the dollar has been numerously scarce
and the means OF obtaining very slender.
There have not been in years such requisitions
upon the poor fund There are days when
the new applicants run up to nearly hun
dred, while those who have been helped 10 a
load Of coal or pair OF shoes return fos q
second supply repeating the same story OF
want and destitution, and alleging the in.
ability Of father husband or SON to get work.
The work OF private charity has been very
large-greater, If anything, than that done
by the authorities Much Of the work has
been done unobtrusively and iudiclously, and
the outside public has not seen it and on
this account it has been effective.
The Coal strike.
The river miners have begun to think, in
many instances, that they were much too
precipitste in the Inauguration Of the pres
ent strike. Their wsrmest sympathizers
say that nothing more inopportune could
have taken place The open weather at
nearly all times last winter enabled the oper-
ators 10 glut the Southern ports with coal OF
all kinds This coal in some parts has been
a drug on the market, as the owners refused
to Sc II it at the prices offered, preierring to
hold il over Their
Prudence Has Bcen Their salvation
in this instance, for with the surplusagc
they have been able to fll contracts in the
South from their over stock already there,
or TO purchase at nominal price for the
same purpose. Already some Of the mines
by the umpire and others are about to 20
in Operators say they care very little
about the determination OF their miners
There is 10 money in coal at present and
no demand for it, II the men wish to go
to work egain they may. Otherwise, other.
Wise.
The Nall Association.
A motion to remove the headquarters Of
the Western Nail Association from Pitts.
burg to Wheeling, Columbus or Indisnapo.
lis will be discussed at special meeting Of
the association 10 be held in this city next
Monday. The western manufacturers allege
the indifference Of Pittsburg manufacturers
to the real interests Of the association as the
re ason for the removal. Heretofore Pitts.
burgers have signed the scale with sole ref
erence TO furtbering their interests as man
ufacturers OF specislties and when that OBJ
iect was attained left the nail men 10 obtain
the best rates they might. The western
manufacturers wou ID like either lndianapo-
lis or Columbus, but none are averse TO
Wheeling, as it is the center Of the nail
producing district Of the country. Pitts
burgers claim that the matter Of conven-
ience alone will keep the Office here. -.
Quite q number OF iron men from oil
parts Of the country have been here this
week for the purpose ofinspecting the work.
ings Of q new steel plant erected at the
Oliver mill, on the South Side, by Mr..
Witherow. Owing to some defect, the test
did not come of on Friday but II will be
made next week.
AIabama~ Advance.
W. Il. Woodward, of Wheeling. Alabama,
is in the city. Mr.. Woodward Gays that
ell the Alabama furnaces are running and
msking money. Coal, limestone and iron
ore are abundant on the ground, and the
production Of pig metal is very cheap. Ran.
| dali DeIh ocracy is taking in the South, Mr..
Woodward says, and high tariff regarded
as a necessity. Alabama would give
10000 majority on an issne Of that kind in
| favor OF tariff.
The appointment Of Mslcom Hay, Of this
city, TO be First Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral, givesvery general satisfaction. Mr.. hay
il q lawyer Of fine abilities and spotless char
acter. He has always been q Democrat,
| but in DO sense q wardster, ringster or
offensive politician. The Republicans are
as we'll pleased with his elevation a. the
Democrats.
James II. Hopkins, o. Norfolk, Virginia,
formerly OF Pitisburg, is 10 the city. lie
feels very confident that he will be appointed
Minister to Rome. The appointment oi
Mr.. Hay, it is claimed. will initiate against
Mr.. Hopkins chances, az he still claims his
residence in Pittsburg.
. Among the West Virginia people who
have been here this week we're Col "a.
Sehon, Of Point PleasaGt: Col. Philip Pen
dIetoI. West Virginia Com missioner 10 the
Eew Orleans Exposition: Samuel Lsughlin,
John NJ. Sweeney and wife, y. Z. Whitaker,
Capt. Hiram Aldridge, Hon. Benjamin
Fisher and Deacon 4 j. Stone.