Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-12-02
TRADE NOTES.

Preparations are being made at Aiuey-
vile, Pa, to blow IN stack No. . of the
Lshigh I on Works. No. 1 was put in
tlast recently.
Toe Clymer Iron Company's large far
mace at Temple, near Reading, Pa, which
has heea out of blast some month";, has re-
sumed.
James Mann, the axe manufacturer, at
Lswistown, Pa, has given his employees
notice of 10 per cent. advance of wsg %,
to take effect en- December l.
In the Canadian Pacific shops at Mon
teal, of Thirty locomotives of the standard
Mogul type ordered, twenty have already
been bnilt ard put in service.
The tank furnaces bsing placed in the
new window glass factory at Grspeville
will shortly be completed. The Grepeville
factory will require 14S glass blowers.
A PittsbuTg company grinds blast fur
race Stag into natural cement and makes
tiEt-clsss cellsr and factory floors, side
walks, pathwalks, ETC., of the product.
Twelve hundred furnace employees, ope-
rating fourteen furnaces in the Shenang)
valley, received an advance of 10 and 10
ce1ts day in their wages. The increase
was voluntary on the part of the manufac-
tuIeIs
The Milwaukee bridge and iron works
have received the contract to build $685.
900 bridge across the Saginaw river at Bay
City, Mich. The bridge will have four
spans Of $50 feet each, and draw Of 240
feet.
No. fu,nscs, cf tbs Crane iron workP,
near Castssauqus, Pa, was lighted recent
ly, after an iclsnees of several months,
during which time it has und rgone thor.
ough repairs. This puts the sntire plant
CT the Crane Iron Comp my in operation.
This bursting of trough at Whitney's
glass works, South Camden, n. j., re-,
leased forty tons of molten glass There
were 100 men employed in the building,
al Of whom escaped without injury. The
loss on the building amounted to about
50. 0CO.
TIE car works at Michigan City, Ind,
in addition to the immense " ookwork shop
they have Just completed, will soon erect
wide. It will be built of brick, and will
accommodate forty f0rgss, trip hammers
and presses.
The car wheel factory projected ncar
Hammond, Ind, ia now il course CT con-
struction. The principal owner is G. A
Treat, of the G. A. Treat Manufacturing
Company, Hannibal, Mo. The capacity
o. the foundry will be from 200 to 25O
wheels daily.
At Ford City, Pistsburg district, one
glass furnace is under srcce &fal operation,
and another will be ready in aho1t a
mouth. Tho works when completed will
consist of six furnaces, and nearly 1000
people will bs required to operate them.
Five hundred hands are now employed.
The p:o1uct is plate glass.
Mr.. George W. McKine, Of Martins
Ferry, O., has Just completed his latest
self.fee3iug attachment for cut nail ma.
chimes He has plsced it upon nsw 1Od
machine from tie Ashtlbuls Nail Machine
Company, and the two machines, already
ground and in condition for mixing fist
class cut nails, will be shipped at once to
Leeds, Eagland.
The subscribers TO the 100000 prize
offertd for q plan by which the water
power Cf Niagara Falls can be used have
formed jOiut stock company with cap:
tai Of 1925. 900, under the name Of the Nj
agara Falls Impro enent Company, OF
Buffalo, limited. The pyizs is II be given
20 the successful competitor in consldera-
tom of his transferring his entire interest
to the company.