Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-03-25
TRADE NOTES.

The employees Of six cigar factories Of
New York city, numbering 1,SOO persons,
are still out
The Eagle stove foundry, at Genesee,
Ill has started mp under new manage
ment after two years idleness.
The Gaudrcu Iron Wheel Co, Toledo,
have recently increased their capacity for
the production of their goods fully 100 per
cent A building has been erected and
$50 additional hands have been employed.
The employees OF the Scott foundry, at
Reading, Pa, have lately been granted
time and quarter time for night work,
which the firm had previously refused to
give.
The Pittsburg Steel Casting Works made
another n Wednesday, March 81, fully
as large IS that OF the big gun, and of the
sane material. The casting was q gearing
wheel for the Toronto, Ont water works
Last week the ship carpenters of Bath,
Me notified ship-builders that their wages
must be increased at once. The carpen-
ters say that builders have already adyer-
tiSed for men in other cities, and that the
provinces have been flooded with circulars
for carpenters at g 80 per day. Carpen-
tiers have demanded 81 70 and upward, &C.
cordipg 20 class.
A strike Of long standing of Weymouth,
Mass sboamskers has led to interesting
legal complication. The manufacturers
recently made al announcement of q boy
coting nature agaiUst certain ofthe strikers.
The result il that Thomas Williams began
-. ,,,;,st T,b, rarrrlI AVA Df{ha mann
facturers, for dSmsgesOn account Of Carroll
having, As be alleges, cansed his discharge
from Ias employment of SIe,sOn 4 Hearld.
it is understood that this Will be made a
ties: case, ard its progress will be watched
with e great deal OF interest by workmen
in all bsJrches Of employ ment.
Thirty German families have jast gone
faOm StJUeylils, Pa to the minesst Breck.
ton three miles from Birmingham, Ala ,
where employment has bsen secured for
the men Of the families, who have been on
strike at the Alice mines at S!oueville. II
is said that sixty other families will
emigrate from Stoneville to Brcckton.
The Warren Idaho Chinese miRing
camp is said h employ more Chinese than
any mine in the country. The white
miners abandoned these mines some time
sgn, vet some OF the Cinnamon go home
every year with from 81. 900 TO S., 900 to
live in else The remainder of their lives.
California almonds, walnuls and raisins
are meeti9g with great favor, and q New
York dealer thinks that in q few years they
will drive the imported article ont of the
market The production Of California
aisius amounted to 5000 boxes in 1873,
and that OF 1887 to $500, 900 boxes.
English ship builders have enough orders
az present 10 indicate the best season for
many wears. Clyde baildsIs have orders
for 10 vessels, representing zoo, 04l tons.
The iron plate-miIls are getting a share OF
this boom, as the stsel-plaie works cannot
supply the demand.
Pitssburg AID Eastern capitalists will
erect a 81, zoo, 600 steel plant at Penn
Station, nesr PittSburg. The company
will also erect water works, st q cost OF
$500, coo, 20 supply the works and the
dwellings of The employees ofthe firm which
the projectors intend 10 build.
Oae cf cur big hcsiery-mills is expert
mentirg IN the use OF cops instead Of bob
bins with success. The cops hold material
for Que and a hslf stockings, and the bob
bin for one half e stocking. The cops will
also deprive bobbiE-winders of their oe-
.Cupa.ioa.
o. oae operation a BufTA1o, N. Y con-
tractor saved 500 ~hysendiug to New York
for the stone. Buffalo people complain
that Trust has been formed by employing
s~tonecutters who only pay So 80 a daV to
their men, while "a is paid in New York
city.
G-rmaoy's output of cOsl during the last
quarter OF 1897 showed q large increase
over the corresponding time of 1885, and
the coke production was % per cent larger
in 1881 than in 1885. The coke people
cannot supply the demand at present.
The Alaska Fishsrmen'S Association ha:
decided that wages the coming season d .
be as follows: Fifty dollars per month
psr man from San Francisco to the fishing
grounds and return; 10 cents per fish foI
king salmon. and cent for small fish.
TIE fremen of Cleveland, o., have beer
informed that Cleveland being a city OF tht
second grade (drst-clsSs), they are there
fore entitled to four days holiday every
mouth. Heretofore they have only had
three days 10 the month.
The glass works that have been removed
from S~tsubeaYille. o, to Kokomo, Ind.
will be in operation in about two months
Kokom0 donated q site and 81 100 for The
operation, which has u capital Of $1,000
and will employ sixty persons.
+. II. Foster, Of the Trenton, N J.,
Lock and Hardware Company, has offered
TO locate at Chattanooga, Tenn, " tina
town will give him asite ard take S0O,OO
worth of bonds 10 two years, which b
guarantees will pay 9 per cent.
The Brickmakers' and Architecture
Child CT Toronto, Can, has decided thai
brick shall besIightly smaller, or SlxAsx2s
and that contracts shall be for so per cen
of hard brick and 20 per cent OF fail
medium.
An effort recently made a. Indianapolis
Ind. 20 firm an "ice pool' fell through
because two OF the ice firms refused to join
and threatened to supply the town atloweI
nTices than the pool if il should be formed
The AIleZhany County Pa Wholesale
and Retail Ice Daalers' Association me-
lat week and fixed this years prices a
ahout the same rates - those Of last year
Sven t~en-ooand deliveries will cost st
cents.
St Louis brick concern viii put up {
$4,000 plant. At Findley, ., TIN
vsar's output Of the company has been C
t;mated at 25, OCO,O 900 press bricks, 5000,
GOO ornamental bricks and 30, 600, 600 com
mon bricks. r-u. q.
ooke men found il hard to supply the dc
mand at 81. To-day at 81 so there Is oniI
a sIiObt call. The shipment IN February
was Ri 500 cars-T,0O0 ears less than II
December. h.s -
e,sad TO recognize Socialist d~elegssss- Tn
nnion and the Knights Of Labor hay'
agreed 70 take no applicant Who may %
5slinouent in the other association.
Tbs Audalusia Iron and Steel ComPan
- bssn ~orgaDizsd in England, with
nsn;tsl of 81. 200, 900, for the purpose Q
S~syeloping iron and coal miaeS IN span
s0d manufacturing iron and steel
Raw City, Mich, never bad . eesss
.h;r-SuildiDg s,ason. Orders for aIseel