Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-07-29
TRADE NOTES.

TRADE NOTES.
At Toledo, o., women Knights have
started a cooperative knitting mill.
At Denver, Col, skilled tailors make
$50 per week. There is a strike in one
shop.
A Wilmington, Dsl., firm is making
machinery and boilers for q paper mill In
Japan.
At Ottawa, Can, lumbermen have
struck for ST5 per week, an advance OF
81 a week.
Jobbing foundries and machine shops
are in the midst of the summer mill shut
down harvest.
A German manufacturer instead of riv-
ling the joints of boilers YIELDS them at
slightly greater cent.
Two hundred hands of q New York
hatters' fur cutting establishment are out
because wages average only 81 a day.
The total amount of money received for
the X. of L Educational Fund up to and
including Saturday, July IA, was $S,-
| 669 90.
The Wellington Ammonia and Chem
zeal Co, Georgetown, ID. c., n OF the
LARGEST manufacturing companies IN TINS
line. is o running to its fullest capacity.
There are 80 cooperative stores in New
England under the management OF the
Soyereigus of Industry. The yearly sales
amount to IS, 500, 600.
The Grant locomotive works, Of Pater-
son, n. j., have been compelled TO shut
down, being unable to compete with slml-
lar establishments elsewhere.
The Carpenters Brotherhood issued lou
charters in June. Twenty-Five lodges OF
the United Order having voted to join this
organization will give 465 local unions IN
good standing.
York, Pa, is said to have the greatest
rag carpet works in the United States.
Six hundred women and girls make carpet
rsys, and there are 100 weayers and spool
ers.
The frog, switch aud signal department
of the Pennsylvania steel works, at Steel,
ton. Pa, has q steady flow of orders, and
is compelled to run night and day to snip
ply the demand.
A cooperative broom factory has been
started OF Harrisburg, Oregon, by the
members of L. A. 5371. Shares are quoted
Mt s., and limited at present to 2oO shares,
while no person is permitted to hold more
than 20 shares of stock.
Every INDIGESTION makes it safe to say
that the forthcoming convention IN Detroit
will be the largest body Of delegates ever
assembled in the interest OF one special
craft. SO far over $50 delegates have been
reported as electsd-Carpenter.
Up to date the vote of the United Order
of Carpenters on the question Of consollda'
ltion with the Brotherhood shows 30 lodgeE
have voted, and of these p have voted In
favor of consolidation and 4 against, while
the popular vote of the members stands a.
9 to l in favor of consolidation.
James Campbell, John Phillips and
James Cleary, delegates from l.. A. 300,
Knights of Labor, window glsss workers
10 the biennial convention OF the UnlVer-
sal Federation of Window Glass Workers
10 be held at Charlsroi, Belgium, lett OF
= the 10Th inst. for that place. The eonyen
. ton will be called to order on the 3ls
inst.
The Department of Public Works o
{ Pittsburg hiss advertised for bids for 43,
J 600 feet, or q little over eight miles, o
water pipe. The pipe will vary in siz
from 4to ~ inches, and will be used TIL
! summer on new streets and replacing oil
D pipes.
: In Pittsburg the first six months OF lsS
/ show an increased volume of trade II
! chilled and sand rolls over all former sea
sons. The increase is fully 20 per cent
q over the corresponding period OF 1887
which was the best in the history OF tn
= industry up to that time. While the vol
4 ume of trade is unprecedented this seq
. son, profits were much larger in forme
years,
The safe industry of Pittsburg reaches
a its greatest activity during the past 81
months. Heavy orders for Pittsburg safe
from the mining regions Of Mexico within
I the past week or two are reported. Larg
a orders from the East are also reporte'
since the Dubois fire, in which . large 10
. of Pittsburg safes were thoroughly tested
Contracts have been signed for the re
a moyal of the Fayorite stove works Of Cin
~cinnati, O., to Piqus, o. The town o
4 Pioua has agreed to erect the necessar.
buildings for the new plant OF the compan.
ON eight acres of ground donated for tn
purpose, supply them with natural gas TO
ten wears and bear the expense OF $50 ca
loads of freight from the old works
Tnree hundred employees Of the LAX
Erie Iron Co, Cleveland, have quit work
owing to the establishment Of the month";.
nav system. The men were employed II
the nut and bolt department and but re
Gently received notice Of the monthly pa.
system. They were invited to sign 81
agreement to that effect, but refused an'
struck.
|, Trade in Milwaukee, Wis. The cigar
, makers reported business good, rs also d
1 the musicians. The carpenter trade j
yery slack, something unusual for this sea
l son of the year. The stove molders ar
I euioyiug their usual summer vacation ant
< many spend their time fishing, but tn
> bench moldsrs expect trouble on aceoun
= of scabs. The situation is unchanged Il
regard to the bakers and brewers,
Z Mr.. J. d. Thomas, representing th
Westinghouse Machine Co, Of Pittsburg
9 has departed for Rome, Italy. The ohjec
e of his visit there is to introduce the West
9 inghouse system Of electric lightning
Some time ago six dynsmos, manufacture
by tina: company, were sent to Rome AM
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