Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-05-27

The padding department in the Boon
tod iron works, n. ] has started mp, and
the rolls will be ready in week or two.
The stove foundries Of st. Louis have
been relatively more active this spring
than those devoted TO either machine or
architectural iron work.
The Delaware and Hudson Canal Com
pany is preparing to erect extensive ma
chine shops in Scranton, where all of their
mining machinery will be manufactured.
Machinists' Union No. 2 of New York,
has taken practical steps to take care of its
members. 1t will furnish
them with meals, and when necessary will
advance sums up TO $40.
The Bethlehem Iron Company last week
made the largest single casting ever at
tempted in America, being the base for the
large steel compressor to be used in the
new gun steel works. There were 124 tons
Of metal poured into the mold.
At Milwaukee, Wis, the union bakers
have begun an agitation for shorter hours,
according to adviees received at national
headquarters in this city. At Wichita,
Kan, the demands of the bakers have jus;
been granted.
The Kansas City Commercial says: All
the leading foundries in the city are run
ming full time, and some Of them lind ii
to run into the night in order to
keep pace with their orders. Never before
in the history of Kansas City has there
been 80 great a demand for castings for
both buildings and cable lines. The latter
demand is large, and the forces Of men en-
ployed in satisfying it is being constantly
increased.
The wire rope company of Williamsport
is inst finishing an order for cable which
il probably the largest ever made in
The core of the wire starts
with rope of hemp three-eights ofan inch
in diameter, and around it have been
wound strands of 6 wires each, making
foundation of AZ wires Around this have
been wound strands Of 10 wires each,
the entire cable being composed of 156
wires. 1t is 1t inches in diameter, inches
in circumference, !, $50 feet long, weighes
l6, 600 pounds and is tested at 100 tons.
The cable will be used by q large steam
snip AAA4C VI @NC" AOAA W Wv anu
boats from one level TO another in some
canal.
There are 100 miles of electric railroads
in operation in the United States, and $50
more have been contracted for. The great
eat area Of miles is in Pennsylvania.
The Olympia wv. t. lumber output
this season will reach 100, 900, 900 feet,
worth 81, las, 900. The camps employ $50
men, 700 oxen and mules, and locoIlo-
tiyes.
About fifteen miles from FL Paso, Tex,
there is q Mexican colony oil about 1,5OO
families who are slaves 10 three or four
families among their number.
English engineers have begun to copy
American designs. They have just intro
dueed the pin'connected type in large spans
on big bridges.
A Skowhegan Me. company has intro
duced new way of lasting The soles are
with cement instead OF tscks or
pegs.
The clerks of Wilmington, N. c., are
trying to get their employers to give them
= hall holiday on Fridays from Jane to
September 10.
The trainers of the Union Of New York
city last week voted to expsl twenty man,
bers who had testified against the Union
in q lawsuit.
The creel boys at q Thompsonville
Conn. factory struck for 65 cents, an ad-
vance of 10 cents, but returned to work in
3 day or so.
A trade school for tsilors has been start
cd ut Baltimore. This is the second es-
of the sort in the United
States.
A branch of the Alabama Association of
Iron and Steel Workers hp! been formed at
Gate City with seventy members.
Some Fall River Mes BARRIERS have
agreed to close at Z o'clock on Monday and
evenings.
Coal dealers are being driven out of bust
ness already by the introduction of nat ural
gas in Indianapolis.
The yarn ex oortation from Bombay, Iu-
iia, to Cainl aud Japln am ouuts to co.
OO0, eco pounds per year.
The csr-wheel plant at Birmingham, near
Kansas City, Mo, has capacity of 125 car
wheels day.
New Haven, Conn, stonscuttsrs struck
10 have an obnoxious man discharged, and
they succeeded.
Fort Worth, Tex, people have held q
meeting to protest against the prices fixed
BY the Ice Trust.
A Contocook, Me, man has invented
that makes twenty paper boxes
minute.
About 2, 900 scandinavian families have
settled in Csuads during the last two
years.
A Norridgswock, Ne, granite company
g shipping $50 tons day on one contract.
Bricklayers' laborers get 50. rs day in
Brooklyn, and 81 so in New York city.
A BOrtree, Mich, corse. factory has Just
received an order from Sitka, Alaska.
The Detroit unions are pushing an inyes-
.igation of child labor in that town.
A st. Louis firm has turned ont 6, sos
carriages and buggies since last May.
Asst. Louis company has made 200. 900
pairs of shoes since January 1.
The capacity of the Laramie ivy. IT,
glass works will he doubled.
All the Kansas City mo foundries are
crowded with orders.
The st. Louis printers have formed
association.
A 300 ton smslter has been ordered by
Butte Mont. firm.
The ten wooden mills of Stafford, Conn,
ire busy.
NOTES FROM BRILLIANT.