Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-11-24
NDUSTRIAL ITEMS.
wvp AND wHATTHg HARygSTS
n 1T ARE
r With Hands and Brain and Their
Facts and Happenings in Nils
az, Fs,1rss in the CITY, Ssis
and Country.

Manning, chief engineer Of main
NAV Of Jne PitsbuIg division OF
,.,no,s and Ohio railroad, is about
bis new block signal for the pur-
Df-t~.kinr practical test oft On the
F, The inventor claims there Is not
,5.ss, doubt Of its success. 1t IS 70
IA the Manning automatic pneu-
ctric block, ana a patent viii
-i be issued for it within the next
The block signals chief ad-
sover the present 'semaphOre, or
n blocks, lies in the fact that il
bsck TO safety by gravity. The sig
ro-ksd with air by IA operator by
--fa lever When the white block
s,wp the operator must maintain ms
~, Fine air lever OF the red signal will
=, 7,wn. When the operator wishes 70
train to pass, he presses down
ina lever. The red signal IS
-rs7 M out of sight, and the
E.s one DISPLAYED While IN this
-,ron an electric alarm is constantly
-q The slarm keeps Up conun-
---s BIO until the lever is released aai
s.-5 signal drops back into position.
--,tsr feature about the block is that II
worked by the foot levers under
r...rs This enables telegraph opera
-r1S them with their feet While
t.,ss ending or receiving mess9gss.
rcz will also rave an electric
- sttached CT It. When a white
s a displayed a bell rings In ire
ana number appears. This Will
81. rhicb b,cck IS up. The precauuon
s-ze1 in cases where trains going in op-
directions meet az the station. To
.-.s greater precautions two levers VIII
..~yd.6. O1e viii be for one track
,-5 .beo.her for he opposite track. The
,.,rsvsrs vii prevent operators from be-
.rc excited, and giving the wrong
r-- tc -he wrong train. A number OF
..--s1 officials have inspected the signal,
.-av itisa great improvement over
.s--sn t blocks or semaphores.
miners Of the five States Of Psnnsyl-
--s Vest Virginia. OliO, Indiana and
--5.s. ATTACHED TO al unions and no
--r-s. are called 90 attend a meeting 20
f. rad in Columbus, December 10, 70
a-usts a scale that viii be difie-ential'y
a-ab.e TO all the competitive districts
he States mentioned. There is pyOb-
,sH-y that the meeting Of the miners at
r.t.l 30 the National Progressive Union,
.r.d 20 meet IN Indianapolis a few dsys
IL sitanCa of the Columbus Convention,
nv formulate a scale that will be accept
sic .o the latter.
ID the glass trade, the table branch re-
ANS quiet; the chimney branch which
r sirly humming few weeks ago Is
,e undertaking and the warehouses are
rki-g up; the prescription branch If
s-7 active; mold making and cutting
BE ped, in fact very brisk, engraving is
SIR quiet.
8rthenwsre and glass goods generally
current wants do not sppear to be 70
r.s demands, ard some lines fall below
he average for this period. There Ii
Vue exhibition Of interest for holiday
goods though the best part Of that trade Is
JET to come.
ia this part Of the Ohio Valley som,
charges. SAYS a Wheeling correspondent oil
the NeW York Cr0ckgy and Glass Journal
ere likely 20 occur by the first Of the yea
which viii be surprising to the trade,
-tough the changes Will not be violent al
an.
The Arrangements Tor the unwilling Of
the Armstrong monument IN Allegheny
Park on Thanksgiving Day are now com
D'eted. The present indications are tina
TIE memorial parade viii be a grand trib
me- in tolor Of the departed labor leader
Beltz, Fading & Co. have taken a con
tract for a two-story dwelling hOuse fol
Chas y Van Keuren It will be erected
on the Island. Work continues plentiful
although the season is drawing to a close
Sam F. Luty, a Pitlsburg Times labor re-
porter. has been selected TO fill the Cthce o.
Assistant Secretary of the American TnOeC
Plate Association, a position made vacant
bv the appointment OF John Jarrett TO %
Consul at Birmingham, England.
The New York Mining and CONSTRUCTION
Company, recently incorporated, conten
plates constructing a railroad from Siaun
ton, Va, 70 the North Mountain anthTa
cite coal fields, and thence 20 Charleston
W. Va.
The Weston, ". Va, Electric Light
Power and Water Company has been n
corporated. with a capital stock Of $780,,
BOO. Al electric light plant will be
erected and water works may also be put
in.
Wilson & Dunlevy still have 3 good con-
tuusncs Of Job work. They have recently
taken the contract for furnishing the new
Turner Hall on Jacob street, between For
ty-irst and Forty second.
The Supreme Court Of West Virginia has
decided that the T0.sr laws, designed to
abolish the pluck me stores and 60 protect
miners and steel workers, are class laws
and unconstitutional.
The Indications for a continuance
through 1890 of the splendid condition Of
the iron and steel trade, with q possible
advance 10 prices over those now ruling IS
very dattering
Architect j. b Hall is preparing draw
lngs and specifications for Is large double
frame dwelling house for Mr. 4. Wolf 10
be erected Ca the northern part of the
Island
The River View social. Of the South
Side, composed Of glass workers, viii civ.
los irst masquerade bal. or Christmas Eve
December 81, 1s99, at Wsstwood's Hall.
Fiudlay has thirteen glass works in op
GRAFTON. Tbs latest factory is expected I,
start there in three weeks, and will max,
chimneys, shades, and iron mold ware
Copper has been discovered on lands a
b. p. S5umate and T. Meador, in Blue
stone district, Summers county, and Will
probably be developed.
In glass circles here the lamp trade has
fallen OF some, bat there is a noticeable
beginning Of trade for specialties for the
earlier holiday trade.
The Belmont mill is running smoothly
and quietly. The blast furnace sud muck
mill are on full and the nail factory is