Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-08-09
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

In our issue of the Goth was an item re-
gardipg four large plate glass tables 20 feet
in length and 133 feet wide and weighing
forty.eight tons each, which were referred
TO as probably the largest tables Of the
kind ever contracted for. Messrs. A. J.
Sweeney & Son, Wheeling, W. Va, inform
us that they built for the Standard Plate
Glass Company. of Batter, Pa, two plate
glass casting tables 90 feet long and 123
feet wide. These tables weighed each
twenty-five tons, the rolls weighed each
seven tone, making total weight for one
table complete with roll of thirty-t@o tons.
They also built two casting tables for the
Howard Plate Glass Company, at Cochran's
Staten, Pa, 81 feet long and 12l feet
wide. These tables weighed each seven
aud halt tons, the rolls each thirty and a
half Ions, masking total weight for one
complete table OF thirty-ei9ht tons. The
width Of the table could be extended al
most indefinitely, as it is built in sections.
Age Of Steel.
Suit has been entered in the Belmont
county. Ohio, Probate Court by the Mar
tins Ferry Terminal Railway Company
against Joseph Bell and Joel Wood to con-
denim a piece of property which they own
10 that city The defendants have retaiu-
ed Hon. L DAnford and n. X. Kenuon,
while the coademning party will be rep
reese nted by Messrs. Cochran and Duncan,
Of Martins Ferry. The taking Of evidence
commences on Tuesday.
Hon. y. b. Scott, of the Central glass
works; Thornton Rodefer, Of the National,
NJ. N. Sheets, Of the Belmont, and J. M.
Warning. of the Bottle Works, Of BsllaiTe,
aud W. K E'sOn, of the Eison at Martins
Ferry, were in Pittsburg yesterday on
business. A meeting Of Tbs Manutactur-
ers' Association was held early IN the day,
and later the proposed changes in the
workers rules were discussed.
The meeting OF the stockholders OF the
West Virginia China Company adjourned
from Wednesday, again adjourned yester-
day without having completed the bust
mesa before them-the reorganization OF
the company and the selection Of new
manager. The adjournment is indefinite.
P, w. & Ky. r. X. Co. has IA force Of
stonemssOns st work extending the iona
than's Ravine bridge over the fill made
with the material taken from the tunnels.
The P@iky road bed is extended out saw
eral ysrds all along the upper river front
by the material taken from the tunnels.
The woIkmen employed on the Martins
Ferry Terminal Railway, which Is practi-
cally q part OF the Union Bridge work, nave
discontinued work, having completed all
that part of the grading which has been
laid out by the engineers.
Belz, Fading * Co. continue to be
pushed, both in shop and field. They have
completed ard turned over the folio wing
contract: Bishop Kane, three dwelling
houses, and dwelling for John Ebert In
North Wheeling.
The Bsllaire steel works are running
full; the factory is on in part. The fur
mace was dampeaed down on Tuesday on
account OF a shortage Of COKE caused By the
strike in the coke regions.
The Wheeling aud Lake Erie Railway
has been completed as far as Adena, in
Jefferson county, Ohio. An excursion
was carried up the road few miles this
week.
The Steubanville Gazette says that the
SpauldiDg Iron Company at Brilliant, O.,
has orders ahead to keep the mill running
on muck iron until January.
The s.abep OF the old Cottage House,
Martins Ferry, have been rented by the
Terminal railway contractors, who will lit
them up for warehouses.
The Joseph Bell Stove Go. is running
along nicely with good demand for their
/ wares.