The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-01-23
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
q Keep sba IIWIsIatcbpen, 10
Be- Made Mad. [ At Z Bridgeport.
CONTRACTS LETF0R l IHPLANT IT.
i-tk III - Ns1sst - tsA ~ ~ I
What the Mills, Factories and Work.
Shops are Dolng-Tbe Central
y iand Hobbs Glass Fac. II
ii4'isS9 tSs tories to start. VI X 4

v Bridgeport Is To have another large
manufacturing establishment for making
watchman's electric clocks and line Of
novelties. It's a sure 20. ! Tbs contract
for the large plant has been let, the lum.
Der ordered, and the work Of construc.
ton will be commenced next Monday.
Tho company which Is 10 erect the plant
is the Newman Manufacturing com pany,
and 1t is composed Of Wheeling, Bridge.
port and Eastern capitalists. The prin.
cipal stockholders arc said, tori eIAIessrs.
W.T.' Graham aud q. JiHollowaySi both
OF Bridgeport. < The former 70 President
OF the Standard Iron company, and the
latter Is Cashier Of the First National
bank OF Bridgeport, besides being largely
interested In the Bridgeport Glass works
aud other enterprises, y and both are
shrewd business men who are not in the
habit Of making Investments unless they
see their way clear. !! y ~ ~ .lt3lts
NJ The matter has been kept rather quiet
aud oil sorts Of rumos have been In
circulation as TO what would bU manu-.
featured at the; plant. 81 It lis generally
supposed that the enterprise Is to be a
watch and clock factory, and u Sunday
paper even published an item to this
effect, Y. 81 y X iFcf-
The ground was purchased. recently
and the company thls enough room on
which to.erect one Of the biggest manu-.
featuring establishments Sina the Ohio
Valley, II Is, situated Just, below the
lEtna mill; between the. Cleveland &
Pittsburgh and Cleveland, = LoralnS &
Wheeling railroads, and lis certainly q
livery desirable site for manufacturing
The ground, or q part ! oil lit, has been
owned by W.T.. j u rahami and William
Koehnline and was originally intended
rithG building Oh, tho Standard Iron
Works, but for some reason the Standard
purchased the Gslte .Un ,whichR Ut nov
81 The new plant was started 2ofa last
Monday,an old building on the grounG
torn down yesterday and sthei lumber
which is Ia, be furnished by, Scott, & Nc
Graw, of Bridgeport, Is already arriving
The main building will be two stories ii
heightwith an attic, ard will measure
S2xS4 feet with large lshed around it
or on one side! which WILDE occupied
BY the. boiler. and engine and. as a dr.,
house. THE; building will veeighty
Six; largo windows and will BIO substan.
TALLY built and covered and sided witt
corrugated iron, to be made at the Stand
ard Iron Works! The contractor is Mr.
james. Grossly, Of Martins Ferry,Iwhc
hls had much experience in building
manufacturing plants. 81; ,ss 81
The watchman's clock to be-. manu-
iactured is the patent OF. Mr.. Newman
OF Brooklyn, which: city Messrs. Graham
and Holloway recentlylvisited and there
examined the new clock carefully and
saw tests made. These clocks are in.
tended to be used in large manufactures
and other buildings and are becoming
very popular. q 1t is utterly impossible
for a watchman TO soldier" in a build.
ing where one is used. 3 1t is'not known
what novelties the company Intend
making. - What information is here
giveniwas learned with difficulty and no
more details could be had last Fnight.
1t is reasonablest to suppose that hun.
dred or morethands will be employed. 4
Mr.. Graham, one! Of thef chief pro.
ljectors, uwho was fseen, said that; they
are not going into the thing extensively
until they have experimental, but the
erection Of such a large plant looks as
though they mean business! A diver.
sity OF manufacturing is what this: sec.
ton wants and this is something en-.
tirely different for any other cl,lss Of
manufacturing hereabouts. s.