Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-10-18
LOCAL INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The Standard mill has been running
fuIl ip all departments except No. 5.
The work Of excavating for the new
Riverside plate mill commenced last
week.
The decorating department Of the
La Belle pottery is working day ana
night.
The Wheeling steel plant, which has
been idle since Friday, will start up TO-
morrow morning.
The Bellaire steel works are in opera
zion The h'ast furnace is. 'haS 'h-while
been completed.
The natural gas has beeu scarce at
the Aetna mill, during the past week.
In the new department gas producers
will be erected for the furnaces.
The Elson, NorthwoOd, and Buckeye
factories, IN Martins Ferry, are all
busy. The first named is shipping 100
to eco barrels Of ware every day.
The plate mill Of the MingO Iron and
Steel Works is about TO go on three
shifts Of eight hours each, giving en-
ploynent to a number OF new men.
The La Belle is on full and so is the
Belmont. Nails are reported in much
better demand and both concerns are
turning them out to the limit Of their
capacity.
Yesterday was pay day at the United
States Glass Company, Wheeling aud
La Belle potteries, Wheeling steel plant,
B0ch Bros tobacco works, La Belle
mill and Crescent mill.
The new Top mill blast furnace,
which has been under construction for
the past two months, will be ready TO
start up in about two weeks. The new
furnace is one Of the largest in this
vicinity.
Thos Hassal plate mill heaterat the
Aetna, has been promoted 10 the posi-
ton Of night superintendent Of the
works. Geo. Owen, one of the Neid-
r.ughaus' locEed-out wOrkmen, takes
his place.
The clay department OF the Wheeling
pottery has been idle since last Wednes-
day morning. A cog was broken, and
had to be replaced with new machinery
from PittSburg. This department will
resume tomorrow.
Bloch Bros. will make extensive I'M
proyementS and additions TO their
plant next year. The present two-story
house will be made seven stories high,
and the additional room will be Supplied
with machinery for increasing the out
put Of the plast.
Everything is running smoothly az
the Aetna mill. The bar mill watch
was delayed In starring up on account
OF the inability 20 secure wOrkmen, Is
now running on double time. The |
new mill will probably be ready in |
about four weeks.
a small strike took place at the River |
side tube works on Wednesday night. !
ODe of The boys employed was discharg- |
ca by the foreman, and all Of the boys |
I'D that department, about twenty or /
twenty-five in number, quit work. They |
returned TO work, however, on Thurs |
day night.
The coal miners employed In the Ben
wood Iron COmpany'S bank started to
work Friday morning and have been /
hauling out coal since. This means /
mat the date for resumption OF work ia /
the pudding department is not far dis
@nt. This department. will probably /
START up this week after a long idle
hess.
-. ID. c. Ripley has entered suit against
yoe E.Son Glass Company, Of Martins
ferry,O., for the alleged infringement
OF certain patents which Mr.. Ripley
Claims TO own on fancy cOnfectioners'
Jars. The case has not come TO a hear
ing II will be tried in the United
states Circuit Court.
The Wheeling COrrugating Company
is running full time in all OF its depart
HentS. Work has begun on new
building at the upper end OF their pres
emu plant, which is to ba used for the
ceiling business. II will be 40x90 and
nave 2O-foot space between 1t and the
present building, which viii give them
! space Of 60xSO feet for their new ad-
dtiOn.
Ine Wheeling and LaBelle batteries
nave experienced considerable trouble
ana delay during the past week, on ac-
eOuat OF the annoying shortage Of nat
ufsl gas One kin has seen firing for
''sAt days. when the average length Of