Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-09-13
Local Industrial Notes.

The North Wheeling glass works
started up last week.
The Laughlin mill in Martins Ferry
is making a good run.
The La Belle and Belmont factories
are running to their full capacity.
The Crystal glass factory in Kirk.
wood, will start up in full tomorrow
The Wheeling and La Belle factories
are in steady and satisfactory operation
4 .,onViiIe.
' VIM. Lloyd, guide roller st the Etna,
has been laid up with typhoid fever FOR
several weeks.
VIII Miller Sprained his arm at Bloch
Bros. factory Friday, and was compell-
ed TO quit work.
Engineer Aug Friedrich, who fell into
ihe fly wheel pit last Wednesday, is
getting along nicely.
Bloch Bros arc running steadily, with
q full force OF hands, and are compelled
% work overtime occasionally to fill or
CerS.
John HolbrOOk, shade maker from
Martins Ferry, o., is at work in the
hayenSwood Art Glass Works in Brook
lyu.
AT the Benwood mill the extensive
Improvements being made are progress
ing nicely, and the puddlerS will resume
work in a short time.
Yesterday was pay day at the River
side iron works, La Belle iron works
Standard axle works, Hobbs glass fac
tory, and BOggS Run Mining Company.
Mills Nos. 6 and : at the Whitaker
Iron Works have closed down for re-
pairs, and mills Nos. 70 : have entered
upon a steady run, after their late over
hauling.
The Brooks glass factory, Wellsburg,
has fire in its furnace, and everything
'1 shape TO start in week or ten days.
This is o cooperative factory, and will
no doubt be successful
The Northwood glass factory in Mar
tins Ferry is in operation and the Buck
eye and E.SOn are making preparations
20 start up. The former will probably
resume tomorrow morning.
Everything is moving along nicely at
The plant OF the Wheeling Lime and Ce-
meut Company, out CaldwelrS Run.
With a great many orders booked, the
outlook for a steady run is bright.
The Bellaire steel works has settled
down 20 q steady pace and has before IL
tle promise Of long and satisfactory
run. The blast furnace is still under
going repairs and affairs in the nail de-
l1rtment are unchanged.
Rev. c. B. Henthorne, Of the Bridge
port NJ. E. church, preached an interest
Ing sermon 10 4 large audience in the
.E.na mill. last Sunday afternoon. He
was listened to with close attention, and
the best Of order prevailed.
Sweeney's foundry closed down last
Wednesday night for the balance Of the
week, TO give the employees an opportu-
uity TO take in the Fair. This plant has
been in continuous operation for a long
time. 1t will start up again TO morrow.
The new bell-weld department at the
Riverside Tube Works will start on
double turn this week. The steel !
plant, blast furnaces, and forge depart
ment are all in operation. The nail !
factory, however, remains idle.
L. B. Martin, President OF the Eos !
toria Glass Company, was in Mounds !
vile last week, inspecting the work |
done On the new plant. Additional |
hands were put on; and the contractors |
were instructed TO push the work TO /
completion ss rapidly as possible.
Twenty-one boiling furnaces out Of
t1rty-nine at the Etna mill are in /
operation. Ten furnaces have not yet /
made a start. Two Of the idle furnaces
Will probably b torn down on account OF
Tue new mill. Cne scrap furnace is idle,
ana The other rlaning with coal as fuel,
'ae gas having been taken out on &C
count Of the increased price.