The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-04

under the present capable management.
Captain c. j. Rawling is president, j..
@, Brady secretary and general man
arer, George Ford assistant manager,
George Simpson superintendent and
Thomas W. Cameron assistant superin-
tendent. All these gentlemen
are practical and experienced men,
and In their hands the factory has
made an enyiable record. 1t runs every
day in the year, and has q capacity to
give employment to 200 hands, paying
out 81 900 to 81, 200 week in wages. 1t
manufactures a varied limo OF goods,
from hinges OF all descriptions to fire
shoyels or garden rakes, and there is
not a day that it does not make ship
ments by the car load to points as
widely separated as California and
Maine.
WHEELING GLASS.
Almost as old as the iron industry in
the community is the manufacture Of
glass. The factories here were among
ISi5IEee4= glass 7V75st o. thu
Alleghenies, and they have maintained
their reputation and their market from
that day to this. The city now has
three glass factories, the Hobbs, Central
and the North Wheeling bottle works.
The Hobbs works havelor many years
been among the leading concerns in the
Ohio Valley. They are now operated
by the Hobbs Glass Company, OF
which ]. ii. Hobbs is President
and II. E. Waddell secretary. This
factory turns out as fine flint and lead
glass tableware, lamps and shades, in
crystal and colors, us is made in the
country, and makes also q patented
glass chandelier which is novel and
beautiful thing. The factory has q
well earned reputation for the high
nudity oil its colored, etched and other
artistic wares, and products OF the fac
tory have been sold in this country as
from some of tho most famed European
manufactures.
The product Of the Central Glass
Works also compares fayorably with
that of any house in this line in this or
the old country. 1t makes n specially
of bar goods, and some OF the most adj
mired patterns Of these goods were
originated and remade exclusively here.
Cut glass has recently been added to the
output OF the factory, and its work in
this line sells beside the imported glass,
lften bringing the retailer the same
price on q much smaller investment.
The company has full line OF lamps
and shades, and its patterns oftableware
are all OF high grade and real works OF
art. Hon, \. i. Scott is its President,
A. F. Meder, Secretary, and w. q. T..
Goeringi Treasurer.
THE PorTERIEs.
Had anybody predicted a few years
ago that the pottery industry would in
1891 be one of Wheeling's leading de-
pendences, he would have been laughed
ut, vet that is the fact to-day. The city
hasthree, or rather four, potteries com.
pairing in size, quality OF ware turned
out and.business prosperity with any in
the land. The West Virginia China
Company, operating one OF the largest
concerns in the country, situated on
North Main street. recently re-organized
as the Ohio Valley China Company, and
not yet resumed operations, but will ina
few weeks. The Warwick China Com.
pany makes speciality Of decorated
ware, and its large output finds a ready
market the year round.
The Wheeling Pottery Company was
the pioneer in the business in the city,
and TO its organizers is to be ascrlbed
the growth Of the business here 1t
now operates two potteries Of thelargest
class, the Wheeling pottery and the
LaBelle, the latter one OF the most COM
plete, extensive and modern anywhere.
The ware turned out by the company
is among the finest OF American manu-,
factpre, both plain and decorated, and
ID Significant fact that often when
feries of the country in general
aTe claiming OF the dizziness OF bus'-
ness the tFefsrtories OF this company
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