Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-07-26
IOcAL,INDUsrRIAL NOTEa.


LOCAL>INDUSTRIAL NOTEa.
At Schmulbach'S brewery the addl-
ton to the plant is well under way.
Yesterday was payday at Block Bros.
tobacco works, and the La Belle mill.
The PAUL Glass Works at Wellsburg,
". Va, is being pushed as rapidly as
possible and is nearing completion.
The addition to the Riverside Tube
Works in BenwOod is finished and is
now being equipped with machinery.
Mr.. A. c. Grimmel, secretary Of the
Novelty Glass Co., Of FOStOria, was Wis
iting old friends in Bellaire last week.
Work on the addition to HOffmann's
tannery on the South Side is progress
ing nicely. The work is finished to the
second story.
The Standard started up Wednesday
Monday was the day decided upon, but
the breaking Of natural gas main
hindered the matter couple Of days.
The changes being made in the Ben
wood Iron Company's forge department
are progressing nicely, and it 1t expect
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about three weeks.
Cox & Morrison are building large
tubular boiler, 60 inches by 16 feet, for
the electric light plant at New Cum
berland. The firm has large line OF
orders and are very busy.
The LaBelle will resume work to-
morrow, after being idle nearly all OF
last week, on account Of an accident to
the engine. The pudding department
went on in full yesterday morning.
For the first few days Of the past
week the rolls in the Riverside Steel
plant, in BenwOOd, were worked with
skelp iron for six-inch pipe, but the ma
chinery was found TO be too light. On
Thursday they were changed back to
nail iron.
The Brilliant, o., Iron and Steel
Company has decided to build, In the
place OF its nail factory, an 1S-inch bar
mill, a 12-inch guide mill and one S-inch
ol,tdys -.trys i,Ova 'YytcrO ca VIVA Sac R09ePS
Company, Pittsburg.
J. II. Burt OF this city was selected
at the recent convention o. the Ameri-
can Flints, to represent that organiza-
ton at the next convention of the
American Federation OF Labor, to be
held IN Birmingham, Ala.
The Etna mill has not yet resumed
operations, nor has the date Of reSump-
tlOn been decided upon. Invoicing IS
not entirely completed and the various
repairs about the mill are still under
way. The consideration of the scale
has not yet been reached.
The fremen at the Wheeling Steel
plant, seven in number, became dissat-
isfed last Thursday and quit work
The company advertlses for men TO take
their places. The iremen claim that 1t
is impossible to do the work required
with the inferior quality of coal fur
niShed.
The Wheeling Lime and Cement Com
pany is pushing the extensive altera-
lions and Improvements at it's plant out
Caldwel'S Run, which will double its
present capacity. The formation for
the kilns has been completed. A COM
mOdiOus warehouse is one of the con-
templated Improvements.
The many friends Of Patric, Manion.
of the South Side, who was ca the COM
mittee Of arrangements for hs big la
Dor demonstration in Steub1nville will
regret 10 learn that be met W b a pain
fnl accident during the erect,yn OF the
grand stand. He was cut1ag away
some saplings with an AK, wi-tn he I'M
fortunately missed one st&ke and
struck his right foot almost Seyering
the middle toe. A physician Samputat-
ed 1t entirely.
Cox & Morrison are moving heir boil
err shops from their present l$cation at
the corner OF Eighteenth anG Market
streets, recently bought by thu Termi-
nal Co., to the corner OF Eighteenth and
Eoff streets, the Red Letter cas- prop
erty, where they will occupy tae build
ing formerly occupied by the Redman
Bros, and also the property adjoining
IL. The works, when completed, will
be the largest of the kind in this vicin-
ity.
At the Bellaire mill, every department
is idle except the blast furnace, which
ia in operation. The repairs TO the
steel plant will most likely be completed
by the last OF the week. 1t was ex-
pected that they would have been finish
ed before this. but various causes have
tended TO hinder the progress Of the
work. The nail market has been such
as to offer utlittle inducement to manu-
facture, and not nail has been made at
the plant during the past year.