Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-09-27
LOCAL INpUsTRIAL NoYEs.

The Wheeling corrugating plant is on
in full.
The sheet department of the Top mi
will resume on Monday.
The Standard Axle Works is now in
steady and satisfactory operation.
The Belmont blast furnace and nail
factory are in operation, but the muck
department is idle.
The blast furnace is the only portion
Of the Benwood Iron Company's plant,
which is in operation.
Sweeney & Sons foundry Is running
fall On repair work principally.
All departments are on at the Whita-
ker plant except mills Nos. and 4,
which have not yet been fully repaired.
The National glass factory, in Bel
laire, will resume work in q week or
ten days. Workmen began pot setting
on Friday.
The Standard mill started up full in
all departments except mill No. 4, on
Thursday morning. No. will 90 on
tomorrow or Tuesday.
The foundation has been finished for
the main building Of the Fostoria Glass
Company's plant at Moundsville, and
work has been commenced upon the SUI
perstructure.
The Eagle glass works at Lazearville,
Wednesday, closed contract for new
| ten pot furnace, to be built in addition
to their present furnaces. Work is to
begin at once.
The La Belle mill is running full In
all departments. This company Is I'M
able to fill all its orders for nails, and is
frequently compelled to refuse to I'LL
orders in consequence.
Joseph Beck, the pot-maker, who has
been working for the National Glass
Works, left last night for Central City,
w. Va, where he has secured q posi-
tion in the new glass house.
Last Wednesday the pots were set In
the second furnace at the Hobbs glass
factory, and it will start upon Monday
of next week. This will be the first
time in q long while that two furnaces
are in operation at this plant.
The trouble at the Standard mill In
Bridgeport has been settled by grant
ing the roughers twenty-five cents per
day for running the screw. The diff
Guilty was adjusted by the Executive
Committee OF the Amalgamatlon.
Yesterday was payday at the River
side Iron Works, Hobbs and the Gen.
trail glass factories, Bloch Bros. Tobacco
Works, Boggs' Run Mining Company,
and the Standard Axle Works. The B.
& o. pay-car also passed through the
city last week.
The new skelp mill of the Benwood
iron works is about completed, and
everything will be in shape for starting
ND in about week. The work on the
rolls was completed last Friday. 1t is
expected that the puddlers will go on
on Mond ay of next week.
The Crystal Glass Company, OF Bridge
port, O., have discharged five OF their
six mold makers. 1t is asserted that
this factory has refused to pay as much
for SIS hours work per week as they did
for So hours. This Is violation OF the
agreement reached by the recent con-
ference of the flint glass manufacturers
and the A. f. G. W. U.
The mold shop in connection with the
Central will now make the molds Tor tne
United States Glass Company for the fac
tories controlled by that company here
One more mold maker will be required
than formerly, while Hobbs the num-
her of mold makers has been reduced
to seven, ie~"in0 Int t"'c
wiz york; vooeding briskly on the
new addition to the Etna mill which Is
to hold the breakdown and bar mills.
1t is expected to be In working order In
feur or five weeks. The place occupied
by these mills now will be filed by sheet
mills; that where the bar mill stands Is
to be fre-bed mill. All departments
of the mill are working steadily.
The plant of the Brooke Glass Com
pany at Wellsburg was completed last
week and fire put in the furnace, and
the company hopes to be In operation
by October 1. The factory Is 100x1S0
feet, two stories high in part, and well
equipped. The stockholders are all
practical men and will be employed
about the concern. 1t will make all
kinds of pressed table and bar goods,
and some blown ware.
The workmen employed in the finish
ing department of the Etna mill have
organized q new lodge, Sherman No. 6,
A. A. of l. and S. W., which was insti-
tuted by Assistant President M. NJ. Gar
land. They were nearly all members OF
Advance Lodge No. 20, but that lodge
having grown so much, 1t was consid-
cred best to divide. The officers-elect
are: President, Frederick Krekel, ST.;
Vice President, John d. Davis; Secre-
tary, Geo. S. Baird; Financial Secretary,
David A. Morgan; Treasurer, Thos. j.
Johns; Guide, Howell Jones; Inside
Guard, Reese Watkins; Outside Guard,
Richard Richards.
The columbian" dinner set OF the
Wheeling Pottery Company has scored
a merited triumph during the few
weeks it has been in the field for recog-
milton, and it is being complimented by
the trade and by artists and admirers
of the beautiful everywhere, whose at
tention it has attracted. The decora-
tions are chaste, dainty and artistic,
the modelling clean and classic, and the
grace of curve and flowing outlines
make the columbian" unlike all other
ceramia products Of our country. ut
rivals Sevres, and is the peer OF Havi-
land" as one enthusiast expressed 1t,
and it is only natural that the new set
should wrest recognition from the
trade, and bring in ample orders.-Pot-
tern and Glassware Reporter.
BRIDGEPORT.