Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-03-13
LOCAL INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The Etna Iron and Steel company
started up their last sheet mill on Mon
day. This makes six sheet mills In ac-
tive operation. The Htna now makes
about 90 tons OF light and heavy sheets
and Q5 tons of bar iron, OF l6J tons OF
total output per day Of twenty-fouT
hours. The range Of output is very
considerable the bulk OF il being, 10
sheets from inch gauge mp 20 No. 30,
round bars from three-SiXteenth inch
thick up 20 four inches, and iu. fiat bars
from three-eiClth 20 seven inches.
They also make a large variety OF
shapes and odd sizes This is the arg
est capacity the Aetna has ever bad.
Everything ABOUT the entire plant is
either new or Of tried and approved
pattern. Every department is 10" ON
I'm full.
The Findlay, o., correspondent of the
SUNDAY REGISTER sends the following
gossip about the colony OF Wheeling
glassworkers iu that city: Tom Owens
is developing into quite a vocalist.
Camille Ney and John HaSenauer have
at last struck "a good boarding house,
aud are growing fat. They beat the
record for changing boarding houses.
Gee. Dave ReiSter strOlls out the Swing
addition every Sunday evening and
there's % suspicion that there's a woman
in the case. IAN the factories are run
ming well. The Da,ze, factory may re-
turn 20 their old plant at Midway, w.
Va.
Adolph BOniQue the new manager at
the Crystal Glass works at kirkw0od,
Ohio. last week introduced change in
the style OF work which has proved "a
success. He put an the shops on day
turn doing away with night work. Mr..
BoniQue is one % the most successful
glass chemists iu the country and will
shortly introduce some tue coIorS az the
Crystal While he was managing the
Standard glass works az Nei.>burg be
made copper rudy dome shades very
successfully. They are turning ont q
large quantity OF ware and the men are
ali making good time 40 present
Owing 90 a disagreement between the
machinists employed 40 the Riverside
steel plant and their foreman, the torm-
erquit work last Monday Their places
were filed with wor6mea from Pitts
burg and BraddOck, Pa, and the repairs
70 the equipment of Jle plant continued.
II is expected that matters will be in
shape TO start APP next Wednesday or
Thursday.
The Belajre ClaSSwor6ers who have
been working in fruit jar factory at
Bowling Green, o., are az home, the
factory having shut down on account
Of disagreement about prices win the
jobbers VINO handle the output Of the
factory
The foundations FOR the addition 60
the plant of the Wheeling Corrug0ting
Company have been finished and work
on the superstruCure will begin In "a
few days and De hurried forward
The LaBeGe made a heavy shipment
OF nails by river last week. The same
steamer took a model barge OF merchant
iron and cotton ties from the Etua and
Standard ia Bridgeport.
The Wheeling steel plant comes 90
the front with run that Is 81 record
breaker. The second turn, during the
week ending March 8, turned out l,2S5
tons Of steel.
Fred. stewart, the popular mould
maker at the lantern globe works, Bel
lajre. has invented lantern that viii
hold any kind of globe that can be-
made.
After long idleneSs, the pudding de-
partment OF the LaBelle viii resume OPP
erations tomorrow morning. Al, other
departments of the L0Beile are running
full
The grading has been finished for the
new addition TO the Standard, and all
that is now needed is favorable weather
Tor continuing the Improvements.
A meeting Of the stockholders of the
Union Window Glass factory in Be.,aire
will be held this week Co decide whether
the plant will De rebuilt
The addition TO the Wheeling Lamp
and Stamping Company phantom South
Water street, will soon be ready for oc-
cupancy.
The addition to the Riverside plate
mill. is almost completed, and this week
The machinery will be placed in posi-
tiOn.
/ d. Smith, OF Bellaire, o., has
taken the position OF bOokkeeper at the
window glass factory, Alexandria, Ind.
The puddlers at the Benwood mill