Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-03-12
LocaIJottings.

The Belmont plate mill and nail fac
tory are in operation.
The Aetna. Standard, Whitaker and
La Belle mills are running in full.
The puddlers AZ the Etna mill are
idle on account Of shortage Of metal
Factory go" q. S. Glass Company,
is running full with plenty OF orders
ahead.
The Caldwell and Peterson Company
have started their ceiling department In
operation.
The Warwood Tool Company is run
ming steady, and making an excellent
quality OF ware.
Owing to a leakage in the boilers at
the lower part Of the Standard mill part
OF the mill is idle.
The Fostoria glass factory, Mounds
vile, is running full, and turning out
an excellent line Of ware.
The LaBelle was of yesterday in the
pudding department while new squeez-
ers were being placed in position.
several Wheeling glass workers have
returned from Huntington. They ex-
press dislike for the glass factory
there.
All Of the Findlay, Ohio, glass fac
tories are now using gas by meter meas
urement, the rate being five cents per
1000 feet.
The new machinery for the Belmont
Brick and Tube Company is arriving
and being Dlacedin position at the plant
in Martins Ferry.
Il is reported that z. NJ. Pearson,
formerly manager Of the Wheeling pot
terry, has purchased a pottery in
Pennsylvania town.
A strike occurred among the boys al
the Buckeye glass factory, Martins
Ferry, last week, which was settled
without much trouble.
Two muck mills, one skelp mill, one
nail mill, one steel plant and three blast
furnaces are going at the wheeling
steel works this week.
Sweeney's foundry closed down last
week for removal to Harvey, Illinois.
The machine shop will continue in Oper-
alton a month or so yet.
Wood Bros. planning mill, on Thirty
third street, IS rapidly nearing compile
pei, and largest mills in the State.
The furnace, steel works, plate mill,
one butt, on bell and one lap weld furn-
ace AZ the tube works, are the depart
ments the Riverside had going last
week.
Twenty men employed at the thread
ing machines i'm the Riverside tube
works. Benwood, are out on a strike on
account OF the attempted Introduction
OF the Pittsburg wage scale.
All. Campbell, OF the LaBelle, is a
candidate for the position o. custodian
OF the custom house here. All. is an
active, energetic young Democrat, aud
deserves something from the new ad-
ministratiou.
Fires have been lighted in the 13-pot
furnace at Factory "H, " United States
Glass Company. This furnace will be
in operation soon, giving employment
TO a large additional number OF men. It
has been idle since the holiday stop.
Charles f. Beam, q popular glass man,
formerly of Be!laire, o., but for some
wears with the FostOria Glass Company,
is looking toward the starting OF
speciality glass plant at Bellaire, says
the BUdgCt.
1t is not unlikely that the Riverside
Company will erect another blast fur
mace below it's plant In BenwoOd in the
near future. The company ut present
has two furnaces, and can use all the
product in the other departments OF the
plant.
The exterior work on the Hunter
spice mill and United States Baking
Company buildings, on South Main
street, have been completed, aud both
will be placed in operation as soon as
they are equipped with the necessary
machinery.