Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-12-24
STATE OF LABOR.
PROGRESS IN TEE MILLS OF WHEELING AND
VICINITY.
News from tho Fields Of Indasry-No.ss A6oR.
WOrknen-Gmp2risons Of
Irada

60 January for about SOL o tons. Quo
tatlons are S2f, but brokers represent
ing BUYERS claim this price will be
severely cut before large contracts arc
placid. Small steel rail orders have
been booked and production is lncreas-
ing. A great deal OF idle iron and steel
making capacity will start up early In
January, but crude material has not
yet been purchased for &c, such as pig
iron and billets. Barb wire and wire
rods are under active inquiry through
out The West. Car and bridge builders
are making inquiries ard the reported
requirements are 80, 900 tons. Mer-
chant iron and sheet are very dull
Nails are very active at retail In last
ern centres, owing 70 additional a
ings. Should spring iron and steel re-
Quirements be ordered in January, 1t
will stimulate trade in al sections but
on the basis Of former quotations.
City Mil Notes: Notices have been
posted at the Riverside steel works that
q resumption is indefinite. Formerly
the workmen had been ordered 10 so to
work next Tuesday. There is little
change in trade at the co%rrugating
works. II anything, it's duller. Rey-
mann's brewery is on in foil, giving en-
plOyment TO all the wOrkmen. Spears
d Riddle report trade about the same.
Conditionally, they look for a better
trade next month. BeltZ & Fiadlngs
planning mill is going steadily, with
little change. The Laughlin mill is
going steadily. The Top Mill remains
idle. Trade is brisk at Wilson s. Chap
mans planning mill. The North Wheel
ing pottery is closed down till the Sth
Of next mouth. Trade continues brisk
with the Joseph Bell Stove aud Range
Company.
Interesting News Outside Weddings
Field: The report that the Carnegie
works st Homestead are 20 shut down
indefinitely is denied. The mill Is
running, BIB orders are unsteady. The
earns Iron Company Of Massilon, Ohio,
has shut down.. President Garland, OF
the Amalgamated Association, received
500 last week for the benefit OF the
strikes az Apollo, Pa The strike pre-
sents no new features. Part OF the
steel works az Joliet, H., have resumed
after a years shut down. The Edgar
Thompson Steel works at B~raddock,
Pa, have resumed. The B. & o. shops
at Garrett, Ind, employing $50 men,
are in operation again. The local ml-
ners' strike 40 Finieyvilie, Pa, is set
tied. Pittsburg tanneries are resum-
ing.
"Busier than ever" said one Of the
management 40 tae Wheeling bakery.
Buster scenes could not be imagined
than were there at 5 o'clock yesterday
morning taxing the new plant 20 us
capacity. It took hard work to get the
city orders filled, bat when the country
began to be heard from bakers played
out AID three new ones were speedily
secured. Still near all the orders could
B9t be filed There We're piles Of bread read
year. A large number Of new signs are
being prepared.
Norris ABOUT Mill MEN:-Harrv
kasley, the East Wheeling coal mer-
chant, is slowly recovering from a sick
ness. John Fernier, OF Wood street,
injured TO the ~galyanizing department
az the Whitaker, is much better. II is
o thought be will not DO deprived Of
his eyesight 4. b. Neumann, Of Rey-
mann's brewery, is home from a bust
ness trip 90 Canton, Ohio. VIM. Adams,
Of the Mold and Foundry Company, has
a bad attack of grip, and is threatened
with pneumonia. VIM. McKOwn, Of
Redman 81 Company, is able 10 work,
after a sickness.
Improvements: B%ricklayers are ready
to begin the third story at Revmaun's
new brew house. Already the fne
new structure is making a good
showing. Large cOnsiguments of ma
terials are being received for it The
work is TO be pushed as rapidly as the
weather viii permit. The brick work
o! the outer walls al the new ST. AL
phOuSus monastery is completed. Bloch
Bros. new ware house is under roof and
rapidly being finished inside for slowing
purposes.
Last Friday the biggest wagon ever
In NellSburg or ever manufactured in
this locality stood before the factory Of
Hall e Beckett in East Wellsburg.
Tbis firm has made many immense
wagons iu their years Of experience
here, but this one far eclipses any one
yet made. The wagon is the property
OF Contractor O.. W. Abrams, and has
carrying capacity Of twenty tons. The
Wagon alone weighs two tons. Mr..
Abrams did the first hauling on it yes
terdaY.
The Donaldson carriage works sre
busy Considering the time OF year. The
Two eiegtnt vehicles, mentioned in the
REGISrEE exclusively, 10 be sent 70
Prague, Austria, were shipped q few
days ago. lFlorina Nickel is the pur-
chaser, and. be will introduce the We
hicles into Mat country. Experts say
inner work tn carriage manufacture
never left he city. A ine phaeton
was also shipped to PittSburg q few
days ago. StUk is being taken at she
plant now.
The Cox bOilF works has a force Of
Forkmen 90 BoCh Bros placing the
sheet iron tank, which Is 70 surmOuut
the tower Of the aew ware house. The
tank is 19 feet b diameter, and 10
feet high. WOTkaen are building the
tank on top Of th8tower, and the ma
terials are being elevated piece by
piece. The tower j 112 feet high and
IS so tall thar it ovElOoks the highest
steeDle Ia that locally.
1t will grieye the many friends Of W..
r. Donaldson, the accommodating gem
tleman Of The Donaldson carriage works. /
20 learn that he is again suffering from
the results of his ACCIDENT five months
ago. Mr.. Donaldson took a trlp for his
health. and was a. Newcastle, Pa, for
some time, coming back much improved
His back Is again pahing him, and
while not belfast, his condition is re-
garded as serious.
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