Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-11-18
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.
Points Picked Up About the. Mills and
Factories.

Factories.
This is pay day at the Riverside.
VIM. B. McMechen is on a trip West
Next Monday is pay day on the Pitts
burg and C. o. divisions OF the B. e. o.
Repairs at Bloch Bros. switch on
Fortieth street were completed yester
day.
Large quantities of coke Is again ar
irving in the city, particularly by the
b. 81 O.
George H!ldebrant, shipping clerk
for the hinge Company, is of with a
very sore hand.
Business has very perceptibly in
creased the last two weeks at the Cor
rugating works.
B. S. Good, a travelling salesman for
McMechen's, is home from an Eastern
business trip.
The plate mill at the lower Benwood
mill will be repaired. The men will be
thrown of for couple OF days as a re-
suit.
The La Belle puddlers were again laid
of Yesterday. Few orders, is given as
the cause. They will go on again next
Monday.
The La Belle nail factory was not on
yesterday. There is no iron on hand
is the cause. 1t will be off for three or
four days.
G. B. Wagner, OF BeItz & findings
mill, who has been off duty as the re-
suit of an accident, will be able to go to
work next Monday.
The nail factory at Mingo Junction
will go on in full next Monday. 1t has
| been off about month. About one
hundred men are employed.
Part of the lap-weld furnace at the
tube works caved In yesterday after
noon. The employees will go on again
next Monday. A large number OF en-
ployes will be idle.
The employees Of Beltz & FladinG will
go on at eight hours daily next Monday.
This is done every winter. The new
system is to be used to save gas more
than anything else.
Rodefer Bros have not yet definitely
decided when they will resume work in
their Bellaire flint glass factory, but IL
is quite likely that the factory will be
started in few days.
Things are much brighter with the
Wheeling Hinge Company. Good orders
are coming In. About One-third OF the
plant is In operation, but more will be
pnt on soon. it is th3ught
The burning Of the Whitaker mill
threw thirty men In tho employ OF
Kasley 81 Son, the East Wheeling coal
merchants, out OF employment. The
firm now has twenty-five miners at
work.
Spears axle works, which have not
been running ia full for four months,
will 60 on again In full next Monday.
A portion of the employees went to work
yesterday. The plant exploys about
eighty men.
Preparations are being made to start
the Bellaire blast furnace. The stoves
have fire in them and steam was gotten
up first yesterday. The start will be
soon, though the date is not yet def
nitely decided upon.
The plant Of the Warwood tool works
is laid of indefinitely. A bad break
down caused this 1t will be two weeks
at least before the break can be re-
paired. This comes at bad time, as
large orders are ahead.
Thomas f. Shelley, OF Bellaire, yes
terday received a telegram from Capt.
Ed. Muhleman, who Is In Pittsburg, In
structing him to get ready to set pots
at the Crystal glass factory at Bridge
| port to-day. Rodefer Bros. also re-
ceived word to start their factory. This
will be cheerful news 10 our people, for
in addition to the large number en-
ployed at Rodefer's. many End work at
the Crystal factory.
Few Of the Whitaker employees have
secured work elsewhere. Quite num-
Der have applied at the mills In this
vicinity, but they report work very
scarce. A force of laborers is AZ work
cleaning up and removing iron. Rumor
has It that q temporary shed will be
| built over the two lower mills, as 1t is
reported that the machinery OF these
mills is but little damaged. Employees
are waiting patiently to get orders from
| for rebuilding.
1t will take but few days more for
the workmen TO finish the great repairs
at the Wheeling Steel Works. There
has teen continuous industry there for
over four months. One OF the greatest
of improvements was the extending Of
the table rolls from sixty 10 one hun
dred and eighty feet. The great rolls
were tried yesterday, and were COM
pletely successful. All the extra labor
will be dismissed to-day. It is probable
the really new plant will not be put In
operation before the first Of January.
Yesterday afternoon the bricklayers
began work at the new brew house 20 be
built at Reymann's brewery. A large
force was put to work, and the brick
laying is TO be rapidly prosecuted Some
delay has been caused by the brick not
having arrived from GAINESVILLE. o., at
the time expected. The stonecutters
are bnsily engaged and will complete