Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-11-26
LABOR'S RRlLM.
STATE OF TRADE, AND PROGRESS OF
INDUSTRY.
News From Busy Mills and Workshops
Of Whsslng-Labor Nolss-&oys-
msnis Of Mil Men.

KNOW say Ller6 is not q MOIo Sptolululg
equipped mine within one hundred miles
Of this city.
Quite a number OF new employees viii
be put to work 10 q few days at
Schenk's pork house, at Fulton. Trade
is reported much better.
John Junkins, Of Glendale, the
we'll known coal miner Of the mines
there, is getting better. The REGISTER
reported how q large mass Of stone fell
on him, badly crushing his shoulders.
N. B. Crawford, one Of the best known
employees Of the blacksmithing depart
ment OF the tube works, who has been
quite ill, is able to be at work again.
Webster Snodgrass, a popular mill
man of Upper BenwOod, is dangerously
sick.
The ~galvanlzlng department at the
Riverside mill is now on In full. En-
ployes cannot get the work out fast
enough, as the department is having
such a boom,
AllisOn's wire works manufactured a
large amount OF work for the Riverside
glass works at Wellsburg. Mr.. ALI
sons force Of men completed placing
the work a few days ago.
w. II. Amsler, the gentleman who
built Q large part OF the Riverside mill,
now of the frm of Mcclure. Amsler &
Co. of Pittsburg, after a business trip
to this city, has returned home. He
visited the Riverside plant while here
and was favOra0ly impressed with its
industry.
The Warwood tool works is still keep
ing up its record for steady running and
for its booming business.
Peter Boyd, Of the Riverside iron
works, is at New York city on bust
ness.
Francis Cochran, a well known mill
man, formerly Of the La Belle, has &C
copied a paying position at the Jener-
son iron works, at Steubenville.
The Home Investment Company, Of
this city, has its five new frame resi-
dences at McMechen completed. Wood
Bros. did the work.
The Fisher foundry and machine
works, Of Pittsburg, has a dozen men
yet at work az the Wheeling steel
works finishing their big contract.
JOS. Waddle, a we'll respected miner
Of the Wheeling steel works mine, left
for his former home in England a few
days ago. He was called home by sick
ness in his family, but will return 70
Wheeling next summer.
Manager Wilkinson, Of the West Vir-
ginia Tobacco Company, stated that
business was picking up steadily. All
the employees are at work again. Re
Gently the plant has been closed down
for a week for repairs.
There is no change in trade at the
Wheeling wire works. Business is mod
erately good and Mr.. Allison does not
anticipate much OF q reviva. before
spring. Last Friday a good order Of
work was shipped 20 the Glen Coal
Company, OF Glencoe, D.
Redmau s. Co. arc buster o than a
week ago. The men are at work on
small new and repair contracts.
Cox a. Co. at their boiler works re-
port trade good. A contract 40 Port
lard Station Is completed. The firm
will start this week on q contract for
the West Virginia Glass Company, at
Martins Ferry. Repairs are being done
for Bloch Bros.
The outlook is not bright at the lower
Benwood mill. The only persons at
work DOW in the entire plant are three
men completing the repairs at the steel
works. The puddlers aud heaters quit
work last Tuesday evening. The man
G Of the plant was seen, and when
asked when q resumption would be
made, he said: 'Ill give &c up One
OF the heating furnaces is being re-
paired.
Those interested at the Etna-Stand
ard mill were generally pleased when
the word came TO the plant We'd
nesday, that a strike had been averted,
and that the men had conceded the ten
per cent. reduction. Had the differ
snceS not been settled when they were,
it is probable that before this time the
entire works would have been closed
down and a long and bitter strike be-
gun. During the danger of q strike
but five out of the fifteen sheet mills
have been in operation. Now, as the
outlook is bright, the mills will be put
on rapidly. The puddlerS now are
making q little over half time. The
reduction affects the rollers and their
crews, or about FIVE hundred persons.
BeIlaire Board Of Trade is endeavor-
log TO secure a new glass house. The
progress made along this line is not en-
tirely satisfactory.
Workmen are still engaged refining
the new furnace at the Top mill. The
furnace will not be started this winter.
The nail factory at Mingo Junction
ran four days last week. 1t is now
closed down aud 10 is not known when
it will be started again.
Trade is not so bright with the Nesrs
keg and barrel works, across the river.
Their business depends on the runs the
nail factories are having, principally.
The Jefferson iron works, OF Steuben-
Vile, will resume again In full tO-mor-
row. The works have been shut down
for several days; no steel being on hand
was given as the cause.
Miller Bros, the South Side Tool
Company, report large orders and q
good trade.
Patrick Quinn. Of Peoria, H.. o prom
inent potter, is visiting South Side
friends.
The Centre foundry made about half
time last weeB. Mr.. Cecil reports little
change in the business outlook.
Business is good at the Wheeling
Bakery. The cracker trade is better
than ever before.
George Kleeh, Wm. Donaldson and
Ernest Marschner, well known employees
of the Donaldson carriage works, will
leave 10 a few days for a hunt to the in
terror Of the State. They will be gone