Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-11-09
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.
Points Picked Up About tho Mills and
Factories.

Points Picked Up About tho Mile and
Factories.
All departments at the La Belle mill
will be on in full tomorrow.
Thos. Mears, the manufacturer, is at
East Liverpool on business.
Jas. O'Hogan, of North Main street,
is making Improvements at his prop
erty.
The steel works at the Riverside,
which has not been on this week, re-
sumed yesterday.
1t is said the prospects at the tuba
works are bright for steady run the
balance of this year,
Manufacturer JOS. Bell is home from
a visit to Chicago ana the West. Mr..
Bells health is not good.
The Mears keg and barrel works
across tha river are running little
slack. About fifty men are at work.
Wm. Cox, workman OF North
Wheeling, has gone 70 West Liberty,
where he has a contract OF bricklaying.
Things at the Top mill remain the
same. No part of the mill is going,
and when any department will resume
is indefinite.
Edward Schiller, OF the South Side,
who has been at work at the Libby glass
works on the Worlds Fair grounds, re-
turned yesterday.
All the Etua-Standard mill is on now
except the two high plate mills OF the
Htua department. Trade shows little
encouraging features.
About sixty men were at work at the
Riverside blast furnace Yesterday pre-
paratory to blowing the furnace in. The
blast will be put on some time to-day.
Eight furnaces in the pudding de-
partment Of the La Belle mill have been
working for the last three weeks. The
remaining sixteen will go On in the
morning.
The Jos. Bell Stove and Range Com
pany is busy. They are receiving large
consignments of stoves from Muncie,
Ind. Another car load is expected in a
few days.
Yesterday morning pinion In the
break down department of the Htna-
Standard broke again, throwing the
mill Off. The men will go to work
again this morning.
Last Monday the employees Of the
La Belle cooper shop suffered a reduc-
ton. Two coopers are affected, and
now they get S1.35 a hundred, where
formerly they got S1.5O a hundred.
Business is better this week with the
Ohio Valley China Company. About
ninety men are given employment, and
the decorating department Is on In full
Orders are coming in fairly well. Man
ager thinner stated yesterday that
probably no more men would be given
employment before spring.
Wilson & Chapman are having
steady run at their planning mill. The
firm is doing work st Bloch Bros. new
warehouse, a stable is being built In
East Wheeling for Michael Mauer, pro-
Drietor of the "Dusch House." the.
ioists are being placed at the Masonic
temple aud other general work Is being
done over the city.
The REGISTER is the first TO furnish
its readers with piece Of news which
will bring gladneSs TO many a household
in this city, particularly In North
wheeling. A reporter consulted the
management of the North Wheeling
bottle works and learned that the plant
will go on again this morning in full.
1t has been idle since last June and one
hundred idle persons will be given en-
plovment. Last Tuesday the I'll in Of
the fine new fourteen pot furnace was
made and the fires lighted. With the
new and extensive Improvements made
it is essentially new plant The out
put will be Increased forty per cent and
the outlook for q steady run is bright.
About forty woIKmen are now at
work on the repairs at the Top Mill. A
force OF bricklayers and laborerS are at
work extending the cast house, which
is to be made thirty-two feet longer. a
force OF work meen is also engaged COM
pleting the three large stoves for the
furnace. Seventeen men OF the boiler
works OF Youngstown, o., finished their
work at the lower Benwood Mill yester-
day, and began work repairing the big
tank Yesterday. 1t will take these men
two months to finish their work
at the mill. The furnace will not be
started this winter, as it is not to be FIN
ished TIN next spring. The ovens will
De lined and the work on the furnace
proper will be laid over. Last Satur-
dav about one-half of the laborers were
laid off by reason Of this.