Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-12-03
INDUSTRIAL WHEELING
LABOR NOTES SEOURED FROM MILL JND
FACTORY.
Events Transporting Among The Mil Men State
Of Trade and the Embellishments
Of Mil Men.

away from the mills until the trouble is
settled.
The moulds have been moved from
the Wheeling 70 the La Belle pottery,
preparatory TO starting this pottery on
10 full.
Last Thursday nearly all the mills In
this vicinity were shut down TO give the
employees a holiday. Many Of the work
men left the city 20 spend the day with
friends, while many had pleasant social
events at their homes 70 which friends
and relatives were invited. a we'll
known mill man remarked that the day
was rather a sad one TO many workmen
Of the city, as the usual Thanksgiving
Injuries Ia many homes could not De
afforded this year.
William O'Neal, of the Etna-Stand-
ard has J0e agency for q new water
litter, 20 be used in tAe mills.
The Buckeye Glass Company, Of
Martins Ferry, made iarge shipments
Of glass last wesk.
Frank Cox, one OF the most popular
young men Of the Wheeling Mold and
Foundry Company, spent Thanksglv-
ing day with his grandmother az Gre
sOp's Grove, this State.
Andrew Schicks, of the Tifin Win
dow Glass Company, with several
others Of the managers, were 10 Bellaire
O. few days ago looking for a site for
a site for the erection Of a glass house.
IL is said they were favOrably i'm
pressed.
Head Engineer John Lewis, OF the La
Belle, is very sick.
The Cox boiler works has completed
repairs az the Etna-Standard.
Seventy miners are employed By the
BOggs' Run Mining Company. About
half Of these are given employment.
Enoch Amos, a potter formerly Of this
city, now Of Peoria, Ills, is again In the
city. The Peoria pottery is closed down
tll spring. MIR. Amos will 90 70 East
Liverpool 70 work this winter.
The nail factory and heating depart
ments az the La Belle mill had a steady
run last week. The outlook for these
departments is said to be bright.
A large force OF wOrkmen are at work
at the Riverside repairing the lap-weld
furnace. il is said this furnace will be
ready TO 90 on again in q week.
The Lower Beuwood mill, except the
steel works, will 20 on Ia full tO-mOr-
row or the next daY. The shut down
has been for nearly two weeks. 1t was
feared that the shut down would be
much longer. Nearly $50 persons are
given employment. AT present, no de-
Uartment Of this milli is in operation.
Nearly the full force OF miners are
now st work for the Elm Grove Coal
Company. About 200 miners are em-
p,oyed.
Patrick Quinn, the South Side potter
has gone TO East Liverpool to work this
winter Mr.. Quinn recently returned
from Peoria, I'LL.
William Murray, Of the South Side,
will go to McEeesp0rt, Pa, tomorrow
70 accept a position 10 a mill there.
John McGonigls has arrived in the
city from MillviI.e, y. j., and has gone
% work In the BgIIaire bottle works,
He is residing on the South Side.
Work on the finishing Of the new fur
mace az the Top mill has been abandon
ed for the winter. The Pittsburg con-
tractors left few days ago. A Bei.aire
firm is erecting three large smoke
stacks at the furnace over q hundred
feet high.
The rolls in the plate mill and steel
works 40 the Riverside have been
changed. In the steel works twenty
rwo inch rolls have been put 10.
Immense cOusignments Of bridge
iron, by the Pan Handle and Ohio River
Roads are passing through the city
from the last 20 Louisville, Ky. Two
hundred tons are 20 be sent.
Sheridan Brock, a steel blower at the
Riverside has gone TO work near
Pittsburgh. Thomas McCarty has his
place.
The strike at Apollo, Pa, is still in
progress. The men hold uuOrOken
ranks. Severa, persons from this city
have gone there, but learning the stu
alton, returned home.
Wilson & Chapman reported their
planning mill doing its usual good, steady
business.
1t is reported among the wOrkmen Of
the North Wheeling pottery that the
plant will soon close for this month aud
resume the first OF next month. The
report could not be verified az the pot
terry.
The Joseph Bell Stove Company re-
ports business good. Large consign-
ments of stoves are received from the
factory at MuHcje, Ind, every week,
All the leading planning mills OF the
city have adopted the eight-hOur SyS-
tenn instead of the nice daily. This is
done 20 lessen expenses.
The sheet mill at the Top mill closed
down a few days ago. IL will resume
tomorrow.
About half the sheet mills at the
Etna-Standard are In operation. The
puddIsrs and miners are making about
half time. Trade is reported a little
brighter.
Eight shops at the Crystal glass
works, of Bridgeport, resumed last
Thursday Nearly two hundred per-
sons are given employment. The en-
tire plant will 90 on sUon.
q Master Mechanic James Thurston, Of
the w. b s. T., is quite sick.
Barney Seibert, of the Etua-Stand-
ard mill, is laid up with sickness. he
is night manager.
William futile, night Waterman at
the Etua-Standard, is very i'll, but is
recovering.
Large shipments OF iron were made
from the Etna-Standard a few days
RgO by steamer.
The Standard Boiler and Bridge Com
psay, OF Bellaire, is making improve
ments on the smoke stacks at the Top