Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-09-14
I'M BUSY WORKSHOPS.
ITEMS CLEANED BY A REGISTER REPORTER
ma TOUR YESTERDAY.
Ths General Outlook for Pail Trade is More
Encoursging-A Reduction a. the La Bslla
Ths Top Mil Furnace


furnaces being built at the Top mill is
rapidly being constructed. Mcclure,
Amsler & Company, Of Pittsburg, had
the contract for the building Of the fur
mace, and they sub-contracted with
the Sharon Boiler Works. OF Sharon,
Pa, which Company has force OF
boiler makers at work rapidly building
the sheet iron work. The three large
towers to be seen are something entire
IL new, and are called stove jackets.
These towers are nineteen and half
feet in diameter and seventy feet high.
The boiler makers will have steady
work at their contract Tor six weeks
yet. The representatives OF the Bah
cock Company, of New York, are put
ting up the new boilers, the old ones all
having been removed. The stock-house
at the mill Is being greatly enlarged.
II Is now two hundred and thirty-tive
feet long and an addition of thirty feet
it's entire length, at the side next the
hill, is being built. A large retaining
wall twelve feet high is being built
along the hillside. On these repairs
employment is given to about forty
workmen.
As the REGISTER stated, every de-
partment at the La Belle mill started
up in full yesterday morning, giving
employment to about five hundred per-
sons. The wage differences between
the puddlers and their helpers rendered
this possible. The nail factory also
went on in full. Prospects seemed
bright and the mill men were elated.
The employees were therefore greatly
disappointed when in the afternoon
Manager ]. II. Travis notified them of
10 per cent reduction, to take effect next
Monday, affecting every employe at the
plant. The men In the mill
proper all seemed anxious to work
on, but those receiving the least
money feared they could not stand 1t.
They reasoned 1t, that X they refused
to work, thousands would be willing TO
take up their work. For this reason
all the plant will go on again In full
this morning, except the nail factory.
After day OF successful operation this
division of the plant closed down last
evening. 1t Is not known whether the
stop was caused by the reduction or not,
but 1t comes from q person high In
authority that the nail factory's start
ing depends on whether the men ac-
cept the ten per cent reduction or not
However this may be, 1t Is certain the
nail factory will not be put In opera
tion again before next Monday.
In week now, il work progresses
satisfactorily, Dickson WOODS IL Com
pany, of Pittsburg, who had the extern
sive brick contract at the North Wheel
ing bottle works, will finish their work.
This company's work principally has
been to change the melting furnace from
a ten to a fourteen pot structure. Be-
sides this, other Improvements have
been made. A set OF lears are being
built, an oven for the small moulds has
been constructed, and Hallnck Bros. are
now at work on a large contract, the
pot arch foundation.
As the Riverside tube works cannot
run longer than this week, unless the
remainder of the works start, the en-
ployes are looking to the other part OF
the plant hoping it will soon resume.
Workmea cleaned several furnaces at
the plate mill yesterday aud this Is re-
garded as hopeful sign. Manager
MurrIns informed some of the employees
Yesterday that In all probability two
furnaces OF the plate mill will be start
ed Monday. This will give employ
me1Tto about fifty men.
The workmen at the repairs at the
Top Mill made q record recently, OF
which they are proud and which. Is hard
TO beat. Under the management of the
veteran superintendent Of the furnace,
James McCahon, eight boilers sixty feet
long and AZ inches In diameter, were
loaded on the cars, taken TO the river
bank and again unloaded in two hours
and thirty minutes. As far as known
this shades all previous records.
All Of the mammoth plant OF the Ohio
Valley China Company is going, but
only about one-half Of the employees are
given employment. Secretary Meder
stated yesterday that he didn't know
when the plant would be started In full
again, but he said prospects were
brighter and that the workmen would
be put to work again just as they are
needed.
Five sheet mills, three in the new
department OF the Etna-Standard and
two in the old mill, have resumed again
double turn. Also two Of the break
down furnaces are on in full. A diff.
Guilty In securing steel caused the shut
down last week partially. About three
hundred persons are given employment.
The Jos. Bell Stove Company has an
excellent new delivery wagon on the
streets to be used In the eompany's
trade here. A car load more OF stoves
from the new factory at Muncie, Ind,
is on the way and will arrive here the
latter part of shks week. The company's
plant at Muncie is going in full.
An evening paper stated that the
Wheeling steel works would go on In
few days. 1t will take six weeks at
least to finish the great repairs being
made there, the progress Of which the
REGISTER noted few days ago.
The Wheeling Lime and Cement Com
pany is putting lime In the new kiln.
Employees at the works are given steady
employment and the prospects are much
brighter.
Contractors Wilson & Chapman have
been delayed at their work on the new
Masonic Temple by reason Of the neces-
sary iron work not having arrived.
Hallock Bros. have q good force OF