Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-06-11

month, wh9n dig improvements VIII 70
begun.
The North wheeling Bottle Works
will close down soon for three months.
During this time extensive improve
ments will be made. Among these I'M
provements the furnace will be en-
lar9ed.
The Laughlin and Junction Steel Com
pany, Of Mingo. is enjoying a steady
run The works will shut down the
first Of July for necessary repairs. The
mill has not be in operation for about
four weeks.
Word comes from the Worlds Fair
that the exhibit of the Ohio Valley
China Company, of this city, is attract
ing considerable attention. There IS
not q similar exhibit in the American
pottery department..
All the hands are again oD.a at the Cox
Boiler Company. Two very large drums
for the boilers at the Riverside mill, the
contract for the repair OF the Vigilant
engine, and a boiler Tor John Medick's
boiler shop are among their contracts
The skelp mill and the blast furnace
at the Top mill are the departments
now going. The furnace has quit
taking ore, and = shut down In this de-
partment will soon result. 1t is said
the improvements will at once be
begun.
The Centre Foundry i%sruuning at full
blast. Some very heavy work was done
last week in molding the annealing box
and the houser for the Whitaker mill.
The heaviness Of the work and the
great heat made the work very hard on
the Workmen.
There is not an idle spindle at the
Riverside mill. The improvements are
progressing very rapidly. In the new
Iap-Weld department work on the heat
ing and welding furnace Is progressing
well. A large amount OF the frame
structural work for the new warehouse
is placed.
The bread and cake shop OF the
Wheeling bakery is completed and is be-
Iieved TO DO one OF the finest In the
country. The bakery now employees
seven wagons in the city trade alone
and IL is necessary to add another wagon
this week. Trade is reported very good,
and the outlook is said TO be very en-
cOuraging.
The Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Engineers will probably be moved soon
10 McMechen for the orders headQuar-
ters. This is caused by the remova or
the shop TO BenWood Junction. The
order, composed Of ffty-three members,
formerly met in the K. Of P. hull,
South Side.
The large addition to George K. Nc
Mechen's Son Company's plant is now
occupied. The season Of the greatest
activity is now at It's height at the fac
tory. Fifty extra girls were employed
last week to pick over strawberries.
The new manager, Charles A. Reckon
is showing fine business management
at the plant.
Injured workmen improving: James
Hicks, at Holidays planning mill, piece
of stick penetrating his groin; Luther
Thomas, glassworker, leg broken;
Charles McGee, lower Benwood mill, leg
crushed; Charles Morgan, street car
conductor, knocked from a car by strik-
ing the steel bridge.
The Etna-Standard mill Is again 60
ing in every department, the workmen
have missed much time, caused by break
downs, the heat, and other diff
culties. 1t is said large numbers OF
workmen from the Eill are leaving, and
are being supplanted largely by en-
ployes OF the Top Mill, that plant not
being 10 full operation.
Some industries in full operation;
Etna-Standard: Bridgeport Glass Com
pany; Crystal Glass Company; Lower
Benwood Mill; Warwood Tool Company;
Wilson & Chapman; North Wheeling
Bottle Works; Beltz 81 Fading; Wheel
ing Corrugating Company; Bloch Bros;
Wood Bros. planning mill; Reymann's
Brewery; Nall City Stamping Company,
and Alison's Wheeling Wire Works.