Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-07

Points Picked Up About the MIIs and
Factories.

Factories.
". S. Boswell, of the Riverside plant,
will leave to-day for the Worlds Fair.
The molders at the Central Glass
works are now the only employees work
ing at the plant. These workmen will
finish their work to-day.
Last Thursday heating furnace No.
8, at the lower Benwood mill, caved In.
/ So rapid was its repair that the men
were enabled to resume work yesterday.
The pudding department at the
lower BenWood mill will shut down. A
resumption will be made next Tuesday.
No metal being on hand caused this de-
partment to stop.
PoIlack's tobacco factory has closed
down for two weeks. This factory en-
ploys seventy-two persons. The proper
kind of tobacco leaf can not now be
secured, and this caused the shut down.
Fred Ziegler, the Thirty-third street
plumbers force of employees struck yes
teriay. The men claim bad treatment
from Mr.. Ziegler. He had but three
men employed, but it leaves him in a
strait.
WIN. Crockard, superintendent Of the
Riverside furnace, has purchased a fine
blooded horse. The animal was pur-
chased at Mt. Pleasant o. It's speed
is 2:1O. This is probably the finest
horse in the city.
Mills 8, 4, 6 and 7 at the Whitaker
and W heating and two boiling fur
naces are in operation. This employs
one hundred persons, as about hall the
plant is on. 1t comes from reliable au-
thority that all the mill will go on in
the near future, though the date is not
yet set.
Werk has begun at Reymann's brew
ery, building the wall for the new brew
house. This wall will be built OF solid
masonry, and will extend under ground
fourteen feet. A force Of men is also
engaged building the foundation for the
big new engine. twenty-five men are
at work at these improvements.
The Riverside steel works will be
shut down again this evening. This
will only be temporary, however. In
the plate mill the A. and B. depart
ments are now going, and on Monday
the entire plate mill will be put on
double turn. The steel works stopping
will throw one hundred employees idle,
and the plate mill starting will give en-
ployment to an equal number.
About four years ago square pipes
were made at the tube works. A
most elegant method was used but 1t
was not patented by the company then.
Managers OF the works are now igur-
ing on an immense contract OF these
square pipes. II this contract Is Sc
cured it will make the tube works boom
for many months. A difficulty has been
found to exist, however, for 1t is been
found that the method used four years
| ago, and which the company thought its
| own exclusively, has been patented by
| some other person. Now the skilled
labor OF the works is puzzling its brains
finding a new method. The managers
are confident an entirely new method
can be secured.
Late last night a REGISTER reporter
called on Superintendent DAWSON, of
the Wheeling Pottery Company, TO find
| out the state of trade at the potteries.
To-day the clay department at the
Wheeling pottery will be closed. This
plant has run a short time. Next Mon
day morning the entire LaBelle plant
will be put in full operation for the
first time in nine weeks. This will give
employment to $50 persons, and the
other factory shutting down will throw
about 100 employees idle. The reason
one pottery was closed and the other
started is that as orders will not justify
the running Of both plants steadily
they ear be operated alternately, diyid-
ing the work TO benefit the employees.