Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-06-04
IN Fields OF LABOR
SITUATION, AS LEARNED FROM CITY AND
SURROUNDING LABOR ORNIERS
Notes About Employer aud EmplOys-Nsws From
Contractor and Northumberland
Labor Notes.

strawberries. The company has the
contract to supply 5000 dozen jars OF
these fruits to one Of the largest whole
sale houses OF the East. The new addi-
ton, three stories high, was given us
finishing touches yesterday. This build
ing is erected partly Of corrugated Iron
and is 2Ox6O feet. New machinery IS
being put In the plant also. With the
new improvements the capacity OF
the works will be increased about one
half.
T. F. Ray, Of the Schiller Bridge
Company, Of Pittsburg, IS In Benwood,
inspecting the structural work being
put I'D bv the Schiller Bridge Company
in the work on the new ware house for
the tube works. Mr.. Ray is well
known by the workmen in Wheeling.
He has now got q good thing as he Is
manager Of the bridge company.
Piles are being rapidly driven for the
extension OF the Terminal railway sys-
tenn TO BonwOod. The work train will
be put to work 10 a few days, when a
large number OF new hands will be en-
ployed. The pile driver has beer taken
10 BenwOod, and the work will be be-
gun there and the piles driven toward
Wheeling TIL they meet.
The new foundry Of the Wheeling
Mold Company has been tried, and has
been found a model of completeness.
The first heat was made yesterday.
Tomorrow the work will De begun on
large contract Of castings. The brass
department is busy on orders for car
boxes.
The new cement floor at the Wheel
ing Bakery COmpany's plant Is COM
pleted. The portion OF the new works,
ready for operation, is giving the best
Of satisfaction in all respects. The
machinery for the cracker factory, on
the second floor will be placed this
week.
The boiler works Of Morrison &
Chew are having a good trade in new
and repair work. The three large
boilers for the Riverside mill will be
completed In q week. Last week the
boilers at the Standard mill were re-
paired by the company.
Word comes from AllisOn's Wheeling
wire works that the usual good run IS
still on. The offices Of the Bellaire
water works and the natural gas works
OF this city have been fitted up with
fine wire work by the wire company.
The plate mill men Of the Riverside
plant are making great preparations
for their moonlight excursion TO Clar-
ingtOn, soon. The steamer K. E. Phil
lips has been secured, and the work.
men propose having a big time OF IL.
The planning mill OF Beltz & Flading
is going in its usual busy way. The
houses Of John Rempke, near the Fifth
ward market, and Rev. j. L. Mcclure,
on Chapline street, are being finished
by Beltz IL Flading.
@. II. Crouch, the well-known painter,
Of Benwood, has received the contract
for the windows at the Tube works.
Hhe contract embraces n hundred and
fifty windows. Work was begun last
Friday.
Matters have been peacefully adjust
ed at the works Of the Elm Grove Coal
Company, at Elm Grove. The miners
are all working. Work on the extern
siVe improvements are progressing sat
isiactOrily.
Elmer Fry, a we'll known young glass
worker, died in Tlfin, o., last week,
where he has been working. This
young man, aged twenty-three, formerly
lived In Bellaire. He was a member Of
the Glassworkers Union.
James Mclaughlin, a genial glass
worker, living on the South Side, has
returned from Central City, W.. Va.
The glass plant, after q steady run, has
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Some works on In full force: Top Mill,
North Wheeling Bottle Works, Ohio
Valley China Company, Wilson & Chap
man, Riverside Mill and the Wheeling
Corrugating COmpany.s
All the Whitaker mill, excepting
mill No. 5, is going full blast. No. 5,
it is said, will be ready to run again
next month, since such great improve
mentS in that department.
The Huntington glass house has
closed down for the summer months,
the heat having become very OppresS-
i've. The run just finished has been a
very prosperous one.
The coke trade In this city has been
brisker the last week, than il has been
for some time. Persons knowing the
situation, believe the trade will brighten
still more this week.
Both glass houses Of Steubenville,
the Acme and Humphrey glass houses,
are ruoning In full. The factories OF
all kinds. as a general rule, are work
ing In Steubenville.
The La Belle factory is booming.
The heat caused much Inconvenience in
the mill last week. The puddlerS and
heaters particularly missed several
heats.
T. w. Jackson, the stone contractor,
Is very busy al his quarry near the
Whitaker mill. Some very fine build
ing stone are being Quarried and hauled.
The Warwood Tool Company has re-
ceived aud placed a very large amount
of improved machinery in their plant.
The mill is running TO its full capacity.
Every department at the Lower Ben
wood mill except the pudding furnaces
are on In full. IL is said, four OF the
furnaces will be put Ia tomorrow.
The Centre foundry is in full opera
ton. Two large castings weighing over
FIVE tons each, an annealing box, ana a
roll for the Whitaker mill are rud.
Michael Flynn, a popular b. i o.
fireman, has now got a freight engine
and a run. His engine is No. 1903,
and is one Of the new machines.
The works at Mingo Junction are Of
in all departments, as usual. Some Of
the employees have worked for six years
without laying off necessarily.
B. F. jefferson, a popular fireman In