Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-08

new Dryden residence, on York street,
Island.
Spears axle works started on again
in full yesterday. A steadier run Is an
ticipated.
The Mears keg factory, across the
river, resumed last Wednesday, after
weeks shutdown.
The new Glatz hall in West Bridge
port is about completed. wilson q
Chapman did the work.
Edward Darby, of North Wheeling,
has accepted position At Wilson q
Chapman's planning mill.
A son of Peter Hanahan, well known
roller of the Etna-Standard, Is visit
ing his father in Etnaville.
Forty thousand pounds OF iron was
shipped from the Etna-Standard yes
terday by the steamer Hudson.
The Laughlln nail mill, in Martins
Ferry, resumed in full yesterday morn
ing. Good shipments OF nails are be-
Ing made.
John P. Kindlehsrger, glass worker
of the North Wheeling bottle works,
has moved into his newly acquired resi-
dence on North Main street.
Samuel Gorsuch, a well-known heater
in the Etna- Standard, has resigned his
position. BE has not yet positively de-
cided where he will locate.
Wood Bros. have about completed
Mrs. Thos. Mobiles fine new residence
at McMechen. The house is considered
among the finest in the town.
The new keg and barrel works In
GAINESVILLE, owned by Thomas Mears, OF
Martins Ferry, have started The
works employ twenty-five men.
The new lapp-weld furnoce at the
tube worke is being gotten ready rapid
" for starting next Monday morning.
1t VIII employ about fifty persons.
The Terminal Railway Company has
new force OF men at work grazing on
South Water street near Th!rty-nlntn.
They have tea carts at work, the grad
ing is being done rapidly
Anderson and Mcdonald, well-known
rollers of the Etna-Standard, living In
Pittsburg, with several of their crews,
will ieave in few days for their form
er positions in the Smoky City.
The new drug store and dwelling at
Thirty-sixth and Jacob streets, owned
by Dr. Pipes, and TO be occupied by
Harry c. Stewart, as dwelling and
pharmacy, will soon be completed.
The sheet department Is all Of the
Top mill running. A large order for
Sioux City will be finished this week.
Enough orders are ahead to keep the
plant going but one day next week.
The Lizzie Bay landed large con-
Segment of stoves at the wharf FOR the
JOS. Bell Stove and Range Company
few days ago. A car load OF stoves was
also received from Muncie, Ind, last
Tuesday.
Ted McCanley, one Of the leading
mill men of Apollo, Pa, is a guest OF
friends in Htnavile. He stated that
il is the general belief that the work
men will gain the strike which has so
long been on at the big iron mill there.
He says the men still remain with I'M
broken ranks.
The Etna-Standard has made big
improvements at the great elevator at
the plant. The elevator is now so ar
ranged with catches that it cannot de-
scend when the ropes or machinery
break. This elevator is the same where
so many workmen have been seriously
injured by the descent.
The orders at the pottery OF the Ohio
Valley China Company are rapidly be-
ing filed. 1t was learned from the
management at the Office yesterday
that the entire plant will close down
soon for the holidays at least. Asked
when the plant would be started, IL was
learned that that would not be till
trade would warrant. The outlook is
not improved.
A dozen men are at work just north
of the Etna-Stapdard mill Office dig
ging u conduit over 100 feet long, ten
feet deep and wide enough to admit
horse and cart. This trench is to be
lined with stone and neatly covered,
and a handsome park will be laid off
there. This will add greatly to the
beauty of the already handsome newly
repaired Office building.
All the Standard departments OF the
Etna-Standard mill are going except the
breakdown. The shutting down in
definitely of two heating and two scrap
furnaces made this necessary. This
includes six sheet mills running in this
division. Two sheet mills in the Etna
department are on and the remainder OF
this division is on regularly. The bar
mill is on single turn and twelve pud-
ding furnaces are being operated. The
MANAGEMENT states that there is little
change.
The Mill Committee OF the Lower
Benwood mill held It's first meeting at
the mill Office last Wednesday, prepare
tory to arranging the scale to go into
effect the first OF next year. Nothing
definite has yet been done, and the old
scale and probable reductions was
talked of. On the same evening, the
mill men had meeting in Benwood, at
which the general situation was dis
cuSsed. Nothing tangb bic has yet been
done by operators or employees in the
matter. 1t is the general understand
ing, however, that there will be general
reductions.