Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-08-27

rushing business.
Cox & Morrison are doing good busi-
ness, on local orders.
Work has been resumed on the dig
pipe ditch, on Seventh street.
The Wheeling Corrugating Company
is running about half its usual force
Two more sheet mills at the Htna-
Standard started last Tuesday, one IN
each of the mills.
Al! repairing at the Riverside has
ceased. and IL can not be told just when
the mill will start.
Coal has been found at q depth OF
three hundred feet at StsubenVille, and
the vein will be worked.
The Elm Grove -four mill ships In
about one hundred barrels OF hour
week TO one Wheeling firm alone.
Wood Bros. are building two double
two story frame dwellings on south
Front street for Mrs. Fannie Milligan.
An is quiet at the potteries. About
half OF the force is at work In the
decorating department OF the Wheeling
pottery.
It's said that the only tube works now
In full operation In the Uuited States Is
that of the Syracuse Tube works, OF
Syracuse, n. Y.
The project OF erecting Labor Tenn
pie jn Pittsburg is being actively push
ed. An organization has been formed
and committees appointed.
Work on the new blast furnace at the
TOP mill is nearing completion. Inc
foundation Is about done. The sheet
mills are running as usual.
The Belmont mill is running enough
to an the orders that are coming In.
About forty nail machines are st work
with the heaters doing full time.
The Pennsylvania railroad shops at
Altoona, Pa. which employ between 600
and 500 men, have been put on half
time. Half Of the men will work one
week and the other half the next.
Marvin, the extensive cracker baker
OF Putsburg, replies TO a newspaper
paragraph alleging the discharge OF 100
packers, that be has discharged none
and that business is improving daily.
Several hundred coal miners at Trout
Run, Cambria county, Pa, are out on
strike because the operators have or
dered a 25 per cent. rejection 10 wages
and abolished the ssmi-monthly pay day.
Holiday & Sons Star planning mill
are furnishing the lumber for Alex
Young's residence 70 be built shortly
near the Wheeling Park, and also the
wood FOR Burns & Church's large stable
on South Main street.
The number Of scales signed has been
Increasing each week until now the
large majority Of the works have
signed, and II is probable that were IL
not for the money stringency which we
hear so much, few would remain unsat-
isfed,
The prominent mill treasurers Of Fall
River, Mass, have decided 70 appoint
a committee 70 confer with other New
England textile manufacturers on the
trade situation, and TO secure II posi-
bic uniform schedule. AT Fall River
q reduction Of 10 per cent is contem-
plated when the mills resume.
Work on the new warehouse Of Bloch
Bros. was suspended Friday and Satur-
day, the bricklayers waiting for a sup
ply Of brick. The brick is brought
from Bellaire, aud Frank Perkins has
the contract for all the brick work.
Murray Bros. are doing the stone work,
while Wilson & Chapman furnish win
dow and door frames, glass, etc.
The general reduction OF 10 per cent
in the wages Of machinists, biacksmiths
and pattern makers at PittsburE will
be resisted. Meetings OF the represent
atives I'm these three branches were
held on Saturday, Aug. 10, when this
decision was reached. Although the
reduction is considered general, the en-
ployes OF the different firms have not
received notice TO that effect.
The people Of Benwood and vicinity
have been gIaddened by the word that
the BenwOod mill would resume soon.
Instructions have baen given for the
puddiers 90 start work next Thursday
and the skelp will resume operations
the following Monday. Double time
will be made and this will give work to
between three and four hundred idle
men OF Beuwood and eighbOrhOOd.
The new furnace OF the Fostoria glass
company, at MOundSyille, has bseu com
pleted and fired. IL is great success |
and the preliminary test showed even
more than was expected from it. This
furnace was built by NJ. L. Murphy, she
wei, knowu Pittsburg furnace builder,
under his producer system, and IL is
considered by those who have examined
it as one OF the best furnaces in the
country.
The glass works committee Of the
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, Board OF Trade have
secured $50, 200 stock necessary to re-
model the kearns-Gorsuch plant. The
improvements will be begun in a short
time aud the improved plant will be
ready for operation about the middle OF
October. IL will give employment 70 be-
tween three and four hundred persons.
The committee feels especially we'll sat
isfed at the result during such times as
the present
The progress OF the repairing aud
rebuilding the Wheeling Steel and
Iron Company, al BenWOOd is noticeable.
The old pair Of shears has been moved
north about forty feet and new hy-
draullc pair will also be put just south
OF these. The rolls aud table leading
to the shears will be both much larger.
Two soaking pits replace the old and
smaller ones. The two old converting
pits have been combined into one large /
pit nearly as bic as the former two. IL
Is expected that the repairing will be
through and the mill renew work in
about six or eight weeks.
The Wheeling correspondent Of the
Manufacturer says; There
Is Just the least bit Of Improvement