Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-11-22
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.
Points Picked Up About the Kills and
Factories.


The Warwood Tool Company's plant
has resumed again in full.
Peter Royd, of the Riverside, is at
New York City, on business.
Last Monday night furnace 4, OF the
Riverside plate mill, caved In, delaying
work considerably. The furnace was
repaired yesterday.
Francis Cochran. well known South
Slider, mas gone To Steuoen Vile, and has
accepted a position in the Jefferson
iron works'as a heater.
The galvanizing department at the
Tube works IS on again In full. The
men cannot get the work out fast
enough, as things are so busy In this
department
William Geraghty, a well known
workman, OF Benwood, employed a.
the repairs at the Wheeling steel
works, is suffering from severely
sprained back, the result OF an over
lift.
The Riverside steel works will 90 on
in full again this morning. They have
been off since last Friday. IL is stated
that no more permanent runs are
looked for, than those OF the last
several months.
The BeIIaire furnace will be lighted
to-day and blown In tomorrow. The
furnace has been shut down fourteen
weeks yesterday. More repairs to be
made, rendered the furnace going on
when arranged, impossible.
The building improvements at Nc
Mechen, begun in the late summer and
fall, are now rapidly nearing compile
ton. The Home Investment Company.
which had five neat frame homes built,
has its houses now ready for occupancy.
Engineer w. II. Johnson's elegant new
eight-roomed frame residence 10 COM
peted.
About dozen men, principally OF the
Fisher foundry. ..and Machine Company,
of Pittsburg, are at work finishing the
repairs at the Wheeling steel works.
Their workmen are principally en-
ployed ia making the hydraulic connec-
tions. Last Saturday the one hundred
men employed at the other Improve
ment: completed their work. Were or
ders given TO start work II would re-
quire but few days to have things 10
readiness. The manager OF. the plant
was asked when the steel works would
start, and be said be bad no order IL
is safe 10 say that the works Will not be
started this year, as there Is no stock
al the plant yet for start.
No part OF the Lower BenNood mill
l.. fiha haafaFQ md
the pudders. the only workmen given
employment Ia the mill, outside the
steel works, quit work yesterday even
ing. Shortly after the mill shut down
last evening, REGISTER representa-
tive saw the manager Of the plant.
Asked as 10 when the mill would start
again. he said he had no idea. Another
gentleman closely identified with affairs
at the plant, stated that the shut down
would only be temporary, or I'LL the
main cylinder of the big pump, with
otner necessary improvements could oe
made. He thought a portion OF the
mill would 20 on again by next Monday.
The coal miners are also thrown out OF
employment by the shut down.
Jas. Waddle, who for eight months
has been employed at the coal mine OF
the Lower Benwood miil, left for his
former home In Englaad yesterday.
During his stay In this country DIR.
Waddle has made numerous friends,
and has become favorably known
among fellow workmen. Sickness in
his family 10 England caused him 70
leave this country, where he soon ex-
pected to bring his wife and children.
Mr.. WaddIe has the sympathy OF all
who knew him, as one Of his children Is
already dead. and the whole family Is
down with disease known as the In
iuenza, which is Killing thousands In
that country now. The miner hopes TO
restore bis family and bring them back
here with him next summer.