Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-17
WORLD OF LABOR.
INDUSTRIAL INfEILlGENCg FROM LABOR CEN
TIERS OF WHEELING AND VICINIRY.
News Giving Encouragement to AI-Laiesi Word
From Mil and Factory - Notes About
WOrkngmsa and Their
Employers.


resumption, aud IL Is not saying too
much 70 assert that within thirty DAYS
the iron and steel industries Will oe
back, nearly, to where they were IN the
early summer. IL should be Kept IN
mind that the volumeoi business on the
books Of iron and steel mills Is OF MOD
est proportions. AT the same time there
is very large amount Of work Whlch
may or may not be entered upon. AS
heretofore stated, the condition OF the
trade will depend upon the degree OF
confidence existing. AT present 1t looks
as though a number OF new enterpr ises
would be pushed toward complexion
this fall.-AmerjCGp Manufacturer.
Under the superintendent Of James
McCahon, OF the Top mill, the extern
siye mprovements-the new furnace
entire. the retaining wall, - feet high
and 925 feet long, and the placing OF
the new BabcOck boilers, are being pro-
crossed RAPIDLY. Forty men are given
steady employment, and IL will be two
months vet before the furnace Is ready
10 start. The new furnace will have
three sheet iron towers, twenty Feet IN
diameter and seventy feet high. Nc
Clure. Amsler 81 Co., Of Pittsburg, had
the contract for all these improvements,
but they suO-contracted the sheet iron
work of the towers 70 the Sharon boiler
works, Of sharon, Pa.
Following IS the condition OF affairs
in aud about Steubenville: One furnace
az the big plant Of the Acme glass
works is going, the nail factory at tue
jefferson iron works is running the
remainder OF the plant is idle, thong q
the furnace has been refined and the
mill is all ready TO start The iron mill
al Brilliant is not running. No part OF
the works az MingO is in operation.
Hartie's paper mill is going night and
day, and the pot works are going In ali
departments.
The big improvements being made oy
the Elm Grove Coal Company at their
shaft at Elm Grove are rapidly being
made. The b. * O. has already finished
lavipg the three switches TO the mine.
These tracks will hold forty cars. IL IS
expected that in two weeks more the
mine will again be ready tor operation,
giving employment 70 two hundred
miners. Formerly the company EN-
Moved one hundred persons. These I'M
DrovementS will cost over $1,000
The preserving works Of Geo. X. Nc
Mechen's Sons Company are soing az
their greatest capacity. The wOrkuen
made extra time last week, making
some DAYS sixteen hours. There Is
big force OF men at work, but the COM
pary is behind orders. CGtchup IS tie
DripciDal product az present Two car
loads OF goods were shipped South last
week. This is plant that never
stopped day during the stringency'
The Pan Handle glass works in Wells
burg, known as the Old plant OF Dalzell
Bros, is again ready for operation and
will be started within a few days, Civ
ing employment 10 $50 persons. This
class house has not been used for sew
e-al wears, not since the Findlay glass
noon took several Of Wellsburg's glass
houses away. Some time ago a Find
Law firm bought the plant and have Mt
ted 10 up in first class ordar.
Secretary Meder, of the Ohio Valley
China Company, when seen regarding
the state of trade at his plant, said the
pottery outlook in general was very
much brighter the last week. The
great plant is all going, though about
0ne-haIf of the regular wOrkmen are
given employment. IL was state as
probgble that additional workmen will
be given employment again this week.
3. +. Perkins, the extensive South
Side contractor, states that ne Is get
ting along excellently with all his work
He has az present on hand the Lange
and Egeter blocks and Bloch'S new
building. The Lango block is built TO
tho third story; the Egeter building was
finished yesterday, and the work at
Bloch's fue new fye-story building is
progressing rapidly.
The wo. Of the Wheeling Mold and
Foundry Company are running Large
contracts for castings are being h'led
for the FOstoria Glass Works, OF
Moundsville, the Washington Glass
Company, OF Washington, Pa, and sew
sra good contracts for Martins Ferry
moldmakers. Tomorrow the large
castings for BloCh's new building will
be completed.
Out the Elm Grove motor line in and
about Pleasant Valley, Leather wood
and Voodsfeld, twenty-five new houses
are in the course of erection. Work on
some Of these structure was not pro
crossed during the "hard times" Now
active work has been begun on all OF
them again, and a large force Of work
men have been given employment.
The improvements at the North
Wheeling bottle works are nearly CON-
pleted. The greatest Improvement was
The rebuilding OF the new melting fur
pace. This furnace will be a fourteen
Dot one, when before II was only ten:
To rebuild this furnace alone required
SEQ, 600 brick.
As an argument that times were
brighter 4 VOL known manufacturer OF
the CITY cited that within the last week
anDllcatious for work at his plant had
fallen on one half. For several weeks
from five TO fifty persons daily came to
this factory earnestly seeking employ
ment.
The Joseph Bell Stove Company has
made additional facilities for their trade
in Wheeling by putting an excellent
new wagon on the streets. A few days
ago the company received a consign-
ment OF stoves from their plant in
Muncle, Ind. This factory Is going In
full.
r. H. d. Willis, the coal dealer, re-
ports trade very active again. II will
be necessary for him this week to place
several extra teams and additional en-
Uloyes at work this week. This gen
tleman has orders enough booked to
keep his workmen busy for two weeks.
Last Wednesday about four hundred
mill men from ali over the city went to
the Office OF the Smith Brewing Com
-. - Nnrah WheaLinc. whore they