Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-01
STATE OF LABOR.
WHEELISG'S INDUSTRY, WITH ITS ENOOUR-
AGING AND DISCOURAGING PEATURE2
Latest Word irOn Labor Cenras-Opinions a to
the 0ailook-NOtss About
WOrkmsn.

|NA1 nHNEa NAF'E
IneSe improvements cost neatly 5000.
j. A. Ryan, OF Wilson &c Chapman's
planning mill, is home from seeing the
sights at the Worlds Fair
Barney COnpors and Gas. Morgan,
Etna-Standard employees, each suffered
painful accidents o few days ago. Mol
ten lead splashet, striking Mr.. COnnors
IN the face, and Mr.. Morgan fell on q
sharp steel Plate. BJth are laid up, but
neither is seriously hurt.
Several buildings at Reymann's brew
cry are being r%epainted.
Frank Jackson, ~t0Okkeepar at Me
Mcchcn's factory, is seeing the sights
az the Worlds Fair.
McNcchin's preserving works are
very busy. Tho wOrkmeu are making
over time.
There Is no chsnCc az the plant Of
the Wheeling Hnge Company. About
oDc-hGli the mill is on In full.
Beltz & Fiadiag's planning mill is 60
ing steadily. Their contracts this week
are: FURNISHING lumber for a twO-Story
frame house on Mccullough street, East
Fad; for q dwelling 40 Triadelphia, for
Martin Burrows, and remOdelinG houses
for Miss Jane Young, OF North Wheel
ing, and Miss Ellen Barnes, OF McCul-
Tough street. East Wheeling.
NJ. A. Chew, OF Morrison & Chew's
boiler works, is in PittSburg on busi-
ness.
Business is slack o., the Wheeling
boiler works. All the workmen are en-
ployed at Spears 81 Riddles machine
shop. Business is about the same az
the Wheeling Box COmpany'S factory.
The spice works are going steadily.
Things are brighter with the Mold and
Foundry Company, and the Red Letter
tobacco works are on In full.
Business is slack a: the Wheeling
wire works, but improved over last
week.
The preserving works OF Flaccus
Bros. are on in full. Last week the
plant ran day and night.
VIM. NJ. Cox & Co. were found busy
at their boiler works. Repairs are COM
pleted az Spears Axle Worksan at the
Wheeling Creek coal mines. This COM
pany has also the contract for repair
work at Loudenville, w. Va.
The trade with Redman & Co. is
somewhat improved over last week.
Chas. Rsdman, Of Redman & Co.'S
works, is home from PittSburg, where
no took in the Exposition and saw
the town.
Labor news from Steubenvilie: Gill
Bros. glass works, employing 500 en-
ployes, is on in full. The Steubenville
pottery is making full time. Repairs,
caused by the damage by fire, are being
made at the Hartje Bros. paper mill.
The blast furnace at Mingo Junction
is again In operation.
Edwin Holiday, Of Holiday & Sons,
Is home from seeing the Worlds Fair.
c. w. F~ranzhoim, OF the Wheeling
Pottery Company, is home from Chi
cage.
The Ohio coal Miners who went to
work ,On condition that they receive
part pay and part time for their labor,
are firing Of it, and will make different
arrangements soon, 10 is sad.
The coal mines OF the Etna and
Standard mills are In full operation.
George L. Baird, Of Martins Ferry,
the well known mill man, with his
wife are IN Pittsburg on a sight seeing
visit.
The puddlers OF the Etna-Standard,
did not work this week. AT the entire
plant but five sheet mills are on, giving
work TO about 100 persons. When any
parts OF the mill will be put on is indef-
mite.
John L. Sullivan, the we'll known
Etna-Standard emplOye, is home after
a "trip.
The newly improved and enlarged
Office of the Htua-Standard mill, in
Etnaville, will be ready for occupancy
by the middle Of this month.
When things brighten up in Htna-
Vile, it is very probable q bank, to be
called the "WorkinCman's Bank" will
be established. Stock is being sub
scribed in an encouraging manner.
A close observer, who has travelled In
many cities OF this country within the
last three months, stated a few days
ago that he knew OF no city the size OF
Wheeling that was evidently faring as
yell. This gentleman was surprised at
seeing so many industrial concerns in
operation, and so few men, compare
lively, out Of work.
The three great stoves, seventy feet
high, OF the new furnace at the Top
mill will be completed within a few
DAYS. A large force Of bricklayers have
begun work on the walls OF the furnace.
Last Thursday the Bellaire steel
works dropped bottom. The works
will resume tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow morning the foundry and
pattern departments az the Riverside
mill will resume. On Tuesday the steel
works will 20 Oh again In full.
A break near the rolls OF the lower
BenWood mill caused the puddlers TO
loose soroe time last week. All the
Giants pt the steel works, which are
being wed, is going full time
Dixon, Wood & Co., OF Pittsburg,
have finished their big brick laying con-
tract at the North Wheeling Bottle
OarI Amsler, Of Mcclure, Amsler &
Co. Of Pittsburg, was in the city a few
DAYS ago. This gentleman is well
known here, having built the Riverside
mill mainly.
Last Wednesday at noon the bars
we're pulled at factory n" This
indicates a long shut down. For tnir-
teen weeks, since the shutting down OF
+ba plant. the fires have been kept 20
Jog. Many Of the employees are seeking
work elsewhere.
1t has been decided that the Mounds