Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-12
LOCAL INDUSTRIAL NOrEs.
Points Picked Up About the City La
Evening.


Points Picked Up About the City Last
Evening.
The Riverside steel works resumed
yesterday morning.
Newton Pritchard, Waterman at
Wood Bros, fell last night, and was
badly bruised.
Charles Corngiver, formerly Of Main
street, has moved to the country, out
Caldwell's Run.
Two thousand kegs of nails are at the
La Belle landing TO be taken down the
river to-day by steamer.
VIM. Travis, boss OF the La Belle
nail factory, got home last night from
u business trip to Pittsourg.
The La Belle nail factory went on in
full yesterday morning. -Four scrap
furnaces in the factory proper also
went on.
James Sullivan, late of Peoria, Ills,
who has been among South Side friends
for some time, has accepted position
in pottery at Broadway, Va.
Harry Leeds, foreman at the River
side tube works, is lying at the point OF
death of pneumonia, at his home at
McMechen. The REGISTER told how he
was taken suddenly sick at his work
last Saturday.
None OF the Miners OF the Bogg's
Run Mining Company went to work
Yesterday. The reduction which the
men had accepted was to go into effect.
Difficulty la selling coal is given as the
cause. 1t is thought the employees will
secure work this week.
The new lap weld furnace at the tube
works did its its first service yesterday,
and things went off like 1t had been an
old mill. 1t went on the manufacture
OF three-inch pipes, double turn, en-
ploying about $50 persons. Ths new
furnace is model Of completeness, and
was begun about year ago. 1t was in
tended that 1t would be in operation
last May, but the striDgency came and
prevented this. This new department
on makes the outlook for the steel
works more favorable.
The Wheeling Pottery is closed and
the forces are concentrated at the La
Belle. President Franzheim is at Wash
ington, d. c., on matters pertaining to
the tariff particularly, but incidentally,
also, to arrange for the changing OF the
old pottery to sanitary works. A
gentleman who knows all about the sit
uation stated last night that in all prob
! ability this would be done. The COM
.pany has advertised for competent
man, and there are o number OF appli-
| cations. This gentleman also stated
that in two months the pottery could be
gotten in shape for sanitary ware man
ufacture. If this is done, two hundred
men will be given employment in the
Wheeling Pottery alone.
The situation at the Elm Grove Coal
Works has lost none Of it's seriousness.
Last Saturday there came near being a
disturbance. 1t appears some Of the
old employees tried TO get the non union
help TO leave by calling them names
aud Offering threats. No personal VIC
lence has resulted yet, however. The
| local Mine Workers Union, Of this city,
spent most of yesterday trying TO bring
about a settlement. a proposition was
| offered to the operators to
have the men at work join
the union, and then let them work on.
Manager Chambers stated that matters
of such import would have to be re-
ferred to the directors. The manager
called the board Of directors Of the
works together yesterday afternoon,
and the committee met them, but
nothing definite was accomplished. 1t
is said a gentleman. who had ordered
two carloads OF coal daily hearing Of
] the situation, had the order cancelled.
The general feeling OF the old employ
es toward the new men is becoming
more bitter. The operators are firm
and say they propose to Sight the mat
ter to the end.