Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-02-04


/ NJ. Cox, OF the Cox Boiler Works. A
big order OF iron for work has been re-
ceived. The big tanks for the West
\ Virginia Glass Works of Martins Ferry
| has been begun. Other repair work is
being done at Martins Ferry.
Good news comes from the Riverside
I bar mill at the head Of Twenty-hith
street. The mill is to go on again in
Y the morning, double turn. IL employs
\ forty men and has been idle since last
I October, The manager looks for a
| steady run.
Brighter at Steubenyille-Th Acme
/ is on in full with 300; the Sumner glass
/ house is in p ration again; the Hum
phrev glass mouse will start IN the
morning with rosy prospects, employ
1 ing $50; and the blast furnace is soon
TO start.
John Berry, formerly Of the South
| Side, but who has besn absent for two
years AT Muncie, Ind, is again in the
I city on q visit. He has been working
/ I'm a bottle house there and says things
are getting much brighter In that To-
cahty.
The heating department at the Bel
mont mill has resumed after doing little
since last May. This gave work TO
about SD persons. The factory will go
on this week probably. The date for
starting the furnace is not yet fixed.
William Cooper, a well known employ
OF the Wheeling Pottery Company, has
<yc2e Glrsa visit 90 his former home in
I England. HeIhaught this an oppor-
tune time 10 90 during the existing
labor complications az the pottery.
The trade at the Nail City Stamping
works is as good as could be expected
this time OF the year. Business is as
good now as this time last year. Some
beautiful new styles in lamps are about
ready for the market.
Last Thursday there was a Dad break
down az the hig bar mill at the 1Etna-
Standard. Two rolls, TWO boxes aud a
spindle carriage were broken, entailing
loss of probably $500. The break has
been repaired.
Employees Of the West Virginia Glass
Company, of Martins Ferry, are max
ing full time. Yesterday the men were
paid, 10 being the first full one in eight
months. The run is now very en-
couraging one.
A manufacturer OF this city has
proposition from the city OF Admission,
Ala, to locate his works there, but he
has so much confidence in the future OF
Wheeling that he has decided TO stay
where be is.
Morrison & Chew, OF the Wheeling
boiler works, have their full force OF
men at work Work at Benwood is
about completed, and the work al West
Alexander is done. Things seem origh-
ter.
J,P. W. Bowers, the accommodating
salesman Of George X. McMechen Il
Son Co., is again In the city after a trip
10 the West. He will start tomorrow
for a business trip TO the Northwest.
George Wise has resigned his position
as treasurer OF the Wheeling Steel and
Iron Company. j. ID. Dubois was
chosen 20 his place. Mr.. Wise held the
position for about eighteen months.
All the bows az the Riverside glass
works at NeilSbur-, have refused TO
work longer with the nOnunion men.
To now seems probable that the striking
men will gain the rike
Last Thursday night, Louis KIose,
aged f0rty-One years, a miner OF the
BoggS' Run Mining Company, was
killed in the mine by mass OF soap
stone falling on him.
Business is picking up at Reymann's
brewery. Trade was better last month
than the corresponding one of last year.
This season is expected 10 be better
than last.
For q time last week the hinge works
had something like their old time run.
Business is duller, again, however, and
there is little encouraging in the out
look.
James Redding, OF Apollo, Pa, en-
ploved at tae Etna-Standard, is at his
home on short visit. He has made
many friends among Wheeling mill
men.
The big planning mill Of John w.
Beltz, Sou < Co. is going steadily.
Painters are at work at the fine new
residence OF DR.. Mason at Leather
wood.
Spears & Riddles machine shops are
going In their usual steady manner.
TIE firm placed a new pump at the
Ohio Valley China Co.'S works last
week.
Orders have not yet been given for
the Bridgeport bottle works TO resume.
The repairs az the factory, such as
painting and roofing, are completed.
The Crystal Glass Co., OF Bridgeport,
will be run hereafter on tho co-opers-
tive plan. The employees will take
weekly stock 10 the works.
Miners at Bellaire and vicinity met
and decided TO prolOag the existing
strike unless otherwise ordered 0y the
State Executive Board.
Geo. NJ Jacques, Of New York,
prominent glass house man, who has
been visiting q this vicinity, has re-
turned 60 his home.
Ed. Berhausen, Of Cincinnati, a jolly
old representative of a factory there,
was a visitor in the city few days ago.
Business is, IL anything, duller al the
Wheeling corrugating works. The
large new shed being built is framed.
The West Virginia tobacco works
are going ia all departments. There is
much encouragement in the outlook.
Additional help has been secured at
the machine shops Of Redman IL Co.
Business is better this week.
Kasley & Son, the East Wheeling
coal merchants, report trade better last
week than for a long time.
The strike at the Glendale coal works