Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-04
LOYAL INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
Points Picked Up About the Oily Last
Evening


Points Picked Up About the Oily Last
Evening
Bloch Bros tobacco factory, OF the
South Side, is on in full again.
The Wheeling steel works will prob
ably 60 on about the middle OF this
week.
Frank Gregory, one Of the irsmen
at the power house OF the Street Car
Company, is Ill.
Harry Hastings, of the La Belle mill,
is able to be out after being laid up as
the result Of an accident.
The Globe pottery, at East Liverpool,
will get up steam this week and get all
the men possible to work at the new
list.
About one-hali the Etna-Standard
mill will be in operation this week.
Some tin plate will be made next Tues
day.
George Logan. window glass work
er of Bellairs, aged %, died few days
ago. Deceased was well known in this
city.
The plate mill of the Wheeling Steel
and Iron Company will be on this
morning, rolls from % to So inch haV-
ing been charged.
John Kuntz, for years the chief
blacksmith at the Riverside iron works,
and formerly of this city, but now OF
Gravel Hill, Bsllaire, is lying at the
point OF death at his home OF typhoid
fever.
Work will be begun again in the
building of the Whitaker mill this
morning, delay having been caused by
some OF the materials not arriving.
Four more car loads from Plttsburg
have been received.
Mill men In general in Wheeling and
vicinity do not anticipate any trouble
arranging the AmalRamated scale salts
factory to both sides for the coming
year. The new scale will not be pre-
sented for some time yet.
There is not much Of the Riverside
iron works now on, by reason OF the
miners strike. The only parts which
will be In operation this morning will
be one bell-wsld and butt.Weld furnace,
which will give work to about sixty
persons.
There IL talk Of some Of the employees
of the Belmont mill mine going TO work
this morning. One man at least was
heard to declare that he would go to
work, and others are talking Of doing
the same. II they go to work this
morning, the indications are that there
will be some trouble.
The old Wheeling pottery, which has
been made into sanitary plant, is now
complete and ready for operation. AS
the C. c. ware Is 10 be made, and 1t be-
Ing effected by the strike, the works
will not be started until there is some
change in the situation.
The Chelsea pottery at New Cumber'
land will go on In full this morning,
after being idle since the 22d OF last
January. The plant will go on double
turn and will employ 400 persons. The
men go TO work at the old list, the
terms for which Wheeling potters are
striking.
Fair progress is being made beginning
the immense improvements at the Bell
aire nail works. Mcclure, Amsler &
Co., OF Pttsourg, have the contract to
build the new furnace, and TO rebuild
the steel works, with some OF the other
minor work. The foundations are being
laid for the new foundry and machine
shop, and some Of the structural iron
has arrived from PittsburE for them.
These two contracts were sub-let.
These two new buildings will be put up
at once.
Thomas Copeland, the late manager
OF the New England Art Pottery Com
pany, of Boston, one Of the largest
plants In this country, is In the city.
This gentleman who has just come from
Trenton, n. J., was seen by REGISTER
reporter last evening, and be gave his
views as to the situation In general. he
has been q close observer OF the strike,
and Is in Wheeling on business pertain
ing to the trade. be says that there is
not ray OF hope In the situation, and
IL now does not look any more
like a settlement would &c reached than
when the great strike was waged
on the 22d Of last January. He says
both strikers and employees are as firm
as ever. 10 Trenton al the present
there are about S, 500 potters idle, some
Of them having gotten work in the san
itary ware works the most OF which are
being operated. But not one OF the
regular plants ere being run, notTith-
standing the reports Of assumptions.
There have been attempts OF toe part
OF some Of the msnagemepts TO operate
the potteries at the new list but they
have proved unsuccessful