Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-04-19
LOCAL INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
Points Picked Up About the City Last
Evening

now in full or part operation.
Handlan's hall, at Thirty-sixth and
Jacob streets, is being improved.
Walter Dugan, OF Benwood. will make
big improvements at his property.
Wilson & Chapman's planning mill is
shut down. 1t will resume next week.
The contract for improvements st
Arion Hall will be let next Wednesday.
Edgar Steen, of McMechen, will have
a four-roomed house built at the juno
ton.
Mrs. Henry Foster. Of North Main
street, is having repairs made at her
residence.
The sheet department of the Top mill
is on in full. This makes its third week
of steady run.
New Cumberland is brighter now in
dustriallY than for year. All It's plants
are in operation.
The Walther block, at Twenty-siJth
and Chapline streets, Is being hand
somely reprinted.
Mrs. John Davidson, Of McMechen,
will have fine frame house built there
in the near future.
A new bending furnace is to be built
right away at the tube works. IL VIII
employ about five men.
The fine frame residence OF Thomas
Rayl, in the Behrens 81 Speidel addition
South Side, is about completed.
II would take two months yet to get
the Top mill blast furnace in readiness
TO run. No orders have been given yet
TO finish il.
Auber & Pell have the contract for
stating Oscar McMillan's fine new house
at McMechen. The house is about
completed.
Murray Bros. will begin in short
time on their contract TO build the new
Court House at Fayetteville, Fayette
county, W. Va.
The entire North Wheeling pottery is
now In operation. Over 100 men now
find work there. The company is re-
ceivng fair orders.
A cog in the big hy-wheel at the Bel
mont mill broke yesterday afternoon.
1t threw the heating department OF,
but they will be on this morning.
Irwin Bowman, broke ground yester-
| day for handsome residence on jacob
street in the Behrens g. Speidel addition.
! The house is TO be frame having four
rooms.
The Joseph Bell Stove and Range
Company received carload Of stoves
this week, from the plant at Muncie,
Ind. Another consignment is expected
in few days.
Contractor T. Fl. Jackson has six men
at work building a retaining wall on
North Main street in front Of the resi-
dence Of Charles Becker. A still larger
wall is being built at the rear Of the
hoC-e.
Halleck Bros. have fifteen men at
work repavng Main street along the
| line of the new water main. Seventh
street from Main to Market is to be re-
paved also The force is now at work
near Second street.
Yesterday was one OF the greatest
days in the history Of the tube works
] for long shipments. Over twenty-five
car loads were shipped, eight OF them
being from the two bell weld furnaces
alone. Few days, IL any, in the mills
history, have beaten this record.
The plate mill OF the Belaire Nail
Works did not go on yesterday morning
| as intended. People think they are
| holding back because Of the great ap-
preaching strike of the United Mine
| Workers OF America, but this is i'm
probable as none of the present miners
of the mill shaft belong to the Organi-
zation.
Louis Hartoug, OF Benwood, is to
have the biggest improvements reported
from that city this season. On the site
now occupied by j. A. Dubois, as a
! lumber yaad. he is to have erected four
excellent frame houses Of four rooms
each. Charles T. Golf will do the car
penter work and the buildings will cost
about $4,000. Work will be begun
soon. The houses will be on Main
street in the city.
Improvements were begun yesterday
| in the Louis Blschoff block, at Forty
| third street. The block Is now two
stories, and an additional one is to be
| put on. The new story will be hand
some addition TO the block, as II will be
sided with slate and rooted with man.
sard. II is In one Of the handsomest
quarters OF the city south of the creek,
and the Improvements will make fine
/ showing in that locality.
| The potters' union held an interest
| ing meeting last night at Hibberd's
hall. The controversy relative to i'm
ported contract labor at the North
| Wheeling pottery was one OF the mat
| tiers under consideration. OF the en-
ploYes Of the pottery but six are mem
bers OF the union. four being Germans.
The Germans made statement Of the
situation from their standpoint The
two home potters stated that the Ger
mans told different stories now and
when they were questioned at the pot
! terry. at the time they were employed.
This was explained by the foreigners,
( by stating that they were instructed TO
give certain answers 70 any questions
put 20 them by the workmen. The
union decided to endorse the action OF
the Trades Assembly.
The Strike Settled.
The strike at the lower mines OF the
Boggs Run Mining Company, which
has been off for the last two days,
throwing fifty-two versions out Of work
was settled yesterday. The strike was
started by reason Of some of the drivers
being discharged, The management
took on all the drivers except one and
the mine will be on in full again this
morning.
ADJUSTMENTS