Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-08-07
LOCAL INDUsTeIAL NOTES.
Points Picked Up About the City Last
EVenin-

Part of Bloch Bros Tobacco works
on the South Side went on yesterday.
Tho Riverside steel works went on in
full yesterday morning after an Idle
ness since last Thursday.
Business Is on the boom at McMech-
ems preserving works. All the en-
ployes are working full time.
Charles Russell, Of Martins Ferry,
has accepted position at Miller Bros
tool works on the South Side.
The North Wheeling bottle works are
to resume in full after the summer shut
down, the first day Of next month.
The Bellaire steel works were off yes
terday, the engines having TO be repair
ed. The works will be on in full to-
day.
The heaters and the rollers Of the
Belmont mill went TO work yesterday
morning, and it is now thought that
they will have steady run.
The North Wheeling pottery went on
yesterday morning. About one half
the workmen went to work, but the
remainder will be put TO work at once,
and this morning the works will be on
about in full.
The iron work of the immense new
smoke-stack at the Bellaire Nail Works
Is completed. The immense new stack
is now 125 feet high, and is 10 be topped
off with brick, and then it will be about
$50 in height.
Another pot will be put to work this
morning in the galysnizing department
OF the Whitaker iron WORKS. This will
make more Of this department on than
for long time. There is three-fourths
of it on at present.
Contractor Randolf Butts, OF East
Wheeling, reports business fair He
has the contract TO build bakery at
Warrington and yesterday afternoon
ne sent his sons Seward and William
and John T. Butts there to begin the
work.
Since the resumption OF mills and 7
OF the Whitaker, gas has been used.
Coal will be used hereafter and kasley
and Son began yesterday TO supply it
from the Whitaker mines. In the
nelghborhood OF 400 bushels will be
used every day and this will give half
dozen idle miners work.
In two weeks mills l and 2 OF the
Whitaker will be ready to go on for
the first time since the fire. The cylin-
der for the big engine. which has
caused some delay. has arrived and is
being put in. The fine new engine Tor
the bar mill is being placed. Mills 6
and are having fine run. The Pitts
burg workmen who have been building
the mill, have com pleted their work and
left yesterday for their homes.
Yesterday an entirely new industry
for Wheeling was successfully started.
The new sanitary works OF the Wheel
ing Pottery Company was put 10 opera
ton in the morning, and about ten
o'clock In the forenoon the first sanitary
ware ever made in the city was COM
pleted. Sevanty-fve men weutto work
yesterday, aud this number will be
doubled inside OF two weeks. The de-
partments in a sanitary works differing
from those In the ordinary pottery are
positions or the moulders and the press
ers. The business is growing one,
as every gear sees gress
strides In the Industry, and the
plant Of Wheeling is as large as any
in the entire United States. 10 its
equipment IL is second to none 10 the
world. The wOrkmen have not suffered
any reductions, and they are class
that make very high wages, The work
men in the manufacture Of G. c. ware
went 10 work in the new plant also yes
terday.' When things get to going
right, and all the workmen are on,
there will be number Of girls en-
ployed at the works. All the labor for
the new works, and as much OF the
skilled as possible, was selected from
among Wheeling persons, but there are
a mum Der OF new skilled workmen 10 the
city from other cities. The manage
ment OF the company was highly pleased
Yesterday By the start made.