Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-05-28
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.
Points Picked Up About the Mills and
Factories.


Points Picked Up ABOUT the Mills and
Factories.
The Belaire steel works will run two
! days this week.
Ted Collins, an East Liverpool potter,
is in the city the guest of friends on the
South Side.
William Sheenan, glass worker, of
New Albany, Ind, is in the city on a
pleasure trip.
Work is well under way building the
, second new pair Of scales at the River
side Iron works.
Howard Hastings, OF the forge de-
partment Of the LaBelle mill, Is i'll, but
is getting better.
The Belmont brick and tile works
across the river will resume this morn
ing after an idlenesS.
The plate mill Of the Wheeling Steel
and Iron Company, in Benwood, will be
on in full this morning.
Fred Vogelssng, of the South Side,
employed at Spears axle works, will go
to work this morning, after an Illness.
The only part of the Belmont mill TO
be on this morning will be the small
nail mill, which gives employment to
fifty persons.
Citizens of Washington, Pa, are at
tempting to get the Bellaire bottle
works to their town. Flattering in
ducements are being offered.
John Mikels, David Rehr and Peter
West all Of the South Side, and en-
ployes Of the Riverside, will leave this
morning for fishing trip out Wheeling
creek.
Fred Anderson, Joseph Larkins and
Red" Moore, East Liverpool potters,
who have been in the city as the guests
of South Side mill men, have gone TO
their homes.
The Fostoria glass works, at Mounds
Vile, have been off for few days by
reason Of no coal. The works will go
on this week, arrangements having been
made to secure fuel
The Riverside bar mill, at the head Of
Twenty-fifth street, is inactive, and its
start is indefinite, depending on the
miners strike. No steel being on hand
is the cause Of the shutdown. About
one hundred men are out Of work as the
result.
The outlook for this week is brighter
at the Ktna-Standard. Both old Stand
ard and new departments will go on
this week. All material and appliances
for the tin plate mill have arrived, and
the plant will be in operation the latter
part OF next month.
All the La Belle mill will be on this
morning except the big nail factory.
This department will be of for few
days owing to the work of getting nail
plate ahead. The tack factory is hsv-
ing a great run and the workmen are
making overtime nearly every night.
In the recent convention at Cleve-
land, O., OF the Amalgausted Associa-
ton, Wheeling mill men took promi-
aent parts. c. Fl. Kaufman was elected
a trustee, Harry Hooking . vice prssi'
dent, and David Llewelyn was elected
to = position in the finishing mill COM
mittee.
William NJ. Cox s. Co. report trade
brisker than it has been for some time
at their boiler works. The hrm will
begin this morning to do WORK on the
Shriver sand boat, and work will be
begun in the morning on a very large
tank for the Belmont brewery, in Mar
tins Ferry.
The Whitaker mill is being rebuilt
very rapidly. The structural iron
work is being put up, and the outlines
of the mill can now be discerned from
the central pare Of the city. The new
mill will be six hundred feet long and
one hundred feet wide, and in some
places it will be thirty feet high. The
Scheffiiu Bridge Company, OF Pittsourg,
is building the mill. and this company
has about dozen skilled men at work,
an6 there are forty men Of this city also
6rdiug work at the building OF the
plAut. Some Of the sheet iron roofing
wiN be placed on the mill to-day. 1t Is
exbscted by the latter pars OF Au-
On TO have the works Ia operation