Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-03-18

A MUCH BRIGHTER OUTLOOK FOR INDUS
TRIAL WHEELING
lone and Foreign Labor N,.sS-Traja Now
Booming in Some Of The Mil5-Ps-onals
About Mil Men.

AUIN .AMN MANH LNNMN NNNrN NIN4 VI AAn
works on. The outlook is some brighter.
McMechen's preserving works are on
40 their full capacity. The outlook is
getting brighter every week Word
comes from the works o. the Wheeling
hinge company that the trade being
had is q LITTLE improved over last week.
Business 90 the City Gas works shows
signs OF Improvement. AT the planning
mill of John W. Be.tz, Son 81
Company the trade being had is impr0v-
ing. The West Virginia tobacco works
are now in ful, nearly. Business is bet
Ter 40 the Wheeling wire works than for
nearly O year. The Wheeling Mold
and Foundry Company never had bet.
ter run than that which is being en-
ioyed az present Hall Is Beckett, the
East Wheeling wagon manufacturers,
report trade better now than for some
time. ITO was learned 40 the Wheeling
boiler works that things looked
brighter than a week ago. Spears IS
Riddle said that they had no cause 90
complain much considering the times.
The irm is doing It's share. The Cleary
Electrical Company IS making @ good
start, and orders are coming in Ia an
encOuragable manner. Redmau 81 Com
pany report progress. The boiler works
oil William So Cox s. Company are do
ing moderately WELL The Star foundry
Us making hall time.
The situation among the striking pot.
ters of this city remains about the same.
Ine men are not talking much, but are
as determined as ever that they will not
give in and the operators are just as
firm on the other side. As before, the
result viii be- guided here by the action
of the p0tters To- the conters of Trenton
and East Liverpool. The potters hold
two meetings every week 40 their head
quarters at Menge 81 How,ey's ball on
the South Side, and there are meetings
of committees there almost every day.
The men expect 90 derive much from
their coming benefit concert 60 be held
$40 the Grand Opera House the 2Sth of
this month. For this event the best
talent OF this city and locality has been
secured. The relief committee of the
potters are getting along wen in the So
Letting of money provisions, ETC., for
the benefit of The needy among them.
Tn the morning force OF men will
go 20 work at the Wheeling pottery 90
get in readiness for the m aking of SAN
itary ware. The mOu.ds win have 90
be- changed, some alterations made 40
the kuns, and other alterations made 40
the plant. It will take about o month
90 do this work, when the Company exc
poets Co place between two and three
hundred persons 40 work 80 tho manu-
facture OF sanitary ware at the pottery,
Besides making the sanitary ware, the
O. @. ware is 20 bs made. The only
complication now arising lis that the @.
O.. ware men are on strike. When The
la Belle pottery shall resume the
Wheeling Pottery Company viii have
in ITS employ over 600 persons. It IS
understood than competent manager
has been secured FOR the management
OF the new works.
At this writing things look bright FOX
en- early resumption az Che lower BEN
wool pudding mill, which has been
idle since last Christmas. Notices have
been posted 40 the mill siCniyiug that
the puddiers can apply for their Jobs sc
the mill not later than in Che morning.
The labOrers are 40 work, breaking up
the old castings, as they are 90 be work
ed up first The la6Orers we're reduced
from SI.33 Co St30 O day, and the coal
miners were reduced q little over ten
cents on q car OF twenty-five bushels.
Sons OF the miners are at work In the
mine getting 10 ready for the start. It
is understood that the puddlers will
have 90 take 81 q ton for pudding, "
they shall accept Their final decision
can be read in other columns OF the
REGISTER.
Trade in the mills of Wheeling and
vicinity shows better condition than
$40 any time since last Juue. AT some
of the plants the report is that business
is booming, and al. the orders ahead
that can be well attended 90. During
the past week, there has not been q
shut down of Importance, the few be-
ing only for a few days, while there have
been severa. important assumptions,
with more Co follow in the morning. To
was learned no several factories that
business was better than for several
months, and was rapidly increasing.
Excluding the works where strikes exc
ist there is not mill in this locality
which is not in FUN or partia. operation.
The management Of She Etna-Staud-
ard states that the outlook is little
better. The situation is, five OF the
pudding furnaces are on. Iu an there
are now eighteen furnaces. To- both OF
The Goa. mines the new patent scales
have been put .u. Now the miners get
$685. cents ton for mining, where,
when tfey were paid for Che clean coal,
tley were paid cd cents @ ton. The
miners Zee. encouraged, as they can
make more by having ll their coal
wafrIaH -Nno Irrra rfnta mill 0f tina