Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-05-30
LooAL INDusrEIAL NorEs.
Points Picked Up About thu City La
EvenInr

Points Picked Up About thu City Last
Evening
The Wheeling steel works went on in
full yesterday morning.
The brickIayers started TO work yes
terday on the second new pair OF scales
at the Riverside iron works.
Laughlin and Company have a force
OF bricklayers at work 1T the Riverside
iron works. They live in Pittsbnrg.
The skelp mill at the lower Benwood
pudding mill is going on in full The
mill is making steel skelp successfully.
Even II the pottsrs strike were set
tied neither Of the plants in this city
weud run any before the July stock
taking.
Gas is very weak these days for the
day turn at the Wheeling steel works.
| There was scarcely enough yesterday to
/ keep the mill on.
Il epairing is being done at the River
! side steel works. The plant could not
20 on for q week at least even II other
conditions were favorable.
Good progress is being made building
the new glass house at Shadyslde, below
| Bellaire. The glass house will be oper-
ated on the cooperative plan.
Ali the boys OF the tube works over
sixteen years OF age are being taken
into the new Riverside union OF work
men. Many OF the boys have already
| Joined the organization.
zThe miners at work at the banks Of
the Bellaire nail works say that they
are not digging coal, but only driving
an entry. They think they are not Vio-
lating the rules OF the strike.
At 7:S0 o'clock last evening there was
a break in one Of the shaftings al the
| bell weld furnaces OF the tube WORKS.
| Thirty men were thrown off, but they
will be able 10 go TO work again this
morning.
The last car load OF pig metal which
can be gotten at the Wheeling steer
works until there is some change In the
strike was received yesterday. by rea-
son of this the works will have to close
down in few days.
HOLIDAY & Son, the South Side plan
ing mill firm, report business ABOUT the
same. They are furnishing wood ma
terlals for the NJ. =. Church at Cam
eron, with w. II. Batson, OF that place
as contractor. The brick work for the
new house OF ]. A. Holiday, on Eou
street, will be begun this morning.
Mill men thoroughly acquainted with
the situation, say that II IL had not
been for the coal strike, all the mills In
this city and vicinity would have been
on in full by this time. There is not T.
doubt, but that the entire River
side mill would be on In
all departments. were it not for the
strike. There is talk, too, OF starting
the pudding department OF the lower
Benwood mill. The puddlers have
worked there but little since last Janu-
arv. and IL arrangements could be made
for coal the department would be put
on at once.
Wood Bros report trade good with
all the workmen working full time
Thirty men are at work and making e1-
cellent progress at the new building at
Wheeling Park. The gallery seats are
being put In. aud the firm hopes to
have the structure completed In
time for the Eks outing. IL
is expected that the building
will be finished next week. This week
the work will be finished at Mozart
Park, The alleys are finished and are
the finest ia the State. A house for
Thomas Saunders, In Martins Ferry, is
being finished, and residence for John
Liptoy, on the Island, is having the
finishing touches put on. The house for
Louis Tiers. on the Island, is being
plastered. The firm has the contract for
the wood work OF the fronts for the
building being repaired Of the Rogers
estate, on Main street. They are fur
nishing lumber for the hotel at Fair
mont, and are consigning material for
the new court house to DO erected at
Fayetteville, Fayette county.