Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-04-08
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS
Points Picked Up ABOUT the MllS and
Factories.


Factories.
The La Belle nail factory will 20 on IN
the morning.
VIM. Stoetzer will finish plastering the
new st. Alphonsus monastery this week
Work has been begun improving at the
residence of Fred Afweaben, OF 233' Mar
ket street.
Business at the Wheeling bakery is re-
ported very much better. The outlook Is
| considered very bright.
Charles McCarty has a contract to bu Id.
neat frame house on South Penn street,
Island, for James Cochran.
VIM. Stoetzer, the contractor, finished
plastering at Dr. f. A. Hlldreth's resi-
dence on Chapline street, last week.
The Belmont mill did not 80 on yester-
day. The break has been repaired, and all
is in readiness for resumption il the morn
ing.
Both bell-weld furnaces at the tube
works will be off in the morning. Neces-
sary repairs will keep them of about a
week.
The Belmont furnace is ready TO be
blown in. The management is waiting
daily for advices from the ConnellsvilIe
coke regions.
Karger Bros. have completed big I'M
provements at Balzel's brewery at the
head of Twenty-fourth street. The build
ing was generally overhauled.
The new furnaces Sre placed at the
First Christian church. They give the
best of satisfaction. j. Crlppen, OF Bell
re, put in the furnaces.
The glass works at Central City, this
State, will 20 on the fifteenth OF this
month. Several Wheeling and Martins
Ferry workmen are employed there.
1t is said new socket furnace is to be
built at the tube works. There are now
I wo furnaces of similar kind there. A
socket furnace employs less than dozen
workmeh.
The furnaces Of the West Virginia glass
works, at Martins Ferry, were blocked
last night. A big amount Of stock on hand
rendered this necessary. The stop will be
for about two weeks.
Notices. are posted in the La Belle pot
terry that If the printers do not apply for
their old positiont in the morning they will
be discharged. The reduction Of the prin-
tiers averages about 20 per cent.
Contractor Edward Hamm has COM
peted the new bowling alleys at Wheel
ing Park Mr.. Hamm is also finishing
small house near the Peninsula, to be
owned by John Kichgesser.
Michael Mauer has had his two build
ings, Nos. l045 ana 1047 Market street,
remodeled by Wilson 81 Chapman. The
buildings are fitted up for hotel, and
will be known as the "Mauer House,
n. L. Whitaker went TO Washington,
Pa, yesterday evening TO complete the
deal between the tin plate syndicate in
reference TO the item OF lots TO DO bought
by a committee for the plant OF the syndi-
cate.
Murray, Bros, Of this city, have the con-
tract TO build new court house at Fay
ettevile this State, TO cost $4,000. 1t will
be of brick, with stone trimmings. Work
will be begun in a few days. The work
must DE completed before the first OF next
April.
The Riverside iron works has twenty
Eve men employed preparing for the fine
aew scales which are 10 be located in the
main switch just north OF the plant. This
switch, as far as Boggs' run, is being
Strengthened so that connections can os
made this week with the W. y. IL I. ex-
tension. Extensive excavations are being
madO for the foundation OF these scales, on
which all the product from the big plant
is to be weighed.
There is no change in the stone masons'
strike in this city. Work on all the con-
tracts OF the city ls ~ Standsilll, only the
bosses and contractors themselves being az
work. The employers think the men will
soon go TO work at the reduction OF from 40
to 81 cents an hour and the workmen think
they will not 60 10 work at any such figure
Some Of the employers say few OF the
men are employed on different contracts,
but this is denied by the workmen.
The new Arctic Ice and Storage Com
pany have about completed their cold stor-
age room, which is one OF the Largest and
most complete cooling rooms in the coun-
try. They are now packing il with ice 10
guarantee them a full full supply this
summer during the heated season. When
the Company have fully completed their
improvements and have their new one hun
dred'ton ice making machine in operation,
this city will be amply supplied with ice
machines, as there are now four n the CITY
manufacturing the CONCEALED fluid. Our
citizens should certainly be fully able TO
keep cool ia the future.