Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-07-22
WHEELING Mills.
INDUSTRY MORE PROGRESSIVE THAN FOR A
YEAR.
News From an ths Plants o. the City, and
Locahy-lsns From the Contrac5rs-
Personals.

pOtterleS or THIS city are again WORKING
aud it would be hard 70 find happier
lot OF employees. The Warwick has
goo emDloreS at work, and the La Belle
has $50. Every one OF the old employees
applied for their work again, and they
all got their old jobs according to the
conditions Of the agree ment in the set
Element Of the strike The kilnmen OF
the La Belle did their first work on
Friday. All the forces Of the Wheeling
Pottery company are now at the La
Belle for the FIRST time since II was de-
cided 10 change the old Wheeling pot
terry for the making OF sanitary ware
aud the La Belle Is crowded with WORK
men. 10 less than Two weeks, the new
sanitary works are TO go on IN full, ana
they alone will give employment 10 2oU
potters. This will make IN the employ
OF the Wheeling Pottery company ABOUT
zoo workmen or two hundred more
than az any time in the history Of the
company.
The outlook is brighter az the big
Riverside iron works than FOR some
time. The blast furnace IS on In full,
and is having a great run. The steel
works have been of for few days, but
wiz 60 on in the morning. They usu-
ally run Until Thursday of each week
when the drop bottom until the follow
ing Monday, but it is thought that II
Will not be long until they are making
foil time, aud on double turn. Mill A,
OF the p'aIe department will 20 on In
full 10 the morning after long idle
ness, and 10 alone gives work 10 aoou;
100 workmen. That will then make all
the plat will but r., on in full. About
one third of the tube works are on, and
no orders are given at this writing for
Eu7 more 20 be put 10 operation.
William Schrader. Michael Elmer,
and Frank Lefler, well know employees
Of the Etna-St3ndard mill, left this
locality for the mountain OF the Inter
Tor Of this Safe on the 5th. OF this
month. They left in wagon TO hunt
bears, they said, aud have not been
heard from since they left BuCkhannon,
3 few days after they left here. Some
are feeling uneaSiness because they have
not heard from them.
More OF the Etna- Standard mill will
be on this week than for a long time.
All the departments OF the biz plant
with the exception OF the miners, and
the pudd srs Will be on in full, and over
100 men wi. hnd work. The tin plate
mill will 20 ON In full, for the first time
In the morning, aud It gives work tc
ABOUT 100 persons. All the sheet mill
will be on, aud six Of the pudding fur
naces will be working.
The heaters, the puGdlers, and the
rollers OF the La Belle mill are on. The
other parts of the plant is idle. II is
thought that before the latter part oil
this week, all the mill be on. The coal
miners are maSiug fair time. Thurs
Gav was a scOrching day for the men
20 work. The puidlers made but one
he, aud the rollers gave out altOg ther,
- had TO quit work.
The big, new Belmont blast furnace
is working, and 10 is doing the best
kind About POO men are at work az 10.
A the mill will 90 on as soon as ma
teria.s eau be secured. 10 IS thought
t1aJ this will not De long. Some days
las, week, the furnace made $50 tons OF
Ae,sl In one day. It's average will be
aWgt l25 tons during the heated
weather.
Wilson & CbapnaG's planning mill is
On iu full. The firm has about corn
pleted work on the new building at the
Fair Grounds. A. j. Ereeiand, the con-
tractor, of Warrington, is receiving
shipments Of residence finishing mater
ia.s. They are fitting up the offices OF
the West Penn OF. company at Manning
ton, also.
O.he- good news is that the Wheeli ng
steel works are 20 60 on in full next
Wednesday. They have been idle for
the last six weeks. Men will be put 10
work in the morning 70 get things in
readiness for the start. They employ
600 men. who have been idle, and who
will be glad 10 get 20 work.
The Tutonvue pottery is still in the
ha9ds OF the receivers, but 10 is thought
that soon arrangements can be made 20
have the works, which employ sixty
uen, 60 on ia full Many OF the work
meu are coming 70 this city 20 work in
the new sanitary pottery Of the Wheel
Ing Pottery company.
GOOD progress. and increasing bust
ness Is the word which comes from the
Joseph Bell Stove ,G Range company,
OF this city. Car loads OF stoves are
being received from the plant at Mum
Gle, aud o force of men are az WORK 10
this city getting zoo stoves ready for
the FIRST fail consignment
The slab question which has been a
labor difference at the -Ejua-Standard
mil, has been settled. The men wanted
$50 q ton extra for the additional
folding of the slabs. BY the settlement
they will get 81 extra for this work.
The miners Of the two mines OF the
Boggs Run Mining company did not 90
70 work as was expected. II is not
known when they will be started, as
the manager says that there are no
orders ahead.
Crowthers & Howe, the South Side
machine firm has sold an engine and
boiler 20 a firm at Flushing, o. A. d.
Howe. OF tue firm, has gone there 70
superiuteud the work OF putting up the
machinery.
The 9Th. of next month is the time
se' for the North Wheeling pottery 70
IA me work. For some time they
Il = been taking stock at the plant
M, pottery gives work TO about 100
employees.
Richard Lynch, who for some time
has been at Muncje, Ind, at work in a
mill. has returned, and will so TO work
10 the Etua-Standard He likes this
locality best after all.
a The L.bbey glass works at Toledo,
Y, are idle. IL is not known when the
factory will be put In operation again.
Many Of the workmeu are Wheelingites.
Fred Fellows, now the manager OF
the Joliet, H., iron mill. is again in
this locality for visit. He was form
erly a roller Of the Etna-Standard.
With the exception Of the TiItouville
pottery, sud those az East Liverpool.