Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-05-17
AT TIE ErNA.sTANDARD.
Mill Notes from Esuavins and Its Zig
Plant.

Mill Notes from Esuavills and Its Zig
Plant.
None OF the puddlers have worked for
the last three weeks.
In general business at the mills SHOW
increase over last week.
The plate mill is on again. 1t has
been idle for the last two weeks.
The bar mill and the breakdown are
idle. They have not run for the last
three weeks.
Part of the old division of the Stand
ard is on. Some gas is being used In
the furnaces.
Large numbers OF the former en-
ployes of the mill are leaving to find
work elsewhere.
A large part Of the mill is on with
coal. This fuel is gotten principally
from the Monongah mines in West Vir-
GINA.
re. Catch, Of this city, has the con-
tract to paint 1,5OO squares of the roof
OF the plant. Work will be begun in q
few days.
Joseph O'Neil, one of the veterans of
the mill, has accepted a position, and
has gone TO work on the plate mill, after
an idleness.
BENJAMIN Hiderbrand will leave to-
day for Cambride, o., where he has &C
cepted a position in mill. he has
long been employed in the Etna-Stan-
dard.
David Callaghap, William Cragle, and
John Andrews, well known mill men,
are home from st. Clairsyille, Ohio,
where they were witnesses on the Par
ker case.
The new mill OF the Standard depart
ment went on last Monday. This in
cludes the sheet mills -, 49, IA and Is.
The mills are on with coal. This gives
about 100 men work.
Patrick Dempsey, one OF the best
known mill men, has gone TO GAINESVILLE,
! o., to work In mill there. He is TO re-
turn here next month, and at that time
will take wife from among the inter-
esting young ladies of Etnaville.
John and Michael Lee, mill men of
Sharon, Pa, are the guests atthe home
Of Thomas Fury, the well known roller
OF this plant. The men drove from
their home in a buggy, distance OF
over 100 miles.
There are now more strangers about
the mill looking for work than at any
previous time during the depression.
They are attracted here by reports that
the mill is on in full, aud the result is
in most cases they go away dissatisfied.
Last Monday night two OF the en-
ployeS OF the plate mill had an alterca-
ton, and it resulted in a fight. One OF
the men threw a pair of tongs into the
rolls, doing considerable damage. The
men were called 10 the Office yesterday
for settlement
The Goat Fishing Club has been or
gained among the mill men. The club
IS a sort of resurrection OF the old Goat
club which was so famous here a few
years ago. A number OF the mill men
have Joined, and the camp is now
pitched near Sisters Island, up the river.
| Among those of the mill men now there
are: Robert Edwards, "Die" Davis. John
Morgan, Dutch Charles and William
Edwards.
The work OF getting the tin plate
plant in readiness fer operation is pro-
! crossing rapidly. The former pudding
department OF the Standard will be
used for the wash house of the new
mNl. Rapid progress is made In this
department getting it ready. Mills 3
and &of The upper end Of the Etna will
be then main seat of the new works.
From 1he outlook now the plant will be
/ In opsSation by the latter part of, An
gust a number Of new men are\ ar
irving o work in the new plant.
r->as Moore, one Of the leading