Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-07-24
AFTER MANY DAYS.
Ose Hundred. and Twenty-Five Men win
Go to work at the Whitaker Nil

Ols Hundred, and Twenty-Five Men WIN
60 to work at the Whitaker Mil
To-Day
This morning mills Nos. 6 and : OF
the Whitaker are to go on in full. II
was thought that they would be put on
. week ago. but this time IL is q sure 60
This will be the first part OF the new
mill to 20 on since being rebuilt after
the great fire at the plant, on the 18th
OF last November. The employees were
notified yesterday to be on hands ready
for work this morning. So great has
been the faith Of nearly all the men
that they would get work st the big
plant soon, that few Of them have gone
out of the city for work, bat will be
there this morning for their old jobs.
About one hundred and twenty-five Of
the mill men will go to work this morn
ing on the two mills. More OF the plant
will be put on right along, just as 1t is
finished.
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
Cox & Co.'S boiler works are shut
down.
The Wheeling steel works are to go
on tomorrow.
The Bellaire steel works have dropped
bottom again. No metal.
Two Of the heating furnaces OF the
Belmont mill will 60 on this morning.
Redman & Company report that trade
is good on jobbinG work and that all the
employees are az work.
This will be the last day for the pud-
dlers OF the LaBelle mill. IL Is not
known when they will get work again.
A force Of painters have completed
work on the new corrugated addition TO
the plant Of the McMechen preserving
works.
The Riverside bar mill al the head OF
Twenty fifth street, resumed YESTERDAY
morning single turn. This gave WORK
TO about fifty idle men.
The West Virginia Tobacco Company
is as busy now as ever IL was in the his
tory of the plant. II is hard for work
men to keep up with the orders
A mill of the Riverside plate depart
ment went on at two turns yesterday
morning. Fifty idle men got work
This department has been idle for the
! asst eight weeks.
They are still taking stock at the
Hinge works. This work will be COM
pleted 10 a few days, when about ono
half Of the plant, employing seventy
five persons, will 60 on again.
The two mines OF the Boggs' Rur
Mining Company have not yet beer
started, and q number OF the old en-
ployes are fading work in the McCul
Tough brick works az BellaIre. Twenty
of the miners are at work there.
The Beltz planning mill In the East
End. is going steadily. The firm has
completed the work OF remodelinE the
house OF Henry Menkemeller, on Sonth
Chapllne street, aud Is doing the finish
ing work for the store room OF Lee
Baer, Of Twelfth street.
Harry Simpson was found yesterday
&C his work in the factory ~ Rod man
and Company, in East Wheeling, In
very happy mood. His fellow workmen
knew the secret. II was because OF the
arrival at his nome yesterday morning,
in Pleasant Valley, Of large new boy
machinist.
Yesterday forenoon the mud drum 10
the preserving works OF Flaccus Bros
in East Wheeling, bursted, and II made
a racket. No one was hurt, but the
engineer had a narrow escape. lie was
on the drum less than minute before
the explosion, and had be been there al
that time be must have been scalded to
death. The drum is being repaired.