Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-10-17

The employees Of the big Riverside
| plant are expecting their wages to be
restored on the Gath inst. They base
TINS expectation on the assurances of
| their Doses, but many of the men
douDt that their wages will be given
back to them and think that it will be
| Some time before they get their old
wages. Every department of the Riv-
| erside is busy and several big orders
are being filled.
The management of the Bellaire bot
| tie works has decided to increase the
capital stock by $1,000 and will erect
a new plant with a furnace, two tanks,
etc., which will double their present ca
pacity. 1t is likely that the new plant
| will be built on the site of their old
works in the Fourth ward.
The Enterprise Enamel Company,
of Bellaire, have received their char
/ ter under the laws Of West Virginia,
authorizing a capital stock of 100000.
| They will organize on a basis Of $40,-
GOO at present.
Extensive improvements were COM
| menced last week at the Schmulbach
| brewery plant, on the South Side. Two
additional stories, 80 by 80 feet, will be
| built over the large engine room.
| These larger apartments will be used
as wareroolns, the increased output of
the .plant making larger storage space
! absolutely necessary. The present
! building is just one story high, and the
addition when completed will make it
much larger and more imposing. The
second and third stories will be made
of brick and iron. In the construc-
ton four immense iron Orders will be
! used, each SO feet long, 80 inches wide,
l12 inches thick, and weighing five or
six tons. J. R. Butts has the contract
for the brick work.
The miners Of the district have mott
fed The operators that the screens they
are using in this district are too large
and have asked them to adopt the sized
screens used in Ohio, which are IA
inches between bars. The difference in
the size of the screens makes a differ
ence in the price paid the men, as the
price is based on the run Of mine made
with the screens in use.
The Bellaire steel workers struck
last week against the reduction of
wages that has been made at that plant
since the first of September Starting
up after the summer stop during which
the works had been vastly improved,
the company notified the men that
they would be expected to work under
new scale. This scale practically
cut down the mems wages about 40 per
cent, which the company assured the
men they could make up by reason Of
the improved machinery with which
Iie. plant had been supplied and which
was sad to be capable of largely in
creasing the output. The assurances
Of the company have not been verified
by experie7ce, and after continuance
of dissatisfaction ever since the plant
last started UP, the men decided to quit
{ until the comAany would make another
scale The mAa-asa for an increase of
80 per cent on each 100 tons of product
above the present scale, although this
ID be legs than the old scale, which
in forqe prior to September. The
and cJrnpgny have as yet had no
4DAld2 l4onference, and the result of the
strike is indefinite. The charge that
the strike was brought about by de-
signing persons for political reasons is
denouucea as aroundless by the men.
The bricklayers commenced work on
'tlre 800 Riyerssi,.HG irNn pant Friday
The lower Benwood mill closed down
last week on account of running out of
metal.
A "linAey" engine has been bought
eor the NBelle mill and has been
named for President Robinson, of the
company
The work Of putting up the structural
part Of the new LaBelle tin plate mill
S progressing we'll All the columns
nave been put up, and the girders for
he top are being put across.