Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-11-07

force of men building the foundation
for the addition to the Crystal glass
works at Bridgeport.
l.. g. Hallock,, contractor, who has
the contract for building the addition
to the State penitentiary, has the first
wall to the new cell building almost
completed, leaving the south end wall
and two towers to finish, and the east
or inside wall to be built entirely and
the present south end wall of the old
building to be torn out A gang OF
men are now tearing down the old wall
which will give pace to the new east
wall of the building.
w. L. Medill, of Steubenville, has
been appointed receiver OF the Illlon-
vile pottery. with bond of $4,000.
/ Workman to whom they owe several
hundred dollars caused this action to be
taken This concern was taken out or
the hands of the receiver two years
ago by an agreement of the company
EMPLOYEES who gave the company fur
Their time but it seems they were not
able to pay up The company is in
sey at $50 900, of which $4,000 is pre-
ferred stock.
The following Wheeling delegates at
tened the national convention of Sto-
gle and Cigarmakers' League at Pitts
burg. from Garfield Local No. 1: John
Hess, George A. Kaiser, Chas F. Stein,
Frank Thomas. w. H. Riley, Presi-
dent, George A. Dougherty, Vice Presi-
dent, and Valentine Frank, Treasurer,
are national officers and are also in at
tendance at the convention.
Josiah Scott and Edward Drummer,
two former La Belle tin workers, have
returned home from Covington, where
they worked for some time.
The American China Company, at To-
ronto. Ohio, started making clay on
November 1st. Pressers will go to work
Monday. The product of the concern
will be semi-porcelain, fine decorated
and white granite ware. The officers
Of the company are F. w. Fowler, pres
ident: e. j. McIlWain, vice president,
and H. R. Wyllie, secretary and treas
urer. The plant is in good condition
and the shipping facilities are ample
by both rail and river.
The lower Benwood plant started up
Wednesday.
George Fisher, the South Side build
er, has the contract to erect frame
residence and store room building for
F. Bot. on the old Sweeney property,
corner of Twenty-seyenth and Eoff
streets.
The Top mill blast furnace started up
last week after an idleness of several
years The laborers who have been
working at the furnace were reduced
from 81 25 to $1.20 day.
The potteries are still as busy as ever.
1t is the opinion that the present boom
in the pottery trade is caused by the
dealers putting in stock in anticipation
Of an increase in prices, which are
bound to be made the first of the year.
The Riverside is running full. Like
wise the La Belle and the Belmont.
The strike at the Bellaire steel plant
remained practically the same during
the past week. both sides being as de-
termined as ever. The strikers assert
they will never enter the works I'M
less the company agrees to pay them
according to their present demand,
while the company says that the strlk-
ers are out forever and are now run
ming the steel plant entirely with new
men on double turn. The plate mill,
which was thrown idle by the steel
strike was started up last Wednesday
morning on double turn with the old
men and a number of the blast furnace
employees, some of whom were relieved
from the force operating the steel de-
partment The new men experienced
two delays during the week caused by
breakdowns in the machinery, but, as
the accidents were not serious the time
lost amounted to little.
Spears & Riddle, the machinists,
have received the contract to furnish
the entire machinery for a complete
axle plant, which is now under way Of
constructor for the NJ. Higgins Car
riage Company, at Racine, Wis. The
plant will be an extraordinary large
one, capable of an output of one hun
dred and fifty sets of axles day.
The planning mill company, Beltz &
Sens, have received the contracts for
the erection of two fine residences, the
work on which has begun. One
is to be built at Woodsdale for Mrs. G.
P. Brown, of Wheeling, while the 9TH
er is for Mrs. M. A. Chew and is to be
erected at Leatherwood The company
is also placing an addition to the resi-
dence of Samuel Bloch, at Pleasant
Valley. This addition is being con-
structed for use as conservatory.
The Wheeling Hinge Company had a
new gas engine placed in their factory
the first of last week. 1t has thirty
five horse power, and was put in mo-
lion for actual work last Friday for the
first time. The factory is now equip
ped with two gas engines, the ola one
being of twenty-five horse power
During the past week the factory OPP
Grated in full.
The Central glass factory had one
furnace on during the week with an
employment Of about forty-fve hands.
The Corrugating works is working
full in every department.
The Whitaker mill during the past
week was on in every department with
the exception of mills and 8, whose
idleness is due to a lack of metal.
President NJ. NJ. Garland, of the
Amalgamated Association, has publish
ed an interesting pamphlet. 1t con-
tains a comparison of selling prices for
bar iron from 1910 to the present time
and the pudding rate for every year
since 1887. The highest selling price was
December. 1864, and the lowest price
in June of this year, when it was SIS q
ton. The highest pudding rate was SO
ton, which was the rate in Septem-