Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-07-10
THE INDUSTRIAL WORL D.
LOCAL AND TElEGRAPnIc LABOR NEWS.

The cid side Of the wheeling pot
they will likely resume this week
The new side has been working The
ceorators OF the Warwick will go to
work tomorrow and the clay depart
memo OF the Warwick will likely re-
sumo the week following. The Dayi-
son pottery Is In partial operation. The
La Belle dS working full
The Riverside is still busy in all de-
partments e. L. Pearson, who had
charge of the construction of the etruc-
tural iron work of the new coke plant,
has completed his contract and has
left with his men for his home.
Contractor Butts is making rapid
progress with tho brick work OF the
power house for the Wheeling and Elm
yEr0ve road.
The plate mill and pudding depart
ments OF the Wheeling iron and steel
works are still working, but the steel
works has not resumed. Considerable
anxiety and complaint has been stirred
among the employees OF the steel works
by the discharge of a number of the
oldest and experienced men, whom are
alleged to have been dismissed with
out reason and to create places for
workmen from Troy, N. Y, where the
general manager of the Wheeling steel
works was formerly located. The
workmen called meeting at Benwood
city hall yesterday to take some action
in the matter.
The national convention OF the Amer
lean flint glass workers will be com
menced at GAINESVILLE Monday. Dele
gates from Wheeling will attend.
1t is rumored that Bryce Bros, the
Rochester and keystone Tumbler Com
panies. the Central, of Wheeling, and
the Seneca have formed combine to
control the punch tumbler trade, and
that a similar move is occupying some
of the common tumbler and jelly peo-
ple.-Commoner and Glassworker.
eOld Abe" the old engine at the La
Belle mill has been relegated to the
scrap pile after forty-six years OF con-
tinuous service.
The Labor Day celebration this year
will he minus the street demonstration,
as the sentiment in the different locals
is In favor of expanding all money on
the picnic to make 1t success.
Work in the building line is very
dull at present A two-story frame
residence, Of fine design, is being erect
ed for o. C. Dewey on the National
road. Chas. Lisnach has the contract.
A two-story dwelling is being erected
for Frank Jackson, SIR, on the SCUM
Side. and q frame residence TOT WIN.
lindsay on South EOf street. L. M.
Gavin will build three story DrlcK
Office building on corner or Fl1teenCn
and Chapline streets. Plans Tor tnese
buildings were drawn by the firm OF
Franzheim, Geisey & Far1s The same
firm has prepared the plans for the
st. Augustine Catholic school house az
Grafton. 1t is a three story brick
building and will cost $4,000. E. nj.
Holiday & Co. have completed a ware
house for the Freedom Oil Co., on the
South Side. Bids for the Third Pres
byterian church improvements will be
asked this week. A third story is be-
ing nut on Charles Menkemeller's
building near the Fifth ward market
house. Klevis. Kraft & Co. have the
M. J. Owehs, former Eighth ward
glasworker land the inventor Of the
bIowin3 machine which promises
fo rsvoIuti6{5fze punch tumbler, Chin
new and bottle blowing, finds things
coming his way sufficiently to breaR
ground for a handsome residence on
Greenwood avenue, Toledo, ONO.
Piedmont, w. Va, July 9.-The coal
shipments from the Georges creek
Cumberland region by rail for the week
ending Saturday, July 2, aggregated
61,627. 10 tons, and for the year to da.e
2,O4O. 762.03, an increase OF lo4. Stills
tons over Che corresponding period OF
1897. During the week 21,S29.O5 TONS
of coal and 5,9S8.01 tons OF COKE were
shipped from the Elk Garden and upper
Potomac region of West Virginia
DIR. r. A. Cross has improved the
appearance of his two buildings OIL
Ashfield street very much.
F. w. Mcintyre and others have pur-
chased the ceal land and mine properly
Of Samuel Hines & Co., at Enterprise:
and will operate it under the name OIL
the Star Coal and Coke Company.
THE Central Railway Company, OF
West Virginia, has been formed WIN
a capital of 100000. Thos E. Davis
of Grafton. is President; Geo. f. Stur-
PISS of Morgantown, Vice President;
Geo. M. Whitescarver, of Grafton, Sec
retary. and Robert T. Devrles, or
wheeling, Treasurer. This company
proposes to build a railroad from Nor
pantown through Preston, Barbour, up
shur and Braxton counties to a point
on Elk river, then to Charleston.
The Coal and lumber trade in this
section is nothing extra.
sTEUBENvILLE INDUSTRIAL
Special to the Register
Steubenville, o., July 9.-The Acme
Glass Works has shut down for the usual