Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-18
TIIE IND0 FRI II WORLD.
LOCAL AND TELEcRApnIc) LABOR NEWS

Respite the tact that this is supposed
TO le the middle of the building season,
bodybuilding Is reported very dull by
architects and contractors. A member
OF dwell known firm Of architects re-
port that there is absolutely no new
worn and that there are hardly any
mQuties.
TwN handsome eight-room frame res
ldenc$ are being built at Pleasant Val
ley fot o. G.. Dewey.
The hrm of Hamilton & Forney have
prepared plans for improvements to be
made d Greenwood cemetery. The
PROPOSE Improvements will consist OF
y new NsideIAce for the sexton on one
side of she entrance to the cemetery,
and whiting room on the other side.
Both will be constructed Of stone.
Bids WIRE opened at the: Builders
EXCHANGE Tuesday afternoon, for the
CONSTRUCTION of the new Gavin office
building d Chapline street, opposite
the Court House. The lowest bidders
were as follows: Carpenter work,
Kieves, Knit & Co.; stone work, VIM.
McClain & 1Co.; brick work, w. ].
Brooks; painting, McAdams; roofing,
Agnew Roofing Company; plastering,
II. M. Stoet1er. The plans for the
building wers prepared by Franzheim,
Giesey & F4ris. The building Will
front % feet on Chaplfne street, and
Will have a depth Of 100 feet. 1t Will
be three stories in height, wikh a press
ed brick front. There will be six
rooms on each floor. The ROBINS on the
second floor and third flooriwill be so
arranged that they can HI used as
hats. The front and rear staa'ways Will
be of hard wood, and ther. will be
separate entrance from the street for
the second story. There WIZ be tile
floor to the entrance Of the hallway.
Work will be commenced IS soon as
possible.
The old brick front of tn Chemical
engine house No. ! is being torn away
to be replaced by an ornamental press
ed brick front with stone trimmings.
The contract was let some time ago to
MIR. Beal. The old belfry will also be
torn away for good. The new front
will have four upper story windows,
and there will be door on either side
Of the large double doors. At the pin
| nacle will be a large stone on which
will be carved in bold letters: Chem
lical No. l." 1t will be quite an inn
provement to the building.
| Contractor j. H. Parish has COM
penced work ON big improvement at
be La Belle tin mills in the shape of
lumber of giant chimneys over the tin
pts to carry off the fumes. These
climneys will be rectangular, about
seventeen by eleven feet in dimensions
atIthe bottom, and sixty feet high.
, One of the foundations is already in,
and the work will be vigorously prose-
lcuted.
\ Parties are once more negotiating to
buy the Western Sanitary Ware Com
&-Aany's plant at Tiltonville. The plant
las been idle for some time. Lawyer
Madill, of Steubenville, was in Wheel
Ing several days ago on business sup
posed to be connected with the selling
tOf the pottery.
Work was commenced last week on
the new trestling at the Riverside by
Foreman VIM. Dixon, of the Shiffler
Bridge Co., of Pittsburg. A force of
men are employed on the job, which
will require several weeks to COM
splete. A new iron roof is being built
pm the stock house.
\ An attachment was made on the Da-
ison pottery last week by Squire c. S.
reer, on a distress warrant granted
7. A. Rinehart for $50, rent due on
tie property building. The stockhold-
el paid the claim and the attachment
WIS released. The other attachments
mae on judgments granted for indi
vidal debts of Thos. Dawson still hold
god, and remain unsettled. The ap-
nlidtion for a receiver, made by some
of he stockholders, was withdrawn
and he stockholders will undertake to
settA up the affairs of the pottery
amOk themselves. One of the kilns
is fill of ware, worth about $500,
whichhas not yet been burned. The
stockholders propose to burn the kiln
and SCI the ware to pay off what claims
have ben filed against the pottery and
the latemanagement. Thos Dawson
is still nut of the city and is not ex-
pected t return.
The Warwick and Wheeling potter
les are bth running full.
The MMechen preserving factory,
on the Sdth Side, is working day and
night.
Expert accountants are pushing
along the Examination of books of the
potteries irfluded in the projected con-
solidation, put they will hardly con-
clude their work before the 2Sth of
September the date upon which the
options EXPIRE, and an extension of
time has ben asked to about January
]. F. l.. Talscott, of New York City,
is engineering the movement and has
secured OPTICS upon all but three or
four concerns that do not appear to
be favorably disposed toward consoli-
dation. few of the potters are will
ing to talk uph the subject, while 9TH
ers are very rlticent, but nothing will
likely occur Of material interest until
the experts flish their task of ex-
aiming the bpks.
A charter ha. been granted the Peo-
pies Ice and Storage Company, re-
Gently ORGANIZED in this city. The
charter will permit the company to Or
ganize permanently and elect officers
at the Text melting. 1t is expected
that the new plant will be in operation
by the first OF Isxt February.
The Whitaker mill is operating on
double turn in al departments.
The Central glass factory is working
as usual with on. furnace on.
The Wheeling c,rrugating works are
on in full.
The Excelsior paning mill is being