Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-25
THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.
LOCAL AND GEOGRAPHIC LABOR. NEWS.

w. d., dlU OOllPiCOCu SOyS1o al WSSAAS
ago, the construction OF the new wat
er works at Caldwell, o.
The work of repairing and improv-
ing the b. & o. bridge. crossing the
Ohio river between Bellaire and Benz
wood was finished last Wednesday.
All the defective wood and iron has
been taken away and replaced with
new material of the latest mode. The
improvements made relieved the
strain on the abutments to a great ex-
tent, while t-7..ns are passing over the
bridge. The force, of men, numbering
thirty-two, who were engaged in the
work under the supervision CT con-
tractor D. A. Sheedy, left Bellaire last
Wednesday via b. & o. for Buffalo, N.
Y. Several weeks were required TO
make the repairs amid improvements.
John Davis, of the firm of Davis q
Archer. the Bellaire brick contractors,
is now travelling through Indiana on
business.
A number of Bellaire men are now
at Braddock, Pa, engaged in the work
of paving under the supervision OF
Charles Rosser, the brick contractor Of
Bellaire.
The Bellaire steel plant continues to
be operated on double turn. A large
number of orders are on hand at pres
ent. The daily output of metal dur
ing the past week was very large.
STEUBENVILLE INDUSTRIAL.
Steubenville, o., September "a
Steubenyille industries are doing very
well at present. The Acme glass
works, where 700 hands are employed,
is being operated to its full capacity;
Hartyes' paper mill with 120 hands, is
running night and day; the Steuben-
vile pottery is working full time,
with all hands at work; the glass pot
works, Nicholson's brick yard, Fiches'
brick yard, Sharp's foundry, Burgogne S
broom factory, Robinson & Irwin and
Means machine shops and the River
side and Jefferson furnaces are being
operated to their full capacity.
The cabinet works are being operated
by the parties who closed IN on the
firm owning the works, but the opera
ton is only temporary, as material
on hand only is being worked up. r-
Samuel Irwin is taking steps to lit
I'D the old water works property which
he udS lSooCu LINN 'AiS NANS'
iron and brass foundry.
Local Union No. 8, A. f. Z. w. w.
has elected officers as follows: Presl-
dent, James Gavin .yli ceeo PresSddsntI Ed.
DiSorSS> Fina1cial Secretary James
-Shanahan; Corresponding and Record
ing Secretary, Michael McSwiggen;
Treasurer, Thomas McGourty; lnspec-
tor, Thos. Sullivan; Trustees, Hugh
McGinness, Frank Wolpert, William
Maxwell. r,
The new works where glass tank
blocks are to be manufactured is ready
for the roof. The foundation and walls
are massive. The kilns are nearly
completed. A brick house nearby has
been remodeled into a handsome Oftlce.
The foundation for the new sulphlte
plant at Hartyes paper mill is COM
pleted and the walls are. being built.
Ground was broken this week at the
Aetna-Standard at Mingo for another
new steel building. 1t will be 470 feet
long. and is located north OF the new
blowing mill building. The second
electric crane has been placed in the
blooming mill building, and the cree
ton of big engines is about completed.
Repairs ON the furnaces. are about COM
pleted.
The Sligo brick works of the Mack
Manufacturing Company, at Peurith,
will be started on Monday. With the
operation of this plant everyone Of the
iargee plants operated by this company
will be going full blast. About thirty
cars of brick are being shipped daily
from their plants,