Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-09

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ufacturers' Association. Among the
firms OF the vicinity who are said to
be members of the combine are the
Central, of this city; the Fostoria Glass
Company, of Moundsville; Riverside
Glass Co., of Wellsburg; United States
GLASS Co., West Virginia Glass Co., of
Martins Ferry The combination, at
the request of the larger firms, will be
practically along the line of the present
window combine. The association will
control the output of the members, dis
tribute it and have full authority on
fixing prices, opportioning orders, and
the general sales end Of the business.
There will be a central Office in Pitts
burg. exactly similar to that OF the
window combine.
A glass trust of bottle manufacturers
was formed in In New York last week.
A local firm is interested and mem
Der of the combine.
A new company called the Cooper
alive Stove Company, is said to have
been organized by employees OF the late
Fisher foundry, and that charter has
been granted for the company. The
company will build soon, and the site
selected for the location of the foundry
is the old B. & o. shop property IN the
yards at Twenty ninth street, near the
Warwick Tool Company. This will
give the new company the best rail-
road facilities. They will manufacture
stoves and heavy castings.
The work of getting the plant OF the
McCay Shoe Machinery Manufacturing
Company's branch here into shape is
progressing finely. The work Is un-
der the supervision Of Edward Keat-
irg, of Boston, who will have charge
of the factory, which will be on the
site Of the Peterson property, on water
street, just below the Wheeling Stamp
ing Ccmpany's works. The delay IS
caused by the non-arrival OF the shaft
ing from Pittsburg, but it is expected
almost daily. The factory will only
manufacture shoe nails. They will
have about seventy-fve machines at
work when everything is completed.
TIE LaBelle mill will furnish the iron.
A new believed furnace has been
completed at the Riverside and will be
started shortly. A force of men are
still at work on the incline and new
trestle being built from the coke plant
to the stack house. A new roof is
being put ON the stack house. The
blast furnace has been equipped with
a new bell.
The Crystal glass works of Bridge
port recently shipped to parties
in Honolulu, Hawaii, the first OF SER
les of orders for glassware of its make,
made UP Of $50 packages 1t is learned
that the Crystal has received inquiries
for prices from several foreign coun-
tries recently, but it was found neces-
sary to decline to receive any orders
for the reason that in the face of the
fact that the works is running night
and day, the rush of domestic orders is
so great that other orders cannot be
considered at the present time.
The, stockholders of the Peoples Ice
and Storage Company held a meeting
Thursday night but postponed the
election of officers until the meeting
next week. The finance committee had
not called upon all the stockholders,
and as a stakeholder is required to pay
ten per cent of the amount of his
stock in advance before he can vote,
the election was, therefore, postponed
until the next meeting in order to give
all the stockholders AN opportunity to
paw and participate in the election of
the officers and board of directors. The
committee ON sites reported several
desirable locations but a selection was
not made.
Charles D. McCarty has the contract
to build the power house for the Ben
wood Water Company Contractor
McCarty has also contracts for two
modern eight-room houses for A. E..
Nay on the Island, and for six-room
frame house for Superintendent George
Grey, of the Bellaire Bottle Works,
also on the Island.
Edward Hanm has received con-
tract 10 bui.l a frame dwelling on
North Market street for Mrs. J. A..
Faris. Louis Hartong has been given
the contract to remodel the house Of
Menry Graeble, on South Chapline
street. E. M. Holiday & Co. is fur
nishing material for a residence for
w. R. Allen, the cattleman. The build
ing will be located on the Allen farm
two miles out ON the Fairmont pike.
Simpson & Tatum, the real estate
men, have offered the Donaldson car
rage building, on South Market street,
for sale.F
The movement to organize a trust
among the tin plate manufacturers Of
the country is said to be progressing
rapidly and the contamination of the
scheme is reported as likely to be ar
rived at within week or two. Local
tin plate manufacturers are expected to
join the concern.
A part Of the Aetna-Standard CLOSED
Thursday on account of the big engine
breaking down. The engine had been in
use since 1881. Four mills were stop
ped because of the accident and be-
tween $50 and 300 men thrown out I'M
til the GSnrage can be repaired.
The fact of the miners strike at Dill
lonvale being settled was ex-
clusively mentioned in last Sun
days Register. All the men,
numbering about a thousand, COM
promised without the check Off, and
returned to work Monday.
The new boiler house at the Bloch
tobacco factory is about completed.
The large smoke stack, one hundred
and twenty feet high, was hoisted into
position last week.
The Whitaker mill is being operated