Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-27
STEUBENvILLE INDUSTRIAL


The Bastard shaft property was offered
for sale this week by Receiver p. p Lew
is at the low figure of $4,000. but was not
sold for lack of bidders. This is a valua-
bic coal property ard is worth several
times the appraisement, but its failure to
sell is an Indication of how adverse men
are to invest under present conditions.
Forney & Hamilton, architects of
| Wheeling, prepared plans and estimates
for the building committee of the U. P.
church. which is preparing to build
mission chapel on Adams street. Con-
tractors are bidding on the proposed
structure.
Frank Gilmore has arrived here after
years stay in Russia, where he was lay
ing brick for a construction company, of
Pittsburg. He leaves in a short time for
another point in Europe
August Floto is preparing to tear down
the St. Charles Hotel property and build
five story brick building. which can be
used either for a hotel or for business
room on the first floor and offices up
stairs. The contracts have been let as
follows: Edward Nicholson. brick work;
A. M. Shane, frame work and F'loto Bros.
stone work.
industry here, will start off next week.
| They have one order for 800 telephone
cabinets, given them by the Keystone
Telephone Co. of Pittsburgh, with the
option of increasing it to 100000 They
have a number of other orders. They win
occupy two large brick buildings and one
frame building, all three STORIES on South
Fourth street. On the lot in the rear
10 III 1aoiI
house and building for ripsawing and
re-sawing lumber and storing it, Col.
Bell is general manager. j. r. Kline is
foreman and A. J. Demonia has charge of
the finishing department. About IS men
and thirty girls will be employed. The
concern will make a market for hard
lumber, especially walnut and oak The
works will be practically fire proof, as the
whole building will be heated by steam,
and the boilers are separated from the
main buildings by an alley All shavings
will be blown into a BRINK vault. The
employees are to be drilled in the use of
Harden chemical extinguishers, with
which the works is equipped. They will
do cabinet work in all branches, especial
ly telephone cabinets They will make
combination step and extension ladders
they have machinery. Boilers and en-
gines of immense capacity have been put
in. Any lumber going into the factory in
the morning will come out finished at
| night Remnant lumber will be used in
making mouldings. Some sixty wood
working machines have been set in posi-
ton After the wood starts in the facto-
ry it is passed very rapidly through the
various stages of planning, moulding. sand
ING, cutting. gluing, trimming. boring.
! filing sanding vanishing, finishing and
! last of all assembled, for the ware room.
Frank l.. Mackey. Steubenville boy
| living in New Castle. has patented an
| electrical device called a clock controlled
switch. OF will turn off electric light in
| show windows automatically. The de-
! vice is controlled by an eight day clock
movement, and it requires attention but
! once a week The invention can be used
| for other purposes. as 1t will open a cir
| emit as often as desired. With it, light
in show windows will be turned off with
| ont the trouble of going to stores.
The food which this valley just exper-
! fenced did great damage to manufactur-
| ing plants by temporary Suspension, AT
| the Aetna-Standard works at Mingo the
| soaking pit in the steel works, which was
! considered water tight. is cracked and it
will take several weeks to repair it. At
! the Jefferson Iron Works the furnace was
| banked. AT the paper mill high water got
| In the basement causing suspension, and
| stopped the placing of the new machinery
| for the pulp mill. The basement of the
| NOT works was flooded but no clay was
| damaged. as it had been removed
At New Cumberland the Backbone
| Ballentynes Garlcks, Sligo, McElfresh,
Lone Star and Clifton fire clay plants
were inundated and much damage done.
At the Clifton works number of kilns
| of green brick were ruined and several
| thousand dollars loss entailed. Shelter
& Co.'S foundry and the Chelsea pottery
were flooded. On the Ohio side one Of the
plants of the Freeman Co. was Hooded by
water. The Empire Fire Clay Co yards
! and the yards of other fire clay works
were flooded. AT the McElfresh works
three kilns of pipe which were on hre
were flooded. with a loss of $1,000 Sever
! al kins of pipe were damaged at the
| Calumet works.
! WORLD OF LABOR.
| Some Chicago bicycle makers struck.
1 There are is 900 union iron moulders. :.
United States have 100000 railroaders-
railway workers