Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-29
THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.
LOCAL AND TElEGRApHlc LABOR NEWS

Riddle was the cause OF the Strike,
had no intention of ever returning to
the mines for work, even should they
be reinstated. Though the settlement
was an unconditional one, yet this ac-
ton on the part of the men is looked
upon generally by the people interest
ed in industrial matters as the wisest
/ possible means of effaciing an adjust
ment of the difficulty, in view of the
| circumstances in the case. The miners
| reported to Manager Riddle for duty
shortly after the meeting and will re-
| turn to work just as soon as the supply
| of coal, which the company had ship
| ped to the works during the strike,
has been exhausted. 1t is very likely
that operations will be resumed at the
mines some time during the present
week.
The business of H. P. Rodewig, the
! furniture dealer at Bellaire, will, very
| shortly undergo extensive repairs and
Improvements, which will give employ
| ment to quite a number of men. A
! stone pavement is to be placed in the
cellar and an elevator will be put in
the south end of the building, to run
between the basement and second
! floor. After the completion of the
! work business will be transacted on
! each of the three floors, and the stock
/ of goods will be increased. Repairs
will be made in all departments.
Quite a number of the employees of
| the bottle works and Rodefer's glass
| factory at Bellaire, are off duty and
| confined to their respective homes, i'll
with grip. About twenty-five work
men of the latter mandatory were off
during the past week affected with the
prevailing disease.
| The stockholders of the Novelty
| Stamping Works, at Bellaire, held their
annual meeting last Monday afternoon.
| The Board of Directors elected for the
ensuing year were as follows: M. l..
Blackburn, A. Klotz, Attorney j. A.
Gallaher, F. B. Archer, John Schick,
d. T. Anderson and George Walters.
Thomas Strong will resign his posi-
| ton as enameler at the Novelty
! Stamping Works, at Bellaire, after the
| first of the coming month to accept
! the position of general manager of the
| Enterprise Enameling Works in South
j Bellaire. Mr.. Strong has been the
enameler at the former mandatory
| for quite long while.
| During the past week a large force
of men were at work engaged in lay
| ing new side tracks in the G. & P.
railroad yards at Bellaire. The c., L.
& w. railroad company are contem-
plating the placing of side tracks on
their available ground at that city in
| the near future. These improvements
are quite significant of an increase in
| business.
The employees of the lapp-weld fur
mace at the Riverside mill, numbering
| between fifty and seventyfive men,
were compelled to quit work last Mon
/ day afternoon, owing to caVing in
of the top of the furnace. Immediate
| ly after the accident large force of
men were put to work to make the
necessary repairs for a resumption of
| operations. Plate mill E at the works
was idle during the past week undergo
| ing repairs on an extensive scale. The
coke plant at the Riverside works is
now being operated in all the depart
ments, and during the week large
| quantities of the product, the quality
of which was found to be perfectly sat
| isfactory to all concerned, was turned
out.
Among those, who from Bellaire and
vicinity, attended the coal miners
meeting held at Pittsburg during the
! past week, were Samuel McGregor w.
| G. Simpson, Alexander Neff and Con-
rad Troll, representing the coal miners
[ along the B. & o. line.
| The Barnard Brick Works, west of
| Bellaire, was started up during the
week, and will be supplying the trade
with bricks of an excellent quality in
a very short time.
G. W. Montgomery, of Bellaire, has
! been granted a patent on a portable
metal boring machine for boring holes
in steam cylinders. The use to which
this machine can be put is quite an
improvement over the old method of
perforating steam cylinders. The ma
chine has been constructed in a man
ner which renders it capable of being
adjusted to suit a steam cylinder of
any size, and is sufficiently light to be
handled to great advantage. With this
machine it will not be necessary to adj
just cylinder in order to have it Dor
ed with holes. Therefore Mr.. Mont
gomery's new invention will do away
with the custom of adjustment and
carriage of the steam cylinder from it's
| proper place to the various shops
where the practice of boring is pur-
sued, The idea of the inventor is
| worthy or the commentator of all in
dustrially inclined. Mr.. F. E. Mccoy,
of Wheeling, has purchased a half in
terest in the patent. 1t will be placed
on the market within a short time and
will, no doubt, be in great demand.
The rolls in plate mill E, at the
Riverside works, have been put in po-
sition and the department will be
started up tomorrow after a weeks
| idleness for repairs.
! The pudding department and the
| plate mill at the Wheeling steel and
iron company's plant at Benwood.
were started up last Monday after a
| four days idleness caused by the
| strike of the company's coal miners.
| The steel plant was idle during the
week and will remain closed down dur
| ing the next four or five weeks to
come. Extensive repairs and improve
ments are being made in this depart
ment and stock is being taken. The
work of placing a new foundation I'M
Ger the blooming mill engine and put
| ting new rocker in the blowing en-
| CINE is being vigorously pushed for
ward and is giving employment to
! large force of men.
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