Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-06-04

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efSs 20 factories and mills are not over
confident ~ to the duration OF the
boom now on. But whatever may be
the outcome there seems at present to
be q commemorate disposition to make
hay while the sun shines, and there
isn't a manufacturer in this section of
the valley who is not pushing ahead at
q rate only limited by the capacity of
his plant and the ability TO secure or
ders. The past week, in the main, SO
Tar as the industries of Wheeling and
vicinity is concerned, has Seen one OF
uninterrupted activity. The big iron,
steel and tin plants, blast furnaces, and
foundries have been employed and the
glass factories, enamel works, mould
shops and machinists have proceeded
Without interruption. AS the season
2 progresses there is a disposition upon
the part of many manufacturers to has
ten the work in order that contracts
now on hand may be filled and suffi-
cient stock gotten ahead to supply the
trade when it becomes necessary to
shut down on account of the heat or to
make the accustomed summer repairs.
The strike among the employees of
the Wheeling street car line is still on,
and there appears to be no prospect OF
either party TO the controversy recedlng
from its position. On "Wednesday
night . mass meeting was held in the
Opera House in the interest of the
strikers, and this was followed by an
open air meeting Thursday evening.
The meetings were addressed by w. ID.
Mahon, of Detroit, President of the
International organization of Street
Car Employees, and by Stuart Reid,
national organizer for the Internation-
al Association of Machinists. The
speakers advised that the strikers
stand firm and the people of Wheel
ing were asked to cooperate with the
men In the future as they have done
In the. past. The refusal of the COM
pany to recognize the union of the
street car workers has evidently
aroused the antagonism of all the
trades unions of the city, and it is APP
parently upon this point as much as
upon the matter of wages that the
controversy now hangs
Considerable interest has been awak
ened In mining circles by the announce
ment that Bellaire man has invented
a coal channeling machine which is a
great improvement upon the devices
- now in use. The machine has nomi-
nal reach of IL feet and maximum
reach of 20 feet, while the machines
now in use have reach OF but 40
inches. 1t is also constructed upon an
entirely new principal, and while being
much more rapid requires only one
third the power of any other make.
The device is the invention of T. NJ
Gallaher, well known Belmont coun-
ty miner, who has heretofore received
several patents upoA the efforts of his
ingenuity. The machine has been ex-
amined and highly commended by nu-
merous experts, and if it proves to be
what its inventor claims for it, ma
chine mining will experience a revolu-
ton as a result. A company is already
being organized in Bellaire for its man
: ufacture.
During the week, as was foretold
exclusively by the Register, the deal
for the purchase of the Brooke bottle
works at Wellsburg by the North
Wheeling Glass Company was con-
summated, and the latter expects to
occupy its new quarters within the
next two weeks. The deal matured by
majority of the stock of the Brooke
plant coming into pcAiession of the
Wheeling firm. The North Wheeling
Company expects to take to its new
location about thirty of its old en-
ployes, and the north end of the city
will consequently lose very consider
able population on account of the
change. The old plant here will re-
main imperative, and may finally be
converted into brewery or ice plant.
The order to suspend operations at
the Laughlin tin plant at Martin S
Ferry, has caused no little stir among
the employees of the mill, and citizens of
the town. No one had the least sus-
picion the plant would not be kept in
operation up until the first of July I'M
tip the notices were posted Saturday
morning. The plant is one of the most
complete Of the many owned by the
American Tin Plate Company, and the
quality of the product is universally
recognized by jobbers. The notices
posted yesterday state that the mill
will close down for an indefinite period
and the management are as much at
sea as the men as to how long that
may be. The greater portion of the
plant suspended at noon yesterday.
The attempt of Pittsburg parties to
bring about a combine of all the glass
tableware factories of the country,
appears to have met with little en-
couragement in this section of the val
ley. An obstacle to the scheme is that
it is the intention of the promoters to
take into the consolidation many of the
nonproducing factories. This it is
thought would put those factories that
are doing a good business at great
disadvantage and consequently there Is
disinclination upon the part of such
owners to take up with the project. 1t
is stated that during the past week two
and perhaps three managers of local
plants, voicing the sentiments of their
respective companies, have formally
declined the invitation to enter the
combine.
On Wednesday the seventy-five en-
ployes at the Rockershousen coal
mines south of Bellaire went out on a
strike for change in the screen bars
and limitation of the dead work.