Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-06-18

ENJOYING has had the effect of deterring
the owners from making any alliance
with the combine. A manufacturer
said to a representative of the Register
a few days ago: s"There is one thing
Won can depand upon, and that is that
we will go into no combine unless we
can sell outright at price based upon
our current volume OF business ana
profit We don't care to give up Ger
tainty, now that we nave II. LOT /,
scheme that, to say the least, is 10
greater or less degree experimental.
don't believe there is a. single plant
owner in this part OF the valley that
will take anything like what the COM
bine is offering them, so you needn't
expect to see any of the plants removed
from local control at present.
number of laborers were at work
at the south end of the Riverside
grounds during the week engaged IN
removing distractions preparatory to
the erection of another coke plant. AS
previously stated, the new structure is
to be as large as the present plant,
which contains sixty ovens. Ii Work
on the coal enclosure continues 10 pro-
gress as rapidly as at present 1t Will not
be long ere it has been completed. Inc
bents and one of the towers for the
trestle have been put up and men are
now at work on the shaft for the ele-
vator. When these improvements nave
been completed there will be very lit
tie room left on the lower part of the
mill premises.
The employees of the Riverside coke
plant, which is being managed by the
Cement Solvey Company, OF Syracuse,
N. Y. were granted an increase In
wages of ten per cent last SaSurady.
The advance will take effect to-day,
and will raise the wages OF the various
Workmen to a fair rate. The river
side coke workers union Is in flour
ishing condition, and are receiving con-
gratulatory communications from dit
ferent unions in this section. 1t was
not long ago that the local coke en-
ployes received an advance OF 70 per
cent on an average.
The Warwick China Company, under
the direction of that bustling office man
and master potter, Thomas Carr, is eX-
ceptionally busy on dinner ware, toilets,
iardiniers and the large and excellent
line of fine decorated specialties and
novelties for which this progressive
firm has earned a deserved reputation
among leading potteries for the charac-
ter, variety and quality of its products.
New goods for the fall trade have been
prepared and statesmen are showing ad-
IL tn ha frod q
Two encouraging features of the
week in labor circles has been the set
Element of the strike at the North
Wheeling glass works by which that
plant will be enabled to resume to-mor
row, and the announcement that the
suspension at the Laughlin tin plant
was only temporary and that the con-
Germ will be on in full by Tuesday.
The industrial condition of Wheeling
has in the main been one of active OPP
Grafton and steady progress.
The delegation of operative potters
who have been selected to attend the
national convention of their Brother
hood, at Trenton, n. j., commencing
July 18th. is as follows: Wheeling
Local, No. 6, Thomas ]. Duffy, Wm
Hughes, Harry Hailes. Local No. %,
VIM. La Toush, Thos. Wildblood,
Louis Phillips. Jesse J. Jackson, who
is vice president of the organization, |
will also attend.
Mills Nos. l, 2, and 4, at the La
Belle tin plant, were compelled to close
down Monday about four o'clock on ac-
count of a square wheel on shaft |
shifting out of place. About one hun
dred and fifty men were thrown idle by
the accident. 1t will require several |
days to make the necessary repairs for
a resumption of operations in the four
departments. These mills will prob |
ably be started up next Monday.
The Wheeling pottery Company is as
busy a. scene as one need wish to see,
and their fine Cameo Ch&la, Royal La
Belle blue underglaZe dinner ware, ice
pitchers, jardinieres, decorated toilet
sets, tabouretts, umbrella stands, lem
onade sets, punch bowls, fruit services
and splendid line of specialties are in
such favor as keeps the great pottery
busy in all departments.
At the Riverside plant of the Wheel |
ing Pottery Company twelve hands |
have been at work in the
clay department the past week. The
kiln hands, decorators and wareroom
employees have not yet gone to work, |
but 1t is understood they will do so
soon. When the sanitary department
goes on in full it will employ about 100 |
hands.
The Wheeling Mold and Foundry |
Company is making some extensive i'm |
provements about its plant on Eigh- |
tenth street, and the new machinery
being put in to replace the old viii. |
greatly facilitate operations. Among |
the important pieces of machinery
lately added is finely appointed en-,
CINE which was purchased from the A. |
d. Howe Machinery Supply Co.
The Laughlin tin plant, at Martins |
Ferry, will resume in full next Tue9- |
day. The cold rolls and timing de- |
partment went on Wednesday and the |
hot rolls will be in motion by Tuesday. |
The dismay of the employees has been |
changed to rejoicing since the an |
nouneement that the/plant will re-
sumo.
The Crystal Glass Company, at |
Bridgeport, is driving its business nm