Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-12
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Enterprising citizens of Wheeling are
still working away at the Hobbs glass
house project, and if sufficient interest
can be aroused the plant will be pur-
chased and placed in operation AT
of South Side business men
Friday evening, however, sentiment
seemed favorable to purchasing new
site and erecting plant. Many are
inclined to think that the trusts price
of s52,500 is still too steep, and that it
will be more economical to establish
new glasshouse than to purchase and
rehabilHate the old one.
The West Virginia and Crystal glass
houses, which were sold to the Nation
al Glass Company, were closed down the
fore part of the week to take stock.
Both resumed, however, Wednesday
evening. and so far no changes have
been made in the managers or the mode
of running the plants.
At the Schmulbach brewery the old
wash house is being cleared away and
= new $4,000 building will take its
place 1t will be one hundred feet long,
ninety feet wide and two stories high.
On the first floor there will be wash
house and shipping room, and on the
second floor there will be a pitch yard
and a cooper shop. Each department
will give employment to larger force
of hands. The capacity of the wash
house will be greatly increased.
1t is probable that the Wheeling Iron
e Steel Company will soon possess
three plate mills of equal capacity at
It's Belmont plant, on the South Side.
The new plate mill is being fitted out
with a third blasting furnace, which
will make it as large as the old plate
mill, and the company is contemplat-
Ing putting up another plate mill OF
similar capacity in the near future. Inc
work of putting up a new sactlng house
at the works has been completed. 1t
Is of structural iron and is considered
as being one of the finest buildings or
the kind in the valley.
At the Riverside at Benwood, exca-
yation was begun on Friday for what
it is understood will be the foundation
for a new tank for the by-product coke
plant now under construction.
The La Belle iron works. including
the tin department, made good time
last week.
The usual force of hands are at work
at the Mckay Shoe Machinery Co.'S
plant and large shipments of nails are
being made daily.
The Wheeling steel and iron works
has been on in full the past week and
The work of setting up the new Ster-
ing boilers has been progressing rap
Idly. The steel department, which was
closed down owing to a scarcity of
steel, resumed Monday and the skelp
department went on Wednesday after
being off because of break in the en-
CINE.
1t is stated that the management of
The National Tube Company may con-
,lude to locate their big works else
where than at Benwood unless pro-
)erty owners scale down the prices
hey are asking for land. This threat
sned change of programme has brought
'orth some protest from the business
not unlikely the Wheeling Chamber of
Commerce will give the matter ener-
yetic attention.
The Fostoria glass works of Mounds
Vile, it is said, are intending to build
1 new glass works either at Mounds
Vile or elsewhere, as may be deemed
advisable by the management The
people of the Mound City are apprehen-
tive that they may lose the new pro-
posed factory.
Tho Structural Iron Company which
S doing business in the old Spence
machine shops at Martins Ferry, has
adopted new rule with its employees.
One day last week a notice was posted
stating that any man who absents
himself from work without two days
notice to the company, except in case
If sickness, need not return.
The Laughlin tin plant after short
'un of ten days, was again compelled
% close down on last Wednesday ow-
ng to a shortage of steel.
The Top mill furnace has resumed
and a good run of metal was made the
@ast seven days.
During the past week there was con-
siderable gossip about the proposed
plans of the National Tin Plate Com
)any which is being practically direct
I'd by local capital. The company, it
S understood. proposes to manufact-
Ire tin plate by the Rodgers process,
which is much cheaper than by the old
method. The location of the plant is
ret an uncertain contingent.
At the Bellaire steel works during
he past week one of the large brick
ined stacks was raised distance of
light feet and was moved twenty feet
rom its former position. The job was
lone by a Pittsburg contractor and
vas considered quite a neat piece of
work. Two new boilers will be put in
he space vacated by the stack.
Articles of Incorporation have been
lied with the Secretary of State of
Vest Virginia for the organization of
he Midland Brick and Terra Gotta
Company of Wheeling with an author
zed capital of $1.000.000. The incor-
are: c. w. Franzheim, ].
Y. Vance. Myron Hubbard, John NJ.
Birch and NJ. l.. OFT, of Wheeling, and
James PAUL, of Wellsburg. The new
irm will enter into competition with
he Suburban Brick Company.