Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-08-13
foundation are making considerable
Roadway.

foundation are making considerable
headway
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Glass Company which is nego-
tiating for plants in this part of the val
ley has been holding meetings daily in.
Pittsburg for the past week. 1t was
announced Thursday that the combine
will be completed by August 18th and
it will then elect its new officers. Pres
ident H. C. Fry, authority for the
statement that the capacity Of the con-
solidated plants viii be 975 pots out of
the total of LIP in the entire country.
Twenty-seven out of the 33 plants are
included. OF the factories that will
probably not join the consolidation,
two are in Pennsylvania, one in In
diana, one in Ohio and one in West Vir-
ginia. 1t was also stated that the cap
italization of the combine will be about
$6,000,00O or sS,000,000, and that this
will represent only the actual appraise-
ment value of the plants consolidated.
The Wriths Bros. 373 Broadway,
New York. are about to locate in Ste
ubenville a branch of their immense
glass decorating establishment having
secured from d. ]. Sinclair lease of
the old Humphrey glass works. The
contract for employment of the plant
has been given out and work COM
menced Immediately to increase the
size, put in skylights and windows.
A movement has been started across
the river which has for its object the
construction of a rural telephone sys-
tenn to provide a service for all the
inland towns of Belmont county. The.
project has for its ultimate purpose not
only system of telephone commune
cation for the towns and villages, but
aims to make a service so popular that
individual farmers and crossroads
merchants can afford it. The company
has at its head prominent business
men of capital who express themselves
as determined to push the enterprise
for all there is in it. McClainville,
Neffs, st. Joseph, Anvil, Bethel, Jacob
sburg, Kelsey, Centerville. Belmont,
Morristown, Flushing, New Athens,
Harrisville Pleasant Grove, Colerain'
and Martinsburg are all to be within
the circuit
A wage conference was held in the
Stevenson building, Pittsburg, We'd
nesday between the Wage Committee
of the American Flint Glass Workers
Union and the manufacturers. The
meeting was harmonious one, but no
material advances were made in the
wage rate. The conference was a gain
to the workers in the respect that, by
ba nh i,, y-,rJo
the equalizing of different classes of
work, their earnings will be larger on
the same wage scale than was the case
last year. 1t is is possible that
the conference committees will come to
an agreement before this item reaches
the readers. The principal contention
has been with the machine scale for
the glaSworkers, which owing to their
familiarity with the machine, is in the
hands of a subcommittee composed of
Messrs. Kenny, Conboy and President
Smith, who upon reaching an agree
ment will report to the conference COM
mittee. The manufacturers demand
from 900 to 2,400 chimneys to be made
each turn. which is on basis of the
number of chimneys made by the ma
chine at Montreal at the last fire, but
the workers will. not acquiesce and they
demand that the number to be made
each turn to be from 450 to 1000, half
the number demanded by the manu-
facturers, this scale haing been recon-
mended by the chimney committee and
adopted at the Marion convention last
month.
The Virginia Lumber Company, with
an authorized capital of 100000, has
been chartered with w A. Wilson, E.
NJ. Holiday, H. K. List and others of
this city as incorporators.
Information, from a source that is
beyond question, has been given out to
a few people here within the past week,
that the National Tube Company will
double the capacity of the Riverside
plant in this city. 1t was known to be
the intention of the Riverside Company
before the combine was preached, to
make additions to its plant here that
would increase the output. With this
end in view, large surplus was allow
ed to accumulate. the real estate was
purchased, new coke-makIng plant
was contracted for and all the prelim-
mary proceedings carried out The
great success of the Riverside plant as
a money maker, and as a producer of
pipe at small cost were matters of
common knowledge, and with Col. Frank
J. Hearne, who was largely response
BILE for this success. in charge of the
manufacturing department OF the Ma
tional Tube Company, it is but natural
that he should know and profit by the
favorable conditions surrounding the
local plant.
Mills Nos. 4. 5, and 6, at the La Belle
tin works were off Thursday, as a
change was being made in the depart
ments.
Wheeling pottery is working as US
ual.
The La Belle iron works is running
in full.
STEUBENVILLE INDUSTRIAL.
STEUBENVILLE, O., August r.
Work he's begun on the Humphreys
Glass Factory buildings to put them
in shape for occupancy by the Writ
Bros. branch glass decorating estab-
lishment The output will be decor
ated glass of all sorts ranging from
tumblers to fine table sets and lamp
globes Writ Bros who own seyeraI