Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-25


and the other in three or four weeks
we are Thoroughly reconstructing
| them
The reporter then suggested the trip
of insrsction through the works. and
with the manager as guide passed
| down TO them.
| A group of pickets. sitting on the
| crest of the hill, noting the work in the
mills, observed the manager and the
reporter closely but without remark OF
any sort.
entering the mill at the north there
was found one of the ten-ton convert
ers in fun blast, and heat was just
being turned into the big ladle and
workman threw in the manganese
which supplies the necessary carbon.
and the molten steel was then let on
/ into the molds, making six lingo S,
weighing nearly 1000 pounds each.
These were passed up under the drip
ping plunger and later into the blazing
/ pits. Men were at work with huge
travelling crane lifting the dripping hot
{ ingots from the pits to the conveyers
| that take them down to the big rolls.
/ Another group of workmen passed it
along to another series of rolls that
soon REDUCED the ingots to long strips
of steel that were then carried across
| to the shears, where about ten at
time were cut into the bars and then
carried by another travelling crane
across the mil and dumped into wait
! ing cars.
Surely work was in progress and the
reporter was ready for the plunge as
| after the hot room OF turkish bath.
/ FaFa- IT,. F~r.s Inc &
! ed some awkwardness at their work
| but in the main things went smoothly.
| Another heat was turned on While the
| inspection was proceeding.
the pits are now heated by gas
| which worked all right, evidently.
! The blast furnaces are not ready for
! operation. but one Will be. probably
| next week and the other a month or
! less later.
After an inspection of the other por-
tons Of the plant Manager Carter said
| Now, NJ Reporter, think |
! have taken you through every part or
the pant, and you have had an oppor-
tunity TO see Just what we are dolng.
| We have no desire TO misrepresent the
| situation to the public or the men VINO
went out. We are not running full as
YOU see but each day we are adding
workmen to the force and increasing
| the output and shall continue TO do TINS
until we are running night and day
| continuously, except Sunday, as usual.
IF the old men apply we will give
! them jobs as we have vacancies to MI.
We can do no more than this in justice
| to those now working
"Al1 the other mills are IN operation
| in this locality. The second big new
blast furnace
At Mingo junction
was lighted up to-day By the way,
| ilhat plant now has as large and as per
feet blast furnaces as any in the world.
That plant is an Improvement on this
one as the molten metal from the blast
| furnaces never cools until II is on the
cars in bars and billets. while here
we reduce 1t to pig iron from the blast
furnaces"
No request was made to keep from
the public anything that the reporter
| had seen and he has told the Register
readers the details Of the situation at
the plant as he saw them.
The strikers ON watch.
Leaving the mill and passing down
the railroad toward the ferry the re
porter met about fifty OF the striking
workmen, to several of whom he is well
| known and was at once asked II ne
! had been through the pant.
He replied in the affirmative and then
told to them the situation as he saw it
in the plant, briefly, as no was in some
! thing OF a hurry, but told them that
they would find it all in the Register
this morning.
Several workTnen from the mill pass
ed down through the groups of strik-
ers. Edt not an unkind word was spok-
en- to them nor were they in any way
interfered with or jeered at.
rhe men have conducted themselves
spiendidly all through the strike thus
! far and have not interfeTed with any
of those applying for positions or Sc
curing them. They have been faithful
to their leaders and have conducted
! themselves as law-abiding citizens
/ should
Summoned to PittsburS,
The local officials of the Amalgamat-
/ ed Association were summoned to Pitts
/ burg yesterday by President Shaffer
and will be there to-day. Nothing
was given out as to questions to be con-
sidered or the cause OF the summons.
Local View OF ii.
There can be little or no change re-
corded in the situation here. The mill
! did not run last night, but was in OPP
Grafton ali day yesterday and turned
out considerable steel. The men held
meeting yesterday afternoon and SO
far as can be learned are still firm in
their position. Both sides appear to be
/ satisfied with conditions. The picked
system Is all off and persons are allow
/ ed to go and come without molestation.
! The men deserve great credit Ter the
| honorable way in which they have act
ed So far as known no untowaro act
| has been committed. Those at work
| -. r. A. ouon fnnan iaered or hnnted at