Lost art restored; glass pipe and conduit manufacture perfected

LOST ART RESTORED.

The Glass-Tube Works at Pendleton Gives

Successful Exhibition of What It Can Do.(

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Pendleton, Ind., April 23. — The Pendle­ton Glass-tube-works Company, having completed the buildings and placed all the necessary and costly machinery in position made the first attempt to-day to mold glass tubes. This was supposed by many to be a lost art, one that the Egyptians are known to have practiced, but which, since the fall of the Ptolemies, civilization has been a stranger to. The usefulness — even the necessity — of the art has been known and lamented for centuries, yet no inventor could perfect his machinery, nor hit upon the right combination and mixture to make the casting of glass a success. R. G. Guptill, whose invention is now being experi­mented with, had the satisfaction to-day of seeing his fondest hope realized. The tubes are molded in halves and cemented with a compound that is also his inven­tion.

A large crowd was present to witness the first output, for the factory’s future pros­perity depended on the success or failure of the performance. The intricate machinery, which R. G. Guptill had recently patented, proved to be a grand success, and the com­pany is delighted with the result. Many tubes from one to four inches in diameter were molded in the presence of the vis­itors. The machinery did its work in a manner that convinced the most skeptical that the factory will prove a success and soon supply to the world a means of plac­ing electric wires underground, and thus avoiding the usual danger to life and limb. The company has more orders for tubes than it can fill for several years.