Fires started today in California Glass Insulator Co. factory

GLASS PLANT

BLOWN IN

TODAY

To Make Continuous Run of

Ten Months in Steady

Manufacture of

Insulators.

PRESSED WARE NOW

MORE SORTS LATER

Three Score Men at Work

and This Number Will

Be Increased to

150 Soon.

Robert P. Frisk, general manager of the California Glass Insulator Company, announced this afternoon that fires were started in the fur­naces of the big plant for the first time this morning and that there will be from this date forward a continuous run of ten months as a practical tryout of the equipment in­stalled, adding to the harbor indus­trial district an asset of utmost con­sequence.

On December 23 W. L. Camp, then secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, drove the spike that marked the completion of the Pa­cific Electric spur track that ex­tends from that system's Long Beach-San Pedro line to the initial plant of the California Glass Insula­tor Company. That this formal hon­or fell to Secretary Camp was due to the fact that since the opening of negotiations, last May, the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce had been constant and energetic in gen­erous effort to secure this industry for Long Beach guaranteeing the spur trackage free to the investors.

Within the fenced enclosure of 3 1-2 acres fie voted to the first of three units to comprise the complet­ed plant of the glass works Contractor Marcus Campbell has finished the erection of a group of five buildings. These substantial struc­tures are occupied as the main man­ufacturing plant, power house, store rooms and office.

Adjoining this 3 1-2 acre tract on the east is a 2 1-2 acre site which has been purchased by the glass company and where there will be installed its second unit, for the blowing of bottles, chimneys, carboys jars and all sorts and sizes of vials.

Upon four acres adjoining the first tract on the north the company has an option, intending, there in due time, after the first two units are operating steadily, to implant equip­ment for the manufacture of window plate and reinforced wire glass.

Before the summer of 1912 at fewest 60 men will be working at the first unit and within a reasonable construction period after that 150 employes will be drawing wages from the second unit, where skilled glass blowers will be retained. The initial investment is about $45,000.

Favorable Conditions.

Climatic conditions here are ideal for glass manufacture. Whereas in older industrial regions of the east some months in every year are lost because of intense cold, here opera­tions can go forward unabated the year around and the consequent cost of manufacture will be propor­tionately lower.

Officers of the California Glass Insulator Company are: Jules Kauffman, president; E. H. Fosdick, vice president; Stanley S. Stonaker, secretary; John Morris, treasurer, Robert P. Frisk, general manager. Directors additionally to those num­bered among the officers are John C. Orth, Arthur C. Munn and William Schade.