Robert Hemingray, Sr.

MUNCIE FLINT FACTORIES.

Hemingray's Doing Well and Hemingray, Sr.

Is as Spry as Ever.

MUNCIE, IND., Dec. 3. - The Hemingray Glass Co. has had a very good run thus far, and is still busy on some lines; but on others, particularly iron mold ware, it has been slowing up lately. Last week some of the shops were off, although next week they are to resume again. Some of the iron mold shops were put on insulators on which there seems to be a special demand at the present. The off hand shops on globes, cake covers, etc, have been doing well and seem to have plenty of work before them.

This factory will stop during the holidays for one week to take stock. Mr. Hemingray, Sr., is very well preserved and gets around just natural as usual. He is now 75 years of age, and is about the oldest flint glass manufacturer in this country. He leaves much of the work to his sons, who run the works. Mr. Hemingray likes to talk about his early experiences around Pittsburg before he went to Covington, Ky., to manufacture glass, which works were abandoned when he moved his factory here about 5 years ago.

Mr. Hemingray has traveled much in foreign countries and the relating of his experiences in efforts to see glass made in other countries is quite interesting.

John Berry has moved his family here from Wheeling, W. Va., and is working at Hemingray's.

The Muncie Glass Co. have three furnaces going, which means that they are operating to their fullest capacity. This is what the modern American manufacturer calls enterprise, and this energetic firm seems to be endowed with its share of that desirability which is so necessary in the glass business, as well as any other business of he present day.

This firm is now six years old. When it started the proprietors were very young and, if fact, are still young. Mr. Chas. Boldt, the president, was not quite of age when application was made for the charter, and Mr. Isaac Humphries, general superintendent, was only 32. The former came from Kentucky and was never in the glass business before; the latter hailed from Steubenville, O., and was a practical glassworker. One is now only 27 and the other a little over ten years his senior. The development which they have made from one furnace in the beginning to three appears very flatteringly for them. One attended to the business and the other to the factory for the first three years until after they had the second furnace up, when Mr. Xanze was called in to take charge of the books so that the rising young president could go out occasionally and visit his largely developing trade.

Mr. Boldt is a modest, unassuming young man, but that does not interfere with his thinking powers or his ability to see a point, which has been duly recognized by other manufacturers, as is indicated by his now holding a place on the conference committee.

The manner in which Superintendent Humphries handles the three furnaces speaks well for his ability in that line. He also looks after all construction work around the works.

Jno. Kunkle left here several weeks ago to work at Bellaire. Pete is still here and seems to be pleased with the gas belt.

Phil Garrigan has returned from Alton and is working here again.

Johnnie Amman has given up his lot in Avondale, which was so steep that could raise potatoes on one side and onions on the other. He has moved near to civilization, he says.

Wm. A. Frank, formerly of factory K mold shop is here in the mold shop. He still evinces great interest in the contest with the United States Glass Co., as do many others in this vicinity. They have been pleased with the late articles in THE COMMONER AND GLASSWORKER about the trust. - FAN FAN.