[Newspaper]
Publication: The Muncie Morning News
Muncie, IN, United States
vol. 21, no. 200, p. 14, col. 3
TOILERS
Will Find Reading of Interest
In This Column.
Factory and Mill Notes. — Doings
of the Masses — Foreign and
Local News.
GREEN GLASS CIRCLES.
Under recent date a Muncie correspondent wrote to the Pittsburg Glass Worker as follows:
"Just a few lines in regard to the condition of the trade in the Magic City and the arrival of a few notables ...... Ball Bro. are working to their fullest capacity, and it is a foregone conclusion that they will run until the end of June, barring contingencies, etc. The success attained by the green blowers working the machines is remarkable. Eight more white liner shops went to work last Monday, making a total of thirty-two in all ...... Hemingray’s are very much in evidence they having an accumulation of orders ...... The Port is working steady on fruit jars and prospects are promising, so says Bill ("Windy") Carroll ...... The merchants of this city are co-operating with the flint workers in making preparations to receive the delegates to the next annual convention which meets here ...... The sudden death of that hero, Jas. McNamee, was a terrible shock to his many Philadelphia friends throughout the gas belt ...... Maneely, a brother of James Maneely, the well known green blower who died recently in Philadelphia, arrived last week. He and Willie Burns are paired to work on white liners. Among the other arrivals in the white liner department are John Murphy and Charles Knepe, of Hamilton, Can ...... Pete Gormley blew in Marion. He sports a bull dog ...... AI Owens and James McVey are here working spare ........ Samuel Fleming who was quite ill last week, is once more about ...... James and John Patton are back again from Philadelphia where they buried their father ...... How about that canvas back duck, Hugh? The big fellow is sore over the result. Nucky McClosky, the Port Richmond song bird, blew in here last week.
FLINT GLASS CIRCLES.
A local correspondent in writing about doings in flint glass circles under date of the 16th inst. says:
"All the glass factories here are still running to their fullest capacity and the boys are all making great preparations for their holiday stop. A great many of them will go to their former homes to spend Xmas.....John Kelly, a blower at Hemingray's is on the sick list but recovering.....Some of the gatherers at Hemingray’s insulator department are becoming very popular in theatrical circles.....William Bobinson, of Ball's, is on the sick list.....Robert Brady spent Sunday at Marion visiting his brother.....The Industry Dancing Clun, composed of glass workers, have a great time here every Saturday night. Lizzie Burk is the champion plan cake walker. Tom Murray has no hair but gets there just the same.
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