Muncie factory news; Xenia Peters hurt his foot, Charles Knecht cut his wrist & John Dodd elected to Muncie Trades Council

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The following in taken from the Streator, Ill., Press.

C. T. Lavin, a glassworker, formerly of this city, who has been working in Muncie, Ind., writes from Indianapolis under date of the 10th inst. that he had just enlisted in Company O, 3d Indiana and was mastered in that morning. He says they start today for the south. "I took mess with the boys yesterday for the first time, and although the bill of fare was not a very extensive one, con­sisting of a goodly supply of baked beans, hominy, corned beef, bread, and black coffee for dinner; chicken off a hog's breast, boiled potatoes, corn, bread and coffee for supper, yet I managed to satisfy my appetite.

Xenia Peters got in the road of heavy laden cullet truck at the Hemingray glass works, Muncie, Ind., last week, and had his right foot badly crushed. Charles Knecht of the same factory, got a bad cut on the wrist last week........C. R. Hardesty, the well-known Maring-Hart blower, of Muncie, Ind., has a brand new twelve pound boy who is healthy enough to enlist. The father is the proudest man in Muncie.........The Muncie Trades Council elected the fol­lowing officers for the ensuing year: President, John Dood [sic] Dodd, of the A. F. G. W. U. L. U. No, 23; vice-president, L. A. Paris, of the Retail Clerks; record­ing secretary, Ed Bell, of the Journey­men Painters; financial secretary, Geo. Derrick, of the Bakers; treasurer, Wm. Getz, of the G. B. B. A., No. 12; statis­tician, G. P. Hayworth, of the Retail Clerks; sergeant-at-arms, John Lowe, of the Painters and Decorators. John Dodd has been selected as state organ­izer of the A. F. of L. by the M. T. C. — Commoner and Glassworker.

Fred Lambiotte, the popular glassworker at Hartford City, is here the guest of his cousins, the Misses Julia and Zoe Patoux.

Several new buildings will beautify the suburbs of the city this summer.

The new Jefferson school building will soon be under course of construct­ion as work on the foundation has been commenced. This building will be one of the most attractive in the city when completed. It is the intention of the school board to have it finished as soon as possible.

The construction of the Eastern Indi­ana Normal University at Westside will attract attention far and wide this sum­mer, when the work of construction begins. This is the building which was established by the people who were pa­triotic to their city and realized that in securing it, Muncie would be provided with an honorable establishment, which will for years stand as an emblem of progressiveness.

A report that the members of L. A. 800 will lay down their tools for this fire on May 31 has gained wide circu­lation, and owing to the light stocks in first hands caused great uneasiness among buyers The story is utterly groundless. The proposition has never been considered by L A. 800. The men are too anxious to make the most of a poor fire, to lose a month's work even if by so doing it might cause an earlier start next fire.

The spread of independent and co-op­erative companies to start factories at the opening of next fire is the greatest ever known in the trade and is making a hard problem for the combine manu­facturers to solve. In the west it is free­ly predicted that it means the end of the American Glass company after this fire. One of the best organized of the co-operative companies is composed of 24 workers, mainly from Gas City, Ind., who have made a most excellent con­tract with the citizens of Converse, Ind, for the erection of a 12-pot furnace there, work to start on it July 1, and blowing September 1. Jules Mayer, Ambros Cline and Ralph Potts are among thsse [sic] those interested. The Converse people give a $5,000 bond to furnish a factory site, gas well, leases for other wells, and a town lot for each member of the company. At the completetion of the factory, the Converse people give the company $3,000 in cash.

The co-operative factory at Newport, Ky., seems to be a go, many Mun­cie workers being interested. Several companies have been formed at Mun­cie, Anderson and other points and are looking for sites. This week a commit­tee of East Brady, Pa., citizens called at headquarters anxious to locate some cooperative plants. They offer a site, cash bonus and gas at low rates for a long term of years.

The Camp Glass company, an inde­pendent stock company, have started the erection of a 20-blower tank at Smithport, Pa., which will be in opera­tion September 1. E. Edwards Holden of Mineral Point, O., is building the tank. The buildings will be 72x120, 33x60 and 120x120 respectively. The Bradford, Bordell & Kinzua railroad laid a switch to the plant and all the facilities are the best.

As will be seen in Mr. Gaulding's re­port great additions are planned for the capacity at Kane and Hazelhurst. The Baur Window Glass company will greatly increase their Eaton, Ind., plant, and many other increases are planned in the west. — Commoner and Glassworker.

A machine for blowing window glass has just been invented by Th. Kupper of Styrum, Germany. The apparatus consists of a vertical column, to which a horizontal arm, higher or lower ad­justable, is attached. Within this arm a hollow revolving shaft is arranged, which forms the conduit for the com­pressed air. The end of the shaft is shaped so as to form a crank, which car­ries a clamping arrangement for the pipe, which may be turned around a plug. The connection of the pipe with the air conduit, or shaft, is accomplish­ed by means of a socket, in such a manner that the pipe can not only revolve around itself within the socket, but it can also be moved in any position and given all the vibrations of a pendulum. — Glasshuette.

The No. 1 factory of Ball Bros, will be put in operation one week from Mon­day night; at last this is the intention of Ball Bros. The factory will not be equipped with glass blowing machines as was expected, and a number of blow­ers have been informed that work will commence on Monday, May 30. The usual large force of workmen employed here will be called for duty. It is ex­pected that the factory will be operated until late in the season on account of the recent fire, which caused the firm to cancel numerous orders. The men are jubilant over the fact that they will be furnished employment, as the early shut down caused them to fall short of what they expected to make during the season. The object in abandoning the equipment of the factory with blowing machines is unknown.

The crossing at the Big Four railroad on Walnut street is to be improved by the tearing up of the old one and sup­plying a new one. This crossing has been a sort of annoyance to the occu­pants of vehicles especially, for some time.

The new Heath block, South Walnut street, is rapidly assuming proportions and will be completed in the near fu­ture. Mr. Heath has decided upon a very artistic front to his new building which will render it very attractive.

The Eaton glass men played a good joke on the Muncie papers and the Cin­cinnati Post. It was arranged by the glass men that part of them should cross to the island at Eaton, which island was to represent Cuba, and the boys, Big Riley, Harry McCullough, George Coan, Gus, Aug and Louis De Werp were to represent the Americans and attack glass men on the island, who were to represent the Spaniards. The Spaniards were to be Jake Crouts, Joe Crouts, Dart Wallem, Henri Lambiotte, Jody Wilhelms, Ed Henri, Jerry Roach and Cooney Frinefrog. It was arranged in fun and the victors were to be the Americans. Cuba was to be declared free, and the event was to be celebrated by a general attack on the suds in store for the occasion. The rain prevented the plans being carried out fully but the boys had their fun. The papers which distorted this affair into a trea­sonable outbreak ought to apologize. Glass men are all patriotic Americans and will fight at the drop of the hat.