New Charles Boldt Glass Company Factory in Cincinnati, Ohio

THE NEW BOLDT FACTORY.

Is Probably the Finest Bottle

Factory in Existence.

CINCINNATI, O., Aug. 8. - The new bottle factory of the Charles Boldt Glass Co. here is expected to start on Sept. 1 and Manager Alex. Humphrey is satisfied that he will have everything in shape. All the buildings are nearly completed except the box and mold shop. Connections are being made between the tank and the three producers, and the heating of the tank can be started in a few days. The brick work on the 5 lehrs is about to begin and everything else about the plant only lacks the finishing touches.

The plant, when completed, will be the finest bottle factory in the West, if not in the country. It is of brick and iron, very little wood being used. The factory floor is concrete, the first used in the glass trade.   The size of the buildings are about the average, probably slightly larger, in order to admit of good ventilation.

The factory proper is 66x72 feet and contains a 40 ton continuous tank of 9 rings at which 18 shops will be employed on two shifts. Here the importance of this plant and its departure from the usual custom of building factories is brought out prominently. All the rest of the plant is built to suit the convenience and comfort of the blowers in this department. It use to be that the producing end of a glass factory was given the least consideration, but the change that has come over the trade in that respect is very evident here. The factory floor is elevated very high, the factory building is opened on three sides and faces the Ohio river and the blowers upon the footbench can almost look out over the second story of the packing and sorting departments. The space intervening between the factory proper and the sorting department, almost the full length of the lehrs, is left open so that there will be no obstruction to the passage of air if there is any blowing. The lehrs are arranged on each side rather than directly in front of the tank, three on one side and two on the other.

The apex of the roof in the factory proper is 56 feet high and the caves are 18 feet. Besides numerous large doors there are also many small ventilators slightly above the doors, besides the usual lattice work in the cupolas above to allow the ever-accumulating hot air above the tank to quickly escape. With every provision made for the comfort and convenience of the blowers during warm weather, and particularly during the siege of usual inactivity and when there is only partial production possible in a glass factory, this plant promises to be for the bottle trade what the Point Marion (Pa.) plant is to the window glass workers - an innovation to be gladly welcomed and its builders commended.

The dimensions of the various buildings are: Packing and sorting department, 115x41 feet, two stories; box shop and mold room, 100x75, two stories; mixing room, 115x41; engine room, 58x28. The plant will also furnish its own electric light, and the fan for blowing wind on molds and glass will be operated by electricity. Oil will be used in the glory holes and also in the other parts of the plant if the price gets a little lower where it can be substituted for coal even in the tank. The burner of the Cox & Sons Co., of Bridgeton, N. J., will be used.

A handsome brick office has also been built and Chas. Boldt will make this his headquarters as he has moved his family here. H. F. Kock is the efficient salesman who will dispose of the ware. But he will hardly have much to do for some time for the greater part of the ware to be produced this season has already been contracted for and they are hustling to get started in order to get some of it out.

The entire plant of this enterprising company, two continuous tanks and a furnace, will eventually be located here when the natural gas gets scarcer at Muncie in a few years, is easily evident for the company have here 14 acres right at the lower end of the beautiful and historic Miami valley and slightly over four miles from the center of this city. The factory is built on part of a famous old cemetery where the earlier settlers of Cincinnati lie buried. Some of the bodies had to be removed to another part of the cemetery to admit of the digging of the foundation of the factory.

It is not generally known, but Cincinnati is one of the greatest if not the greatest market for bottlers in the country and it would not be surprising if many of the bottle factories of Indiana drift towards this city when the gas gets scarcer. There are three glass factories here now, the Boldt, Nivison & Welskopf, at Reading, O., a suburb; and Hemingray's, now in operation at Covington, Ky. - MACK.