Hemingray Glass Company - Covington, Kentucky

COVINGTON, KY., GLASS NEWS.

Hemingrays Have Closed Their Plant

and Want Better Location.

CINCINNATI, O., Aug. 14. - The Hemingray Glass Co., who have been operating five shops on insulators at their factory in Covington, Ky., shut down this week after being in operation several months. Dan Hemingray, who has had charge of this plant, says the plant was only started as an experiment to find out the relative difference in cost between operating with gas in Indiana or coal here.

The factory was erected here about a year ago by a co-operative company and operated a short time on bottles. It was later bought by the Hemingrays. The tank is now about burned out and will have to be rebuilt. A continuous tank has been talked of, but this has not been fully decided upon. If the firm decides to build in Kentucky it will hardly be upon the present site as there is too much danger from high water. Even their old factory was not above the high water mark, and the present factory is several feet lower. Supt. Dan Hemingray said his company was still looking for a more advantageous site and are open to all kinds of propositions.

William Finan, who formerly hailed from Covington, but went with this firm to Muncie, has been managing the factory and giving very good satisfaction. This is his first experience in handling a glass factory, but he appears to have secured very good results from the start.

Joshua Lewis, a presser, lately employed at Cicero and Upland, while on his way home to his family at Pittsburg, was held up here, drugged, and robbed. He found employment for several days at Hemingray's, but he will now return to the gas belt. Nearly all the workmen employed here are from Hemingray's Muncie plant. - MACK.