Hemingray is looking to move to Pittsburgh

ACTIVE DEMAND FOR GASS [sic] GLASS TABLE

WARE.

We copy the following from the Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette of February 19: An investi­gation made by a representative of this paper yesterday shows that all the manufacturers are running full. All of them are using natural gas and making twenty-hourglass. Twenty-seven fur­naces are running, as the appended list will show:

                                                                Furnaces            Daily output Tons

                     King, Son & Co..................   2                         45

                     George Duncan & Sons......   2                         40

                     Brice Bros...........................   3                         72

                     Adams & Co.......................   3                         65

                     McKee Bros........................   3                         65

                     Ripley & Co........................   2                         45

                     Brice, Higby & Co..............   2                         45

                     Hartley & Co.......................   1                         30

                     Doyle & Co.........................   1                         25

                     Challoner, Taylor & Co.......   1                         35

                     Atterbury & Co....................   1                         35

                     Phoenix Co..........................   2                         40

                     Rochester Tumbler Co......... 4                         80

                                                                  ___                       ____

                     Total.................................... 27                         622

A large percentage of this output is to be used immediately in home consumption. A great part of it is shipped to the West, Kansas City being the chief point. Some goes East, though the proportion is smaller than the Western shipments. At least 25 per cent of the total output is export­ed. King, Son & Co., George Duncan & Son, Brice Bros., McKee Bros, and the Rochester Tumbler Company spend annually over $8000 in having catalogues of their wares printed in Span­ish and French. A large amount of their out­put, it is said, is sold and bought in preference to imported glassware.

A representative of the firm of Gillender & Sons, of Philadelphia, has spent some weeks in the city looking after a site on which to erect a factory. The house has been established in Philadelphia for over 100 years, but to receive the benefit of natural gas they are contemplating removing their works here. It is said that the secret of the purchase of the Mulvany factory, at the foot of South Seventeenth street, by Thomas Evans & Co., was to keep Gillender & Sons from securing it. It will be months yet before they use it. The firm has sent a man through the Tarentum gas region and it may come yet.

A representative of the large bottle works of Hemingray & Co., at Covington, Ky., has also been looking around Pittsburgh for a site, firm has almost decided to come to this city. One great saving the glass men find in the use of nat­ural gas is that it does away with the “firepolishing,” saving at least 10 per cent. The gas seems to have a chemical influence.

George Duncan & Sons have bought the prop­erty extending from the present line on Tenth street to Washington street, South Side. They will erect this summer a sixteen-pot furnace and will branch out large. This will make the fifth sixteen-pot furnace in the city. This, in addition to the new factory to be erected at Homestead by the Browns and Trautmans, are the only new ad­ditions contemplated in glass circles at present.