Hemingray Glass Company - Employees

Balls and Hemingrays.

MUNCIE, IND., Feb. 19. — Work is progressing rapidly on No. 2 tank in the green house at Ball Bros. It will be of 16 ring capacity when finished, and will be furnished gas by the new gas producer system. The men who were laid off while the tank was being rebuilt are working on the third shift on No. 3 tank in the same factory, and they are all in favor of the short day. Mike Kinney says he will never lose any time now; so says Ed Phillips. The boys are all anxious to see if they will hold out.

Tanks Nos. 4, 5, and 6 in the flint house at Ball Bros. are working steady on machine-made fruit jars and bottles with exceptionally good glass. The white line tank is working steady with a full set of hands, but several of the boys are working out their notices to go to work in the Hero Fruit Jar. Co.'s plant in Philadelphia, which is expected to resume March 3.

Jimmy Ryder has left with Sykes Dog and Pony Show. He will have charge over the outside guard at the tent — Charley Lutz will be at the ring side of the Sullivan-McGovern fight to challenge the winner in the interest of Skinny Burns. The latter lately defeated Googan in a fierce fight of 24 rounds.

Hemingray's are working steady with good orders and good glass. — Several of the boys attended a cocking main at Alexandria last Saturday night and came back with all colors of money.

It is rumored that the champion insulator gatherer, Jimmy O'Brien, is to become a benedict. — Wes Richardson, formerly of this place, has gone to Brooklyn, N. Y. — Arthur Carey is going to return to the white liner branch at Ball Bros. — Gris Curr is gathering on the shade shop here. — MUN.