Hemingray is operating in part and prospects good to fire another tank

MUNCIE FACTORIES

INCREASE PAYROLLS

Industrial Conditions Better

Than They Have Been for

Several Months.

BALLS UNITING PLANTS

Several Firms Are Now Using

Day and Night Forces.

Industrial conditions in Muncie are better than they have been for months. Probably more men are em­ployed at present than since this time last spring. The glass plant of the Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing company will be running full force in all departments by the last of the week. Not many months ago the company had no trouble in hiring men but a member of the firm an­nounced yesterday that this week more young men, women and men will be needed. There will be work for a large number of people, as the tin stamping mills will be operated in full. More people will be needed for the packing and shipping departments.

Last week's payroll at Ball Brothers' plant was the largest it has been since last April. More than 1,000 people drew pay checks Saturday afternoon, and within a few weeks it is expected that several hundred more will be issued.

The plants at Loogootee, Ind., Swayzee, Ind., and Belleville, III., have been dismantled, and the work­men have been divided among the other factories of the firm. The Ma­rion plant will be placed in full oper­ation this morning. The Coffeyville, Kan., factory has been running for a week or more.

Another thriving industry is the plant of the Hinde-Dauche Paper company. The old Muncie pulp mill has been completely overhauled and is now turning out a different sort of product. One of the principal pro­ducts of the plant is corrugated pack­ing paper, a large amount of which is consumed at Ball Brothers' fac­tory. The company has a large plant at Sandusky, O., but the Muncie branch is being used to supply the demands of the western trade.

The company has been gradually adding to its force of workmen. Dur­ing the past few weeks the work has increased until it has become neces­sary to run the plant both night and day.

The Broderick & Quinlan boiler works has been operated with night and day shifts for some time, and business has increased to such an ex­tent that the firm is contemplating the erection of a large addition. The company expects to get the new building under way some time this sum­mer.

Both of the Kitselman plants are doing a lively business and have been idle but a short time during the entire winter season. The Whiteley Malle­able Castings company is another con­cern that has been in steady opera­tion, although at times all depart­ments were not operating in full.

The Hemingray glass plant is operating in part, and the prospects are that another tank will be fired within a short time. At the Charles Boldt glass plant every department is work­ing, and has been so since last fall, when the factory was rebuilt follow­ing a disastrous blaze.

The Warner Gear company, practi­cally a new concern, is working more men than ever, and now has all de­partments of its new building in or­der. The Muncie Wheel and jobbing company and the Pioneer Pole and Shaft company, two of the older man­ufacturing concerns, are working regular time.