Society of Glass Technology to visit Hemingray

TO INSPECT FOUR

LOCAL FACTORIES

Thirty Members of English

So­ciety Coming Here Monday

in a Special Car.

Muncie will be given the signal honor tomorrow of entertaining thirty members of the Society of Glass Technology of England, who, through the courtesy of the glass division of the American Ceramic Society, are making a month's tour of the princi­pal glass manufacturing industries of this country. The visit to Muncie of this distinguished party has been se­cured largely through the efforts of Charles O. Grafton of the Gill Clay Pot Company, who is one of the four councillors of the glass division. The party is traveling in their special car and Muncie is the farthest point west they will reach.

The party will be in charge of E. Ward Tillotson of the Mellon Institute of Pittsburg, Pa., and in Muncie they will be the guests of the Hemingray Glass Company, Ball Brothers Company, the Gill Clay Pot Company and the Maxon Premix Burner Company. They will arrive via the Big Four at 5:45 o’clock and will breakfast at the Delaware Hotel. During the morning a tour of inspection of the four factories will be made and after luncheon the party will be enter­tained at an automobile drive around the city and at golf at the Country Club. The party will include a num­ber of women who will be entertained by the wives of the manufacturers' committee.

Studying American Methods.

The society is visiting different glass companies in Amerca [sic] America to make a study of American methods of producing glass and clay products for glass factory uses, and also the different machines for making glass and methods of heat application, producers, etc. While in Muncie, they will have the opportunity of in­specting four plants which are the largest producers of their individual lines in the United States, namely the Hemingray Glass Company, which makes glass insulators; Ball Bros. Glass Company, which makes fruit jars: the Gill Clay Pot Com­pany, which makes melting pots and the Maxon Premix Burner Company which makes gas burners. They will also have the opportunity of seeing at the Muncie Products Company, a branch of the Gill Clay Pot Company, the manufacture of sand crucibles. Previous to the World War, it was thought that sand crucibles could not be made any­where but in Germany, but during the past four years the crucibles made in Muncie have proven superior to those produced in Germany or any other country.

The American Ceramic Society is represented in Muncie by H. R. Maxon and G. Fitzgerald of the Maxon Premix Burner Company; D. H. Scott and F. G. Jewett of Ball Brothers Company, and E. F. Hielstand and Charles O. Grafton of the Gill Clay Pot Company, and because of Mr. Grafton being one of the na­tional officials, the visit here was ar­ranged.

Tour Ends at Niagara Falls.

The representatives of the manufacturing industries of Muncie who will have charge of entertaining the party while in Muncie will be Phil W. McAbee, of the Hemingray Glass Company, G. A. Ball, of Ball Bros., Charles O. Grafton, of the Gill Clay Pot Company, and H. R. Maxon, of the Maxon Premix Burner Company. The party will leave Muncie at 4:26 o’clock and will go to Cleveland. Their tour will close September 16 at Niagara Falls.

The guests will be W. J. Rees, W. C. Snowdon, W. Atack, Prof. W. E. S. Turner, B. D. Varshnei, G. P. Ogale, G. D. Kelkar, all of the Uni­versity Sheffield, England; A. S. Giles, of Birmingham; Mr. Towers, T. C. Sutcliffe and William Lamont of London; Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Asquith, H. S. Jessop and son, of Barnsley; Mr. and Mrs. H. Noel Clark, of Roth­erham; H. Gregg, of Knottingley; W. Butterworth. Jr., Duncan Webb. Jr., Charles Burtles, J. Woolford, of Man­chester; H. A. Bateson, Esq., of Liv­erpool; E. C. Pacock, Castleford; A. Dodds and C. T. Garbutt, of Gates-head-on-Tyne; E. Allan, of New­castle on Tyne; Sven Fogelberg, of Kosta, Sweden; R. Hodgson, of Gosforth, Northumberland; F. Drake, of Newcastle-on-Tyne; G. P. Gass and Miss Gass, of Bolton, England; Lt. Col. J. W. Gifford and Miss Gifford, Mrs. Drake, of Somerset and W. B. Mitchell, of Selby, England. Pro­fessor Turner will be in charge of the English party.