Hemingray is making lots of flasks and green ware

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The Hancock Flint glass works at Findlay, Ohio, has been sold. The affairs of the company have been in the hands of a receiver for many months. Extensive repairs will be made throughout the works and the factory will not be put in operation again until next fire. Nothing but novelties and pressed ware will be manufactured.

All work has been suspended in the Vineland, (N. J.) Glass works, on account of financial troubles. About $1,600 is due workmen, but it is stated that all this will be settled in full.

The Bodine-Thomas Glass manufacturing company, of Williamtown, New Jersey, has added another furnace to their works. The first blast was made Monday, March, 6.

The new tank furnace of Whitall, Tatum & Co., of Glasstown, N. J., is working well after a test of several weeks. Tank furnaces are rapidly taking the place of the old pot furnaces.

The glass manufacturers in and around Canastoto, New York, will soon drill for natural gas. At a meet­ing recently held there it was thought that natural gas was under their feet, and they will proceed to go after it.

A new company has been formed at New Albany, Indiana, for the manufacture of Soda Ash. It will be one of the largest concerns of that kind in the world.

The Specialty Glass Works of Grapeville, Pa., which shut down a few weeks ago, owning to the bench being burned out, is expected to have everything in readiness to resume again in about another week.

A company of capitalists are looking over the ground at Bellaire, Ohio, and it is thought that it means the building of one of the largest window glass houses in the country.

A new kind of glass, presenting remarkable brilliancy and clearness, has recently been produced by a Swedish firm of glassmakers. It is said to be composed of no less than fourteen different substances, of which boron and phosphorus are the most important.

The second section of the Lippincott glass works has been located in Alexandria, Ind. At the citizens' meeting Monday night of last week donated a bonne of land for the works and $5,000 in cash. This section will employ 250 men, making the total force 600, and the monthly pay rol [sic] roll $30,000. Work on the section will commence at once.

MUNCIE'S GLASS HOUSES.

The Maring-Hart Works are running to their fullest capacity. Large shipments.

At the C. H Over Works everything is moving along nicely. No trouble with bad glass. Working day and night turns and are happy.

At the Hemingray houses every­thing is booming. The works are turning out large quontities of flasks and different kinds of green ware.

The works of Ball Bros., Manu­facturing Company are running full blast, day and night. An extra force of hands are now at work in the tin stamping departments turning out thousands of tin caps, coal oil cans, &c. In the flint house they are working day and night turns, while the green houses are working day turns only. Work on the new tank is progressing nicely.

The Muncie Glass Works have all they can do. They are now blowing one hundred gross of amber schnapps for the Hartley Company, Also making catsup bottles, and other flint ware in large quantities.

The Port Glass Works is running to their fullest capacity.

The Nelson Glass House are behind with orders for their patent jars and are working extra turns.

The Patterson Works at West Muncie is doing a big business. They are working extra turns and find ready shipments for their fruit jars.