Hemingray Glass Company - Muncie, Indiana

BALL BROS. BIG SHIPMENTS.

Producer Gas Now Giving Satisfaction in a

Number of Glass Plants.

Muncie, Ind., Jan. 6. - Things at Ball Bros. are just as you always find them at this time of the year, very, very busy. The firm is shipping about 25 carloads of jars every day, six gangs shipping every day.

The producers are working satisfactorily on tank No. 2, and the water gas on the lehrs is a success, only the men can hardly stand the sulphur.

A few years ago the east was watching the gas belt for developments. That is they thought when the gas failed so would the gas towns that were depending on it. But to go through the gas belt now one would think there was as much gas as ever. So there is, but is producer, or manufactured, as they call it, and the gas belt has not lost many of her industries as yet, and don't think it will, because in a little while it will have as good shipping facilities as some of our larger cities. We have a coal company made up mostly of gas belt manufacturers. They have a field with several millions of tons of good Indiana coal, with railroads running right into the factory from the fields.

Hemingray's are now working full since factory No. 10 of the American Window Glass Co. shut down, giving Hemingray's plenty of gas. The pipes that will convey the manufactured gas from Ball Bros. large producer at factory No. 2 is very large, being 7 1-2 feet in diameter and 365 feet long. It will bring the gas to tanks 1, 3 and 5 at the flint house, and it is soon to be completed.

There is strong talk of the C. R. & M. R. R. bringing their shops to Muncie, as the city voted two years ago a $75,000 subsidy on condition that the shops would come here.

There has been a shortage of gas at Wilson & McCullough's factory at Marion. They are going to try oil in the boilers in order to make steam for the white liner machine. The machine shop gas is very scarce at Marion.

A very sad event occurred here a few weeks ago in the death of Mrs. Mike Flaherty, wife of a member of Branch No. 12, G. B. B. A. after just one month of married life. She left a kind and loving husband and host of friends to mourn her loss.

Luke Otis and Hugh Collins have left for Marion to try their hands. Hugh says the men at Muncie work too steadily for a poor spare. Joe Lafferty, Albert White, Chas. Haskin, and Ed Deegan have bought season tickets for the fortune teller woman. Ed says she tells lots of truth just the same.

What looked for awhile to be a very bad fire, occurred at Ball Bros. tin ship the other evening. But for the great work of Chief R. C. Burns and his corps of white liners coming to the rescue it might have been serious. But Rich, you should not let the wagon go out one gate and the hose another any more, because you nearly broke up the whole gang turning the reel over to get the tangle out of the hose.

Ed Conroy has returned after a two weeks' layoff with the grip.- Jas. Roundchier, Geo. Johnson, and Chris Haughey take in the show at Anderson every Saturday evening. - D. C. Darst has organized what is known as the White Liner Polo Club, but can't get the boys to practice enough. He will tend goal himself and captain the team. Dan is always ready to defend the Muncie Royals, and he says R. C. Burns don't know anything about the game and is also a knocker.

Jas. Olwell and Matt M. Geugan have season tickets for the game at the Muncie rink. - Dan Donnelly and John Miller have some warm arguments on the Bible nearly every day. Joe Lafferty always is there to help Miller out, but John says he don't ask anybody to help him out on the Bible. - Liner.