Work will start at once on California Glass Insulator Co.factory

CALIFORNIA GLASS INSULATOR

COM­PANY.

Work will start at once, it is announced, on the construction of a group of factory buildings on an industrial site in the Seabright Harbor tract at Long Beach for the California Glass Insulator Company, 704 Union Trust Bldg., Los Angeles, recently incorporated for the purpose of manufac­turing varied glass products, including pressed ware products such as insulators, prismatic and sidewalk lights, electric light shades, etc., and other products such as bottles, carboys, jars and vials, and window plate. The contract was let this week to Marcus Campbell, of Long Beach, for the first three factory buildings and an office structure, from plans prepared by Archt. W. J. Saunders, of Los Angeles.

The company proposes to obtain its raw materials from the white sand quarries of the American Glass Sand Company at Horse­shoe Bend, Orange County. The company believes this silica sand, together with the favorable climatic conditions existing in Southern California, will enable it to manufacture glass of a very high grade and of maximum strength, and at a cost which will successfully meet the competition of East­ern glass factories.

A feature which is considered of prime importance in the development of glass fac­tories in Southern California is the incom­parable climate. In the Eastern states glass factories are compelled by the heat and humidity of summer to shut down dur­ing these months, and perhaps a fourth of the year is lost to production. The even climate of Southern California will enable glass factories to operate here during the entire year. The lowering cost of fuel is another factor which promises success, the development of the oil industry and the building of refineries in the vicinity of Los Angeles guaranteeing a cheap and abundant fuel supply for all manufacturing purposes.

Through the co-operation of the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce the California Glass Insulator Company was able to secure a suitable site for the location of its plant at Long Beach. The Palos Verdes Land Company donated three and a half acres of land and the company purchased an additional two and a half acres with an option on four more acres. Favorable arrange­ments have already been made with the Pacific Electric Railroad to build a spur track into the property.

The company proposes to erect its plant in units, one to be devoted to pressed ware, one to hollow ware, and the other to plate and structural glass.

The first unit will consist of a complete pressed ware department for manufactur­ing insulators, prismatic and sidewalk lights, electric light shades, etc.; the de­partment will employ about 60 men at the start. It is stated. The second unit, in which 150 men are to be employed, will turn out the blowing or hollow ware department, such as bottles, carboys, jars and vials of all descriptions. The third unit is intended to be used exclusively for making window plate and wired glass. The com [sic] combination will enable it to manufacture wired glass at a cost one-third under processes used by other manufacturers.

The personnel of the company is as fol­lows: Jules Kauffman, Los Angeles, presi­dent; E. H. Fosdick, Los Angeles, vice-pres­ident; John Morris, Los Angeles, treasurer; Stanley S. Stonaker, Long Beach, secretary; Robert P. Frist, said to be a practical glass manufacturer of twenty years’ experience, is general manager; other directors are John C. Orth, Arthur C. Munn and William Schade, of Los Angeles.