Wilson & McCulloch took control of KCGW a short time ago

WAS EXAGGERATED.

The Bursting of the Tank at the Fruit

Jar Works is Not Serious.

To the Editor of the Chronicle.

Please say that that the statement in the Sunday Morning News concerning the bursting of our tank furnace was quite misleading.

Large continuous tank furnaces like ours holds a large body of glass about forty feet long, fourteen feet wide and three or four feet deep, the side walls of this large tank are usually composed of rows of large clay blocks, each row being about one foot high.

The top row (about one foot high) running entirely around the tank al­ways wears out first, and has to be renewed usually about once a year, and sometimes every six months. As our Marion tank has been running nearly one year, we were not surprised that a small leak was discovered in this top row on last Saturday evening, and as we were watching it closely, the fire was promptly turned off, and the small leak immediately cooled, so that only about half a ton of glass ran down into the cave under the tank (instead of 30 or 10 tons as mentioned by the News.)

We will, however, have to put the fire out and take the entire top off from the tank, and renew the side walls. This will be done at once, and we expect to have everything in full operation again in about two or three weeks. So there was no financial loss, os [sic] or even "Bad Luck" except that we had to stop and make these repairs, now, perhaps a month or two sooner than we expected.

Our Fairmount plant is running full force, and in addition we secured full control of the King City glass works at Fairmount a short time ago. We will now hurry the repairs on it, putting it into full operation in a few days, which will give us still greater capacity, and we will soon be turning out about six car loads of Mason Fruit Jars per day.

MARION FRUIT JAR & BOTTLE CO.

J. L. MCCULLOCH, Pres. & Treas.