[Newspaper]
Publication: The Los Angeles Examiner
Los Angeles, CA, United States
vol. 9, no. 118, p. 13, Sect. 4, col. 2
Fires Are Built
Under Furnaces
of Glass Factory
New Industry at Long Beach
Will Be in Complete Operation
Within a Month
LONG BEACH, April 6.— During the past few days fires have been started under the furnaces of the California Glass Insulator Company. The plant will be in complete operation by April 30 and will but mark the beginning of a growing industry for Long Beach. Provision was made by the company when it secured its site near Anaheim road and Daisy avenue for future growth, and units will be installed as rapidly as possible. The first unit is that of the Insulator portion of the concern, and workmen have been busy for months getting the site in shape and in erecting the buildings
The promoters of the company early recognized the value of a site on the harbor district and opened negotiations with the Chamber of Commerce last year in an effort to secure the site. W. L. Camp, then secretary of the Chamber, took an active part in the negotiations and through his efforts differences as to inducements which for a time seemed insurmountable were adjusted, and the announcement was made that the company would come. Hardly had the final papers been signed than the promoters of the company had a force of men laying off the ten-acre plot which they secured and within a few more weeks other workmen were actively engaged in erecting the buildings.
The most improved machinery was ordered and glass manufacturers from the East visited the plant in the last few weeks to inspect the improved machinery and through one of these visitors it was learned that another glass company probably would locate here and work to conjunction with the Insulator company. The second concern will manufacture a different line of glassware than the Insulator company.