Robert Hemingray

MARRIED FIFTY YEARS.

THE ELABORATE CELEBRATION OF

AN IMPORTANT EVENT

By Mr. and Mrs. R. Hemingray Prevented,

But the Occasion is Otherwise Made

Memorable by the Workingmen.

Just fifty years ago in the then small village of Pittsburgh, Pa., Mr. Robert Hemingray and Miss Mary Carroll were united in marriage. Since that happy event Mr. Hemingray has constantly been engaged in the manufacture of glass. For the past forty years Mr. Hemingray has conducted a flint glass factory at Covington, Ky., where he has resided until a few months ago when he moved to the magic city of the gas belt. Mr. Hemingray is one of the oldest and probably the best known glass manufacturer in the United States, and in his time has employed thousands of hands, all of whom soon learn not only to admire but love the veteran manufacturer. Some of the glass blowers now working for him in the Muncie and Covington glass factories have been in his employ many years and a great number of the young men now working in the factories are sons of men who were in his employ many years ago.

For some time the happy occasion of celebrating their golden wedding has been looked forward to with much pleasure by the family of Mr. and Mrs. Hemingray, who had planned a grand celebration, but the very serious sickness of Mrs. Ralph Hemingray, daughter-in-law, caused the original plan to be abandoned. While the immediate family had been making preparations, the employees and ex-employees of Mr. Hemingray had a surprise for the occasion and their part of the program was quietly and successfully carried Saturday evening. While the old folks were seated in quietude at their home corner of 15th and Monroe streets, at about eight o'clock a committee from the Hemingray glass factory, consisting of John Butler, John Cramer, Mr. Bird, Mr. Doran, and Mr. Murray greatly surprised Mr.and Mrs. Hemingray by calling and in behalf of the employees presented them with a silver tea set, silver napkin rings, silver smoking set, half a dozen silver spoons, a gold-headed cane and gold-headed umbrella all appropriately engraved. Besides these Mr. Hemingray received forty two-and-one-half-dollar gold pieces in a purse as a present from her daughter, Mrs. Bradford Shinkle, of Covington, Ky., and his three sons, Ralph, Robert and Daniel, made a delightful present of one dozen after-dinner coffee spoons. The happy groom is aged 72 and his bride but one year his junior. Since their residence in Muncie, they have made many warm friends who wish them joy in this golden age of wedded life