BGM Auction unsuccessful, Brookfield buys leasehold property

GLASS WORKS AT AUCTION.

AN unsuccessful effort was made July 21 by Geroge M. Sharp, receiver, to dispose of the large plant of the Baltimore Glass Mfg. Co., at Westport, Md. Not one bid was offered for the property as an entirety, and so the auctioneer sold the contents of the various buildings in detail. The prices obtained, however, were so small that it is doubtful if the sale will be ratified by the Circuit Court of Baltimore County, under whose order it was conducted. Some of the amounts bid were far below the value of the articles offered, while in some instances the auctioneer experienced considerable difficulty in obtaining the smallest bid upon articles useful in lines of business other than that of glass manufacturing. A 180-ton furnace, with smokestack, twelve ovens, two lehrs and a drum, brought only $75; the entire furniture of the main office, $52.20; twenty-four cords of four-foot wood, $9; a two-horse truck, $20; the entire equipment of the blacksmith shop, $34; 10,000 firebricks, $160; twenty-four hand barrows, fifty cents; and four insulator presses, $60. The total amount realized on the effects in the back and main offices, yard, shed, sandhouse, factory, packing house, blacksmith shop, engine room, stable and mold room was $1,076.97. Mr. S.B. Whitlock, of Philadelphia, one of the stockholders, said it cost about $19,000 to purchase these articles and put them in position.

The company was organized in December 1895, and continued in business until March, 1897, when a receiver was asked for by Chas. J. Jordan, the superintendent, who according to Mr. S. B. Whitlock, claimed that the company was indebted to him and other employes for wages. Mr. Whitlock says he will make an effort have the sale set aside.

Judge Burke has passed an order allowing the receiver to sell the leasehold property to Wm. Brookfield for $2,500.