[Newspaper]
Publication: The Muncie Daily News
Muncie, IN, United States
p. 4, col. 3
MUNCIE'S PROSPERITY.
ANOTHER IMMENSE GLASS
FACTORY COMING.
AN AGREEMENT WITH THE
HEMINGRAYS SIGNED.
AND THEY LOCATE THEIR
COVINGTON FACTORY
IN MUNCIE.
You can't keep an honest man down, neither can an energetic city be kept in the background. Muncie is reaching out with colossal strides. A few years ago we were a village, then a town, and now we are a city. The elixir of this wonderful growth is gas. Gas permeates the whole growth yet this gas has not caused a mushroom growth. The gas alone would not have brought about our prosperous growing condition. Heretofore Muncie has been behind what she should be and even now it is only assuming the rank that location and enterprise would rightly give it.
For the past few weeks it has been known that negotiations have been pending with the Messrs. Hemingray of Covington, Ky., the object being to secure the location of an immense glass factory. We are glad to say that the negotiations have had a successful termination.
Mr. R. G. Hemingray, the junior member of the firm, has been in the city since last Friday. The company of which he is a member manufacturers all kinds of fancy glass ware. They make table ware and fancy glass vases and in fact all kinds of elegant glass ware.
The company as it is now employs 500 people. The whole establishment will be moved here and will be much enlarged. It will be immense in every particular. The factory will be located on Macedonia Avenue - just east of the Ball Bros. Glass Works. Mr. Hemingray says that work will be commenced on the factory immediately.
