Hemingray Glass Company - Covington, Kentucky

COVINGTON'S LOSS

The Hemingray Glass Company Moving

To Muncie.

Covington is about to lose one of the largest manufacturing establishments, the Hemingray glass company. Messrs. Robert Hemingray, Sr., and his son Ralph are now in Pittsburgh, contracting for the building of a glass furnace at Muncie, Ind.

They expect to get started about the middle of April, and will only make bottles at the start. About one hundred hands will be employed. The manufacture of their patent ware and lamps will still be done in Covington, as at present, and it will likely be a year before the factory will all be removed to Muncie, as their present plant is an extensive one.

The terms Muncie has offered the Hemingray Glass Company are liberal, and the facilities offered them are of the best. A gas well will be drilled on their premises, and the fuel furnished them free forever, or as long as there is any gas to be found in that vicinity. Mr. Ralph Hemingray will manage the new concern at present.

Muncie was not the only city that bid for these works. Toledo, O., made a liberal bid, as did Minneapolis, which offered them $50,000 in cash and land to build on. Sandusky, O., made them an offer of $20,000 in cash, ten acres of land and gas fuel free for three years, and at the end of that time at a cost of one-half the price Pittsburgh manufacturers paid for gas.

The Hemingray plant in Covington covers several acres of land and the main building is three stories high. They employ several hundred men, and their payroll averages about $12,000 a month, when the factory is in full operation, which is ten months in the year. The most of the workmen's wages is spent in Covington. The new factory will, when completed, employ more men than their present one.

The Hemingray Glass Company first started in Cincinnati in 1848, the firm then being known as Gray & Hemingray. In 1852, the firm moved to Covington, and the firm name became Gray, Hemingray & Bros., afterwards R. Hemingray & Co., and in 1870 it was incorporated and changed to the present name. The Hemingray Glass Company. - Cincinnati Times-Star.