H.L. Dixon tank ready to operate, bottle machines installed

MANY BUILDING OPERATIONS.

Additions and Improvements Noted in Many

Glass Factories Throughout the

Trade.

C. A. Bowen, for years employed at the Whitall-Tatum plant, Millville, N.J., was in Pittsburg on Monday last. Mr. Bowen is now the expert furnace man for the H.L. Dixon Co., of this city, and his duties in this capacity take him all over the United States. He left for Fairmount, W. Va., on Monday night, where he is installing a new tank for the Monongah Glass Co. After about ten days there he will go to Brooklyn, N.Y., and put the Gleason-Tiebout plant in operation.

Mr. Bowen reported that the plant of the Standard Co-Operative Co. at Marion, Ind., is now about completed and that it will start Sept. 15. The producers are installed and the tank is about half built and will be ready to melt glass in a short time. This company will operate 18 shops hereafter. Their success has been due to the hard-working efforts of the different stockholders and directors. The Canton works at Marion will start this week with a new regenerative pot furnace.

The plant of the Marietta Glass Co. at Indianapolis, Ind., has been completed and will be put in operation this week. A 16-pot regenerative furnace was built and gas producers installed. This company also have a factory at Gas City, Ind., and recently added a new furnace which they will start this week. The work of installing gas producers at the United States Glass Co., at Gas City, Ind., has been completed and the plant is now in operation.

Work on the regenerative pot furnace at the A.H. Heisey plant, Newark, O., is being pushed. The foundations have been laid and the entire works will be on in full blast by the last of October. The experimental plant of the H.L. Dixon Co. at Carnegie, Pa., is ready to operate. A new bottle-making machine has been installed and fires will be started shortly when it will be given a thorough test.

Mr. Bowen exhibited some fine samples of ground stopper bottles, vials and smaller wares which were made at the factories at Gas City, Ind., Fairmount, W. Va., Tarentum Pa., and Bellaire O., all of which were built under his supervision. The glass is of excellent quality and the Dixon manganese was used in the batch.