[Newspaper]
Publication: The Muncie Daily News
Muncie, IN, United States
p. 1, col. 4
MUNCIE'S GLASS PROSPECTS.
What Will be Accomplished
By the Next Fire.
CONTINUOUS TANK FURNACES
The Burned Factories Will Be
Rebuilt. — A New One Added to
the List of Old Ones.
Tomorrow evening the fires in the glass works, both window, flint, and green houses, go out to give the blowers their regular summer vacation. The furnaces will be idle for two months, at the end of which time a marked difference will be noticed in the glass trade of this city. As it now is we have but the factories of Ball Brothers, Maring, Hart & Co., the Muncie Glass Co., in operation. The works of the Over Window Glass company is in ashes, as is also the flint house of the Hemingray boys. When the fires are lighted in September the works of the two last named will again be in operation with an increased capacity, and the factory proposed for the manufacture of the R. I. Patterson patent fruit jar will be numbered among the new factories. The doubling of the capacity of the Maring, Hart & Co., works will give that place a working force of nearly 400, instead of 200. Ball Brothers are now at work on their extensions which will add about 150 workmen to their force. Surely the glass industry at this place is of no mean proportions. With the starting of the next fire, 1,000 additional people will be added to this city.
