Glass Industry, Indiana

IN THE MAGIC CITY.

Latest Concerning Operations at the Different

Glass Plants in Muncie.

Muncie, Ind., Oct. 11. — At Ball Bros. factory No. 2 they have three tanks running in full, employing 66 shops on the improved Mason jars. There is about the same force of hands at this factory as last year. In the white liner factory they are running in full and everything is going along very nicely with the usual full time and good glass. In factory No. 1 they have one tank turning out wide mouth machine made bottles and one tank is being worked with the new automatic machine on jars. This machine is operated without a presser. A gathering boy and two small boys do the work.

The writer has watched this machine from the start. It makes ten jars per minute and the jars are of good quality. There is no fear of the Owens machine hurting the trade in fruit jars for a long time to come.

Ball Bros. are getting ready to erect another large tank at the local plant. This will make seven large tanks in all.

At the Boldt factory they are funning ten shops on milk jars and wide mouth bottles. Several changes have been made in the working force lately, several of the old men leaving to take positions elsewhere.

At the Hemingray plant everything is running as usual. This factory is running on insulators only at present, with 40 shops, and they are selling the ware as fast as made. The plant was operated in part all summer in order to keep up with the heavy demand for ware. The company are building a new tank here of large size and it will be ready about the first of the year. It is said they will erect a large pot furnace as soon as the tank is completed. Globes and other flint blownware will be made in the latter department.

Some of the recent arrivals at Hemingray's are Jake Schaffer, Charles Carson, Sr., and James Middlehurst, of Kokomo; Joe Chamberling, and Jas. Stiles, of Elmer, N. J.

Harry O'Neal, a popular gatherer at Hemingray's, took unto himself a life partner recently and is now receiving the congratulations of his friends. — Royal.