Hemingray making jars

AMONG HOOSIER STATE WORKERS.

General Trade Potpourri of Interest to Readers

of the Commoner and Glassworker.

By Chas. C. Mayer.

Executive Member Martin Joyce is on the roster of the Chas. Boldt Muncie plant this fire, where John Woods and Ora Edwards are also working.

James Burk is pressing jars at the Hemingray factory, where Harry McDonald is now factory manager, as the duties of J. C. Gray hold his attention almost steadily at the desk. — The reliable Wm. Finan is still operating an insulator press at the above works. — Others gathering and pressing the same goods are John Clarke, E. Ballinger, Chas. Dace, John Reese, who gathers for Dace; T. J. Conway, E. B. Hubbard, Wm. Eberson, Ed Packard, of Swayzee; Ed Gately, H. Neurman, J. W. Claspell, and Frank Edmunds, whom we met at the Boldt plant last season.

The workers in factory No. 2, Ball Bros., and those at the Boldt plant, constitute L. U. No. 2, A. F. G. W. U., of which local M. J. Clarke is president; Sam Taylor, vice president; Frank Kerns, financial secretary; W. J. Cornklin, corresponding secretary.

A. B. Lowe has charge of the cutting and flattening department at No. 3 factory of the American Window Glass Co.'s plant, Hartford City, where L. D. Caldwell, of Anderson; Wm. Rhonemus, Jos. Hunt, Eugene Marshall, Wesley Thornburg, and others are wielding the cropper and speiss. — M. C. Lewis is at the head of the clerical department, while L. Thornburg presides in the blowing room, and Thos. Moore, for many years a prominent figure in the window glass trade, is superintending the entire institution.

Adolph Stenger, who started the fire at Fairmont, W. Va., is again making the big work at the Baur plant, Eaton, Ind. — Other prominent window workers now at Eaton are Wm. Perkins, of Anderson; R. R. Gray, of the same city; L. J. Legros, Patsy Coridon, Leon Sortet, Victor Amede, Joseph and James Cummins, late from Mt. Vernom; Frank A. Defibaugh, of Dunkirk; Chas. Rohlfing, cutter; also of Dunkirk; Harvey Teague, from Pendleton; A. B. Langrehr, late of Barnesville; A. E. Fox, from Redkey, Ind.; and Chas. Park and Wm. Faulkner, who gather side by side, as they did 40 years ago at Wightman's factory on the South Side, Pittsburg. Mr. Faulkner said: "We worked with a blower at that time who made rollers so thin that the rats ate holes in them." Mr. Park has been greatly troubled with an injured leg on account of which he has take treatment at Martinsville and other institutions. He is now getting along fairly well.

It has been generally rumored in the Indiana gas belt that Ball Bros., of Muncie, purchased the right to make fruit jars on the automatic Owens machine, but those who seem to be conversant with the facts deny the report.

Muncie glassworkers are at the head of that city's Central Council. John F. Tobin is president; W. H. McFadden is vice president, and M. J. Clarke, one of Muncie's staunch unionists, is one of the delegates. Mr. Tobin is pressing cherries and milks at the Boldt plant; McFadden is pressing half gallon jars at Ball's No. 1 factory, and Clarke alternately gathers and presses half gallon jars in factory No. 2. In the same factory the following gatherers and pressers may be found: Wm. Rehbeck, whose summer resort is Albion, Ind.; Wm. Thomas, from Fairmont, W. Va.; Geo. Scheel, James Yanser, Harry Anderson, John Carrigg, Ed Hanley, Earl Guthrie, Adam Steinmeyer, Wm. Maisel, Chas. Conkle, J. C. Durbin, Lobe C. Jones, and last, but not least, the Sea-Isle City solon, Paul Martin.

In factory No. 1 are Louis Koegler, Ernest Parker, C. Vaughan, Phonie Ford, Chas. E. Kirk, Garrett Ford, Oscar Martz, Frank Crawford, Frank Vanaddey, Chas. Parker, Omar Mitchell, Michel Menard, Wm. Alles, Cyril Menard, Chas. L. Dupke, Fred Davis, Michael Kerrigan, and Lon Tharp. James McClain, J. B. O'Brien, and Frank Lafferty are doing well among the liner makers.

Geo. Cahill and John Pierce have quit the factory since the writer's last visit to the Magic City and are now the successful proprietors in the "Happy Home Fishing Club" building. Henry Richard, who is chairman of the club, is working at Terre Haute this fire. John Pearce is secretary of the organization and Geo. Cahill is treasurer. This season's camp officers have not yet been elected, although preliminary preparations for the 1907 outing are already in progress. Next July will find them on Sandusky river, near the bay and near Sandusky. The membership is about 30, with two cooks and dishwashers. In the "Home" of the club are two hand paintings worth about $40 each. The paintings are fine reproductions of Elizabeth Lake camp and Sylvan Lake, Pontiac. The club spent last summer near Monroe, Mich. This organization has the reputation of doing things in fine style and their visitors are always sure of a royal welcome.

Emory Cowley is one of the proprietors of the Muncie Glass & Paint Co., dealers in wall paper, plate and window glass, and paints. Mr. Cowley used to wield the diamond during the palmy window glass manufacturing period in the Magic City. His establishment ranks with the best in the larger cities.

Wm. McFadden, member of the Muncie Rod & Gun Club, reports that organization still intact. Prominent Muncie pressers and gatherers are members of the club.

Al Hufford and Jesse Cunningham, who have been working at Ball Bros. Marion plant, have left for Salem, N. J. Otto Coleman took one of the places made vacant by the above named. — Wm. Combs has been on the sick list with rheumatism. — Wm. Golenor reports matters going along nicely at the Marion plant.