Glass Industry, Indiana

GENERAL GLASS TRADE NEWS

FROM THE HOOSIER STATE.

Fire Will be Placed Under the Three Continuous

Tanks at the Thompson Bottle Co.'s Plant

Within the Next Ten Days — Extensive

Improvements and Alterations Are Being Made.

Resumption Has Been Delayed at the Canton

Glass Works Owing to Necessary Repair

Work — Situation at the Diamond Glass Co.'s

Plant at Gas City — Several Good Orders Have

Been Booked.

LIVE NOTES FROM SEVERAL PLANTS.

By Chas. C. Mayer.

Between Aug. 15 and 20 fire will be placed under the three continuous tanks of the Thompson Bottle Co., Gas City, Ind., preparatory to starting the entire works Sept. 3. J. W. Schofield and George O. Broad will have charge of the flint bottle department in which the melting end of the tank, the generators, and new checkerwork, built of nine instead of sixteen-inch brick, was extended two feet. With a view of increasing the heat in the front center rings, the boots will not be allowed to rest in the glass as deep as formerly. Concrete flooring is being put in to take the place of the former board footbench, and all the gloryholes will be furnished with stacks or hoods to carry away heat and soot. All boxes for shipping of the firm's output will in the future be made on the premises, for which purpose a boxmaking department is now in course of erection. Very few changes will be noticed among the shops constituting the skilled force. Only ordinary repairs were necessary in the green and amber department, where everything is in readiness for the blast of 1907-08.

At the Canton Glass Co.'s Works.

Extensive repairs on the furnace of the Canton Glass Co., Marion, Ind., have delayed resumption at that enterprise until about Aug. 15 or a few days thereafter. Unless all signs fail the coming season at the Canton works will be marked with as much progressiveness and prosperity as characterized this institution in the past.

Location Depends on Inducements Offered.

Whether Elwood and Alexandria, Ind., on the one hand, or Muncie on the other, will be able to raise the largest bonus will decide the question as to where the American Window Glass Co. will equip another one of their deserted concerns with machines. It is said strenuous efforts are being made by the above named cities to land the proposed extension of that institution's business.

Hemingray and Ball Bros. Interested.

Thos. F. Hart is now president and general manager of an automatic manufacturing enterprise at Muncie in which Ball Bros. and the Hemingray Glass Co. are also interested.

Affairs at the Diamond Plant.

An entire new roof is being put on the main building of the Diamond Window Glass Co.'s works, Gas City, Ind., where about 24,000 boxes of choice stock are awaiting distribution in the market. Seventy-five per cent of it is "A" glass, a portion consists of "AA" double and the remainder is "B" quality. Not a box of grinders nor a light of "C" glass is on the ground. Minor repairs on the tank furnace is being made. The erection of a new smokestack was necessitated owing to lightning knocking down the old one.

All available storage room at the Diamond is lined up with tank blocks in the manufacture of which this firm is doing a thriving business. Of this material they sold $12,000 worth to the Thompson Bottle Co. during the past three years and the furnishing of a $4,000 lot to the same company for next season is already booked. They are also shipping to the Sheldon plant at Millgrove, and the 36-blower window tank, which is being erected at Caney, Kan., by Baker Bros., formerly at Arcadia, will be constructed of "Diamond" blocks. All kinds of tank material is being turned out, but the manufacture of pots has been discontinued.

In the West Virginia District.

At the Buckhannon, W. Va., window glass plant no repairs have as yet been made according to a workman who left that town recently to spend the remainder of the summer in the Indiana gas belt.

The Crescent Window Glass Co. at Weston, W. Va., broke ground a few weeks ago for the construction of another 24-blower window tank which will be put up alongside of the present concern. It will be equipped with blind blow furnaces. The construction work will not be rushed, according to our informant, as the management do not expect to start the new addition before the first of the year. Their 3-cent gas contract is reported to have been extended for ten years to supply the old and new establishments. Ten settlements and seven blowings is last fire's record of the men who were on that company's payroll.