Glass Industry, Muncie, Indiana - Hemingray Glass Company Plant and Employees

FLINT, WINDOW AND BOTTLE NEWS

FROM THE WESTERN DISTRICT.

Latest Concerning Factory Operations and

Trade Outlook at Muncie — The Commoner

and Glassworker's Staff Representative

Visits the Different Glass Plants in Indiana's

Magic City and Submits a Newsy Report.

Affairs at Ball Bros. Immense Establishment

— One Tank in Operation at the Hemingray

Glass Co.'s Works — New Machines to be

Given Thorough Test at the Chas. Boldt

Glass Co.'s Plant.

TRADE REPORT OF GENERAL INTEREST.

By Chas. C. Mayer.

Save one tank, which is undergoing alterations and automatic machine installation, Ball Bros. are operating full capacity at Muncie, Ind., and also at Coffeyville, Kan., where the fruit jar tank which is manned by members of the American Flint Glass Workers' Union, will be operated throughout the summer as well as the two automatic machine equipped tanks in No. 2 factory at Muncie, but, owing to the fact that quite a large stock of white liners are still in reserve the Coffeyville liner tank, as well as the one at Muncie, together with the three bottle and jar-producing furnaces in the Muncie No. 1 factory and the company's Marion establishment, will be put out of blast next week, according to General Manager Fred E. Jewett.

The Mason Fruit Jar Co., Coffeyville, Kan., whose workmen are under A. F. G. W. U. jurisdiction, will also operate their works during the summer in accordance with the option granted the machine bottle department during the recent conference at Toledo.

One Tank in Operation at Hemingray's.

At the Hemingray Glass Co.'s works, Muncie, Ind., business is still on the quite order so that the operation of one continuous tank furnace has been amply sufficient to meet the firm's requirements in the shipment of insulators. Supt. J. C. Gray stated that while occasional spurts of apparent business revival are experienced there is no decided improvement in construction work and his opinion is that the summer will pass ere conditions will be substantially better.

At the Chas. Boldt Glass Co.'s Works.

The large continuous tank furnace numbered among the Chas. Boldt Glass Co.'s Muncie holdings will be repaired during July and later it will be equipped with more machinery, probably several new "Johnny Bull" machines, one of which was tried recently by Manager Thos. Holden. His opinion of the machine is not the most complimentary, however, but he explained that his attitude toward it may be due to the fact that the machine he had on trial was old and worn. At Loogootee, we are informed, five of them are being operated and according to our informant, one of them is being worked on 12 and 16-ounce panels at Daleville.

The "Johnny Bull" machine is the invention of one Ludwig Grote, a German, who assisted Manager Holden during his trial with the apparatus. It is imported from England, however, where, according to the inventor, one establishment is operating 14 machines on beers, sodas, and hock wines. This machine has attracted considerable attention of late and many manufacturers in all parts of the country have investigated its merits at Loogootee, Glenshaw, and elsewhere.

The Chas. Boldt Glass Co.'s small Muncie tank will likely be operated on machine ware during the summer.

Muncie Personal Jottings.

Our local Muncie correspondent omitted including the name of Ohmer Mitchell, of Branch No. 12, G. B. B. A., in sending the names of Muncie convention delegates. The three are Wm. Connelly, Harvey Roesler, and Ohmer Mitchell. The latter is financial secretary of Branch No. 12. Connelly will also represent Branch No. 128, which is located at Marion, Ind. The Marion jar pressers have had a very short season's work, which is responsible for their decision to be represented by proxy.

The Muncie white liner makers began this season March 10. John O'Brien, of Philadelphia, is their convention delegate. He was recently elected as one of the national auditors of the A. F. G. W. U. At Muncie, where O'Brien is employed, he holds the office of president of the Trades and Labor Assembly — Jas. R. McClain is another of the prominent Muncie white liners who will end the blast next week.

Mr. Finan, ex-flint glass worker formerly with the Hemingray enterprise and one of the first members of the Wise Gazams, is now conducting a popular café one square north of Fifth and Hackley streets, Muncie, where his guests always find ample opportunity for a good social time.

John F. Tobin and Martin Joyce are the flint convention delegates from the Muncie plant of the Chas. Boldt Glass Co.'s works, where Cornelius Clark and Ora Edwards, machine operators, and John Cary, blower, are ending the blast. Newton, Dave, and George N. Peterson are looking after the molds in the various departments of the Ball Bros.' works.

T. O. Lacey, ex-flint glass worker, continues to enjoy good patronage at his Walnut street moving picture "Vaudeville."

W. R. McFadden is chairman of Muncie's Trade and Labor Assembly Labor Day committee, which body is hard at work preparing to make this year's national holiday is a distinctive success.

Other prominent Muncie G. B. B. A. workers at Ball Bros. works No. 1 are Michel Menard, Michael Kerrigan, Lon Thorp, Louis Koeler, Wm. Tibbins, Chas. Vaughan, Edward Gately, Wm. Gately, Cliff Tulley, Harry Allen, Frank Vanaddy, Wm. Alles, Geo. Barngrover, Otto Wilbee, Early Guthrie, Erastus Miller, and others.

The Workers at Vincennes.

Among the window glass workers who ended the fire at Vincennes are Henry Dehan, who worked several months at the Peerless prior to the starting of the Vincennes Window Glass Co.'s plant; City Councilman Thos. Dixon, Jos. Baur, Chas. Lambert, Geo. Seldon, and the two diamond wielders, John Wenzel and S. C. Jackson, the latter from New Albany. — Hector Dessy is cutting at the Blackford plant, also Rudolph Dubois, from Point Marion. — Leon Boucher and Clarence Van Dolsin are flattening; James M. Hall has been blacksmithing for that company since they began business at Vincennes, and Alf Legrose and A. Delgouffre, formerly of Upland but late from Centralia, are among the Blackford blowers. — Jos. Baur and family are planning an outing in a shady spot up the Wabash river, which Baur will ply the waters with his modern gasoline launch, which seats about 30. — Leon Jays, flattener, from Upland, ended the fire at the Vincennes works.