Hemingray Glass Company - Muncie, Indiana - Employee

AT MUNCIE AND LANCASTER.

Factory Jottings and News Items of

Interest to the Trade.

By Chas. C. Mayer.

William Finan, the well known conferee of the insulator department, who resides at Muncie, recently added the moldmakers at the Marion Flint to L. U. No. 37. Finan is on the roster of the Hemingray Glass Co., who have been operating one tank on a division of time among the men. The firm's large furnace is about to be started with 18 additional shops. Mr. Finan informed the writer that he and John F. Tobin secured the promise of jurisdiction over Ball Bros. Coffeyville fruit jar plant which is equipped with ten machines and will give employment to 35 men. — J. R. McClain, the erstwhile liner maker, is now pressing various articles at Ball's "dinky" tank at Muncie. — T. J. Conway was not working last week.

Lancaster Personals.

A. F. Niedeck, the well known glass decorator and salesman who last season was with the Monongah Glass Co. at Fairmont, W. Va., Is now holding a similar position with the Lancaster, O., Glass Co., where he is embellishing that company's fine lines for the annual exhibit. — Edward Mallory, the genial grinding room and assorting foreman from the Wheeling district, is in charge of the Lancaster Glass Co.'s grinding department. He has held responsible factory positions in the glass trade for over a quarter of a century. — R. C. Young is a progressive packer at the above named works. — W. S. Graham, the firm's moldmaker foreman, is evincing admirable talent in some of the designs and lines produced at the above plant. — Samuel Heston, the popular blower of iron mold opal goods, is still stationed on the day tank with J. M. Stewart, the pleasant tradesman who, the boys say, is being seriously exposed to Cupid's darts somewhere in the east of the town. — Wm. A. Schwartz is gathering iron mold varieties for Harry Hepler and Ray Deeds is gathering press ware for F. T. Miller, who is one of the wide-awake local workers. — Paul Krupp, presser, has acquired a fine piece of land in Michigan which he will cultivate as a fruit farm, beginning with the setting out of 1,000 trees next spring. — P. Youngman, the genial former Wellsburg man who is financial secretary of L. U. No. 127, is finishing many excellent articles made at the Lancaster plant, where the Rider brothers are also employed. William, Jr., is pressing and Peter is gathering. — T. R. Robinson and Claude A. Dale are two up-to-date and staunch members of the flint trade who are pressing attractive and stable lines in the East End, where Len Minear is another of the prominent finishers.

Jacob Pence is now looking after the forces of the Hocking plant on the night shift. Pence is, as usual, holding down an iron mold place which commands the best attention of a thorough mechanic. Harry always delivers the goods. — Theo. Creighton is meeting with the best of success in making the glass at the Hocking plant, where Al Hughes is making good in blowing lamps, cases and the like. His shopmates are Denver Gang and Lewis Litrell. The last named will become a member of the local union as soon as the goat is sufficiently gay enough to give Litrell the time of his life. — Arthur Fleming and Harry Wilson are working together on a press shop. Fleming is making his headquarters at the Fairfield House. — Chas. E. Jewell, the prominent Buckeye State flint, is also operating a press at the Hocking, as is also W. H. Gebhard, the former Monongah tradesman, who occasionally turns out lamps on an O'Neal machine at Lancaster. — Jesse M. Price is back on the bench again blowing iron mold ware with as much vigor as he usually exhibits in umpiring the national game. He was with the Illinois-Missouri League. — Other genial flint workers the writer met at the Hocking plant are O. E. Keenan, Jay Wilson, Arthur Cripps, Ike Ammons, a former Cambridge worker who now resides at Lancaster; James Ghee, Chas. Fairchilds, Leonard McGranahan and Geo. Murphy, who gathered for Miller at the Lancaster plant last fire. Ghee, McGranahan, and Murphy were off duty when the writer visited the Hocking.

Workers at Ball Bros. Plant.

Mike Kerrigan is a home once more operating a bottle machine at Ball's Muncie enterprise after trying his luck at Alton and in the land of sweet potatoes and cranberries. — Louis Koegler went to work again on No. 7 tank last week. — Wm. Tibbins, Benj. Koons, Geo. Duthrie, and H. F. Cannon are making packers' goods on Ball Bros. No. 4 tank.