Western Flint Bottle Association

MEETING OF BOTTLE MANUFACTURERS.

THE Western Flint Bottle Association held a meeting at the Grand Hotel, Cincinnati, March 4, the first in nearly a year. The following houses, all west of the Allegheny mountains, were represented: The Great Western Glass Works, St. Louis; the St. Louis Glass Works; the Illinois Glass Co., Alton, Ill.; the Hemingway [sic] Hemingray Glass Co., Covington, Ky.; the Bellaire Bottle Works; the North Wheeling Glass Co.; Kerns, Gorsuch & Co., Zanesville, O.; the Butler Flint Glass Co., Butler, Pa.; and W. H. Hamilton & Co., J. T. & A. Hamilton, Wm. McCully & Co., Agnew & Co., and Tibby Bros., all of Pittsburgh.

Mr. Joseph Hamilton, of W. H. Hamilton & Co., president of the association, presided, and Mr. Frederick J. Park, of the North Wheeling Glass Co., was secretary. The meeting was secret and lasted all day. The partial strike at present prevailing in Pittsburgh was not discussed, as it was thought better to let each district attend to merely local issues. Neither was there any action taken on the question of freight discriminations, although the daily papers announced that the sole object of the meeting was to try and remedy such. The price list was not altered, and, in fact, most of the proceedings were of a routine character and not of interest to outsiders. The condition of trade was reported improving some, though not active, and the outlook fair. There are seventeen flint bottle factories west of the Alleghenies, all but four of which were represented. The Association will hold another meeting some time in early summer.