[Newspaper]
Publication: The Muncie Daily Times
Muncie, IN, United States
FACTORY GOSSIP.
NEWS OF INTEREST CONCERNING
MUNCIE'S BIG INDUSTRIES
And the men Who Work in Them - -
Personal and General Happenings
Gathered by a Times Man. The
Hemingray's May Double Their Capacity
- - Muncie's Glass Center.
In conversation with a well known glass manufacturer last evening he asked the Times man if he was aware that Muncie was now only second to but one city in the United States in the manufacture of glass, and that city is Pittsburg.
An estimate of the seven factories in operation finds 189 pots being operated by 1,702 persons as follows:
Ball Bros. two factories flint and green glass, sixty pots employing 700 hands.
Muncie glass company, flint glass manufacturers, thirty-three pots, employing 240 hands.
Maring, Hart & Co., window glass manufacturers, forty-eight pots, continuous tank system employing 325 hands.
The Hemingray glass company, flint glass works, fourteen pots, employing 140 hands.
C. H. Over & Co., window glass works with eighteen pots, employing 108 hands.
Nelson's green glass works with eight pots, employ 96 hands.
The Port green glass works, with eight pots, employing 93 hand.
In the above factories nearly every perceivable kind of glassware is made except plate glass, and with the recent location of the Gill pot factory, Muncie is one of the firmest glass manufacturing cities in the country.
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