Glass Magnates Meet, Ball & Hemingray sustain damage from winds, Ralph stayed all night at the factory

GLASS MAGNATES MEET

IN MUNCIE AND TRANSACT

IMPORTANT BUSINESS

The Bottle Houses to take a Short

Vacation in January — Other

Factory and Mill Notes.

Indiana has 580 pots used in the manufacture of window glass, nearly all of which are in the natural gas belt. Yesterday the Indiana division of the Western Association of window glass manufacturers met at the hotel Kirby in this city. About 90 per cent. of the members were present. The afternoon was spent in secret session. It was decided to go before the national meeting in Chicago, the 29th inst., and recommend a reduction in the output and an increase in price. The window glass trade is good but the prices are too low and some steps must be taken to prevent loss. The gentlemen were George A. Phipps, Pendleton; J. E. Vandeventer, Anderson; George A. Pepu, New Albany; E. Barr and F. H. Johnson, Dunkirk; C. H. Over and Thomas Hart, Muncie; S. M. Woodbridge, Redkey; T. F. Blodgett, Tauton; R. L. Brandt, Eaton; R. Haegany, Hartford City and B. F. Hart, Albina. The meeting adjourned last night. Mr. Hart came home from Pittsburg yesterday where he attended a meeting of bottle manufacturers. Among other important things done it was agreed to close down the bottle factories during the period from January 15th to 30th and make a 10 per cent raise all around the price of bottles. The closing down will affect several hundred persons in Muncie; One of Ball Bros. factories, the Muncie glass company's factory and the Port glass works will be implicated. Maring and Hart's factory at Dunkirk will also close.

The heavy wind last evening did considerable damage to the Hemingray and Ball Bros.' glass works. The wind struck the new factory building of the Hemingrays with such force that some of the brackets were broken and for a time it looked like the building would be ruined. Ralph Hemingray remained at the factory all night. Ball Bros. also suffered some damage from the wind. The south end of their warehouse, in the old base ball grounds was blown down. There were several hundred boxes of glass in the building, which is over 300 feet long, and some of the glass jars were broken.

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