Hemingray Glass Company - Muncie, Indiana

GLASS FACTORIES

ENJOY PROSPERITY

Capacity of the Ball Brothers and

Hemingray Plants Has Been

Enlarged.

PRODUCER GAS SATISFACTORY

Boldt Plant is Working Steadily -

Big New Tank at Hemingray's.

Reports from Muncie's glass industries give ample evidence that a season of full prosperity is ahead for this trade beginning with the new year.

The No. 3 tank of Ball Bros.' No. 1 factory, which was shut down a few days ago, will be put into operation sometime this week. The tank was laid off while a gas producer plant was installed. All the other tanks are now running by artificial gas. The producer system is giving excellent satisfaction. Many of the workmen are of the opinion that the producer gas gives better results than the natural gas did.

The Commoner and Glassworker's correspondent writes in the last number of conditions in the Boldt and Hemingray plants.

AMBER TANKS WORKING.

"At the Muncie plant of the Boldt Glass company, Superintendent Thomas Holden has affairs moving in the usual good order. In addition to the nine-ring continuous flint tank, he has four shops working on a small amber tank making pints and half-pints. This tank is also under the main roof and is large enough to give employment to six shops."

"Eighteen shops are making a variety of flint bottles on the big tank. This plant was successfully operated up to the end of last fire and the present season was begun Sept. 15."

"As the works are equipped with a modern fuel system, there are at present no obstacles in sight that would hinder the . . . [illegible text] . . . recorded excellent run from proceeding to the end of the blast. There are practically no changes here since the writer's last visit and contentment prevails among the men as well as with the management."

TEN-RING TANK ADDED.

"The Hemingray Glass company, Muncie, Ind., are erecting a new ten-ring Dixon continuous flint tank, and Superintendent J. C. Gray expects to put it in operation about the first of the year. A general line of flint ware will be the output. The tank takes the place of the old fourteen-pot furnace, which had to be discarded on account of an inadequate natural gas supply. Producers and every other modern equipment will be installed with the new tank."

"Two tank furnaces with about twenty-six shops are being operated on insulators at present. Owing to the fact that construction work is practically at a standstill at this time of the year, shipments of this kind of goods are but normal at present, but this old established institution is usually doing a good brisk business on this line. The officers of the firm are R. G. Hemingray, president; D. C. Hemingray, secretary and treasurer. The main office is at Covington, Ky."