Hemingray Glass Company - Muncie, Indiana

STOPPED FOR WANT OF WATER.

The Situation at Balls' Glass Works

Becoming Alarming.

Much alarm is being felt to-day at Balls' glass works and Tin Stamp works, with the thermometer registering 90 in the shade and the big gas fires booming and the water supply exhausted. To-day Mr. Ed Ball stated to a Times reporter that the situation at their factories was quite alarming on account of the city not running the water mains to that district.

Since starting the glass factories the weather has been the hottest experienced for many seasons, making it nearly impossible for the men to work at all, and then only by the extensive use of water. There being no water supply from the water works the factory has been supplied with water from an artesian well but the well's capacity has been over-taxed and the supply is exhausted. Another well is being sunk while ten men are at work on a ten-foot reservoir and fifteen more men are to-day employed carrying water from neighboring wells. To-day the works were closed down. Mr. Ball says great caution is being exercised to watch the fires, for if a fire were to break out all the buildings in that vicinity would be swept away owing to lack of fire protection

Work is progressing very slowly at Hemingrays, the Muncie glass works, and the Port glass works. Cooler weather is promised for to-morrow.