Whitall Tatum, Millville, New Jersey

PLANTS IN NEW JERSEY.

Business in Well Known Factories is Unusually Good at Present as Seen by

The Glassworker's Traveling Representative.

By A. E. Bristow.

Whitall Tatum Glass Co., Millville, N. J.

Everything is moving along briskly in all departments of this company's two large plants.

At the "Glasstown" plant three continuous tanks and two day tanks are in blast, the continuous tanks being operated two shifts and the other two tanks being worked day turn only. Twenty-nine blow bottle shops, nine one-man machines, six of these on two shifts; seven carboy shops and two press shops are being worked, producing a stoppers.

There are nine stopper grinders steadily employed in the stopper grinding department. There are five moldmakers steadily employed in the mold shop, their work consisting principally of repairing.

Geo. S. Bacon is general manager of this firm's factories, being assisted at the "Glasstown" plant by J. S. Horton, office manager; Andrew Bennett, factory manager; Harry Van Hook, night manager; Wm. Bailey, foreman of the mold shop, and Geo. Austin has charge of the stopper grinding department.

Manager Bacon states that business is fine and the demand for this company's product is enormous. Speaking of foreign business, he remarked that the company always had done an extensive foreign business, and while this business has increased considerably no new customers have been taken on, as it has kept the company busy trying to supply the old domestic and foreign customers.

Whitall Tatum Co.'s South Millville Plant.

At this plant five day tanks and four pot furnaces are in commission working about 45 hand blow bottle shops on a miscellaneous line of bottles, 11 beaker and flask shops, four caster place shops, three tube shops, 14 one-man machines and press shops and one off-hand stopper shop.

In the mold shop 43 journeyman moldmakers and nine apprentices are employed.

In the stopper grinding departments 18 stopper grinders are on the job.

There are eight blacksmiths and two helpers employed in the blacksmith shop.

Wm. H. Nicholson is manager of this plant, Samuel Berry is superintendent, Samuel W. Fox is manager of the bottle shops, G. E. Barton is chief chemist, Benjamin T. Headley is superintendent of the mold and machine shops, Wesley Howell is foreman and Chas. Chew is assistant foreman of the mold shop, Wm. Cameron is foreman of the blacksmith shop.

The packing room building and lehrs on No. 8 tank (the one which broke recently) are being torn down and new lehrs and a new fireproof building will be erected in place of the old one.

This company produces a very extensive line of bottles, jars and chemical ware.

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