Hemingray Glass Company - Covington, Kentucky

THE GLASS TRADE.

Conditions of Affairs in the Window, Bottle

And Flint Business.

The following statistics of the window glass trade are corrected to date. All the window factories in the Western district are in operation, except the 20 pots of De . . . [illegible text] . . ., New Albany, Ind.; 16 of Day, Williams & Co., Kent, O.; 6 at St. Louis, Mo., and 10 of . . . [illegible text] . . . Glass Co. The total number of pots in operation is 690. In the Eastern district 264 pots are in operation, and 8 at Albertson, Peel & Co., New Jersey, and 16 at the . . . [illegible text] . . . & Son's works, Bridgeton, N. J., are idle. In the Northern district 156 pots are in operation, and 8 pots of the Ithson Glass Co., idle. The total number of pots in operation is 1,110. This fire, which begun on November 12, will end on July 1, 1888, giving a total of 37 weeks in round members. No unforeseen circumstances preventing the pots in operation will work steadily during the fire. An estimated of the product of window glass for the fire can be made by considering the average product of each pot per week, estimated upon last year's work, at 75 fifty feet boxes. The window glass trade continues in most excellent condition. Men are hard to secure in some factories especially in this city, where so much sickness prevails. Stocks are light.

The bottle factories in the Western district, under the jurisdiction of D. A. 143, K. of L., are enjoying good trade. Thirty-three of the furnaces are union factories and nine no-union, the latter being the De Pauw & Co., New Albany, Ind.; Falls City Glass Co., Louisville; Kearne & Gorsach, Zanesville, O., and DeSteigher Glass Co., LaSalle, Ill. The Streater, Ill., furnaces started September 1, and have been in operation steadily since. The total number of pots in operation is 174, and those idle is 64. The factories at Streater, Bowling Green, Minerva, Covington, and LaSalle are tank furnaces. The new factory at Ripley, Ill., a single tank, started two weeks ago, their blowers belonging to Local Assembly 5,284 of Streater. Trade throughout the district is in a good, healthy condition and there is no cause for complaint.

The conditions of affairs in the flint glass trade are treated in detail in another column. The chimney branch is prosperous, as was the press ware branch until the present trouble occurred.