Whitall Tatum, Millville, New Jersey

50 Years With Whitall Tatum

On March 21, George S. Bacon, vice-president and general manager of Whitall Tatum Company, rounded out fifty years of service in the glass industry. Mr. Bacon entered the employ of Whitall Tatum Company in 1881 as office boy in their Philadelphia office. He remained there nearly a year when he was sent to the factory at Millville, New Jersey, as a combination office boy and assistant to the cashier.

George S. Bacon

Here he advanced through various departments until 1892 when he became manager of the Green Works and five years later was made manager of the Flint Works. Subsequently he became general manager of both plants of the company, a member of the Board of Directors and a vice president.

During the fifty years that he has been connected with the company, Mr. Bacon has seen bottles made by every known method - by hand (including off hand, clay mold, wooden mold, paste mold and iron mold), semi-automatic machine, automatic machine (both the vacuum and feeder method), and has seen the evolution of annealing developed from the days of ovens, through open-fired, narrow lehrs, muffle lehrs and the present unit lehrs. During his term in the industry he has visited practically every glass factory in the United States and Canada.

Mr. Bacon has served continuously as a member of the Wage Committee of the National Bottle Manufacturers' Association from 1895 to 1925, and has been a Director of the Glass Container Association since its beginning. He was also a Director of the National Bottle Manufacturers' Association from 1895 until it was merged with the Glass Container Association. During Mr. Bacon's connection with the National Bottle Manufacturers' Association, he also served as vice-president, chairman of the managing committee and as secretary.