Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-08-29
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MANUFACTURE OF GLASSWARE
R1Ksw HOBBS & GO.
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i.sy 81 or friends over IN the direction Of Phil
s,leiDhia, New York and Boston. are aEaTe that
i large quantity Of their nice things. IN this
lire, comes from that q smoky city of Mhee-
Iing'' With this object 10 view, he started ont
4 few days since IN search Of the glass works
Of Barnes, Hobbs 4 Co, ar,d----stopi IL have
forgotten something that you ought to knox, -
the information y5ill be Of great Falue to your
selves and the "comm1nify al large. You
knox ne are 4 ration. IS some one has said, OF
q ,reat elements TO tcfine;-rhere Is the
religious element; = the Bo5is and the Fcsedy
ELEMENT the biz, the fashionable element,
with lis hoops, H1uBces, and great lunches Of
artificial flowers, and sundrY other "h1iDs,
hung on 10 nice, ting little bonnets, tripping
It's delicate little self through the world in va
rions ways; and the fast tdNey element, s=itb
patent leather on one end and a coy looking
lowny moastache, some curly, silky, sWeetle
hair, and about yard Of Irish linen, called a
collar. and turned down at the other end, [Sorne
folks have thought there mi9df be bruins IN one
end of the finer element, but As your CORES
poudcnt designs disscctilg Il at some tutnrc
day, lac will not eater into any arguments az
prcseutl Then, there Is another, q very snI1!t
clement, called cpulni5n sense, but as this Is
almost obsolete, a definition Is unnecessary. As
''but fe@ there be srho ,sould understand it.
There arc also, various other elements. but yOnT
correspondent has space for only one morc-the=
p0Ii.iegI element, which Is, also, the gTedt Gle
meut; in fact, tbs the Elephant, and is found
in all the various forms and conditions of hu-
mainly throughout the country, from the min
ister ofthe gospel down to the modern member
of Congress. This clement is very searching,
insuisitive one and whether one will or not il
seems at all times bent upon forcing itself into
+ his every action. II never fails To prove that
our Presidents are always the very ineAnest
men ID the country. whilst every otice5holder
is a known thief. and the members of Congress
he dicPa1VSt1 ftia rhargPfeFs fEhiS last If
not altogether tFne, IS at least worthy of conSid-
erHtion.)
But yonr correspondent started out tn tell you
something; and has not done it yet However,
he will 1t is concerning his leii'ie@; and as
some persons appear to he at great loss to
! know Just where they shall place him, some
chalk him dnxn on the JLeek list; others
saw hcis an American, and forthwith mark bin,
! plug" whilst third party call bin, demo
cratic" and write North wing -he has thought
it best TO tell them just where he belongs. First
He is an American, but don't y-,yant to hang all
don't belong TO that party. Third: lie lisa Re-
publican, but mot buck one-is in favor offrec
negroes-in 4ifricg. Fourth He i a Demo
crat, but can't tell Just yet, which ring he be-
longs to.--is waiting patiently until Pryor and
the Enquirer fights it out, so he can get on the
strong side Hoping he has satisfied the ''po.
llitical element your correspondent will now
take up the subject he started out on; making
glass.
are situated in South Wheeling, Immediately on
tlIcline Of the B. & o. r. r. This is really fine
establishment, credit to this, and would be, to
any other city. The bindings which are large
and built Of brick, cover, should judge, over an
acre Of ground The main building contains
three furnaces for melting the glass composition,
two Of them very large, one containing
10 pots, another Q; the third is smaller, and
contains only 5,-and one aHHcaliUS furnace, of
over 80 feet in length by about 10 wide and some
two etdeep, inside. There arc, also, a number
of other apartments in this building devoted to
various uses; fitting up the iron noulds for max
ing pressed ware, cutting the finer qualities,
BE, &c. Opposite this, stands a block of build
ings used for different purposes; in Que ofwhi:h
is q steam engine for driving the machinery in
ar.1ther, the kettles for refining and purifying
Pearl ash, furnaces for burningse or drying sand
and calcining lead and tin, whilst third is used
for asserting and packing ware. The large Storage
room is in the first story of the main building.
The company owns some seven or eight acres Of
iground, where the works stand, adjoining which
4 they have about 80 acres of A 54 foot vein of
Stone coal The entrance to the mines, isthTOngh
enc oftke buildings, and the railway, upon which
/ the coal is brought out, terminates in the yard.
I TIIE COST OF COAL
delivered in the works is about two and half
cents per bushcl, Of which they use 800 bushels
lpcr day, worth $3.50, whereas the saulcanlount
icnsts one of the Eastern establishments only The
snail SIM ~ Of .T1rty;Tire dollars, or just sir
times ,elidt 70 c0sts IN Wheeling.
Your correspondent omitted to notice, in its
lproper connection, the superior qualities COM
bincd in the larger Onezof the three furnaces
1t is said to be, by those who ought to know,
lone Of the finest in the country; the inside arch
and lining is composed of ilre.brick, brought
from Scotland at a cost Of SO re- thousand,
of which 5000 were required for the purpose.
The pots used for melting the glass cOmpo.
Isition-of which this furnace contains ten
are made of tire-clay brought from Germany,
and of size sufficient to contain $500 lbs.
Of melted glass. They cost about $50 each;
the frequent breakingof which seldom fails to
break an individual or company.
MATERIALS USED ~ MAKING GLASS.
These works are confined exclusively to the
manufacture of fine flint glass, which is made
from the following composition: Fine crystal
sand-bearing an almost iinperceptible reSem-
blancc to white lump sugar-Pearlash, Lead and
Saltpetre The sand is dried in an oven and
ground fine, the Pcarlash purified by boiling,
aud the lead is calcined, after which these diff
fcrcnt articles are mixed in about the following
proportion: Ono thousand pounds of sand, six
hundred of lead, two hundred and tifty Of pear
lash aud tifty pounds Of saltpetrc, aud placed in
the pots or crnCibles In the furnace, in quaint.
llcS OF aDOuL zi'PuV IN eaCut WHeLS IL CuHslules
2 4s hours in melting. We ere now ready for
BLOWING AND PRESSING.
See that workman standing by the furnace,
with an iron rod his hand of about Of an
inch in diameter and four feet in lengtht Well,
that rod, as you or | would call it, is hollow,
land he calls it tLoio pipe. Now watch him
dip ono end Of it into the melted glass and give
liz little twist then raise it up and turn it rap
idly, round and round, until ne seems to have
] j,St enough on the end Of the blow pipe to an
sWcr his purposes; there he goes with it, over
e to press, which works very much On the prin-
ciple Of machine that carpenters use for punch.
ing shingles. just imagine the slingie TO be an
iron mould the inside Of which is the shape and
size Of the outside Of a tumbler, and the punch
to be die of the dimensions Of the inside, and