Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-08-08


THE Co-OpERATrvE LABou MovENENr--TnE
GLASS WORKS or BARNES, TASPEL A CO.. BELL
ARE, O.--The perpetunlly recurring Disagree
ments between laborers and capitalists, employ
ees and employers, and the frequency of strikes,
their disastrous consequences to both labor and
capital, and their demoralizlng influence upon
society, have recently directed the attention OF
the public mind TO cooperation as remedy for
the many evils connected with the present labor
system, both In our own country and Europe;
and everything tending to assist In thesolution
of the difficulties that surround the question IL
eagerly welcomed by the tloughtful portion Of
our people. If t..rI o.
That the cooperative movement will accom-
plish ali that It's most sanguine friends claim for
II, we may yet be permitted TO doubt. That IL is
an improvement on the old system, all who have
given the subject attention will, we think, be
ready toadmit. Itenables the laborer TO receive
his whole earnings, makes him his own employ
er, thus preciuding the possibility of conflict be-
tween employees and employer; and where the
parties to the association are sober, frugal, and
industrious men, and their affairs are prudent
ly managed, they cannot fail to be abundantly
successful. We purpose, however, not to theor-
ize, but to state some Of the practical results Of
the movement, as exhibited in the workings OF
Barnes, ,Tanpel & Co.'S Glass Works. I'm this place.
The association, which consists of eighteen
persons, all young men, practical glass blowers
formerly connected with the glass works of
Wheeling, was organized during August, 1866
with capital of $4,000, and, through the liber-
ality of two of Dur most publc-spirited citizens
w. G. Barnard and Gen. b. r. Cowen, were in
duced to locate in Bellaire where they imme-
diately commenced the erection of works. The
main building is of concrete, substantially built
and well arranged 80 feet square two stories
The stack, which is II feet high and 90 feet in
circumference at its base, is one of the best in
the country. The furnace contains ten pots,
each having capacity of 1900 pounds. Adjacent
to the works are the office, warehouse packing
rooms, shops for the manufacturing of boxes,
patterns, &c.
They commenced manufacturing January,
1866, since which time their furnace fires have
not ceased TO burn. Even during last Winter,
when, on account of the general depression OF
business, other works throughout the country
were compelled to suspend operations, they con-
tinued at work. putting their funds into mate
rial, thus giving their operatives employment,
though they received no present return for their
services; but, being their own employees they
could afford to walt on themselves for payment,
especially as they would otherwise have been
idle. Thus, while other works were standing
still and other men were doing nothing, they
were busy-one of the results of cooperation
When the Spring trade opened, they were pre-
pared TO supply the demand, and they readily
disposed not only of their stock on hand but
such, too, has been the quality of the wares
they have made and the prices at which they
could SELL that they have been enabled to COM
pete successfully in the Philadelphia Pittsburgh,
Wheeling, and Cincinnati markets. In April of
the present year they sold to one house in the
former city 400 boxes of glassware, most of
which would be- re-sold to our Western mer-
chants, who were thus paying transportation
both ways, and profit to the Philadelphia deal
er, for the privilege of buying glass manufac-
tured in Bellaire in the Philadelphia market
The leading glass manufacturers and dealers of
Wheeling, too, are among their large customers.
The works are now, at n time of universal dull
ness, employing seventy-ive hands, turning out
ten tuns of glassware per week and have orders
largely in advance of their ability to supply.
Since their commencement they have largely
increased their facilities, and are now making
all styles and varieties of blown and pressed
glassware, and of as good quality as can be pur-
chased elsewhere.
They make their own patterns OF moulds,
manufacture their own pots, boxes, &c.
The works are conveniently situated both as
| to coal (which can be run from the mouth of the
purposes, a switch OF the Central Ohio Division
of the BALTIC. & Ohio r. X. running close by their
| warehouse.
| G. b. Barnes is business manager and fnan-
| cler ii. j. LeaSure superintendent of works, q.
| 7. Cowan superintendent of packing and ship
| ping. These, with Messrs. II. Tanpel, Jas. w.
Gill, H. and Il. Robinson, Ii. and j. Crimmell,
| H. over, and others whose names we do not now
recall are good citizens and men of great energy
| and untiring industry, and have made their en-
| terpitse Il splendid financial success-sbares OF
Sl,NW now being considered worth 800.
H. j. Leasure and JAS w. Gill, both members
| the company, have recently patented valuable
Improvement for cooling the patterns moulds.
Believing them TO be abundaptly worthy OF
the splendid success they have achieved, we take
pleasure in presenting them to our readers ak
| examples of what well managed association OF
| energetic and industrious young men may dc
| for themselves