The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-11-17
4 srRoLL THRouGH THE POTTERY,



"come in and look at our place" said
Mr. Isett, the good natured and adable
Secretary OF the Wheeling Pottery oompa'
ny, to an ISrELLlaRScER reporter yester.
day evening.
"In here is where We will mix the col
ors to decorate our ware" observed the
Secretary, as We entered the first small
room, ground floor, at the north end OF
the huge building. 1.-THE hot air pipe you
see there, makes the temperature Of this
room about co.. And that safe In the cor.
uer Is to keep our colors in. You wouldn't
think how much the colors for this kind
OF work cost. Well, sir, they cost US from
$50 to $50 an ounce"
We next entered the room where work
men were deity making saggers, with
sort OF black looking clay brought from
Delaware. A sagger Is hard burnt YES
sci OF about the same material as fire.
proof brick, and Is used TO encase the pot
tery ware while II ia baking in the kilns.
A workman can make ninety OF them Ia a
day. They are placed in the kilns, one
stacked on the top OF another with a
layer OF clay between 10 make them air
tight while the ware is hardening at a
white heat within.
"To.monow," said Mr.. Isett, 1--WE will
burn 1900 ssaSgers which Is the full ca
pacity OF one OF our largest kilns. Last
week we burned 1000 In this kiln, and
now as these are hardened so as to bear
up the weight, we can stack on topoi
them and fill the kiln. The saggers when
burned will last us long time"
"0i the FIVE kilns We now have erected,
the two largest are III feet in diameter.
These are the largest in the country. Our
others are l6 feet In diameter. Nextspring
we will erect three more kilns"
ave will import our pottery clay from
England The clay will be ground In those
three large tanks you notice on the first
floor; then sitted 80 IS to fall into a sub
cellar; thence 1t will be pumped up
through small iron pipe into the dry
presses which are to squeeze all the water
out. The material Is then in state fit Tor
use."
On the second floor we were shown
the business and private offices, and the
show room, where visitors will be taken
to examine the products OF the pottery.
The offices will be elegantly flushed, fur.
Inished and carpeted. The private office
will have Brussels. The show room will
present the wares 10 advantage, as 1t liz
painted pretty, delicate tinted blue
color.
The packing room is on the ground floor.
the molding, drying and ware.rooms on the
second and third floors. Mr.. 1sett says:
ave have more floor space in our ware.
rooms than any pottery in the United
States"
There are two steam elevators. On the
third floor, at the south end Is the decor
ating room containing nine windows,
where any Wheeling young lady with a
taste for embellishing the ceramic art,
might fairly try her hand. =.
1--WE will soon begin to bake the war" "
replied the Secretary to auinquiry. when
baking pottery we leave the ware in the
saggers at white heat torty-eight hours.
Presidents OF this locality" said he,
twill be delighted to know that they will
not be much annoyed with smoke, as they
hive anticipated. When the kilns get
under way you cannot see any smoke
whatever Issuing from them. | can't aC-
count for 1t, but SO it is; and We have no
smoke consumer. The only smoke We will
have will be from the main stack Of the
engine"
A workman in one Of the kilns said: II
never, saw akin that produced lesssmoke."