Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-13

nrofit to the manufactures IN TINS country.
These chimneys are sold in this country AZ
twenty cents, with no charge for packages.
From the best information. we have been
sbis no obtain the cost of labor on this class
of Goods rs not more than twenty-five per
cent of the cost of labor here. We have
some difficulty with porcelain shades. one
Size imported, known as the seventeen
Vienna shade. has been sold this season at
s;xty-eieht cents per dozen. Inc laoor
alone costs more than that amount here, 30
that II Is impossible to manufacture these
Goods under existing duties. and our mar
fet is practically abandoned TO the foreign
manufacturer.
= We ask In lieu of existing duties that
Won recommend specific duty OF III cents
per dozen on all gas and lamp enimneys'
On all opal shades, S-inch and less ~ GEMS ,s
On ali opa. shades, 8 inch and less than IL,
75 cents Der dozen. On all opal shades Ii
inch and more than. ii inches, $.Zo per
DOZEN. Porcelain smoke bells and other
onal goods not decorated or otherwise pro-
vided for, go per cent adyalorem.
q w. BRocKUNIER, Wheeling, WA,
LIVES. GILLlsDER, Philadelphia, Pa,
PAU ZIMMERMAN, Pittsburgh, Pa,
ROBERT BRYCE, Pittsburgh, Pa
Mr.. Gillinder said the great mass OF chin.
news used in this country is manufactured
here. The students lamp and the porcelain
shades are largely imported. Fully 20 per
cent. of the cost of either OF these articles
Is incurred on account OF labor, and urged
that special duty OF 10 cents dozen oe
placed upon all chimneys imported. Ihey
con he nroduced here for 25 cents dozen,
wbile thew are placed abocrd of ships in
European ports at 12h cents dozen.
To a member-The chimneys are put 10
retailers at double the cost and they retail
them at double. They generally go through
two or three hands before they reach the
consumers. Of these chimneys nearly all
They have been sold here after imports-
tion at 20 cents per dozen. They are made
principally in Germany and Belgium. They
are made to use on the German student
lamp. More lamps are used in this country
than anywhere else. A package that IN
closes these lamps would cost US 81 anu
the lamps are all for 20 cents aozsn ,
Small packages would cost % cents a dozen.
/ had some friends visiting in BeisiumwhS
were astonishei to find girls and sma..
bows at work in their factories. A man did
the blowing, the Others helping.
A porcelain shade costs % cents 1t costs
81 to Scents to producers.
A porcelain package, strawed and neatly
packed was shown to the Commission BY
Mr.. Gillinder, and the impossibility OF
present competition shown.
To McMahon-It wodld be satisfactory to
put one cent each on them. 1t would make
no difference to the consumer. We would
like ii made to cover all porcelain goods.
To Mr. Boteler-Specifc duties would
would not apply to all classes of goods.
European decorations are far ahead OF our
decorations Their labor is cheaper, and
unless we are protected it 10 impossible to
compete.
NODDED WARE.
Mr.. C. W. Brockunier read the following
paper on the necessity of the retention OF
the present duty on nodded ware:
GLASSWARE PRESSED IN A MOLD.
Present Duty IS Per Cent-Proposed Duty
35 Per Cent.
We do not ask for any increase Of duty
on pressed glassware, but desire that the
present rate continue. We find ourselves
the present time and present duty. This is
due to the fact that we have made use OF a
great many Improvements and appliances
of American invention, such as superior
machinery and furnaces, larger pots, coil
ing the molds by blasts of air, etc.,
which eaualJzes the difference between the
low wages paid abroad, and the higher
wages paid in this country for all
c, isses Of labor, common or skilled. How
long this state OF affairs will continue 1T is
impossible to foretell. American presses
and machinery are rapidly being sent
abroad, and methods OF work, the result OF
long, patient and expensive investigation
here are being introduced there. The ez-
port trade to Europe, which at one time
looked encouraging has fallen off greatly
already on that account, and in the near
future we not only expect to lose all our
export trade, but also to have the most Sc
rious competition in pressed glassware
here at home from foreign made goods.
A hasty review of the invention of press
ed glassware and its rapid and immense
development gives a brilliant illustration
of the inventive genius Of the American
mechanic and the energy and good judg-
ment of the manufacturers.
About forty years ago the first article of
pressed glassware was made in Cambridge,
near the city of Boston. The genius of an
American mechanic, engaged in another
business, devised the inventlon, from which
he never derived any pecuniary benefit as
lie failed to apply for patent. Now, there
are forty-three furnaces, containing five
hundred pots and thousands OF workmen
engaged in it's manufacture. 1t draws its
SIND from Western Massachusetts, Penn
sylvania, Maryland, Michigan and Nilsson
ri: it's tirs-clay from Missouri, Ohio and
West Virginia, and its co1l from tie hills
and mountains of Pennsylvania, Ohio,
West Virginia and Maryland. We beg at
this point to call the attention OF the Com
mission to the fact that the mountains OF
and Pennsylvania furnish
~ ha an
fscture of glass, and Missouri furnishes
fire-clay superior to the far-famed Stour-
bridge clay of England and the scarcely
less famous clay OF Germany.
The manufacturers of glass not only in
crease t. G wealth of communities in which
their plants are situated, by disbursing
LARGE sums OF money for labor, but also
render valuable barren hills and mountains
by extracting their hidden treasures and
carrying them to their various places Of
At the time of the invention of pressed
glassware, blown, plain and cut glass was
used and only the wealthy class was able
to adorn its tables with it.
1t was reserved to the American manu-
to render the art of glass making
to the comfort of a majority OF
the people, and by its moderate cost enables
the poorest ana numDleSt 10 decorate MS
tables with the useful and beautiful, while
his home is brightly illuminated by glass
lamps of elegant shapes and various colors,
petroleum from Pennsylvania
and wick from the cotton fields of Georgia.
What the invention and competition
amongst home manufacturers has
done to bring sabout this result
IS shown by comparison in prices OF few
articles of daily use. A plain, clumsy
tumbler then cost 81 so per dozen; now a
better one is only Is cents per dozen. Cob
let's were $500 TO $500 per dozen, whilst
now very handsome goblet is sold at AZ
cents per dozen and fair ordinary goblet
1t % cents per dozen. Glassware has
ceased to be a luxury and is now q neces-
sity in every family.
The proportion of labor in the cost Of
glassware is 65 per cent. If the cost of
Iabor in mining coal, fire clay and sand is
added twill make the proportion of labor
is to so per cent.
The proportion Of quantity of material of
glass is 20 per cent native and 80 per cent.
foreign. ... .E.
We consider the wages paid our en-
ployes no more than is their due with pre-
sent cost Of living and such as enables
them to live comfortably, educate their
children properly and save something to
live on when old age has dimmed their eyes
md their skilled bands have lost their cum
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