Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-29
TIE BUSINESS BOOM.
Continued from Fgth Pcge,
The CENTRAL GLASS COMPANY.
Some InterestIpE Memoranda OF the
Past and Preseat Rsiattug 20 the
t;Isss business of wheeling.

II aLuiacIuGtrs, WHICH ID ehe WV
bread and butter, has strong bearing,
of course, upon local trade. With our
mills and works all in full operation the
trodesman feels that the times are GER
tain TO be prosperous. Causes, tneie-
| fore, which threaten the vitality ofthese
| heavy producers are always anticipated,
or at least closely watched, by nun
| dreds of anxious eyes, aud the general
| condition OF business throughout tue
land is consequently q matter OF pretty
general interest to everybody, mas
much as upon il hinges our hone well
fare.
Next to the manufacture OF nails In
importance in this section comes tue
| glass industry, and Wheeling glass mas
| attained Us much fame in the nlted
| states Is her nails, and has succeeded,
unlike the latter, in becoming quite ex-
tensiyely known in Europe. That the
latter fact is true, credit belongs SOLE
| ly to the enterprise of the Central Glass
| Works Company, under tue direction
its able President, Mr.. John Oester-
ling.
This company was organized just
| twenty years ago this spring with
capital of only 5000. To-day it stands
| a mammoth monument TO enterprise,
untiring energy, wonderful executive
management and sterling business
| Judgment. It's tremendous strides in
production, the ready market its wares
found, and its evident prosperity pro-
| duced, however, the usual re,
suit competition. Men of capital
are easily persuaded to invest their
| means in the construction OF new glass
works, the Central works being quoted
as inducement and example, and now
they are strewn almost as thick as 1.-THE
| leaves in Nalambrosa" all up and down
the Ohio valley. Starting glass works
was easy enough, but to procure the
brains, the sagacity, and Inventive
| genius which backed the Central Glass
| Company at its inception and which
continues to this day a strong active
power, was an entirely different mat
Ter. That there is somewhat of an over
production and dizziness in the glass
ware business at the present time Is a
fact which is admitted by the trade
journals. But how is it with the Cen
trail Glass Company?
Col. Scott, the secretary OF the Com
papy, was intervie we'd, and his report
was to the effect that their furnaces
were kept going right along, anu mat
orders we've abundant. The reason OF
this is not hard to find. While there
are any quantity of glass works, the
J uu. stI0n comes in, Where are the
ones which turn out ware equal to that
produced 10y this firm: Where are the
works which are making better or
more desirable goods? There are none!
| This is q simple statement of fact, which
! is shown the by strong demand for the
product from jobbers throughout
the United state, and IN
the face Of the strongest
kind of persistent fighting 10y other
producers. Leaders IN original pat
terms, and constantly producing new
and beautiful designs in table and bar
goods, their business is always bOuy-
ant and the trade find the readlest mar
ket for their goods. They have attain.
ed a reputation which is as clear and
solid as crystal, and they not only re-
tain il for their goods, but add to Its
brightness each season, and it Is UNI
Questionably fact that the wonderful
growth of this institution has done
much to give a character, stability
and notOriety to Wheeling Of which
every citizen should he proud.
A trip through the works of the Cen
trail Ola IS Company is one OF the prom
! ;n,ul ATTRACTIONS rDI tlIv stranger. Tue
| product is confined to table, bar and
lamp goods, and each department from
the mixing of the raw material to the
finishing process in the engraver's
room is replete with interest. There is
| probably no more advantageOusly cou-
structed works in the country than this,
everything being arranged with view
to economy of time and labor III hand
ling the product. Compact as are these
facilities, however, the works cover a
very large territory, the packing house
alone being about rs lafge "a the entire
works of most of Their strongest COM
petitOrs.
Their method of conducting their
business, mammoth rs it IL, Is simply.
They SET only 10 the largest ,JObbLng
houses, ana nCrCr to rCtdH buyers, the
latter being supplied only through the
former agency in all parts of the coun-
try.
Asking Col. Scott what the probable
prospects were for the future with refer
ence TO the glass business, he said that
they were fair. Such beautiful work is
now being turned out that it is displacing
silver for table ware, and also host OF
articles which once belonged to the
pottery business There Is yet great
future for glass he continued land
where the end will come in the way
of perfection no one can tell.
You cad note the great strides
ii has taken even in the past few years.
l look back on it myself, and familiar
as ! have been with the gradual ina
provements am astonished. We have
restored one Of Wendell Phillips lost
arts 10 more than a state OF prestine
perfection, and al the rate at which we
are now travelling it is hard to see to
what uses glass will not eventually
come"
Have you got out any striking new
patterns for this spring.
ayes indeed, and il you will walk
into our sample room | will show them
to you. But the truth is" continued
the Colonel, 1--WE are always getting up
something new in some one or other,
or perhaps all our liues. 1t may be q
matter Of color, or shape, or etching, or
engraving. Now in the latter regard
| tucIe uds DctH u bIedI Cudubc III tuc
last few years. With the aid of newly
invented machinery Especially designed
for the purpose we produce effects In
the appearance Of glass which is almost
equal to that of hand engraving. The
proct is cheap, and the artistic results
attained mark this an era in the glass
business"
The sample room which We entered
was large and well lighted, and had the
appearance Of an extensive retail glass
store. Here is kept specimens OF each
pattern made and sold by the company,
but sold, as noted above, exclusively to
jOJ5erS and exporters. 1t would have
taken several hours to have examined
all these warts and my time was
only given to the hsndsomest and most
expensive varieties, including lamp
goods. The colonel Informed me that
they sell fifty thousand dozen of lamps
each season, and for the Fall trade they
| are getting up some new patterns In