Daily Republican., 1884-04-29
|1,vJyGToN ENTERPRISE
vnIlsTkY ABOUT TO BE
L",,CrO-THE j" BUILDINGS
I"U ,,nsr COMPLETED.

Wilmington Glass Company hs IL
pe W nf a corporation chartered by
''n Iate Legislature to a.;ons manu.at;une
la1e 7niiks many other corporations
p; Or,,N ln i've out a short spasmodic
Gu Gu 1n,y naper, the Wilmington Glass
on Ir p"r.' a live institution and is Pre-
l'aiy i;yuaif for active operations. Ihe
a,s .s,ns ,'S' it did was to purchase a lot
'n,"s r;stiana river with a front OF
a' Of T On Commerce street, the Yves.
zee, Fu1 W. adjoining the property OF me
'nhsr '" Ice Company. The locatloh
nsrv desirable one. convenient TO
very y.,,er and railroad communica-
- wilmington and Northern Rail.
~ company intends to extend a
,;rart to the works. Commerce
which leads from Chrlstiana
en no ,n the works, is being graded
"II tI1.d M with ashes, and VII! when
.haI t',, make a solid thoroughtare. "A
',ler of carpenters are at work
p,irr the buildings,..s some OF which
/ ,irsady % completed. The boiler ana
.;na house is built Of brick on piles
'n" nu torty feet into the ground. The
I;nr ne has a capacity of tifteen-horse
,.n,ius er from the engine house we
,tLe carpenter shop, where the
A.. made in which to pack glass.
n. rear Of this stands the pot house
roe two. story and a garret struc-
'hI has hv 80 feet. In this building the
~. made in which the smelling Is
These pots are made of German
slipped from Germany. The clay
= hIueish cast, but when burnt it
ome, gray and almost as hard as
It is shipped in bricks some six
inches long, six wide and six thick
ktd in iron hooped boxes and when
cared here it costs about S13 ton.
he smelling pots made of this clay
A. inches in diamater, four feet deep,
weigh when finished 800 pounds,
necessary to have forty or fifty OF
made ahead, as they are con.
DrIv burning out and require rePlac'
with new ones. 1t takes from three
cur months for these pots to become
roughly dried and fit for use. The
nuany is now commencing the
nnfac,ure of these pots, and as fast
ley are made they are removed to
second story of the pot.house to dry
Ip tlatiening house ID a large one
" building 80 by 100 feet. The
4 glass cylinders are taken in a
BE- state, heated in furnace and re-
FED on huge flat revolving wheel
n which the cylinders are tiattened
from which they are taken and
Mn down On a long platform whelt
glass is smoothed out while 1t Is in
exihe state,
rom this platform the glass is re
yel to another higher platform
bre it is cut into window glass o.
required size. A few steps from
fIattpning house is the blowing
st.. This building is 75 feet square
to have the furnace in the centre
rp rghtof the pots already described
bu kept full Of melted glass. Ih'
ker- dip from these pots and blow
SHAPE thu cylinders which they sc
|nr sie until they get cool enougl
be- carried over to the tlatteninl
b. ANY other mode of moving III,
hders would break them.
the end OF the lot the Company has
ted wharf GO feet long and ex,
ling 3! feet inte the Christiana
|n his wharf is landed all the sand
and uDber used in the works, ant
it is shipped the glass when finish
THE wharf rests upon piles, and i
,trndel to fill up the space under
ID solid to conform to the require
It's OF the late law passed by tn
isaturr.
BE- sand to be used in tn
Puiactnre of glass is to be shipped
b the Maurice river and can be de
fel here ahont as cheap IN at Glass
por Bridgeton in New Jersey. Th
ppany will employ about forty me
en the works are under full opera
which will not be until about the tiTs
eptrmber. These glass works are thu
OF the kind erected in Delaware
they are the first it is hop+d of
hN"r Of other manufactures soon t.
planted on the South side of tn
bstiana.