Daily Republican., 1884-09-01
FOURTH EDITION
The GIsss works started.

All day yesterday the employees OF
w lin ington's new enterprise, the glass
! works, situated over Third street
bridge, full description of which has
already been published in the REPUB
LiCAN, were busily engaged In prepar.
ing for the inaugural event, that of start
| ing up they works, which took place
after midnight this morning. As pres
viously stated the fires In the furnaces
were started more than two weeks ago,
the time intervening being necessary
for the proper heating Of the pots and
glass, while the works were compelled,
owing TO m established rule of the
Glassblowers Association, to begin ope-
rations between the hours OF IL and o.
clock on the morning Of September LIST.
Long before the time arrived for be.
ginning operations, the officers Of the
corporation, together with q number
Of invited guests aud anxious sight
seers, had congregatsd at the works,
among which were James Brad ord,
President; II. II. Wilson, Treasurer;
John X. Bradford, Secretary; the Rev.
Father Bradford, Of Galena, Md; d.
Taylor Bradford, John +. Miller,
James Monaghan, Representatives OF
the REPUBLICAN, Every Evening and
Morning News, and about 100 others,
including number of ladies'.
The openiag scenes were very inter
esting, and the work of blowing the
first cylinder was watched with con.
siderable interest. After the gatherers
had succeeded in preparing the molten
glass on the blow-pipes, the blowers
took hold of the pipes, and at precisel y
two minutes Of o'clock j. Vaughn
completed the first cylinder and had 1t
laid out on the horse all ready TO bt
transferred to the fiattening oven fol
the purpose Of converting IL into window
glass. Other cylinders soon followed
and in few minutes every thing was il
fall operation.
When turned out the cylinders art
round, and when flattened out contain
sheets of lass from 36xS4 to 4Ox7O in
ches. Whea first blown the cylinders
are laid on wooden horses to cool of, the
ends being cut off the blow-pipe by a
piece of cold steel. II there exists nc
flaws in the cylinder it soon cools, and
is ready for the next process. If there
is piece Of grit or iron gets in the
glass which is being blown the cylin.
der, after being laid on the horse, will
soon crack AID go TO pieces, for the rea-
son that the glass cools first, and the
ingredient begins TO expand, conse-
quently the glass must succumb.
Each blower can make about eighty
cylinders a day. Among the workmen
are Louis kalatka and Reuben West
colt, who are among the best cylinder
blowers in the country, while the others
are all experienced hands at the bust
ness. The works start off under most
favorable auspices, and Superintendent
Westcott expressed himself as being
fully satisfied with the result. Isaac
Klein, President of the Glassblowers'
Association, visited the works early in
the evening, ard pronounced them the
finest he had yet seen in the East. He
was very much pleased. After watch
ing the process for some time, the
invited guests ~ere invited TO sump-
tuous repast, which had been prepared
in the flattening house, under the direc-
don Of Mrs. Westcott, Mrs. Wilson and
other ladies.
During the day several experiments
were made and one or two cylinders
blown, which were claimed to be the
first glass blown in Delaware, although
the Dover glass works started up abou,
the same time. Wilmington thus scores
one in the glass business and expects tt
NIL all order aad have glass in the mar
ket by Thursday of this week.