New-York tribune., 1885-02-09
AUERICAN GLASS.

HOW 1T IS MADE AND WHERE 1T IS SOLD.
IFRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT THE TnrDUSE.l
WHEELING, W. Va, Jan. 22.-Loo1ing
| through tho glass factories OF Bellaire, which
Is nearly opposite Wheeling Ohio.r saw many curious
things There six of these factories and the largest
OF them all perhaps employs s25O persons .oniy the
window glass factory was running, aud founo, N the
very outset that was a ignorant al everybody else Oh
how window glass Is made Instead OF being pressed IL
Is blown I'm bulbs like bottles and cylinders stand
about feet and entirely formed by tho human
hand and eye The irontibe which rut into the fur-
reor takes UP paste OF glass on Its rim and at
the third insertion this viscd gass comes 70 about the
szo OF ones head Then the operator applies his mouth
to tube which has boon meantime wet with very cold
winter TO take the intense heat It, There rises In the
mass small bulb. and this grows by Its own weight and
pte are prepared in which the blower swings the glass;
after each swing he throws his tube over sort OF
by which the seventy eighty pounds OF glass ana
rested and another furnace door close 10 ts
receives the bulb and keeps at the proper degree
ofhea and the swinging s repeated the mans eye
meantime guiding his motions And finally he deposits
long cylinder which has meantime opened or ITSELF at
end upon frame. little band or cold glass Is lut
around the end Of 1t, ami when the hnger Is wet ana
applied the cylinder breaks squarey Of In course OF
time these cylinders are put into Each cylinder
has been split fight down the middle by an apr eatlon OF
moisture In the the glass becomes somewhat SOFT
and proceeds to lie down fiat When Is taken out they
put II the sizing table, which Is oil Marked ana man
or boyhere with diamond tools cuts the glass the
best he can economy. IL is packed In hay ana the
no longer attempt separate the panes 1t being found
that the glass solid will carry with perfect safety Twas
at the cheapness OF glassware Of all sorts at
the factory compared the prices which prevail In the
retail stores apd bazaars Very large glass five feet
by three brings perhaps hardly thirty cents pane
The glass manufacture all the Western country
formerly confined to PlttsDurg, which city had such
nj tfnf
ont the glass business OF rival town by putting the
prices down to point where 1t would pay nobody to
work But finally there arose so many experts In this
business and especially fnanccrs often very young
Ohio River to towns like Rochester stcuben1e, Wheel
Ing and Beaire and now IL Is said there nre nearly one
about half OF the Allegheny Mountains and
other half west Chicago has embarked In the business
nent while Pittsubrg perhaps still leads The prics
OF glass almost mysterious 10 an amateur | saw
plenty OF glasses such used In bars OF EOes Tor
about three cents apiece whoesaeor say thirty cens
adozen Fifty TO sixty cents buys quite handsome goblet
carved and ofnanened were about the most eSPensEe
articles, and they cost about l5 dozen aud retail at
something Ike 80 apiece.
The glass factories In portion OF the country now
5s Ras pSus qS na eo 10 M
employers and employed ON the methods OF paying
wages. In PIsburg the glass houses generally have
settled down TO payments BY the piece, whch gives an
advantage the eployer There Is OF course certain
amount OF breakage aud wasteage and loss OF time In
glass houses and by the pece system oil this Is az the
expense laborer There doubt whatever that
the piece system Will triumph Tho Abocrs are notyet
+, tng the necessity OF money because the lockout only
started last December or lust before the holidays.
understood II Brla!re that sf the Immense export
nearly per OF all the glass nade IN the country
siderable portion OF lt sells right IN England can
has raised tarin against American glass hnd mas
her glass HOUSES. We md large. market IN SOuth
America. II ircshts sai To DO 100 lTs Tor tne
Americans 10 put their glass under equal terms mo
Australia. The gnss send to England IL EencFalE
made that market and - nearly al pressed sIs'
made IA iuaulis. ,,-
Tho English not expert IN labor saving machines
or devices, and they continue 10 Wo.s by hand IAS
often using hls designs tho forms OF pur grains or
flowers leaves. GLl tbs molten glass L. plcssud IN
tut IaOIs aud good de 81 90 tho engraving on tle
j. done by macHlges tie glass article bcuE he IN
tho hand and the Cmbeahor araHiug ths pattern from
HI nina fAA American sil-s uuir4anls BRUSH giass
-. AuIe auI A4Iy oil our patterns made especially
10 capture the Bt'sheyc. Some Of tie limitations % cut
gil, are remarkably hnni-UAo and they iplGa.o IKE
~ tuoaIs. Tao sand FOR nIr rt,o comes rHlcut iiOn
lcnn-y ySali-. and 10 IL i.uu4 at great dcpils under
ground. Care has 10 b3 taken O. keep all ron aHd
sulphur ot % ti- sand. iLc opsuc 0r Vrasl sahs j.
the g,4s houses that tho beet mechanics arc native
AMeuc-. When boys eAterthcte glass Lo'reH trJ arc
IUn oil pieces % I-s 10 eIave. and tuUS thet Wllss
aud nugers and -l0N Nly CiuC stcd untI tueF
attain perfection 80 other biuw-ppc tAan thdL OF tne
human mylth has amounted To any thing IN the
as houcs tohserTtd that the barn lanterns such ~
have an uus lives bdt Ach are u. used Win
ca oil instead ~ candle. cost only about per dozen,
anl they pcrhap, retail for 80 to 90 cents THESE IAN
trrus have safety wlrcb around them. Mhch He'oInOr
Bin Allen spoke at Bolaire they made hlm Tern
with hi. head engraved upon it and his name aul
nsorptio aud the old GENT eman took II innls hand
and wasdcilgl ted Said hot shall Keep tbs az long
as l. lyedan Leave IL To my rty a.teT me-