The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-06-05

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is reached, a primitive but pretty little
hamlet nestled on the banks Of the river,
with an old-fashioned hotel. a number of
stores, a shipyard. a church. and a knights
Of Pythias Hall. Clustering and fishing
and fighting mosquitoes are the chief in
dustries, and the stranger within the gates
finds instant and constant employment in
the latter branch Of business. The natives
say they do not mind them and We tried to
initiate the natives and treat the thirsty
insects with an easy nonchalance calcu-
lated to deceive, but the Maurice river
mosquito is sharp in more ways than one.
\ comfortable dinner, at which the land
lord. whohas entertained wheelmen before.
heaped our plate so ~profusely that we
asked information as to whether the law
of that region compelled us to eat il all.
We We're graciOusly accorded permission
to follow the dictates of ourown conscience
on that point. a stroll around the village
and a visit to the river side. where Somers
diseoursed to us of the tides. and gave us
points in boxing the compass and other
maratime matters, in which he is well
booked, having followed the sea for years
in early days, until we felt ourselves com
petenttoc the globe, and had
not the sight of a wrecked oyster boat high
and dry ON the beach exercised a depress-
ing influence by reminding us Of the dan
gers of the mighty deep, We should proba-
bly, have shipped then and there on the
Emma Jane, of Dorchester. and sailedfor
parts unknown. Meanwhile the .'skee-
terstf We bore up heroieally, but when at
last we saw one of the bloodthirsty
wretches. who probably found the edito-
legal hide more than ordinarily tough, de
Hberately repair to a tool box in the neigh
boring shipyard. take therefrom a file and
proceed to sharpen up his beak Herewith.
it broke us all up and we retreated to the
house. You may not believe the foregoing.
Why not? We haven't told the half. We
can show you the shipyard and the tool
box and We stand to the story.
We skip out of Dorchester and return to
Millville by the road on the other side Of
the river, crossing the Mesquit. Manumus-
kin and Manantico creeks, the first proba-
bly, deriving its name from the first set
tiers. the mosquitoes. Anyway we were
informed that they were all old Indian
names. We pass through Brieksboro and
Port Elizabeth, halting at the latter place
for a few moments call on Col. J.. Howard
Willetts. from whom we learn Of the Sc
rious Illness of his brotler-in-law. Rev. J..
q. Crate. Then on by a sandy road by a
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through barrens of white sand and scrub
pines. till the tall chimneys of Schetterville
loom in sight. and suddenly we pass from
the wilderness into the beautiful home
like city, the end Of 4 delightful run of
twenty-five miles. over q country in which.
but for the wheel. we should probably
never have set foot. Toward evening a ire
mendo rain storm kept us within doors,
but the time is pleasantly passed away I'M
til the rain ceases and the streets and walks
of fine gravel, upon the natural soil Of
sand, are as dry as q floor notwithstanding
the flooding they have received. The eve
ming is spent in Il call upon Mr.. f. II.
Ware. formerly Of Woodstown. who with
his amiable wife and interesting family are
pleasantly domiciled in MillyiIle.
Monday morning We We're astir bright
and early, for home duties pressed and our
outing had been extended longer than an
tieipated on the start. We met Bro. New
lin, of the Republican,, and had an opportu-
nifty to take the rs which he extended to
us in token of amity last fall and also to
argue as to the future possibilities OF 'stlfat
dinner" Our brethren of the BultetiH and
Transcript we failed to meet. which was
our loss and. possibly, their everlasting
gain. Bidding farewell TO our kind enter
tdiltIS We sldIl HpliltN 1fb. tut btIbfp
leaving we must spend an hour inspecting
the Sclietteryille Flint Glass Works Of
Whitall, Tatum < Co, toward which we
bend our course, and placing ourselves un-
der the guidance of friend Somers. who is
b~ookkeeper of the works and does nothing
by halves, we were enabled to witness the
operation of making and finishing flint
glassware, under which head is included
bottles, druggist sundries, syringes, walls.
perfumery TASKS and a variety of other ar
ticles. This establishment is one Of two
carried on by the firm, the other being To-
Gated at ssGlasstown. near the foundry
and cotton mills. There are ten furnaces
in the works, six of which are in fire. and
about one thousand hands are employed.
this one establishment supporting a popu-
lation larger than the entire borough of
Woodstown, and one fact that deserves to be
mentioned is thai at no time in any of the
business depressions of the last score of
Years have these or any of the other large
works of Millyille been shut down. We
wish we could convey to our readers some
adequate idea of the varions processes of
glass manufacture in this busy hive of in
dustry. To be understood they must be
seen. We go into the machine shops where
all the iron moulds for the infinite variety
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To the furnaces, where bottles are made in
molds, and other vessels fashioned from
the red hot and plastic glass by hand, with
touch so skillfHl and eye so keen that we
get a new idea of the term skilled labor.
At another furnace a workman takes on
the end of his blowpipe a mass of molten
glass from the pot. He gives it a few turns
and n little breath, another todcs.es the
lump with an instrument TO which it adj
heres and the two walk apart stretching
out between them to a distance OF 80 or 40
feet a tube Of glowing and glistening glass,
leSsening III size as they separate and kept
open by an occasional application of the
blowers lips to the pipe until the desired
size and length is reached, when it is laid
upon the floor, a touch and the instruments
at each end are detached. The tube, now
cooled sufficiently, is seized by 4 boy and
drawn up to a wooden guage, a touch of a
file and a piece about three feet in length
is snapped off, the process is repeated until
the whole tube is cut mp and placed in a suit
able receptacle, the boy handling them as
though they were iron rods instead OF the
fragile substance they are. Next We see
them in a room where they are cut into
shorter lengths ON a fine steel wheel. Next
under the heat of four gas Jets combined
under power of a blowpipe a mouth is
formed at each end of the short tube, an
other hand at another gas jet melts the