Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-11
TO BE IDLE NO MORE.
Flint Glass Workers Who Will Re-
sumo This Midnight
SEWS AND GOSSIP OF THE TRADE.
A Six-Weeks' Vacation Altogether Too
Short for Many.
HOW AND WHERE THEY sUMMERED

At midnight tonight the flint glass
houses which have been idle for six weeks
will resume. The large furnaces which have
been banked since June 80, will be opened
up. and the manufacture of chimneys, etc.,
which are marketed in every country on the
globe, will be continued for another year.
The hundreds of glassworkers who have
been spending their period of rest among
, the pine woods and on the banks of streams,
have returned home and are loathe to re-
sumo work The idea of working alongside
fiery furnaces is not a pleasant one, and
there are few of the men who do not want to
wait until the weather is cooler.
The chimney houses will be the first in
the flint trade to start up. The following
named concerns will put their men
TO WORK TONIGHT:
Fort Pitt Glass Company, Excelsior,
Thomas Evans, Hogan Evans, the Peerless
Lead Chimney Company "a new concern to
start, on South Ninth street). These are
all in this city. Those outside are: Cham
bers g. Mckee, at Jeanette; Bryce Hig-
bee, at Homestead; McCloy & Co., at Ran
kin: the Thompson Company, at Union
town; Richards & Hartley, at Tarentum;
Challinor & Taylor, OF the same place, the
Lippincott Works, at Findlay; Dunn &
Hopper, the Hoover Company, Thills, Hib-
Ter & Co., of Brooklyn; L. p. WhIteman, of
Uniontown, and Gill & Co., OF Philadel-
phia. These factories will give employment
to about ], GEO men.
Macbeth's factories on the Southside will
start on Thursday, after making a number
, of improvements. The prescription hands
will start tomorrow week, and in less than
ten DAYS the whole trade, with about one
dozen new factories throughout the coun-
try, will be turning out thousands of bar
rels of ware daily. The prescription facto-
ries to start on the 18th are as follows:
MORE TO FOLLOW.
J.T.&A. Hamilton, William H. Hamilton d
Co., McCully Co., of this city; Tibby Bros, of
Sharpsburg; the Bellaire Prescription Glass
Works, the North Wheeling Glass Works, the
Alton factory, Whitney q Co., Glassboro, N. j.;
the new house at Washington, Pa; c. L. FLAG
Gus, of Tarentum; Marion Glass Company. of
Marion, Ind; Hemingway & Co., of Muncie,
Ind and Thomas Wightman, of Parker's Land
ing.
When the factories are put in blast they
will give employment to about 5000 idle
men and boys. Since the shutdown several
new union factories have been added to the
list
Owing to excessive railroad rates, there
were not quite as many Of the boys went
away as in past years. The fishing clubs
who took advantage of the shutdown to go
away returned home Friday and yesterday.
The boys are looking as brown as berries
from their exposure to the sun; but their
hands have not become soft splitting fence
rails with a dull ak. The following clubs
were away this summer:
The Pittsburg and 7. v. Murphy Clubs st.
Clair Flats, Mich; the Donegan Club: at New
comestown, on the Ohio river; the John Line
decker Club. at Enon Valley; the Half Moons,
near Ashtabula, on the lake: the Jos. Gruntz
Club, at Lake Erie, and the Edward Cowan's,
at Conneaut Lake