Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-26
THEY FEAR NO FOE.
Local Window Glass Men Say They re
Not Afraid of Importations.
WARE ON THE DECREASE.
Mills Increasing Their Capacity to Meet
Expected Trade.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR SCALES APPROVED

Local window glass manufacturers largely
discounted yesterday the views of a we'll
known Western jobber on the outlook of
the trade, as telegraphed to The DISPATCH.
They maintain that they are able to hold
their own with the importers, whose mar
kets they are invading, and that the figures
advanced by the jobber in support of his ar
gument are little astray.
The total consumption of glass for the
past year was little over 2, oOo, 900 boxes.
OF this, American manufacturers supplied
about 6S per cent, while about 80 per cent
has been imported from Belgium, Germany
and England. Imports of foreign glass
have decreased. The imports for June were
only 81, ,22S boxes, against lis, ,09S for May
and 121, 1854 boxes for April of this year. The
total importations for twelve months ending
with June are 81, 1000 boxes less than for the
corresponding period last year. The value
of the importations for eleven months of
1889 was s., 391, ,614, against 1882, 1874 for
the current year.
LARGER THAN LAST YEAR.
On the other hand, according to President
in the hands of the association at the end of
that month was larger by 6, ,136 boxes than
for the corresponding month last year. the
figures being: 1889, S1s,632; 1890, 1924, ,76s
boxes.
The falling off in the importation of for
eign glass is noticeable for the reason that,
according to their own journals, the Belgian
manufacturers have displayed an eagerness
to sell, and importers to buy, before Ameri-
can stocks should be recuperated by a re-
sumption of work, and before the Mckinley
bill should go into law, as they expect it
might.
prices of foreign glass are firm" said a
manufacturer yesterday, "and with another
may be an increase in the importations. In
fact, shall look for such. But we no
longer fear our foreign rivals. We are able
to make as good glass as they, and meet
them in fair competition, but do not be-
grudge them any advantage in trade they
may obtain during the summer stoppage.
'"The French list adopted by the Ameri-
can manufacturers on the 9th of March, :"
said j. J. O'Leary, when referred to for in
formation, brought the two lists into
uniformity. Not alone are we holding our
own with the importers, Dut
INVADING THEIR MARKETS.
"We are now sending glass to New York
and the East, which is quite new thing in
the trade. We, ourselves, have booked a
sos, 900 New York order this year, for the
first time. am inclined to think that the
Chicago jobber referred to, whose identity
is more than suspected here, must have
been caught mapping and sought to indulge
in bearing, tactics to extricate himself.
Where foreigners had the best of us hereto
fore was in the quality, but we can now give
the public as good grades as they can buy
In the world. They require the quality,
and must have it from some source. When
we haven't it, they buy from abroad. But
we can meet the importers on the score of
prices, and have no fear of their swampIng
the market at low figures. The Continental
makers are now disposed to limit produc-
ton, which would result, of course, in rails
ing their prices through curtailed supply"