Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-03-25
BALFOUR'S LAND LAW
It Receives a Big Whirl Of Ap-
proval.
BISMARCK'SIDEAOF SELF-EXILE
The Flood at Cincinnati Steadily
Rising.
SELF-EXILE
JUDGE COOLEY SERIOUSLY INolsPoseo
TROUBLE FOR GLASS WORKERS.
The Dearth Of Soda Ash Disturbs the
Market.

CHICAGO, March 25.-Trouble is brewing
among the glass manufacturers Of the country
and unless speedy relief arrives their number
will be considerably diminished. Soda ash,
or rather its absence, is the cause Of the trouble
and notwithstanding that the demand for glass
ware is as great as ever known many manu-
facturers will shortly be compelled to shut
down their mills. The supply of soda ash is
practically shut of by the strike among the
dock laborers at Liverpool More than fifty
per cent of the soda ash used in this country is
derived from Liverpool and as a large portion
of the supply is used for other purposes the
glass manufacturers find II hard to meet their
orders. Representatives OF eastern glass
houses here are doing little except swapping
yarns. The fact that glass has risen over 100
per cent In prices within the last month has
had a depressing effect upon them and the sole
topic Of conversation among them is When is
tins advance going to stopI" II am not solicit
ing orders for glass" said a salesman. '0ur
hrm makes window glass and lamp chimneys
loss in making them. 1: would pay US better
to sell the small amount Of ash We have In
stock and shut down for a while"
In this connection it is an open secret that
Pi'tsburg firm has been trying to buy up all
the visible supply of soda ash in the country,
but the supply is not to be bought" said Mr..
Greer, manager of Herbert, Spencer & Bart
letts factory. Il am informed that every
glass man in the country has practically ceased
making cheap goods pending reduction in the
price of soda ash. In week or ten daysyou'll find
that half the glass factories in the country will
be shut down. L understand that one manu-
facturer, who uses car load of ash every thirty
days, has not ten days supply on hand"
THE LIVERPOOL STRIKE EFFECTS 1T.
BALTIMORE, March 25-Some of the glass
manufacturers here were seen in regard to the
effect of the strike of dock laborers in Liver
pool shutting off the supply of soda ash, caus-
ing an extraordinary advance in the price, as
reported in the Associated Press dispatch from
Chicago today. Charles E. Baker OF Baker
Brothers Co., speaking in a measure for as
soclate manufacturers, said: 1T is a fact that
the strike in Liverpool has affected the trade,
as more than so per cent of the soda ash
used here comes from Liverpool. There is
little doubt but that some factories will shut
down until a sufficient supply Of soda ash can
be secured The statement that glass has risen
in price 100 per cent is exaggeraton by one
cipher. Ten per cent will cover the
advance. No eastern house now solicits
orders ii the west for glass for
the very good reason that the west
has advantages for making glass no: known to
the east and hence can produce the article
much cheaper. He suggested natural gas as
one advantage, and that. he said, would do for
all the others. Baltimore he finished by
saying, SIS all right on the glass question at
present"