The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-15
BILLNYE'S NOTEBOOK.
He Visits the Glass Works and
Describes Bottle-Making.
THE REMAINS OF THE AZTECS.
Desirable Jail at Newark. O.-How the
Beggars OF Paris Swarm on the
Boulevards on Bastile Day.
Copyright, 1892. by Edgar W. Nye.l

copyright, 1892, by Edgar ". Nyel
Newark, o., is notas large in point of
population or manufacture az Newark, n.
j., but it is very good looking city, well
paved, with wide, handsome streets,
certain number OF miles which are paved
each year in the most durable style posi-
ble
Newark has also a glass works. We WIS.,
tied this institution. 1t is not devoted to
the manufacture of cut glass. but mostly
to the construction of the prosaic beer bot
tie of the work-a-day world. Can any lit
tie boy or girl who reads this tell me how
q beer bottle is made?
In the first place, different ingredients
are fused into red-hot molten mass. The
molten mass is not religious service
though it has the same temperature as the
doctrine which was taught me as child
by my pastor, who was q rigid man and
loved to scare me with his wonderful and
gifted pictures Of hell.
Quite lot of ingredients are used in
the manufacture of glass, and would love
dearly to tell my readers all about it, but
just before | left the works promised the
owner of the factory that | would not re-
veal the process of making glass under
penalty of being boiled in soap at low tide
and afterward used in a Chinese laundry,
so l think it is better to simply describe
the making of bottles as briefly as possible.
At the proper moment the glassblower
inserts long, hollow brass tube into the
molten mass of salt, soda, sand, ETC.,
which goes to make glass, and turning it
about in the midst Of it withdraws the
tube, on the far end of which is COB of
red-hot glass. The blower now rolls this
COB over sort of table, covered with oil
or something of that sort, meantime
standing at respectful distance from it,
for 1t is quite hot. Then when it is prop
erly shaped he drops 1t by means OF the
tube, but still attached to it, into mold,
which he can open and close by pressing a
lever with his foot.
Opening this mold he lets the rosy COB
fall into its open jaws, closes it with his
foot, blows gently into It through his long
tube and then removes 1t at once COM
pIete bottle with the exception of the rim
or nozzle, which is put on the top of the
neck by another man.
1t is quite a trick to obliterate the seam
made on nodded glassware, and workmen
who can do this get little better price for
1t, / am told. As the reader knows, per-
haps, the glassblowing fraternity is better
equipped for controlling wages and prices
than any other trade in the world. Only
so many apprentices are admitted each
year, and the foreign and domestic glass
blowers have a mutual understanding SO
that wages remain good, and very likely
always will, and yet there are no strikes
necessary.
This factory also makes the various
kinds of fruit jars used in putting up fruit.
| bought a dozen and half of these fruit
jars, hoping this season to put up some
berries for nome use and possibly some for
the market; also jar of jeli for the
pastor.
There is new jar, sort of self-sealer,
which works on the principle of the beer
bottle, with ruber stopper and iron fast
ener, which, by pressure with the thumb,
opens or closes the top SO that when
closed it is as air tight as the best old
fashioned fruit jar, and even more SO, it is
said.
Iput up jar OF strawberries one year
myself, according to a recipe which I
read in the Gdlided PloWn1dn, a paper
which have taken for years. l noticed
as the glad 4uletide approached, that
the corner of the jar seemed to have a con-
vex'appearance but rocked not.
l had some difficulty in starting the lid
of my jar, as the pressure from the inside
was greater than had VOTED of. BY and
by, however, there was a low, kissing
sound, like that made by steam radiator
that has been cornered then I noticed a
strawberry halo around the chandelier.
Once, also, | read recipe in the same
paper telling how to preserve eggs for win
ter SO that they would taste like new
warm summer day in a clover havmow. |
was to put the eggs in bran, believe,
either with the large or the small end
down, after vanishing them with shelac
or gum copal, and then set in dark place.
Where the man who wrote the recipe
erred, think, was in neglectipg to tell
how to properly open the eggs tor use in
winter He should have said that thew
ought to be opened on deserted fair
ground by means of a revolver at thirty
PAGES, after obtaining burial permit
from the city.
At Newark it is the custom of the youth
to attend the various entertainments at
the opera-house without paying any adj
mission. spoke there to large and III
telligent audience. Most every one was
spellbound and delighted beyond measure.
The speaker went on at some length to
speak to the audience in terse way, ex-
!