Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-09
LARGEST IN 9HE World.
Chambers Glass Company Blows Its
First Heat Yesterday.
THE START VERY SUCCESSFUL.
A Description Of This LateS! Addition
& to Ksnsing.on
PAYROLL WILL Be s13O,Oos MONTHLY


Ten minutes to O'Clock yesterday morn
ing the first heat was blown in the Cham
bers Glass Company's works at Kensington.
This plant, which has no equal in the world,
started its career on remarkably success
full basis. Yesterday but one tank was on,
and the start was really made to systematize
fhinga In six weeks the whole plant will
be running three turns day, and 1000
more people will be citizens of pretty Kan
sington.
Last winter the Chambers Glass Company
was organized with a large capital stock.
Its president Is James A. Chambers, of
Pittsburg, and the other officers are as fol-
lows: NJ. Drey. New York, Vice President;
George f. Moore. Kensington, General
Manager; Fl. B. Patton. Pittsburg, Secre-
tary and Treasurer: A. G. Howard, Pitts
burg, Assistant Secretary. The Directors
are james A. Chambers. Pittsburg; NJ.
Drey, New York; George F. Kimball, Chi
cago; William Reid, Detroit; A. Drey, st.
Louis; William G. McCandless, Pittsburg;
H. B. Patton, Pittsburg, and A. C. How.
ard, Pitrsburg.
The last week in February of this year
the company broke ground for its immense
plant, which.to-day covers the better part
of 4S acres of ground. The work has been
pushea rapidly and is now nearly COM
pleted. Three or four weeks more will
see everything in a running order.
Mr.. Moore has personally supervised
the entire work, and, with but one or two
exceptions, planned the whole thing. He
b as q superior knowledge of the glass BUSH
ness. HI. first vent into it in 1868 with A.
& d. II. Chambers, on the Southsde 1t
was he who built the Chambers Mckee
plant at Jeanette, which had been the
greatest concern in the world until yester-
day. In the erection OF that plant and the
knowledge of the glass business he had
gathered in those 20 years, he
ideas and put them into practical
use in this new plant. There was not
happier man around the furnace yesterday
morning than Mr.. Moore when he saw his
labors of the past eight months so bounti-
fully rewarded.
Wonderful Gathering Furnace.
The plant, from the gathering furnace to
the warehouse, is complete in every way.
It is on the gathering furnace that the
greatest improvements are made. These
are James a. Chambers ideas. He trav-
eled for several months in both the United
States and Europe inspecting all the
modern glass houses. The result was
some invention considerably anead of any
he had seen. This continuous regenerative
tank furnace has a capacity of 75O tons of
molten glass. This is a capacity 25 per
cent greater than any other in the world.
The glass and mixtures are put in at onek;
end of the furnace and the gathering is
done at the other. The glass is always
kept at q red heat BY natural gas. The
inside of the furnace is like a crystal
lake and the walls and roof arc
reflected on its surface. The heat
ing is so arranged that one side
can be made very hot and the other cooler
or vice versa. AT the Jeanette works the
mixtures have to be wheeled to the fur
mace, but at Kensington machinery will do
all this, bringing the material from the
clay house and putting it i'll the furnace.
Something About the Other Departments.
The bie~4a furnaces are the most
modern. Many little things have been
added TO them to make work easier Yes
terday morning there were 66 blowers at
work in house No. 1, besides the many
gatherers and laborers
House No. 2 is exactly like the one
started yesterday morning 1t is not quite
completed vet The tank is now being
filled and in two weeks the first heat will
be blown there. These two buildings are
about 2O0x200.
The clay house is close to house No. Il
is three stories high. The structure is re-
1t was built to carry q weight
Of 500 pounds to the square foot. 1t is here
that the clay is ground and the mixtures
are made. The company use the Christy
,lay of st. Louis altogether.
The flattening house is q mammoth affair.
Il is 800 feet long and 150 feet wide. Here
,he cylinders are hattened out. Adjoining
his is the cutting, packing and warerooms
This bnilding is 600 feet long and 15O feet
vide. Mr.. Moore here has allowed his in
Tentiye genius to come into use.
- A Labor Saving Invention.
In all other plants the glass has to be
,arried from the fattening room into the
,utting department, and then again into the
packing and warehouses. At Kensington
rack. has been laid through these depart
nents, and the product can be easily,
handled There is another seemingly small
hing there, but to the glassblower it
mounts to good deal. The cutting room
s so arranged that it gets all its light from
he north. For some reason the northern
light is preferred by the cutters The store
DOM has capacity of 10000 boxes Of
lass. Tine flattening and cutting depart
nents will be started Tuesday.
The company has its own planning mill
nd box factory also. This department,
ike the Others is syery complete. The
fice is handsome structure and Is very
modern. All the buildings are of brick.
he company will manufacture the ''silver
lear glass in sizes ranging from 6AS to sex
O. This last size is the largest window
lass made in the world.
he Company Erecting Pretty Residences
The pay roll of the company will amount
D CSC, 900 every two weeks The glassblow-
rs average anywhere from $50 to S120 each
eek, and they know how to spend it. Tho
ompany is building ITO houses. One-half
the number are now ready for occupancy,
nd the others will be completed in week.
hey are all modern, having bath tubs and
Il the conveniences. Many of the glass
lowers are buying lots of their own and
utting up handsome residences Mer-
fants anticipating the rare business op-
ortunities, are coming into Kensington
nd snaiching up the best sites. Some of
lem are erecting three and four-storv brick
locks.
Kensington has secured another industry.
his time it is steel works. Tomorrow
orning Nimick Jack & Co. will break
-ound for plant. This will add between
10 and 900 people to Kensington. A large
nm ber of houses will be put up in the vi
nifty of the steel W orks,
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