Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-21
ALL BY THE TARIFF
PUT ON A PROSPEROUS BASE
BY the Mckinley Bll-How the Industry
Has Steadily Grown and Developed
Cscckery Making.

"Wns. do make 20 said George l..
smith At the Morton yesterday. "weil,
| make money . little; oh. in the fac
tory, you mean. Well, il amounts to
some $500 crates Of white granite ware.
decorated ware aud yitrified china
made especially for hotels and Testaur-
ants. Our factories q East Liverpool,
o.. are the largest in America, and the
iargest IN the world under one manage
ment. We run twenty three kilns and
employ $50 hands. There are twenty.
i've pot.eries In East Liverpool, whicn
Is q town Of 1900 people aud the
greater proportion Of the men, women
and children over IL years OF age are
employed IN the pot.eries. Besides
CHINA they make door knobs, insulators
and other electrical supplies. se yer
pipe and yellow and Rockingham ware.
The glass factory does a good business
in novelties, TASKS and fancy goods,
for instance the glass revolver whisk y
flask OF which so many are sold on
trains was first made by them. In the
Knowles, Taylor b Knowles Co.'S
three granite ware factories and one
china factory $50 hands are employed,
while in the Knowles, Taylor Il Ander.
son Co.'S sewer pipe and potters' cup.
ply plants 200 more hands earn their
living. the pipe and supply plsuts
requiring twenty kilns.
womea Are Employed.
In the china and granite ware factor.
les we employ women, from the fac,
that they are DETER with their fingers
than the men and can work quicker.
The women do decoration and other
light work. A good decorator can
earn from SIG to SIS per week. A
skilled potter earns from $3.50 TO s. a
day. They are sober and respectable
class, own their homes and make good
citizens. Young boys are employed in
making small mugs that require iinish-
ing on the inside.
All onr materials, with the exception
of few acids from Germany are ob.
tanned in this country. The clay used for
Rockingham and yellow ware is found
near the town, while that used IN max
ing china and granite ware comes from
Pennsylvania, Maryland and North
Carolina. The flint and spar used is
from Pennsylvanis and New England.
East Liverpool is the oldest pottery
town in America. 1t WAS in 1856 that
q family of American potters settled
there and began the making of yellow
ware. The head Of the family died in
Baltimore last week.
Prospsrous through Protection.
The pottery industry in this country
never reached any size until after the
war. 1t IL enabled to exl-s today
through the beneficent influence
of protection, and had it not
been for the Mckinley bill
We should have been ruined last year.
East Liverpool is in McKinley's old dis
trict and you may be- sure that tie
workmen there swear by him, and he
is u kind of incarnation OF everything
coed IN their eyes.
Our fuel is natural gas. 1t was die
covered there in 1866, but only in the
last eight years has it been used to any
extent. l see no signs of the supply
giving out, as fast as one we'll gives
out another is discovered. The price
of it is about as high as coal, for the
combines have rather got the best of
us, but it's clean and convenient. The
town IS model one; sewers, fine pave.
ments and live people. Ii is fOrty-four
miles below Pittsburg. Tho farmers
for miles around come there to sell
their straw. They get more for it than
the Michigan farmer does for his hay,
Thousands of tons of it are yearly
used in packing goods. Towns like
our. with a population running from
5000 to 1000 are what make Ohio the
state it is."