Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01
HTS DREAM REALIZED.
How Thomas A. Scott'S Predictions
Are Now Being Fulfilled.
THE BIG CHAMBERS GLASS PLANT
Drawing Thousands More to Remington
in Search of Homes.
ITS soL1p1TY Is NOW ESTABLISHED

ITS SOLIDITY Is NOW ESTABLISHED
| After many years tn e pet dream or Thomas
| A. Scott, the great hnancier and late Presi-
| dent of, the Pennsylvania Railroad, is being
| carried out, but by other han ds. His dearest
| hobby was the building OF a great manu-
| featuring town up the Allegheny river,
| where Kensington is now located. Fifteen
| years ago he declared it was the finest site
| for town in the Eastern States. The broad
acres OF level, rolling land far above any
danger of flood, bounded on the west by the
river, and away on the east by beautiful
range of hills pierced by hundred never
failing springs that have an almost unlimited
supply of purest water, all led him to this
belief. To-day his dreams are being realized
to their fullest extent. Scarce more Than
year has passed. and where then the farmer
followed the plow now rows on rows of
houses take the place Of furrows. Here
is found all the excitement and hustle
of an oil town with the solidity of city
that has stood for century. Thousands Of
busy people are to be seen everywhere, ana
from one end of the miles of street TO anoth-
er is to be heard the clang OF the hammer
and the hum of the factories. This is not
for short time only, for below the river
bank Is lined for several miles with great
mills and workshops that give the place a
stability and standing among the great man
ufacturing towns of the world that is undis-
puted. Thousands find
1t Will Be City in Two Years
Kensington is an established fact. To-day
in this greatest of all Pittsburgs suburbs
over 1000 people have their homes. Within
two years it will have population of q, 600
people. Now, as one goes up the Allegheny
Valley road and reaches the great bend be-
low Parnassus. Kensington in all its beauty
breaks upon the visitor. At Parnassus the
first Of the new bright houses are seen, and
from there they stretch miles up the river
away beyond Arnold station. The sight is
an unusual one, from the fact that the houses
are all new and brightly painted. while here
stacks of the manufactures can be seen.
Such is Kensington. which is now the lode
stone drawing the people from the crowded
tenements and narrow streets of the old city
and from all over Western Pennsylvania to
the bright sunshine of this new Mecca;
AS one of the heads ofa Pfttsburg city de-
sington is as good an investments as realty in
Pittsburg. 1t is place sound financially and
is bound to become one OF the manufactur-
ing cities in the country"
The town also has several good licensed
hotels and numerous business houses and
there is q feeling of pride in the place that
rather than go to Pittsburg and all of the
many stores do a good business. Those who
own property seem to fare the best because
all those who have their money invested
there seem banded together like one great
mutual brotherhood
One Firm to Employ $500 Men.
Beyond all this Kensington has one at
traction that would make 1t great and Sc
cure its lasting success if there were nothing
esse eanv,s IWts Works TO-DAY regiment % and half
of men are working like beavers erecting
there the largest and greatest glass plant in
the world: The company ~ has h,; as acres sol of
by next year nearly every foot OF 1t will be
covered by this plant. Though they have
only been working six weeks the hattening
cuttinO a n6 nackinV hOuaA
are buils and under roof. They are in one
building running east from the Valley road.
long, Inside the men are working on the Il
great ovens that will fill this immense build
ing. On the north and running parallel Is
the warehouse s516Oo feet now in course of
erection. On the south side will lie the
glass tank side by side. The men are
at work on the foundations and in making
the excavations Each Of these tank build
ings is 2G0xI00. with a wing on each one on
the south side that is s5xlOo feet. Beyond
the wing in each is the mixing house, that is
ings is q space OF 15O feet, and in the space |
between the two wings Is the gas producer
house, that is TO be $50 feet square. Then
away at the south end is the big playhouse
where the tank blocks are to be made. This
house is 1l5x10o feet and three stories high.
Built of Solid Brick and Masonry.
Like all the other buildings, 1t Is of brick,
but has a cement instead of an iron roof. 1t
is one of the most solidly constructed build
.
2xS jofsts set on edge. The floors are guar
anteed to stand a strain of 500 pounds to the
square inch /
supervision Of George Moore, General Su- |
perintendent, formerly Of the Jeannette |
Glass Works. They are to be completed by |
September ], and under the acres of roofs |
will be found steady employment for LsOO |
men. This, this largest factory in the world, |
will have a daily output of :, 100 boxes OF |
glass, and next year the plant is to be dupli- |
Gated on the north side thus making the |
double warehouse tue dividing line between |
glass factory twice as large as anything |
known in history. This means for the peo- |
pie of Kensington employment for 5000 |
men. 1t means that Il, 600 more people must |
make their homes in kensington. 1t also
means an annual pay roll of hundreds of |
thousands of dollafs, most of which must be |
spent in Kensington- 1t means Kensington |
the crystal city of the world.
$500 eOO and the entire product of the works |
has been sold for years in advance, two Of 4
the greatest dealers in the world having |
made contracts to take the entire output
shutdowns Do Not Affect Kensington.
That even Is not all that Kensington has to |
but one of its varied industries. All kinds |
OF manufacturing are represented, and if |
there is a shutdown in one trade the others |
will carry the new city through. The E1-
celsior Flint Glass Company has completed |
one of the finest lamp chimney plants in the |
world there, and it will open this week or
next ana give euplOyuleut W oVu more iien.
The new brick works which will turn out |
go 900 bricks day will soon be completed.
The Pittsburg Tin Plate Company's plant is
doing a rushing business and American tin
stamped "Kensington is now known all
over the country. Superintendent strow-
bridge said the big dealers of Philadelphia
and Chicago are picking it up, and the Ken
sington plant is SO overtaxed with orders
that its timing department. is soon to be
doubled Besides this the Brownsville
Plate Glass Company, under the man.
agement of E. C. Schmertz, Is now
rIling big order for the Phtla-
delphia and Reading depot, and the
Kensington Stove Foundry Is manufactur-
ing the old and well-known Bradley stove.
This plant is to be doubled this spring.
1t Has Monopoly Of Aluminium.
Another of the more important industries
is the Pittsburg Reduction Company. Its