Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-05-15
ROWING BILL NYE.
he TALKS ON PRISON LIFE FROM A VARIED
EXPERIENCE.
william Writes From Newark, o. About Glass
blowers AzIses and Jails--Opsaing Jar
Of Strawberry Jam is not All
JOY and Rapture.
copurioht, isa2. ~ EDGAR " Nys.

Newark, O., is not as large In point OF
population or manufacture as Newark,
| n. J., but ii is very good looking city,
well paved, with wide. handsome streets,
4 certain number OF miles OF which are
paved each year in the most durable
style possible.
Newark has also a glass works. We
visited this institution. II is not devoted
to the manufacture Of cut glass, but
mostly to the construction of the prosaic
beer bottle OF the work-a-day world.
Can any little boy or girl who reads this
tell me how beer bottle is made?
In the first place, different ingredients
are fused into red hot motion mass.
The molten mass is not religious sery-
ice, though it has the same temperature
as the doctrine which was taught me as
child by my pastor, who was rigid
man and loved TO scare me with his
wonderful and gifted pictures OF hell.
Quite a lot ofingredients are used in the
manufacture of glass, and / would love
dearly 10 tell my readers all about 1t, but
Just before left the works | promised
the owner of the factory that | would
not reveal the process of making glass
under penalty of being boiled In soap
at low tide and afterward used in
Chinese laundry, so think it is better
to simply describe the making OF bot
ties as briefly as possible.
At the proper moment the glass
blower inserts a 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 1t
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 d
respectable distance from it, for IL is
quite hot. Then when it is properly
shaped he drops it by means of a tube,
but still attached TO it, into mold
which ne can open and close by press
ing lever with his foot.
Opening this mold he let's the rosy
COB fall into its open jaws, closes it
with his foot, blows gently into it
through his long tube and then removes
it at once a complete 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 obiterate the
seam made on nodded glassware, and
workmen who can do this get little
better price for it, l am told. AS the
reader knows, perhaps, the glassblow-
ing 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 glassblowers
have a mutual understanding so that
wages remain good. aud very likely al
ways will, and yet there are no strikes
necessary.
This factory also makes the various
kinds of fruit jars used in putting up
fruit l bought dozen and a half Of
these fruit jars, hoping this season TO
put up some berries for home use and
possibly some for the market, also jar
of jell for the pastor.
There is a new jar, sort of self Sealer,
which works on the principle OF the
beer bottle, with rubber stopper and
iron fastener, 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.