The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-01-15
WHEELING PORCELAIN.

The convention will last three days.
This morning at 10 o'clock the members
of.the association will visit the Worlds
Fair grounds. In the afternoon the re-
ports OF the committee on nominations,
secretary and treasurer, and other re-
ports will be made and the officers will
be elected for the ensuing year.
Thursday will be devoted to the I'M
finished business. Thursday evening
at o'clock banquet will be given in
the Grand Pacific hotel, to which the
local crockery and sanitary goods deal
ers will be invited. g.
When the afternoon session met it
adjourned until this morning at 10
o'clock.
John Moses, Of Trenton, in speaking
. with reporter for the lnier Ocean about
the pottery industry OF the country,
said:
Pottery was made in Philadelphia as
far back as ITO, and Edwin A. Barber,
who has been collecting material for a
history of tho industry in the United
States, has come into possession OF
some beautiful specimens OF the art
turned out from the factory OF Tucker
& Hemphill, in the last and carly part
oil this century. In 1880 James Bennett.
and his three brothers built factory
at East Liverpool, making what is
known as yellow and Rockingham ware.
Tho deep pic plates and teapots arc
) these wares, you know. The Bennetts
were pioneers in that city OF an industry
in which 5000 people are engaged and
S3,700,00 invested. The product OF East
Liverpool amounts to about S4,O0O,OO0
yearly. one-half Of which is paid out in
wages,
Edwin Bennett, in 1916, established
q pottery in Baltimore, which is still in
operation. The Chesapeake pottery
pays especial attention to what is known
as art goods, and their designs and de-
corations have been SO widely copied in
England, France and Germany that
they have been forced to patent tn EN-
for protection. Trenton potters who
produce art goods have had tho came
. experience.
.Potterles were started in Trenton
about the same time as those in the
West, and Until recently have been de-
voted to tho granite ware and G. c..
(cream colored) grades. Now, not only
the finest grades OF dinner and tea
ware are manufactured in Trenton, but
( great attention is paid to artistic pot
terry.
".Thc. trade is divided and suDdivided
into innumorable branches. Itembraccs
the red earthenware, OF which flower
pots, bean pots and crooks arc made
Next is stoneware, OF which Jugs and
milkpans are constructed. The yellow
and Rockingham follow, tho latter DIFF
fering from the former in color, which
4 is q dark brown.
"The divisions OF white waro are
four: The C. G. (cream.colored), white
!. granite, semi-porcelain and china. The
5 first two grades are cheap and durable.
The semi-porcelain is Of light weight
and in color resembles French china,
sonearly is it porcelain that its thin
parts are translucent. China or porce.
lain differs from the semi.porcolain
chiefly in the proportion of materials
4 used.
ave have in this country about eight
hundred kilns, employing eight to ten
thousand operatives, whose product is
z worth about $1,000 900 yearly. About
4 the same amount Of money is invested,
say $3.50, 900 in making art goods and
s175o,ooo in potteries making the other
grades. u;
the passage Of the McKinley
8 bill our goods have been cheaper For
instance, l25-piece dinner set, dec.
(, GRATED moss rose, gold trimmings, sold
4 for $40 20 in 1873 in 1888 brought S27;
in 1890, Sl4 20, and in 1892 sells for
4 Sl270. Other things are in proper
!: ton. 4 Y. .5.5l2 VI b
"This. Country imports yearly china,
porcelain, etc, valued at about the
Y same figures as the output of tho Amer
lean pottcries. That means that this
year over S., 000,0 600 worth Of imported
pottery will come into this country.
There are just two reasons for this
\ Anglomania has possessed the majority
( OF Americans with the idea TINT the
imported article is better than the do.
lnestic. Again, the manufactured is
] nearer the consumer. here than | the
Z maker OF English goods, and tho jobb ers
Il prefer to sell English goods on account
) OF tho extra profit, As a matter OF fact,
the best pottery made in the world Is OF
1 American manufacture :, Is
t1Irhe Belleels ware, which is the thin
nest china made, thin rs IN egg shell,
is one OF tho fine things made in Tren..
ton. The Irish article can not compare
will, the American. Trenton makessas