The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-09-06
ARTISTIC eLAsseLow
e,rr..s .xn o4her Desisss wrousns by
little Colony in New York CITY

s1ssyara God Other DesiGss ~fOus -
fit.le Colony In New York CITY
There is settled now upon the eage
of the German quarter little colouy
Of artistic and scientific glassoiowers
from Thuringia. The colonlsts say e'1.s
they are the first and only persons s.,r
undertake in the United states cA"s =.
snch worl, as they IRE doing, ana, al
,nv rate. there is no such odd littie
Workshop as theirs anywhere else IN
New York. 1t is made up OF t'ny
office and showroom, with d s'i.e
ward show window. and a soH'e" .,S
larger workroom separated from 'nc
,ff,ce by 4 white hanging that bears
the inscription "No Admittance. be
hind this screen OF white Is carried on
the art and mystery OF art1stic ein ;.
blowing as practiced in for l i'of i"a .'
The head Of the colony and proprl1'
tor of the business Is an lntellectu"''
looking German, with spectacles' an
agreeable smile. g very hollow chesI'
and a nit to his stomach that suggests
an oyerworkcd midriff. His immaculate
assistant is travelled young ino'i,
voluable in several languages anu
this Young man is the medium OF COM
municatio with the English-speakins
world, since the proprietor has DO Ell,
elish of his own. The proprietor ano
the voluble you man are the glass
blowers, and their aids are TWO or
three aproned young girls who oe1t'y
handle the polished long shafts tnas
form the raw material Of the art, ouS
do not understand the more delicate
portion of the work. 'Of course we
don't teach these girls glassblo"ins'
says the voluable young man;
The show window Of this little loc-
tory displays curious variety OF WORKS
in glass. There arc delicately wrought
vases In many colors Thermometer
tubes, surgical appliances; little
double Dubbed glasses, with water IN
the lower bulb and glass fish IN the
upper, the whole, when warm mana
Is applied to tho lower bulb, becoming
fountain in which the fish dance;
comic thermometers that profess TO
record the effect upon the human blood
Of love, hate, anger, and other passions
tiny ornamental shades for electric
lights, and, chief of all, "glas-blumen'
as the Germans call those oddly
wrought flowers Of glass
The glass flowers are the pride and
speciality of tho proprietor. LIE was
one of the earliest men In Germany 10
mako them. says his volublc assistant
and they are really marvellous products
of the glassblswers art There are
roses red, white ana yellow, with
soft and pliant-lookins petals, curious
ly like the genuine rose There are
sprays of lily Of the valley, plant in
which tho Germans specially delight,
moss-rose buds, for-9et-me-nots, and
all of fifty other flowers that one may
name The German proprietor is the
designer OF tho company, but the volu-
BILE young man says airily that often
skilled glassblower like himself just
seizes upon the inspiration Of the mo-
mcnt as he sits glass in hand over his
gus Jet, and works out marvellous
creations without the aid Of any viSi-
BILE design. The glassblowers use or
binary Illuminating gas, to which they
communicate extra pressure by sim.
pie device. They work with astonish-
ing rapidly and nicety.-N. Y. Sun.