Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-29
- rorrERY FLoURNnEs.


Despite the manufacturers Assertion
That They HAD Been Trloked Into
Consuming TO Tsrin Reduction.
FROM Ne,g YORK Herald
TRENTON, n. J., October 2L-The
manufacturing pOtters made a great
row when the new tariff bill was passed.
They declared they had been deceived
aud tricked. They consented TO a re-
duction OF the duty on pottery ware Of
various kinds, so they said, with the
understanding that when they settled
the strike existing among their en-
ployes the rates were TO DO restored 70
the figures allowed by the Wilson Dill
when it passed the House.
The strike was settled and Senator
Smith promised the rates should be re-
stored in the German bill, but the Cor
man bin was rushed through so quickly
that there was no chance 20 amend 10,
and Congress adjourned with the tariff
on pottery lower than 10 had been since
the industry secured foOthold 10 this
country.
Then the manufacturers, both In
Ohio and here in Trenton, asserted
that business was ruined. The klIns
would not be operated aad no ware
would be made until the tariff was re-
stored This was the cry tWo months
ago.
POTTERY BUSINESS -FLOURISHlNG.
The truth is the pottery business Is
hourishing as it has not for year or
more. This Is admitted by some OF the
leading potters, although not with any
idea that 10 would be published.
Several prominent Trenton potters re-
turned from q trip West q few days ago
They were very reticient, but Mr. John
n. Taylor, Que Of the manufacturers a.
East Liverpool, made a significant &C
mission. He Acknowledged that trade
was fair and that the potter Industry
did not suffer as greatly oy the tarlu re-
duction. as az first threatened. Wlen
asked IL this was not quite a different
view from the one taken by the manu-
facturers q few months ago Nj Taylor
replied:
Eyes, there has been change OF
opinion on the subject within four
months"
But in that time, hasn't the tariff
been reduced lower than ever?' was
asked.
Eyes, I believe that is true"
A visit TO the various p0lleries in this
city discloses the fact that there are
renewed signs Of activity. IL the new
tariff is 90 injurious 10 seems strange
that concerns that have been closed
down for months and some Of them Tor
more than year should have started
up.
Smoke is now clrcling regularly from
the kins of the old Isaac Davis pottery:
which had been closed for a year. De-
spite the tariff, sX-Congressman j. Hart
Brewer, McKinley's old friand, has
purchased this plant and started IL up,
and Charles ii, Cook, formerly one OF
the owners OF the Crescent pottery, has
established a pottery Of his own and is
verv busy. Additional hands have been
emDloyed by the Glasgow pottery,
owned by John Moses, and extra forces
Of kilnmen were recently secured by
the Eagle pottery az WilIetts.
ACTIVE EILNs IN OHIO.
A letter received from East Liverpool,
Ohio, shows that business is booming
among the pOtteries there. Tue letter
says;
ne ElaeN AlNGA NANl A AaaeA w t-A ksaAy
began work this week on large new
biscuit kiln. This, with the other ad-
ditiOns and improvement being made on
East Liverpool pOtterles, will increase
tue manufactures az this point very
materially. The new East End pottery,
now nearing completion, will add two
kilns TO the total number In Ide city.
Mountiord az Co. have Just finished
work on one kiln, and the Standard Pot
terry Company is preparing to begin
work on q four-kiln addition, which
will double the capacity of that plant.
This will make a total increas OF eight
kilns for the city for the year 1894. To
fact. the pottery trade in the west is
now booming more than is has done at
any time during the past three years.
Not man In the city need be idle
who wants 20 work. WOrkmen for odd
Jobs were never so hard 10 ind here.
Not one, but half q dozen works in
this city, are running overtime, and the
talk OF a shutdown, so prevalent few
weeks ago, has been sllenced. The
Chelsea, az New Cumberland, is expert
encing the biggest boom In its history
and is turning out nine kilns Of ware
per week, which breaks the record for
shat plant
Under all these circumstances it IS
hard TO see how the pottery industry
has suffered, even from q material de-
crease in the tariff on crOCkery and
decorated ware, and it is also difficult
20 understand what necessity there Is
for senator Smith to try to alter the
tariff when Congress mefts again IN De-
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