Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-09-13
Tho American Glass rraas.


The Pittsburg GiassaOorker, in a long
article upon the Estate OF Glass Trades"
enumerates the following assumptions:
The Chambers Glass Co., two tanks and
1872 blowers; Phillips Glass Co., Pitts
burg, one tank, 30 blowers; Ihmsen
Glass Co., Pittsburg, one 10-pot furnace;
Findlay Window Glass Co., Findlay,
Ohio, one tank, 25 blowers; B. N. Nc
Coy Glass Co., Kane, Pa, one tank, SO
blowers; Gem Window Glass Works,
Dunkirk, Ind, two 6-pot furnaces; S.
X. Wells, Greenfield, Ind, one furnace,
10 pots; Christiana Window Glass Co.,
Wilmington, Two Spot furnaces; Ithaca
Window Glass Co., Ithaca, N. V, one
10-pot furnace. Besides these numerous
houses have fire in.
The same article reports the demand
for window glass pretty good at present
and says that since the wage scale has
been settled general resumption of
factories may be looked for. 1t adds:
Those who held A single did not part
with it readily while tile workers and
manufacturers were crossing swords, but
now there appears to be sufficient to fill all
demands, but nevertheless stocks were
small and the market would have felt it
percepubly if Il settlement had been de
layed much longer. Importers brought
n very little glass while the fate of the
Tariff bill hung in the balance bur now
they may import in larger quantities and
more glass will be upon the market than
has been the case for several months past.
Inc elect OF this will be felt iii prices,
although SO far no change has occurred.
The foreign article is still quoted at 50 and
~, While the domestic remains at 80 and
per cent for single and S5and 10 for double.
AS to plate glass, we are told by this
trade paper that manufacturers con
tlnue TO report most gratifying condi-
ton OF affairs, with u constant improve
ment in demand, and that, 80 far, there
has been no change in prices as the re-
suit OF lower tariff duties. Lamp chin
neys are still in good demand, with
nearly all the factories operating, but
not all producing up to their full
capacity. Manufacturers, however, look
for constant Improvement in the de.
mand, and feel that conditions in a few
weeks will warrant their producing to
the fullest capacity of their plants. The
lamp and shade business continues to
improve steadily. present indications
and future prospects being SO good that
one large concern is making arrange
ments to increase its producing facili-
ties. America, We are told, has made
considerable advance in the production
OF iron-mold blown shades Of delicate
pot-metal colors, and the various styles
OF this work are artistic and deservedly
popular and hold their own against any
articles OF foreign production. In table
ware slight improvement is notice
able, but the fruit jar season has been a
miserable failure. Editorially the Class
arorkcr says
Manufacturers who have adopted tanks
difficulty " holding their own in the
market. But there is no reason WHY pot
| factories should not have more uniformity
III the quality Of their glass. lfp to yery
| recent date 1t WAS al ways guess work with
the pot manufacturer whether he would
Nouiu nave slINef-cleaf or Z glass as the
result OF ms mix. In flint, plate or other
branches OF glass manufacture there is no
sllCh guess work, and the manufacturer is
aole 70 produce good quality Of glass six
| days i'll the week. There are still many
! pot factories the product of which, iii
window glass, is as variable as the colors
OF the rainbow. This country must make
| progress. even though changes cost some.
| thing. II IS bad policy TO depend entirely
ID r.
tens over half century old
There is a good deal of signifcance
| in this last sentence.
On the first page of the same paper
VIC find the following statement Of the
average earnings of what are known as
the four branches of the trade that come
under the head Of skilled mechanics in
making window glass. The statement is
given on the authority of MIR. Cham.
beers, "a member OF the window glass
tariff committee for many years. and
are in reply to and refutation of pub
lished statements of Pittsburg manu-
| facturers VINO have circulated larrer
| figures. The figures are average earn
ings, after deducting helpers wages,
and based upon an average Of 2l5 days
employment per year during the past
| five years or more.
SinglGstrenEth blowers make $3.50 per
day; slnEte,strehsth gatherers, s. %, small
| donbe.strcugth blowers. $3.50; small
donbe-strength gnthcrers, sos; large
| double-strength blowers, Sl3; large
double strength gatherers, $3.50; single
strength llatteners. Sl.5J small don6ie.
strength tlatteners, 5000 large double
strength tiutteners, So; Single-strcngth
critters, 50, and double strength cutters,
500,