The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-12-28
GLASS IN SIXTY DAYS.
Meadt W Point Plant Soon to Be
4 n Active Operation.
! AN sol TPMENT FROM BELGIUM.
Latest 7 Improved Regenerative Wood
GasI Furnace to Be Set Up-Mr.
Rochelle Home Again.

The Plt get Sound Glass Company intends
TO make good Its promise 10 have works in
full opeH alton at Meadow Point. a short
d stance north Of this city, within the next
sixty da 8 Henry l. Rochelle, president
OF the c l. mpany, has arrived after a visit
TO EurorU ?. for the purpose of buying ma
chinery, q md today, accompanied by Clovis
CuvelerE an expert engineer from Jumet,
BelgiumG will visit the site of the glass
works a ID locate the buildings and fur
naces.
.Our rst step will he to stake out the
grOundsI and then determine the location
OF the A Irnaces. which must be arranged
with re erence to light and draft" said
Mr. ROD halle yesterday. Work will at
once be begun on the buildings for the
plant n rec in number, the largest TO be
used for the furnaces and to be 90x135 feet.
The cut ng and packing building which
will con ain the fiattening oven, will he
50xl40 feI {. and the warehouse will be 50x
100 feet III The tank furnace will be of the
latest inn 1roved type. and will be 25x50 feet.
OperatioI IS will proceed as rapidly the
weather Will admit. and we hope, by en-
ploying twenty-five or thirty men. TO have
the glas works in operation in about two
months II The capacity of the plant will be
90 600 boz rs a year.
"DurinN my visit to Europe l ordered all
the casir for the latest improved gas fur
mace KIN wn as the Siemen's regenerative
gas furn& &c, which Will come from Jumet.
There is L llso for the tanks a full supply of
fire claw blocks. three feet long by eigh-
teen incl rs wide and twelve inches thick.
to be Us q on the bottoms, and also side
blocks II Xl6X16. In addition TO the above
there ha& e been ordered the castings nee
essary f the fiattenng oven. and for the
air and as valves; and also fire clay for
making n he fioaters and rings
During& AIR. Rochelle's visit to Europe he
visited ID nterneubrunn, Germany the site
of five 4 4 ctories operated on the wood gas
plaa, and thence he went to Grosalmarode,
where I'D best fire clay in the world is oh
tanned 4 rom the latter place he went to
RaccaraG famous for glass works under
the mani agement of one family for AT
years a employing $500 persons. The
object OF ii his visit here was to inquire fully
into the merits of wood gas furnaces, and
his inveG tigation was highly satisfactory.
He next& went 10 Jumet. which has 10000
people h aking their living out of glass
works a d ne. and at that place he contin-
ued his D. SANITATION of furnaces
"Whent we get the Puget Sound Glass
Works 81 arted it will be the only estab-
Hshment n the United States to use wood
gas" cod ,inued Mr.. Rochelle. "All other
factories& including the one at San Fran
cisco use coal gas, and we will be making
a new q parture. From my Investigations
and exp8 -iments l am convinced that we
will be a n le 10 turn out a nicer and strong
er articItE 1t will be free from sulphur,
and win h be superior in every respect to
the artie produced in other places
Mr. ROD helle's judgment as 10 the merits
OF wood Il gas is shared in by e. y. Mac
KAY tired curry OF the company.
Mr. Rob lelle left Jumet by the American
liner KeG siugton November 80. and was
thirteen u avs on the Atlantic. He stopped
a week M ar Chicago, and then came West
by the CT madam Pacific lie was delayed
several an urs by the late snowstorm.