The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-11-28
The GLASS FACTORY
Will Start up December Sew
ehtb.

Will Start up December Sey-
ehth.
The Lack OF Sufficient Houses is Keen
~ Felt.
A representative of the New Do
hISroS visited the new glass factory
Tuesday morning on tour of in
spection and was shown over the
plant by one of the affable and gem
tlemanly proprietors. Every where
there were groups of busy men and
women who seemed to be intent on
making every stroke count. The
massive machinery to be seen on ey-
cry hand gave promise of the great
things that the factory is to do for
Morgantown. Fires hare been start
ed in the furnace and force of men
were busy about it putting it in
tip top trim for operation. Twenty
five car loads of machinery have al
ready been received and ten more
are to follow. Every room is filled
with all kinds of it making it diff
cult to make any progress through
it. About twenty five hands are now
at work unpacking, setting up and
other things incident to a beginning
of operations. Several are also en-
Iployed in etching glassware and
some beautiful specimens of their
handiwork were shown although they
have been vt work but short time.
A cooper shop is being built at the
west end of the plant and some dis
lance from it and it will be connect
ed with the factory by stock shed
where the out put of the shop will
be stored until needed. This cooper
ing is new thing for the company
to be engaged in but in the absence
of any such establishment here has
led to their building one. In answer
to query as to when it was expect
ed to start to making glass, Mr..
Bannister said, '.We expect TO begin
Operations December It'll working
about $50 men and will doubtless
have fully 300 hands at work inside
of six weeks. We are paying
out about $500 week to the hands
we have now employed. Our con
tract requires us to start up Janua-
Try LIST but we have done better than
our contract requires in this as in
every other particular. What hamp-
ers us the greatest in our efforts to
get started is the lack of houses. We
guaranteed to pay the rent on 81
houses if completed Sept. l, but not
one was completed by that time and
very few are ready for occupancy
even now. At least 60 more houses
are needed right now and needed
very badly. Our people have no
place to go. All the available housee
are taken, the hotels and boarding
houses are full and they have no
place to go to. But with all our dis
advantages we have done better in
every case than our contracts with
the b. a. l. company called for and
as said we viii, be in operation three
weeks before we are required to be.
Above all other things however we
need houses, plenty of them and
must have them This painful lack
of houses has been pointed out re-
peatedly in these columns and our
live business men should remedy it
at once. As many as three families
have been compelled to rent six
room house together. These people
will make good citizens as they are
industrious, quiet and conduct them
selves in a manner to make hosts OF
friends and they deserve better
treatment at the hands of our people.
They come several hundreds of
miles to find that the provisions for
their staying here all totally made
quate. Let every body who can
unite to make them comfortable at
the earliest possible moment. Ev-
erything else connected with the
plant is of the most pleasing charac-
ter and we cannot allow the only
fault that is to be found with any.
thing to be laid at our door. Let us
emulate the example Of the glass
house people and at least live up to
our side of the contract. Very few
people appreciate what the factory
means to the town. The statement
is made that in six weeks 300 people
will be employed in the enterprise.
At the lowest estimate there will
be 200 of these who are heads OF
families. 1t is well established
rule that for each voter there are
four others to be considered in esti-
mating actual population. Then
multiply 200 by 5 and we have an
increase to our population of l,OOO
souls. These people will actually be
here in six weeks. Now where shall
we put them? They will mean ire
mendous increase in every channel
of business and deserve great deal
of consideration at our hands mere
ly as a matter of good policy to say
nothing of moral obligation. Con
slider well the conditions and then
act promptly.