The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-20
rHB GLASS TRADE SHUTDOWN.
To Begin en- suuo sO-GInss Industries OF In
0tntcs.

Statcs.
On Juno so at midnight, according to present
reports, all of the window glass. tho flint glass.
and 95 per cent. Of the green glass houses In the
country will close down. Tho plato glass plants
will continue to operate. Indiana manufacto-
ries have become 80 busy that they are urging
that the trust Immediately advance the price Of
glass another 5 per cent, as was done three
weeks ago, and it Is not unlikely that they will
bring pressure to bear to accomplish this. Last
week closed with 1871 pots out Of 1900 in the
country in operation. Workmen are scarce in
some places.
The window glass blowers and gatherers, who
are advocating their withdrawal from the other
branches Of the National Union, have called a
mass meeting in Cleveland for July 9. They will
there frame their demands. which will be not
less than Is per cent. advance. The cutters
and ~fiatters will also hold q meeting. After q
four years strike the Flint Glass Workers
Union has been recognized by the United States
Glass Company. and that company's plants nil
over the country are open to them and are abid-
ing by the union rules.
The product OF American glass amounts in
S slSSo, % SoS SR IS pls &C. S SiSss COG 3d. e ,6 $500 600 O. wi EaiSR
glass. $20,0 10000 flint glass, and the balance
what is known to the o trade dco as black and
lean glass tchicfy flint glass, is exported. and
the importations of glass amount IN value. to
HDOuI IOuT tIneS us Illtli, IL tniel lIhIOTllHR
countries being the three which manufacture
the finest grade OF glass-Bclgium, France, and
England-though recently there has been a con-
siderable importation of GeIman.made glass
into the United States, the glass industries of
the German empire having developed largely
since the establishment of the protective tariff
system there. Pennsylvania, and particularly
the portion Of 1t which Is in and about
the city Of Pittsburg, ranks first in the
United. states in glass manufacture, with n
total of $1S. 200. 900 a year. Ohio follows with
Sc o ,0OO,. New Jersey lthe glass works of
which are chiefly in the southern portion of the
State) with SO, 900, ooO; Indiana with $1,000.
600; New York with So. 500. O0o; Maryland
with 81, 10000 Missouri with 81 zoe, 900;
West Virginia lin and about wheeling with
81. O0O. CO0; and Massachusetts with $780, 900,
and the other States with 81 800, 900.
A two-months' shutdown in the glass bust.
ness is no new thing, but 1t comes this year at a
time when the demand for glass Is considerable
and when the determination to suspend work in
most branches of the business viii have, It is
expected. considerable influence on tho main
tenance of prices.
1t is one OF the cherished records of the glass
trade that the first man who engaged in the
manufacture Of glass In tho United States. al
Pittsburg, was an Irishman named O'Hara, and
along with his will he left a series OF memoranda
In one Of which was this statement, showing
that Mr.. O'Hara. in addition to being a mechanic
Of ingenuity. was somewhat of a humorist: ITO
day" wrote Mr.. 0'Hara. I'VE made the first
bottle at a cost of $50 1000" 1t is not to DO rs
sumed that tho second bottle turned out from
the O'Hara factory was quito as expensive.