Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-05
FOREIGN TRADE
Will Be a Big Object With the Nation
al Glass Company.
A FORMER MARTINS FERRY MAN
TO HAVE CHARGE OF THE
LONDON OFFICE-ADDISON
THOMPSON. ALSO A BELMONT
COUNTY MAN, SECRETARY
OTHER INDUSTRIAL NOTES.


Company on Friday sent out to the
trade circular notification of the trans
fer of the properties, and that. after
November /, all settlements for ship
memas will be made with the National
Glass Company. A statement issued by
the combination shows that the IL
firms included in the deal have total
capacity of CTS pots which, it is said,
represents earnings during the past
year sufficient to pay the interest on
the combines S2,000,000 bonds and 10
per cent. dividends on the stock issued.
Following is complete list of the
factories included in the new combin-
alton: Canton Galss Company, Mar
ion, Ind, 80 pots; Central Glass Com
pany, Summitville, Ind, IL pots; Crys-
tai Glass Company, Bridgeport, O., 40
pots: Cumberland Glass Company,
Cumberland, Md, IA pots; Greensburg
Glass Company, Greensburg, Pa, 70
pots; Indiana Tlrmbler & Goblet Com
pany, Greentown, Ind, SO pots; Model
Glass Company, Albany, Ind, 20 pots;
Mckee G. Bros, Jeanette, Pa, III
pots; Northwood Glass Company, In
diana Pa, 20 pots; Riverside Glass
Company, Wellsburg, w. Va, 16 pots;
Robinson Glass Company, GAINESVILLE,
O., Is pots; Royal Glass Company, Ma
rietta, O., 20 pots; Rochester Tumbler
Company, Rochester, Pa, 95 pots;
West Virginia Glass Company, Martins
Ferry, O., "a pots; Keystone Tumbler
Company, Rochester, Pa, AZ pots; Dali
zell, Gilmore C Leighton Company,
Findlay. O., 35 pots; Beatty-Brady
Glass Company, Dunkirk, Ind, 81 pots;
Fairmont Glass Company, Fairmont,
w. Va, II pots; Ohio Flint Glass Conn
pany, Lancaster, O., % pots.
The factories outside the trust en-
brace 80 pots, as follows; United
States Glass Company, Pittsburg, $50
pots; Tarentum Glass Company, Ia
rentum Glass Company, Tarentum, Pa,
IA pots; George Duncan's Sons & Co.,
Washington, Pa, 1e pots; A. H. Kelsey
Newark, o., IA pots; Bryce Bros,
Homestead, Pa, "a pots; Central Glass
Company, Wheeling, w. Va, II pots;
Bonita Glass Company, Cicero, Ind, 26
pots, and the Cooperative Flint Glass
Company, Beaver Falls, Pa, 80 pots.
Notices were sent to all the factories in
the combination to close down yester-
day for stocktaking. This will be done
with all possible speed and it is said
all the works will be working again by
the end of next week. A determined
effort is to be made to increase the
company's export trade, and an Office
is to be established in London, with
Harry Northwood in charge. Later,
Offices will be opened in continental
cities The main Office will be located
in Pittsburg as soon as a suitable loca-
ton can be secured.
The official list of the directors is as
follows: H. c. Fry, President; It. J.
Brockius, Vice President; Addison
Thompson, Secretary; D. C. Jenkins, A.
Hart Mckee, W. J. Afford, L. A.
Fletcher and A. L. Strauberger. The
executive committee comprises A.
liz, III I ~ Tn,1lvi A
Fletcher, w. ]. Afford and Addison
Thompson.
The event of the week in the local
Industrial world was the contamination
of the sale of the Crystal glass works
at Bridgeport, and the West Virginia
glass works at Martins Ferry to the
National Glass Company, which has its
headquarters at Pittsburg. The deeds
for the two properties were held in
escrow by the Union Trust Company,
of the Sboky City, and Thursday the
Wheeling owners of the plants received
word that the funds had been deposited
there. At the same time the deal was
closed for the Riverside glass works at
Wellsburg. The purchase price of the
three plants aggregate in the neighbor-
hood of 100000.
The new casting house. at the Bel
mont mill is almost completed, and 1t
is said the next improvement the COM
pany will make will be a new plate
mill, which will require three heating
furnaces. A thick heating furnace is
In process of construction at the new
plate mill This will make a total Of
nine heating furnaces. The mill is
making good. time.
Harry Northwood, who it is stated
will be the London agent of the Ma
tional Glass Company, just formed, for
merly ran the "Northwood" plant in
Martins Ferry He is we'll known in
Wheeling, where his ability as a glass
maker is recognized. Addison Thomp-
son, Secretary of the new concern, has
been connected with glass houses at
Huntington, w. Va, and Marietta, Pa.
He is an old St. Clairsville boy, and
was formerly deputy clerk of courts for
Belmont county.
Friday morning the lower steel works
were closed on account of shortage
of material. 1t is stated that the pres
ent shut down which will likely end
on Monday is the last one now in sight
for with the Top mill blast furnace
running on better time the company
will be enabled to lay in adequate sup