Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-09-17
LOCAL Factories
10 be Absorbed by the National Glass
Company.

TO be Absorbed by the National GlaSS
Company.
THERE APPEARS, HOWEVER, TO
BE A LACK OF DEFINITE IN
FORMATION BY FACTORY OWN
ERS IN THIS VICINITY-BOTH
WEST VIRGINIA AND CRYSTAL
IN THE LIST-OTHER INDUS
TRIAL NOTES.
The much talked Of combine of the
tableware houses of the country ap-
pears to be assuming shape, although
If carried through on present lines it
will be a much smaller affair than was
at first intended. 1t does not include
the plants OF the United States Glass
Company and, in fact, there are almost
as many pots on the outside as there
are in the combine. The Crystal, of
Bridgeport, and West Virginia, of Mar
tins Ferry. are both counted in the
deal, but the Fostoria, Of Moundsville,
and Beaumont, of Martins Ferry, are
not mentioned in the list. Options are
held upon the two first named plants,
but further than this there has been
little done to indicate their absorption
by the National Glass Company. A
member of one of these companies
said yesterday that no consideration
had yet been paid over, and in fact no
communication had been received
from the National people for several
weeks. The National Glass Budget, in
Its issue Of yesterday, has the following
to say Of the combine, which will be
of interest to the glass interests in this
vicinity:
The finishing touches were put on
the National Glass Company, table
ware combine, on Friday evening of
last week at a meeting held az NewelIs
Hotel, this city, and a board of direc-
tors and officers for the new combine
were elected. The capital stock of the
combine is 81, 900, 900, and, as will be
seen by the following list OF factories
absorbed, some Of the largest and best
paying concerns in the deal. The
plants are operated by the following
firms:
,,ox.osn.. ..,,.tt. :, Pots IS
Rochester Tumbler Co, Rochester, Pa. .6
Crystal Glass Co, Bridgeport, O........ 45
Canton Glass Co, Marion, Ind ............ 50
Indiana Tumbler & Goblet Co., Green 90
M t0@n' Flint int Glass Co.. Albany. Ind. IS
West Virginia Glass Co, Martins :.
Seneca Glass Co, M~organtown; ". "a. 4
Greensburg Glass Co, G%reensburg. Pa. y
Riverside Glass Co, Wellsburg, w. We. l6
Robson Glass CO.. zanesvI1ie, O........ 10
Glass Co, Marietta, O.........-... Ii
Central Glass Co., Summitville, Ind. "A
Northwood Glass Co., Indiana, Pa. II
Total Asa
In addition to the list given above,
President Fry informs us that TWO
other factories-the Tareptum Glass
Company, a 14-pot concern, and the
Dalzell, Gilmore & Leighton Co, with
So pots-are nearly i'll shape to come
in, and are counted on as a part of the
National Glass Company, while still
two other factories are negotiating with
thscombiRe with a view to entering,
and the purchasing outright Of two
Others is being considered, on options
to buy. All the firms named above
have entered on a stock basis, none of
them having been purchased outright
for cash, as currently reported during
the past week.
Tho Jiff0roH+ foafOr;o1 Mill ao1+;n,,A
under their present management. Mr..
Fry, in speaking of the combination,
said: Every pot included is now act
i've and every concern made money last
year. All plants are taken at their alb
solutc value, and the consolidation
takes in three of the largest factories
in the country outside of the United
States Glass Company. Improvements
will be made, and all will participate in
the benefit accruing from the removal
of competition and the introduction in
many factories of more improved meth
DDS of manufacturing"
Permanent officers have been elected
as follows: President, H. c.. Fry, of
Rochester, Pa; vice president, C. 1.
Bockius, Marion, Ind; secretary-treas-
urer, John M. Jamison, G~reensburg,
Pa. These, with the following, form
the board OF directors: D. c. Jenkins,
Greentown, Ind; w. j. Afford, Summit
vile, Ind; Addison Thompson, Mari
eta, o.; A. Strausburger, Albany, Ind;
L. c. Fletcher, Cumberland, Md; and
]. Hart Mckee, Pittsburg. The head
quarters of the company will be
located in this city. Everything is ex-
pected to be ready for the combination
to take charge of the business by Oc-
tober LIST.
A meeting OF those interested in the
combine is scheduled for some day next
week.
The tube department of the River
side works have been in operation dur
ing the past week and the compare
lively cool weather has been 40 great
relief to the army of employees engaged
there. The workmen at this plant
pre- very much interested in the i'm
provements to be made by the COM
pany and the matter is a fruitful topic
for conversation among the men these
days. The new works will extern
sive and will in their many depart
ments give employment to a vast
number of expert and skillfui men.
There will be hundreds of good jobs
and it is this phase of the subject
that presents an attractive outlook to
S1E present employees of the place.
Whis Is the case especially with those
holding second rate Jobs and who are
;n homes tho coponopv IN cfor4inn Hbo