Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-09-12
COMBINATION
Of Glass Tableware Manufacturers,
including the Royal Glass
Honononv
COmpanY.

Company,
The Pittsbug Dispatch under date
of Sept 9th, says:
After protracted struggle, the
combination of glass tableware manu-
facturers has at last been formed 1t
was effected at Newell's Hotel last
evening, where those Interested held
their final session. Two meetings were
held during the day, when it was stat
ed that evening would bring consoll-
datlon or a dropping of the scheme. 1t
was close to midnight when the con-
ference adjourned and announced the
following:
"The National Glass Company, with
capital of $4,OOO,OOO, operating al
ready 16 factories, containing 5GS
pots, will include the following firms:
Rochester TumDler Co., Rochester,
Pa. Mckee Bros, Pittsburg; Crystal
Glass Company, Bridgeport, o.; Can
ton Glass Co.. Canton, o.; Indiana
Goblet and Tumbler Co., Greentown,
Ind; Model Flint Glass Co., Albany
Ind; West Virginia Glass Co., Nor
gantown w. Va; Cumberland GLASS
Co., Cumberland, Md; Greensburg
Glass Co., Greensburg, Pa; Riverside
Glass Co., Wheeling,W Va; Robinson
Glass Co., GAINESVILLE, o.; Royal Glass
Co., Marie,la, o.. Northwood Glass Co.
Indiana, Pa, and the Central Glass Co,
of Summitville, Ind. The following
are the officers: President, II. C. Frye,
Rochester, Pa; Vice President, C. J..
Boclllus Marion Ind; Treasurer, ]. M.
Jamison, Greensburg, Pa. The board
of directors Is composed Of h C..
Frye, C. j. Bockius, d. c. jenkins,
Greentown, Ind; w ]. Afford, Sum-
mltville, Ind; Addison Thompson,
Marietta, O.; Y. A. .trausberger, AL
bany, Ind; j. NJ. Jamison, Greenburg,
Pa; l.. C. Fletcher Cumberland, Md;
and A. Hart Mckee. Pittsburg.
President Fry states that three more
factories are expected which will
maze total of over 600 pots. The diff
ferent factories will continue under
the presnt management, and the sales
will aggregate $5,OOO,OOO per year. The
new company will take charge on Oc
tc5er /, and tie main Office will be in
tittsburg. This company will hold
nearly a the labor-saving machinery
employed in that line of production.
The Union Trust Company, of this
city, will act as registers of the socks
II. G.. Fry in speaking of the combln-
alton said: Every pot included is
money last year. All plants are taken
at their absolute value, and the con-
so. .dation takes in three of the largest
factories in the country. Improve
will be made, and all will participate
in the benefit of machinery. There
will be no curtailment of production
and nothing has been done in refer
ence 20 prices"
Mr. Addison Thompson, general
manager of the Royal Glass Company,
and one of the directors of the new
concern, affirms the above statement
and that the combination was not af-
fected for the purpose of raising prices
materially, but in order to build up
better foreign and domestic trade, es-
peclahy the former.
The new company expects to realize
its profits by the practice of economi-
ca. methods, rather than by the in
crease of prices on goods.
Mr. Thompson says that the local
plant will be kept in operation and the
probabilities are that the capacity of
the plant will be increased inside of
year.