The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-08-22
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!GLASsWOR'KERS
F:OR The COAST
Leave Wheeling Tuesday Night, and
Twenty-Five Others Will Fol-
low Shortly.
WILL TRAVEL in PULLMANS.
From st. Louis-s4, 900 in Railroad
Fares Paid Out by Manager
i. George Roberts.

The largest party ever booked from
Wheeling for the Pacific coast left last
night at $3.50 o'clock, via the Pan Han
die and Frisco" lines for San Francis
co. The party Is made up OF thirty
five of the sixty glassworkers whom
Manager George Roberts, OF the San
Francisco & Pacific Glass Company, is
securing in this section OF the country.
The twenty-five others Will go west
within the ensuing, two weeks, but not
In party. Manager Roberts. who is
an old Wheeling boy who has made.
HIS way" in the west. pays out some
thing like $4,000 in railroad fares for
these men. As stated recently in the
Intelligencer, his company has en-
larged its plant, but as there were no
glassworkers in California other than
.hosetemployed in his plant, he had to
come back east for the additional men
needed.
The glassworkers began assembling
at the Pan Handle passenger station
long before the hour OF the trains de-;
parture. They were given their. tickets
BY Passenger Agent Tomllnson, of the
Pan Handle. assisted by Travelling Pas
sengcr Agent Fred B. sankey. OF the
Pan Handle. and Travelling Passenger
Agent Sidney Van Duzen. Of the St.
Louis G. San Francisco ("Frlsco'), the
two hustling young raIlroaders who
secured this nice piece OF business" for
their lines recently in competition with
all the trans-contInenta lines Of the
country.
neishboring glass towns, put q bunch
OF fifteen are from Philadelphia, who
came on in charge of William Launer.
of that city. The party will be Joined
at Fostoria. Ohio. by C. B. Roberts.
brother, of George Roberts. The latter
and Travelling Passenger. Agent Van
Duzen personally conduct the party to
St. Louis, which will be reached at
noon to-day. In the party are the fol-
lowing. mot including the Philadelphia
bunch. whose names could not be Sc
cured:
wellsburg = Mrl Roberts, Lester
Burge Frank sprlngborn. Ed. Burg
hoff. Sam Burghon, Doc Gasmire. ].
Johnson, j.. Patterson.
Martins Ferry-w., B. Kenny. E. F.
F!tzsimmons. George Brannon.
Mounds HER M. Boston. William
Pracht. William Stewart.
auncie, Ind.-Max Short.
:Fairmount, Ind.--W. H. Edmunds.
Bridgeport-Art Ne!ninger.
From st. Louis westward the party;
will occupy two Pullman tourist sleep
eras, and will be we'll cared for the en-
tire trip by representatives OF the sew
eral railroads on the route. which is as
follows: Wheeling to st. Louis. via the
Pan Handle: Frisco: line, from St.
Louis to Burton, Kas.: Santa Fe. Bur-
ton to Pueblo. Col: Denver & Rio
Grande. Pueblo TO Grand Junction.
Col: Rio Grande & Western, Grand
Junction to Ogden. Utah: Southern Pa
cifc, Ogden to San Francisco.
The San Francisco & Pacific Glass
Company, for which the men are TO
work. has built up big business in the
making of bottles for California wines
and mineral waters.
Passenger Agent John G. Tomlinson.
Of the Pan Handle; Travelling Passen-
ger Agent Fred B. sankey. of the same
line. and Travelling Passenger Agent
Van Duzen, Of the Frisco" have been
generally complimented In railroad cir
Giles for their work In corraling this
piece of business foritheir lines, one of
the biggest over secured out OF Wheel.
ing.