Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-01-24
LAMP CHIMNEYS.
Made in This Country by Millions
Annually for Home Use
and Export.

"The lamp chimney" said man ac-
quainted with the trade, to a New York
Sun reporter, ''seems a simple sort of
thing, but there are not many things
of more common use the world over,
and in the aggregate the number sold
is enormous. In this country there are
$4,000 men and boys employed in max
ing lamp chimneys, and the chimneys
produced number millions annually.
The greater number are now made
west of the Allegheny mountains in
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana,
where the majority of the glass works
of the, country are located, many of
them in the natural gas regions.
"The first glass works in the country
were established in Boston, and for
merly the glassmaking industry was
principally in the east. Now there are
not nearly so many glass factories here
as there once were.
zone not familiar with the business
might be surprised with the great vari-
ETY. in which lamp chimneys are made.
Lamps are made in these days in very
great variety by many makers, and
of course there are made chimneys
suitable for all of them. There is one
American lamp chimney maker who,
counting sizes and styles, produces 600
varieties. Among the great variety Of
chimneys made there are some that are
of common use everywhere, and then
there are some that are specially suit
ed to demands in this or that part
in other parts,
oh ~ =
in far greater variety than formerly,
to fit perfectly every sort of lamp, but
they are also made better than ever.
In fact, lamp chimneys have advanced
with everything else. But enormous
and increasing as the production is,
the demand scarcely keeps pace with
the increase in the population, this be-
| ing especially true of cities in which
gas is more and more used, and here in
New York, for instance, by users
through slot gas machines, which have
some influence on the sale of lamp
chimneys. Still the number of lamps
used here is enormous. There are
plenty of people burning gas, for in
stance, who have as we'll three or four
| lamps, and the number of people here
who use lamps alone for the purpose of
illumination is very great. There are
used in New York and it's vicinity mil
lions of lamp chimneys annually.
"There are received in this city from
western manufacturers, for domestic
consumption, suppose about four car
loads of chimneys weekly, running
from 1900 to 1000 dozen chimneys to
the car. These are sold to jobbers who
distribute them through their trade
to customers in the city and here
Rbouts and to customers at greater or
| less distances away. Perhaps half of
| these chimneys, or rather more, are
used in the city or within sc miles of
it. To the chimneys thus brought here
are to be added those produced here,
the eastern chimneys being made chief
| " for the local trade and for export.
eve import a few lamp chimneys of
the cheaper and of the best grades.
the cheap chimneys from Germany and
| the costlier from France, but these
imports cut only a small figure in the
| total consumption, and we export lamp
chimneys in great quantities. We send
very few to Europe, though we do sell
them some of our best ehimneys. But
outside of Europe we sell lamp chin
neys everywhere. We come into competi-
ton in some parts of the world with
the Germans, who make chimneys very
| cheaply, but our exports are increas-
ing, and we send chimneys, as I said,
everywhere; to Mexico, the West In
dies, South America, South Africa,
China, in fact to all lands in which
lamps are used, all around the earth.