Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-03-14
LAMP cH,MNEYs.
MADE In rhla Country by M,lllon. An.
nually For Home Use and Export.

aually For Home Use and Export.
"The lamp chimney said a man ac-
quainted with the trade, seems sim
pie sort o; .hiEg. r,. there are not
many thins: OF mlre common use the
world over, and in the aggregate the
number SOLD il; enormous. In this co,n-
Try there are 1900 men and boys en-
ploycd il liz king, lamp cilmneys, and
the chimneys produced number mil
lions annually. The greater number
are now mace west of the Allegheny
mountains in Pennsylvania, Ohio aud
Indiana. where The majority of the
glass works OF the country are located,
iaany of them i'll tho natural gas re-
.ions.
he first glass wcriss in tho country
Weir Ns,;l IN Boston. and former
~ ihe -inss ..:i...na i..d.Stly was prin-
.iiniiy III lnc .;IN. .Muw there are not
n.:tiiy so L.:l:iy glass factories here as
tllciclGilue NGlc.
Zone n2t familiar with the business
might !,c surprised With the great vari-
city in which lamp chnlneys are made.
Lamps ;lrc made in these days in very
great variety Dy many makers. and of
course there arc made ch!nlncyS Suita-
Die tor all OF them. There is ore Amer
lean lamp chimney maker wha. count
Ing sizes and styles. produces 600 varie-
ties. Among the great variety of chim-
neys made there are seine That are Of
common Use everywhere. and then
there are some that are specially suited
to demands In this or that part of the
country and are not In demand In
other parts.
Lamp chimnpys are not only made
in far greater variety than formerly, to
TT perfectly every SOFT OF lamp but
they are also made better than ever. In
fnct. lamp chinneys 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 being
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 in
| fucnce OIL the sale of lamp climneys.
Still the number of lamps used here il
enormous. There are plenty of people
| burning gas. for instance. who have as
we'll three or four lamps, and the num-
her 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 millions of lamp chim-
neys annually.
! '"Thcrc are received in this city from
western manufacturers for domestic
consumption suppose about four car
loads Of chimneys weekly, running
1 from 1.5OO to 1000 dozen chimneys ia
the car. These are sold to iobbers, who
distribute them through their trade to
customers in the city and hereabout
! and to customers Mt greater or less dis
tances away. Perhaps half of these
cllinneys or rather more are used ir
the city or within so miles of it. TO tho
chinlncys thus brought here are to b.
added those produced here, the eastern
! chimneys being made chiefly for thu
local trade and for export.
1--WE import few lamp chimneys Of
the cheapest and Of the best grades
the cheap chimney from Germany ant
the costlier from France, but these i'm
ports cut only small figure in the to
tai consumption. and we export lam
chimneys in great quantities. We. SEN
, very few to Europe. though we do sci
them some of our best chimneys. Blu
outside of Europe we sell lamp chin
neys everywhere. We come into com
petition in some parts of the worl'
with the Germans, who make chin
ncys very cheaply, but our exports ar
, increasing. and we send chimneys, a
said, everywhere-to Mexico. til
West Indies, South America. Sout
Africa. Gilman fact, to all lands il
which lamps are used, all around TIL
earth."-New York Sun.