Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-08-29
Thursday, September u, 1901


At one o'clock in the afternoon, on the premises
at Williamstown, in the County OF Gloucester
and State of New Jersey, all that old established
and modern equipped glass manufacturing
plant, shortly described as follows:
Consisting of about sixteen Q6) acres OF land,
being factory plant proper, and lots on which
dwelling houses are located, also one large gem
eral store and office building.
Factory buildings covering furnaces Nos. ], 2,
3, including seven lehrs, gas furnaces Nos. and
2, and coal furnace No. Sand permanent fixtures.
Batch house No. l, with sand cellar, batch
troughs and fixtures. unloading platforms, one
building for storage of lime, nitrate of soda and
materials; also factory building covering fur
naceS Nos. and with connecting batch and
sand house, lehr buildings containing five lehrs,
and one large gas tank, furnace No. and oil
furnace No. 3. sand cellar, two-story pot house,
and ] wing now used as mould and storage
room, and partially as stone making room, also
for storage for clay stone. Packing house with
connecting shed for storage of ware; and ship
ping room and connecting storage room, plat
forms, &c Large building used a packing
room with hay loft.
One large storehouse 36x450 feet, for storage
of manufactured ware and carpenter shop; one
two-story building, machine and mould shop
with connecting building used as saw mill,
with two run of saws, and connecting building
used for boiler house and engine room connect
ing building used as q glass grinding room, box
shop &C.; building known as blacksmith shop;
a building known as u butcher shop with con
Meeting sheds.
Also fuel gas plant comprising two gas pro-
ducers, twenty tons capacity each per twenty
four hours, with 525 feet of brick gas conduit,
laid under ground, six feet wide by five feet
high and 265 feet of four feet wide and three
feet high; 1880 feet railroad track and 80 feet
elevated coal trestle, all standard track having
steam connections with Philadelphia & Reading
Railway Company; 100 feet narrow gauge rail-
road track; stabling for six head of horses.
The entire factory plant properly enclosed with
fencing nine feet high.
One-story superintendent Office building
large beds OF glass sand i'll immediate ne1ghbof-
hood.
Also seven double dwelling houses and one
single dwelling making fifteen tenant houses
on Oak street; two double dwelling houses or
four tenant houses on Library street, one double
or two tenant houses on Chestnut street and
one double or two tenant houses on Main street,
five double dwellings or ten tenant houses and
two triple or six tenant houses and one row of
five tenant houses on Blue Bell street, all in the
town of Williamstown.
The steam plant consists of two 100 II. p boil
ers (nearly new, two engines, the necessary
heaters, pumps, steam piping, shafting, betting,
&c.
The air compressor plant is sufficiently large
to take of all the requirements of all the fac
tories, and is fully piped for that purpose The
shipping facilities excellent, tracks and
sheds so arranged that six cars can be loaded at
one time and all raw material arriving can be
discharged where needed for use, without cart
age or re-handlng. A modern electric light
plant with capacity sufficient to light the entire
premises.
This sale includes all the franchises of the
Company; all the stock in the store; all material
and contracts on hand; all debts and accounts
due the Receivers; all the receivers contracts
for supplies and sales of glassware. The plant
is being operated and purchaser will step into
d business in full operation.
A complete inventory and description of all
the property may be seen upon application.
This affords opportunity to acquire a
long established business, plant well located
and containing all the most modern improve
ments and in good Order and is well worth at
tention.
For any fuller particulars address the under
signed,
B. F. FOWLER,
j. WILLARD MORGAN,
Receivers, Camden, N. J.
E. A. Armstrong, Solicitor Prs fee $3.50
Dated August q 1901. S-15