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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-14
rhe Pioneer elass Manufaeturing Plant IN Kansas.

boldt Cherryvale and other cities in
the southeastern part OF the state.
many gas wells are being opened up,
greatly to the disappointment OF the
oil prospector. The trouble in many OF
these sections is lack of a demand for
gas. as gas well without any methoo
OF utilizing the supply IS not a money
making prOpOsitiOn. People interested
in glass PROPOSITIONS in the east fail TO
appreciate the opportunity before them
in this section. Glass sand is already
discovered in the state and the salt
deposits of Kansas can be utilized Tor
the manufacture Of the salt cake. The
cas- supply is far in excess of present
demands When these conditions are
thoroughly understood by eastern glass
cOrupanies more plants Will be erected
in the state Another condition here
which is absent in the east is tbs
presence of oil here in large quantity
which could be used in the rcanufac-
ture of glass after the fields are ex~
hausted of their gas. The coal field Is
but a short distance away, so the fuel
question is solved for many years in
the future"
MANUFACTURE OF GLASS.
In explaining the manufacture OF
glass at Cherryvale, Prof. Grimsley'
.rhere are in - United States 1O9
window gl;ss a2tories with a total OF
$500 pots which if worked at their ca
+ pacity could produce 100000 boxes of 90
I feet weekly.
in making window glass. the sub
stances are thoroughly mixed, usually
by hand though in some Of the larger
/ plants machine mixing is substituted
I The mixture is then melted in pot fur
naces or in tank furnaces. The present
works in Kansas are Of the first type,
j the new plant designed at CoffeyVille IS
/ OF the second type.
The not furnace at Coffeyville is
/ rectangular in shape and holds twelve
/ fire clay crucibles or pots thirtytwo
/ inches in height and forty-four inches
across. These pots give daily capacity
to the plant of 5000 feet of single
4 strength gla IS or 1000 feet of double
strength The glass mixture is placed
in these pots through openings in the
front Of the furnace and when melted
/ is taken out through the same openings.
i It REQUIRES sixteen hours to melt the
mixture which then cools down two
hours before it is removed When the
mixture is melted and properly cooled,
/ a long iron blow pie is inserted through
/ the Opening and a lump of the mixture
of proper size for the cylinder is gather
+ ed on the end The pipe is removed and
the hanGle cooled in running water. The
! lump of glass is then rolled and blown
into a pear shape which is heated in the
/ blowing furnace. There are two of
these furnaces with three openings at
4 each end or twelve in all.
1.-The glass is heated in the furnace
and blown while swinging back and
I forth in the air in elongated openings in
the floor, into a cylinder with a taper
! ing top or cap. These cylinders are
then cracked longitudinally with hot
! iron and the cap cut off, and will then
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tie works at Coffeyviile are planned Tor
the coming summer, and it is hoped to
have them in operation this fall or early
winter The Coffeyville Window Glass
company is now erecting 80 blower
tank system plant which will have a
daily capacity of 2S.Se0 square feet OF
glass.
1.-THE Coffeyville Bottle and Glass
company will have a is blower tank
furnace and Will make q speci2lty OF
prescription trade bottles Both of these
plants will be in operation this fail A
fourth plant will probab bly, be erected
during the coming year.
AT Cherryvale is the plant of the
Cherryvale Glass company, the first
glass works erected in the state, being
opened on Jurc, 1902. 1t contains a six
pot circular furnace with a daily capac-
ity Of eco dozen pieces. The company
makes a special feature OF tumDlers and
glasses for table and bar use. The glass
is q lead glass and OF excellent, clear
color. This is the only glass plant in
the state making glass OF this kind.
AT Independence is located the Win
dow glass factory of the Midland Glass
company which started work in No
vember. 1902. The glass mixture IS
melted in q II pct furnace and is blown
into cylinders. fiattened, and then passes
through 20 foot cooling and anHealing
leer. The plant cost $4,000 and has u
daily capacity of I65 fifty foot boxes OF
glass. which is sold in car load
lots and is shipped through Kansas. Col
orado and other states. The pay roll
runs 81, 500 a week for Ia Dor, and the plant
is built so as to readily enlarge the ca
pacity.
"A run of glass was recently made at
this plant using Kansas materials and
the glass was clear and of high quail
ty The sand was obtained from near
Fredonia and runs over 90 per cent
silica, the salt cake was from the acid
works at Argentine. and the limestone
came from Sedan This successful ex-
pertinent means much for the future Of
the Kansas glass industry as heretofore
the sand was shipped from Illinois and
the salt cake was also brought in from
outside the state. With materials in al
most in exhaustible quantity present in
the gas belt and with the large supply
of gas not yet utilized. there is a bright
prospect for Kansas becoming an i'm
portant state in glass production.
THE Van Camp Glass company Of
Indiana will erect this summer Il pot
window glass factory at Caney. near
the Missouri Pacific tracks. The blow
ing room will be 100 by 10 feet, flatten-
ing room 120 by 50 feet. This plant will
cost about $50, 600. and viii use glass
sand found west of the town of Caney.
QUESTION OF GAS SUPPLY.
Prof. Grimsley points out in his re-
port that even if the gas supply in the
Kansas field should fail there are still
the oil wells which have hardly been
opened up yet And when the oil wells
fail, if they ever do. Kansas has in
exhaustible coal fields within very
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GAS ORDINANCE UP.
Presented to City Council and
Referred to Committee.

At Monday nights council meeting the
promised ordinance providing for a
franchise for the Continental Oil & Gas
company, which warts to pipe gas here
from Chanute. was presented and read.
1t will be considered at a meeting of the
ways and means committee called for
that purpose. No price for gas has yet
been named by the company, the proper
spaces for such designated prices being
left blank in the draft of the ordinance
presented. 1t is probable that fifty cents
per thousand cubic feet will be named
as maximum, although il may be
placed lower.
Reports upon this ordinance and upon
the Burdge and Rohrer ordinances will
be made at the same time, the latter
ordinance having been referred back to
the ways and means committee. The
Burdge and Rohrer ordinance was pre-
scented to the council last night ready
for consideration.
c. Z. Hoffman, one of the principal
stockholders in the Continental COM
pany and wealthy man at Enterprise
was present and addressed the council.
He said: The ordinance which we have
presented here this evening tells what
we want Our company is made up of
some of the most substantial residents
of Dickinson county. we have a COM
paEy organized and are already en-
gagged successfully in the oil and gas
business. We have the gas there ready
for use and il we possessed the neces-
turn it on at this moment We believe
that the building of such a gas line is
entirely feasible and are confident that
our company viii lbe able to give Topeka
the cheaper fuel that is ali she needs
for the development of manufacturing
industries for which she is admirably
located"
Attorney Brewster of Chanute also
made few remarks closing with a re-
quest for an early audience with the
members of the ways and means COM
mlttee A meeting of that committee
has been called for today. The princi-
pal sections of the ordinance follow:
That the Continental Oil and Gas
company, of Topeka, Kansas, is hereby
granted the right and privilege to use
all streets, avenues, alleys and public
grounds Of the city of Topeka, Kansas.
including all additions that hereafter
may be made thereto, for the purpose of
laying their mains and pipes to furnish
to the said city and the inhabitants
thereof, natural and artificial gas for
the term of 20 years from the date Of
D., the passage and publication of this ur-
dinance, and shall have the right and
authority TO open and use the streets.
avenues, alleys and public grounds Of
the said city for the introduction of.
and the repairing and taking up of
mains, pipes and lines.
That ali mains and leading mines
from which gas is distributed through
out the said city Of Topeka. shall he
placed not less than IS inches beneath
the Surace of the earth when said
mains and pipes are upon the Travelled
streets; and not less than u feet from
the curb line, subject to the direction
Of the mayor and councilmen
That the said the Continental Oil and
Gas company shall, within y months
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DOUGAL CONFESSED.
Moat House Murderer Told Story of
Crime Before Execution.

London, July 14.-Samuel Herbert
Dougal, the perpetrator of the Moat
House murder who was convicted at
the Chelmsford assizes June % for the
killing of Miss Camille Cecil Holland at
Saffron Walden, Essex, and sentenced
to death, was hanged at the Chelms-
ford Jail at o'clock this morning, after
making a full confession of his crime
The Moat House murder, as it was
known, was committed over four years
ago and hope of solving the mystery
had almost been given up when the
body of the victim. Miss Holland, was
found last April buried in the Moat
House grounds.
Miss Holland was the owner of Moat
House. About four years ago, Dougal.
who was supposed to be her husband,
but who, it was discovered subsequent
ly, had never been married to her, made
his appearance there and Miss Dougal,
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weigh nineteen to twenty-one pounds
The cylinders when cool enough to
handle are taken to the fiattening oven
where they are again heated and fat
tened out on smooth fire clay floor and
polished with linden or bass wood
block. This variety of wood is selected
because of its even grain causing it to
wear or burn down perfectly level The
ffattened plate about 40 by 56 inches
then passes automatically from the
fiattening oven into the adjoining an
healing oven which has a capacity of
twentyeight plates an hour, and in a
hotter portion to the cooler part of the
oven as an annealed plate which is
taken to the cutting and asserting room
where it is trimmed and boxed ready
for shipment
THE plant of the CoffeyvilIe Window
Glass company employs IS men and cost
$4,000. The company owns five acres of
land and will enlarge the works as the
ture both single and double strength glass
in four grades. knogn as AA. A. B, c.,
to the other grades, according to the per-
centagc of defects, such specks, air
bubbles. warpings. cordng. etc.
OTHER VARIETIES OF GLASS
Bottles. lamp chimneys and hollow ware
are blown in noulds. The glass is col
lected on a small blow pipe and placed
in the mould which is composed of two
halves hinged together and the glass is
then blown so as to fill the mould.
Dishes, tumblers and other tableware
are pressed in moulds which give the out
side form and an inside mould is pressed
down by hydraulic power. Machines for
this purpose are expensive and an expert
designer is required to make the patterns
and new moulds for the designs must be
made.
plate glass is made of special mixtures
and is cast upon an iron plate and rolled
into sheets. which. after annealing, are
ground On large circular iron tables and
polished with emery flour and water.
In the new window glass factory at
Coneyville it IS plan~ ed to use tank fur
naces instead of the glass pots. In the pct
furnace the workman can only work about
six hours day, as the rest of the time is
consumed in the melting of the glass mix
ture.
In this variety of tank furnace the glass
is held on the long hearth over which the
gas flame is carried. The mixture is fed
in at one end and the glass is taken con-
tinuously from the other. so that there is
always a supply of molten glass 10 use.
It is estimated that such a furnace will
incroa se the output about 40 per cent for
the same amount of fuel and labor over
the lot furnace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-14
TENT rs A WRECK.
One Which Fell at Denver Yesterday
Is Useless.

Denver. Colo. July 14.-Those per-
sons injured by the collapse of the
tent Endeavor in wind storm yes
terday afternoon today are reported to
be resting easily and all, it is believed,
will recover. That none of the great
audience, numbering 5000 to 5000 per-
sons, was killed or fatally injured is
regarded by Christian Endeavorers and
others as miraculous. The tent, which
was $50 feet long by $50 wide and So
feet high in the center, was owned by
the United Society of Christian En-
deavor. and was sent here from Bos>
ton. 1t is complete wreck 1t is said
by an experienced circus canvasman
who examined the construction of the
tent, that it was not put up as il
should have been. The work was done
by local tentmen, who are not accus>
toned to handling such large struc-
lures. Much credit is given Percy s.
Foster of Washington, D. G.. Rev. E.
j. Horsefield of Bristol, England, L. M
Lewis, assistant chief usher, and Miss
Winfield Sleep, whose presence. of mine
and prompt action prevented the dis
aster from becoming much more se>
riouS than it was.
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KANSAS CLASS.
New Sand Bed Has Been Dis
covered Near FredOnia.
Found to Contain SO Per Cent
Pure Silica.
NEW STATE INDUSTRY.
All Materials for Manufacture
Found in Kansas.
Will Bring Other Manufactures
from the East.
NEW STATE INDUSTRY.

A few days ago, at the large $40, 900
plant of the Midland Glass company
at Independence, Kansas, there occur
red an event which probably was the
mark of an epoch in the business of
glass making in Kansas.
This event was the manufacture of a
run of clear. high quality window
glass out of materials obtained exclusive
ly in Kansas. A newly discovered
sandbed near Fredonia, which is over 90
per cent pure silica, furnished 100
pounds of material for the run. Thirty
six pounds of salt cake" or sodium
suipnate came from the Argentine acid
works. Thirty-six pounds of limestone
of peculiar quality came from Sedan.
The heat which fused these materials
was furnished by Kansas natural gas
The owners of the works declare the
glass to be equal to any window glass
on the market. They will gradually
cease buying their sand in Illinois, and
their salt cake in the east and will
ship glass all over the country which is
made in Kansas, by Kansas and out of
Kansas. And it will only be a short
time until the glass plants at Coffey-
vile, Cherryvale, and Caney will be do
ing the same. and dozens of other glass
manufacturers viii come to Kansas
Where they can get all their material
and cheap fuel without going more than
few hours journey. Fredonia is %
miles north of independence, Sedan is
25 miles west, and Argentine is $50 miles
north.
Kansas as glass making state has
never been conspicuous. But it is like
ly to be heard from. Time was when
it did not supply the world with salt,
zinc and lead. But it has these COM
modities on the worlds markets today.
Tomorrow it will be the shipping cen
ter for lamp chimneys. bottles and cut
glass punch bowls. There is a plant
at Cherryvale which at the present time
is making a speciality of tumblers for
use as receptacles of everything from
the common lemonade to the aristocra-
tic cocktail with its dewdrops of lemon
floating on the surface. Its bar room
glassware is finding a wide market.
KANSAS GLASS FACTORIES.
G.. p. Grimsley, secretary of the Kan
sas Academy of Science. has just com
pIeted the compilation of some valuable
statistics about glass making in KAN
sas. which will be published shortly by
the state.
The following interesting description
is given of glass manufacture in Kan
sas:
THE plant of the Coffeyville Window
Glass company was started in 1902 The
new window glass works and the bot
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short distance of the place where the
glass factories are being built The re-
port SAYS:
For many years the glass industry
has centered in the gas belts of Ind1~
ana, Ohio and Pennsylvania, and the
Industry has been started in Kansas
during the past year. The Kansas
glass industry at the present time is
not large, with only three plants il
operation and three others in prospect
with declining gas volumes in older
eastern fields, and the rich Develop
ment of southeastern Kansas, this will
certainly prove a growing industry.
Kansas today has a large reserve sup
ply of natural gas, and in the active
oil development near Chanute, Hum
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from date hereof. commence the actual
constructive work of carrying out the
provisions of this franchise; and shall.
within three years from the date of the
passage and publication of this ordin-
ance, complete the laying of mains and
pipes in the principal parts of the said
city
That said company shall not charge
for the use of gas it may furnish said
city, or any of the inhabitants thereof
during said 20 years, a price greater
than is charged for the same in cities
of similar size and with like facilities
for furnishing gas, and said price shall
at no time exceed - cents per thous-
and feet"
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New York, July LIT has been de-
cided by the board of educa ton that il
would be poor policy to impress upon
the youthful mind the violent deaths
OF Presidents Lincoln, Garfield and Nc
Ki1ley- Accordingly a proposition for
the erection and presentation Of tablets
IN memory of the martyred presidents
20 the public schools OF the city has
been voted down
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HAS II, $50 RAILROAD MEN.
Labor Commissioner Johnson Finds
That Many in Kansas.

Labor Commissioner Johnson's report
which is now about ready to go to press
contains some interesting figures regard
ing the railroad employees of Kansas. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Johnson report there are
Il, $50 people in Kansas who depend on the
railroads for a living.
The total amount paid to these people
in wages last year was SIC, 1854 5S4
The following is the complete table on
the subject of railroad wage earnings dur
ing year and average yearly earnings:
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Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
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BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

Denver, July lizards will be issued
today announcing the wedding of John
Vance Cheney and Miss Sara Barker
Chamberlin of Chicago. which took
place quietly in Denver last Saturday
and was not made known here until
today.
St Petersburg, July 1.-THE report
that NJ. Lessar, the Russian minister to-
China had advised the Russian civilians
to leave New Chwang, Port Arthur and
Corea by certain date is semi-ofticially
declared to be entirely unfounded.
Worcester. Eng. July 14.-In their
match with Worcestershire eleven, be-
gun here yesterday, the Philadelphia
cricketers were all out today in their
first innings for 233 runs. The home
players yesterday scored 1888 runs IN
their first innings
London, July 1.-THE American
marksmen who competed at Bisley were
much gratified to receive President
Roosevelt's cablegram conveying his
hearty congratulations on their victory
in the shooting for the Palma trophy.
The Hague, July 14.-The interchange
commissioners have left this city for
Berlin after submitting their views to
the government representatives. The
latter will reply in writing.
Honolulu, July A. by Pacific cable
The extra session of the legislature APP
propriated IS, 500, 900, being $2.000,000 over
the estimated government receipts.
Victoria. B. c., July 14.-The British
warship Shearwater viii sail on the Goth
for Behring sea to patrol during the
pelagic sealing season. Two British
warships, the Fearless and Rinaldo,
have been ordered to Behring sea from
the China station.
Chicago, July 14.-Said to be wanted
in many cities on the charge of passing
worthless checks. and accused of having
fed to Mexico City after the failure OF
the Manning Harness company, Aldine,
Mich, last November, W. H. Manning
was arrested here last night.
Providence, Mass, July 1.-THE Cape
Cod Pilgrim association has been form
ed here TO place a suitable monument on
High Pole hill. the highest point in town
to commemorate the arrival of the May
flower in the harbor on November II,
1920 The monument will be a column
of stone, at least 200 feet high, visible
30 miles at sea in clear weather by all
coasting vessels and ships plying be-
tween Boston and Europe.
New York, July 14.-Mrs. Mary J.,
Piercy, said to have. been one Of the
smallest women in the world. is dead
at her home in Bayonne, n. ]. She was
81 inches tall, weighed so pounds and
was 40 years of age. The recent hot
weather caused Der fatal illness.
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St Joe and Return S2.35 Santa Fe.
Tickets on sale July II, IA, Is, good
returning as late as July H. Train
leaves $40 a. m. and 4:45 p. m
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Honolulu, July IA. by Pacific cable
The extra session of the legislature ap
propriated $S,500.000. being $2.000,000 owe
the estimated government receipts.
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Chicago, July 14.-Said to be wanted
in many cities on the charge of passing
worthless checks. and accused of having
fed to Mexico City after the failure Of
the Manning Harness company, Aldine,
Mich, last November, W. H. Manning
was arrested here last night.
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Victoria, B. c., July 1.-THE British
warship Shearwater viii sail on the goth
for Behring sea to patrol during the
pelagic sealing season. Two British
warships, the Fearless and Rinaldo
have been ordered to Behring sea from
the China station.
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The Hague July 14.-The interchange
commissioners have left this city for
Berlin after submitting their views to
the government representatives. The
latter will reply in writing.
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Worcester, Eng, July 14-In their
match with Worcestershire eleven, be-
gun here yesterday, the Philadelphia
cricketers were all out today in their
first innings for 233 runs. The home
players yesterday scored 3SS runs in
their first innings.
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New York, July 14.-Mrs. Mary J..
Piercy. said to have. been one of the
smallest women in the world. Is dead
at her home in Bayonne, n. ]. She was
81 inches tall, weighed so pounds and
was 40 years of age. The recent hot
weather caused her fatal illness.