The Press., 1909-12-01

tls market was known as furnace wood and four foot wood was almost un- known.
 The amount of wood required was such that at that early day much of the original forest chestnut had al- ready been cut off. The process of making of the bottles was interesting. Long blow pipes were used, some six feet long, one end fitted cone shaped, round and smooth, to be in- serted in the mouth; the other end of the pipe was thrust in the pot of melted glass, withdrawn quickly, and the glass at the end of the pipe was revolved quickly upon an iron plate, while the man at the other end blew through the pipe till it was evenly expanded to such size as required to fill the mold when it was placed in the mold, which was closed by step- ping upon spring, and the glass was then blown till the mold was filled It was then removed, laid upon a frame, and with an iron dipped in water touched on the neck of the bottle light rap world snap the neck. and quick movement of the hand would reverse the bottle and the workman would touch it with the hot end of his pipe, pick 1t up, insert the end of the neck in the furnace, and then finish it off with pair of pinoers fitted for the purpose. The bottle was then taken on the end of small iron rod by boy and carried to the an uaaIsr oven. where it was gradually allowed to cool, which required several hours The bottles manufactured were for the most part the old fashioned quart junks used in the olden time as liquor bottles, in the time of the use of Santa Cruz rum. which was up to near that time in very common use, and a fiat, square bottle about two by three inches and about five inches deep, known as snuffs, in common use among the snuff manufacturers for yellow snuff in the retail trade.
 In the starting of the new glass business the company, of course, found it necessary to hire those who under stood both the manufacture as we'll as the working of the glass.
 The glass blowers was, and is to- day, a distinct trade. Of those who
 first came to Willington, and not na- tives of the town, was MT. McFarlane, who lived for several years in the old Farley house on the old Wolcott road. He was married and had children. All of the others that l may mention were young men and married in Will iingtcn and their children were born there: The four Shaffer brcthers- William, Daniel, Leonard and Fran ces, or Frank. as he was always called. John and Robert Hudson and Wm. M. Still. Leonard and Frank were quite young and Frank of school age on our return to our home in 1886, so that only tho two older Shaffers were expert glass blowers at the start ing of the business some fifteen years earlier. Of the residents of the close vicinity of the glass factory was James Ohilds, glass blower that I have omitted, on Dug hill; then Daniel Shaffer on in the long, one- story house just above the corner; 1; next was the then nearly new story and one-lalf house occupied then by Harvey Merrick. On the opposite corner was the little red house. the home of William Fuller and wife and one daughter On the west corner was what has since been known as the old corner house, and was then oc- cupied by Elisha Johnson. In the red house on the corner opposite the store was the home of Elisha Brig ham, and just north was the small brick house of Wm. M. Still.
 West of the factory, on the south side of the road, in the large two- story white house, Spafford Brigham has just bought and occupied, moving from our omestead. as we occupied it that spring. Just west of MT. Brigham's 8 was the home of William Shaffer. A short distance north of the factory was the home of Charles Hanover, another glass blower I think. And right here I will mention that the first friction matches that I ever saw were made by Charles Han- over of WillingtUn.
 I presume that matches were in use to some extent before that. but had never seen them, and it was some years before they came into general use Other residents of the district on the river road toward Stafford were David Clark and Augustus Cor bin and a Fisk family of fonr or five that attended the Glass Factory school. At the west were Clark Moore and John Phelps. with his two sons. Luzern and Josiah. Up the hill towards the factory was the home