The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-25
TODAY IN HISTORY
SATURDAY., JUNE 25, 1910.
America.

America.
The manufacture OF glass was known
| 10 the Egyptians at a very early date.
| AS far back as 1000 b. c. the tombs con-
| tain Illustrations OF glass blowers at
covered that no doubt dates to prchls-
| toric times. In Phocnicia. in A3syria and
| Babylonia evidences OF the manufacture
of glass have been discovered. and later
| In Persia, China and India
In Italy glass first appears at the very
| beginning of the Iron Age, and with
the extension OF the Roman power the
use OF glass increased enormously, From
| Italy the Industry was introduced into
Gaul, Spain and Germany. In Venice
glass was made as early as the nth cen
| tury. and in France the factories OF
| poictlerS were active during the Roman
and franEish periods. survived the Nor
man INVASION and were LETT a legacy
TO the gentlemen workers OF the mid
die ages
Great differences OF opinion prevail re-
garding the origin OF glass making In
Great Britain. some claiming that II was
established before the Roman conquest
and others AS late as the sixteenth CEN
tury.
Glass manufacture in the United States
dates at a very much later period. In
1908 some glass makers were among the
artisans brought to jamestown. Va, but
the craze for tobacco intcrfered with
their industry. In 1871, several italian
glass workers were imported 10 manufac-
I}n- lnre beads beads for the Indians; In 1899
and William Penn alludcs TO u Quaker
glass house in 1853.
The first glass making establishmen,
operation on June rs, 1854. in Brooklyn
N y, by Dutch gentleman named
Ramber. and the first bottle blown BY
him, bearing the name and date. Is In
| the collection OF the Historical society
OF that borough,
Glassborough. N, j.. was founded by
a colony OF German glass makers. who
moved there IN lII5. In 1887 The Massa-
chusetts legislature gave to Boston
glass company the exclusive right to
make glass in the state for fifteen years
| This latter Is said TO have been the first
successful glass factory in the United
States.
Pittsburg. Pa. FIRST made glass. in
making center. At the very beginning
coal was used instead OF the traditional
wood fuel In 1927 pressed glass was
Mass. With the discovery of a cheaper
and better fuel, in the form of natural
gas, the center OF glass making moved
west of the Alleghenies. where 1t still re-
BY the close OF 1880. the census shows
that the glass industry OF the United
states had been brought to very OK
were then &l1 factories in the United
States, at a capitalization OF close tc
5ooo; 900 In 1890 the number of fac
talIzation had doubled itself.
Within recent years artistic glass
ware OF great beauty had been produced
In the United Ctates, n notable example
Of which is the famous "Favrlle" glass
The United States still imports more
glass than she exports. the exports be-
Ing that peculiar product OF Yankee in
genuity-prcssed glass.
June % Is the date of the first Meth
odist conference. held in 1744, II is the
date of the engagement in Chinese wa l.
tcrS between the British and Chinese
In which they were assisted by the
Americans. and Commander Tattnell
made his famous explanation, Blood is
thicker than water" In 1859. IT is the
birthday of William Smith. the Amori-
can historian G72S); Nathaniel Deering
the author G19D; Summer Fairfield, tho
American poet GS03); Olive Thorn Miller
the authorcss G531. and McClintock
Young inNnnInr nf match mud lnri,ch