Bridgeton pioneer., 1911-08-24
THE BOTTLE
BLOWING MACHINE
President Hayes Presents the
Situation.
MANY BOTTLES MADE
Machine Made Ware is Being Turn
ed Out in Enormous QUAINT
tiles Now.


vention, President Denis A. Hayes
mates that reports sent to his
office in the early part of June show
that there were 40 of the United and
8 of the O'Neill machines in operation,
and that with the opening of the 1911
IL blast there will be Sc United ma
chimes turning out bottle; an accom-
panying compilation shows that they
are capable of turning out So 1-3 dozen
chine is very favorably commented
upoon in the annual report of Mr..
Hayes, and in referring to the O'Neill
machine he states that "it promises to
go long way toward helping us solve
the problem of keeping those of our
members at work who are likely to be
displaced by the automatic, and Incl
dentally aid those of our employers
who operate it in retaining the orders
that in all likelihood would otherwise
go to the automatic. He further
states that almost every conceivable
size and shape of bottle is now being
produced with the use of machines
and there seems to be no end in sight
for the machines or their product.
The first automatic machine was in
troduced in 1904, and although for
some time thereafter their intro6- C.
ton was slow, owing to lack of ia
cilities for turning them out, the num-
beg in actual use at the end of last
fire was 109, and when the blast of
1911-12 is ushered in there will be
121 turning out narrow neck ware
of almost every imaginable size and
shape. Last year the American Bottle
Co. operated 48, 80 at Newark, Ohio,
and 1S at Streator, ILL.,, the ware
turned out being mostly beers, malt
and water bottles; the Thatcher
Baldwin Co. operated s, on milk bot
ties exclusively, 4 at Kane, Pa, and
at Streator, Ill. the Owens Bottle
Machine Co. operated 7, 6 at Fair
mont, w. Va, on a general line of
catsups from 6 OF. to 80 OF. pint and
half pint TASKS, brandies, grape Juice,
ETC., and one at Toledo, Ohio, for ex-
perimental purposes; the Illinois
Glass Co. utilized in the production
of brandies, TASKS and other LIQUOR
bottles and prescription ware; the
Whitney Glass Co., of Glassboro, N.
j., turned out ovals and prescription
Ware, 8 machines being used; the
Diamond Flint Glass Co. at Montreal,
Can, reported automatics on beers,
sodas, Perunas, catsups, ETC.; the
Sydenham Glass Co., of Wallaceburg.
Ont, utilized 2 in the production of
beers and book-shaped TASKS; at
Hamilton, Ont, 2 were employed in
the making of beers, minerals, TASKS,
catsups, ETC.; Ball Brothers operated
IL, on fruit jars exclusively, at
Greenfield, Ind, and 9 at Muncie:
the Heinz Co., Sharpsburg, Pa, oper-
ated on catsups, vaselines, horse
radish bottles and such other wares
as the company utilizes in it's busi-
ness; the Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. op-
Grated 4, 8 at Washington, Pa, in the
making of quart inks, packers, etc.
and one at Clarksburg, w. Va, on
snuff bottles; the Charles Boldt Glass
Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio, turned out
brandies and liquor ovals with the
use of automatics; the Northwest
ern Co., Toledo, Ohio, operated 2.
making 8 OF. catsups and brandy bot
ties; the total number employed, as
above stated, being 109.
Mr.. Hayes is authority for the
statement that between August 1.
1910, and June 1, 1911, the American
Bottle Co. turned out 9S1,04S gross
of pint and quart beer bottles on it's
automatic machines. Those at Fair
mount, w. Va, are credited with turn
ing out from "a to 4S bottles per
minute Those at Alton, says Mr..
Hayes, "are making about 100 gross
of quart brandies per day and 13O to
145 gross of pint and u pint liquor
ovals. while larger quantities than
these are made of OF. bottles"
In connection with his reference to
the automatic machine, Mr.. Hayes
says: "Other manufacturers are try-