The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-12
IRISH STARTED
 GLASS MAKING
 EARLY AS 1885
Grant of Queen Was For Manufacture of Cheaper
 Glass Products.
INDUSTRY LATER
 DEVELOPED RAPIDLY
American Colonies Were Among First to Import
 Irish Glassware.
As early as 1855 the manufacture (

AS curry us 1OoO I1e glass began in Ireland, says Mrs. I. P. O'Connor in House x Garden" Queen Elizabeth gave a grant to a certain Captain Woodhouse for mak- ing glazing and drinking glass. He was to make glass "as cheep or better cheepe" than similar glass In foreign parts. In 1897 a good deal of glass had been made, and a petition was sent to her Majesty to further increase the industry. '"The argument addNess- ed to the Commonwealth stated that in this way the timber of England wauld be preserved, the superfluous forests of Ireland would grow again. And that much trade and civiltty would increase in that rude country by inhabiting these great woods"
 The Irish are naturally artistic. Ma ture has endowed them with dainti ness of touch; they have hands-an eye for line and a feeling for design. The smallest exhibition of Arts and Crafts in Dublin justifies this asser- ton. The glass industry became a fiouTishing one in Ireland. There were not only factories in Waterford, but in Dublin, where in 1750 a minia- ture and landscape painter and glass manufacturer, Rupert Barber for the first time made green glass decan- ters-nOw very rare-scent bottles. square canisters, bottles of snuff, and other objects in pleasing designs.
 In 1771 the Dublin Journal advertis- ed Richard Williams & Co.,, are mak- ing drinking glasses and all other sorts of goods in the glass way, com mon, plain, enamelIed. lowered and cut. Green glass goods for any use, also window and coach glass"
 Glass was not made in Waterford Tr
 rose Brothers were advertising in the Dublin Evening Post, "all kinds of flint glass, useful and ornam ental. We have q large number of the best man ufactuTers, cutters and engravers, by which we can supply every article in the most elegant style.''
 In 17s5 Mir. John Hill great manufacturer at Stonebridge went to Waterford taking with him skilled workmen from Worcester. England at this time acknowledged that Irish glass excelled her own- In May 1S49, the Waterford Flint Glass Works were making "decanters, claret jugs, water jugs Lqueur bottles, carares, pickle urns, salad. celery and sugar bowls, butter coolers, cream ewers. custard and jelly glasses dinner and table lamps. gas chandeliers, crystal chan deliers- for six lights, and beautiful specimens of Bohemian and Venetian glass"
 Glass was also made at Dungannon and Belfast. The Tyrone Galleries ad- vertised "all sorts of the newest fash toned wine beer and cyder glasses; enamelled, cut, flowered, and plain decanters, with flint shoppers; water glasses, plates, epergne Saucers; can dlestcks, cans, jugs; cut, lowered and plain salvers; jelly and sweetmeat glasses; hall bells; globes and shades; confectioners' jars; with all kinds of glass fit for chemists and matheme- ticians; salts and salt Things; mus Jard casters; white phials, and all kinds of bottles for perfumers, retorts and receivers; green phials; green and white mustard bottles; enamelled, cut and plain wine glasses; crofts; com
 mon, dram and punch glasses; green garde -de-vfns; cruets; gobletS, etc. The manufactory is equal to any in England and can supply glass with initials or engraved to design"
 Glass was also made in Cork, New ny, Londonderry and Ballycastle. Cork was distinguished for her sharp dia- mond cutting her classical four-nght Grecian lamps and her generous pro portions of the glass made there. The lips of the Cork and Waterford bot
 
 Belfast are small. Thrift and economy for the north-open-hand hospitaI- ty for the South. How often the traits of a race are reproduced in the imam innate objects which they fashion. The Cork bowls the beautiful pale green milk cans and the fat barrels for whiskey and brandy slre of noble size, and that celebrated town, with char acteristic wit, advertised her wares in verse:
 With choicest glass from Wat erford,
 Decanters, Runners Drams and Mas
 Flutes, Hob-nobs, Crofts and Finger Basons,
 Proof Bottles, Goblets, Cans and Wines,
 Punch jugs. Lipueurs and Garde- wins.
 | Salts Mustards, Salads, Butter Keel CTS,
 ! An all that's sold by other dealers. ! Engraved and cut in newest taste, : Or plain-whichever p1eases best ! Lustres repaired or polished bright, i And broken glasses matched at sight. 1 Hall globes of every size and shape, | Or old ones hung and mounted cheap" | A hand across the sea has ever con- { nected America with Ireland As early as 17S5 a quantity of glass was ex- | jorted from Newry to the Carolinas-
 In 17s4 over 10000 drinking glasses
 and 532 dozens of bottles were ex-
 ported to America In 1797 30,000 1 drinking glasses were sent to New ] York, and two thousand pounds of 1 fancy glass. probably Grecian lamps
 and lustres among them- arrived from Cork. In 1784 Williams Glass Fac | tory in Dublin had orders from New | York that would keep the glass houses | at work for a year. And in 179S the | principal proportion of glass, if not | all. wac exported to America, while | the Irish themselves used the cheaper | goods made in Bristol. There must | be many specimens of old Irish glass | yet to be found in this country. l | know of several Two lately came \ under my observation, which are the | property or Miss Van Cortiandt. of | the Manor House Croton-on-Hudson.