. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . ilding near the canal lock, and con-ducted business there for two years. The postoffice was established in 1850, and A. M. Atkinsonwas the first postmaster. The Dorflinger Glass Works.—The largeand interesting industry carried on by ChristianDorflinger A* Sons at this place had its inceptionin 1865, the senior member of the present firm (ofwhom a biographical sketch is appended) being itsfounder. He began making glass in the fall of theyear in what is known as a five-pot furnace, andemployed a small force of men. In the secondyear he
. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . ilding near the canal lock, and con-ducted business there for two years. The postoffice was established in 1850, and A. M. Atkinsonwas the first postmaster. The Dorflinger Glass Works.—The largeand interesting industry carried on by ChristianDorflinger A* Sons at this place had its inceptionin 1865, the senior member of the present firm (ofwhom a biographical sketch is appended) being itsfounder. He began making glass in the fall of theyear in what is known as a five-pot furnace, andemployed a small force of men. In the secondyear he had fully a hundred men and boys atwork, and in 1867 he introduced a glass-cuttingestablishment, which was carried on in a smallway and gave employment to half a dozen the beginning even a careless observerwould not have failed to notice that the proprietorof the glass works was a man of progressive ideas,for improvements were constantly made, and thecapacity of the works gradually increased untilthe establishment was made, perhaps, the largest. WAYNE COUNTY. 821 in the world. The works which have been in usefor the past twenty years have just been supple-mented by new ones built in the most substantialmanner, and embodying every possible conveniencewhich a life-long study of glass manufacture,coupled with a high degree of ingenuity, couldsuggest. What are now called the old works comprise a glass-house, in which the furnacesare located and the various forms of glassware areblown by the workmen, and a cutting room, nowused for packing and other purposes. The glass-house proper is one hundred by fifty feet in dimen-sions, and contains two seven-pot furnaces, a fin-ishing furnace, and two annealing ovens. Thebuilding in which the cutting-room is located is onehundred and seventy-six by forty feet, and twostories high. There is also a three-story wing,eighty by thirty-five feet, and a building in whichthe great glass crucibles or pots are made, whichis thirty by fifty
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