New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . ^. Formerly the company was engaged extensively in the manu-facture of lamp chimneys and pressed work, but it has now almostentirely abandoned these branches of the business to the westernfactories. The introduction of electric lighting has created a demand fora new line of goods. This company has a contract with the mana-gers of a prominent arc lighting system for furnishing all the globesused by them. About ten thousand of these globes are kept continu-. SANDERS 5c BARROWS CLOTHING STORE. INDUSTRIAL AND FINAN
New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . ^. Formerly the company was engaged extensively in the manu-facture of lamp chimneys and pressed work, but it has now almostentirely abandoned these branches of the business to the westernfactories. The introduction of electric lighting has created a demand fora new line of goods. This company has a contract with the mana-gers of a prominent arc lighting system for furnishing all the globesused by them. About ten thousand of these globes are kept continu-. SANDERS 5c BARROWS CLOTHING STORE. INDUSTRIAL AND FINANCIAL. 217 ally -in stock and some weeks as many as five thousand are shippedto the plants controlled by the company. These globes are shippedto foreign lands, even as far as Australia and Egypt. It is interestingto think of shipping glass from New Bedford to the latter country,where the manufacture of glass was certainly practiced as long agoas three thousand years before Christ. The bulbs for Edison lampsare also blown here and the company makes one hundred fifty varie-ties of incandescent lighting shades. Amberina, or rose amber ware, which is a transparent and effect-ive combination of glass, shading from ruby to the most delicateamber tint, in which the popular optical and hammered etTects areproduced, is made here, and the circumstances of its introduction onthe market are interesting. When ruby glass, which, by the way,receives its coloring from an oxide of gold, comes from the pot, it isamber in color. In making red glass t
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