Crockery & glass journal . naces departurefrom the old time practices of his occupation. What helearned convinced him of its value, for on his return heorganized the Chambers-McKee Glass Company, erect-ed a big tank furnace plant at Jeannette, on the Penn-sylvania Railroad, 28 miles from Pittsburgh. Despitepredictions of failure, this great enterprise was a success natural gas has had much to do in later years with itsprofitable operation and growth. The industry doubledits production between 1880 and 1890. The largest plantin the world making a specialty of tumblers is at Roches-ter, Pa. Wind
Crockery & glass journal . naces departurefrom the old time practices of his occupation. What helearned convinced him of its value, for on his return heorganized the Chambers-McKee Glass Company, erect-ed a big tank furnace plant at Jeannette, on the Penn-sylvania Railroad, 28 miles from Pittsburgh. Despitepredictions of failure, this great enterprise was a success natural gas has had much to do in later years with itsprofitable operation and growth. The industry doubledits production between 1880 and 1890. The largest plantin the world making a specialty of tumblers is at Roches-ter, Pa. Window glass by machinery is now produced ex-clusively by the United States Glass Company, under theprotection of a patent which gives it the sole right ofmanufacture in this country. It was perfected in 1905,and its work is entirely successful. Being entirely auto-matic, it has had a great effect on the industry in manyways, especially in enlarging and cheapening production. A glass manufacturer in this country is independent. Fostoria Glass Co., 66 West Broadway. from the start. The tank furnaces were the largest inthe world. There were three of them, 20 feet wide and120 feet long, inside measurement, each holding 800 tons,each with a melting capacity of 30 tons every 24 hours,and turning out in this time 480 boxes of single and 250boxes of double strength glass. In 1892 Mr. Chambers withdrew from this company,organized another and built a second great tank furnaceplant at New Kensington, even larger than the one atJeannette-. Other manufacturers, noting what Mr. Chambers hadachieved, followed his example, and for years now near-ly all if not all the window glass in this country has beenmade in tanks. In all branches of glass making the employment of in that there are to be found here in ample quantityabout everything that is required—suitable land in al-most every State of the Union, soda ash, pearl ash, fireclay, pot clay, etc., along with ample capital and enter-prising manu
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