Reminiscences of glass-making by Jarves Deming 1790-1869

Author:Jarves, Deming, 1790-1869
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Glass manufacture -- History, Glass manufacture -- Chemistry, Workshop recipes
Publisher: New York : Hurd and Houghton
Published: 1865-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

REMINISCENCES OF GLASS-MAKING. C3

product seventy-five thousand dollars ; nlvinor employment to from sixtv to seventy hands. From time to time, as their husiness warranted, tliev increased their capital until it reached the present sum of four Imndred tlioiisaiid dollars. Their weekly melts have increased from seven thousand pounds to much over one hundred thousand pounds ; their hands employed from seventy to over five hundred ; their one furnace of ei<rht pots to four furnaces of ten ])ots ; and yearly product from seventy-five thousand dollars to six hundred thousand dollars.

In 18^20 another secession of workmen from the New England Glass Company took place, to embark on their own account their savings of manv vears in the doubtful enterj)rise of establishing flint-glass works in Kensington, Pliiladel-phia, under the title of the Union Flint-(ilass Company. The proprietors, being all workmen, were enthusiastic in the project, hapj)y in the belief that thev could carry it on successfidly, work when convenient, and enjoy much leisure. All was then to them sunshine. Ere long they realized the many inherent evils attendant on flint-glass works ; the demon of discord ajipeared among them, and they discovered, when too latj, that thev had left a place of comfort and ease

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