Part 36 (1/2)

Later, in the cool offices of the company, where the roar of the furnaces penetrated only as a dull undertone, and electric fans whizzed away the heat of the summer afternoon, I learned more of the technique of the bottle industry Each shape demanded by the trade requires a special n submitted There are, of course, standard shapes for standard bottles; these are alluded to (reversing the usual practise of er ales,” ”olives,” ”mustards,”

”sodas” and (low be it spoken) ”beers” But when a firm places an order for bottles of a particular shape, or ones with lettering in relief on the glass, special molds must be made; and after the lot is finished the n comes in A few standardcan be inserted for customers ant tradereat majority of the lettered bottles have their own molds, made especially for them and unable to be used for any other lot

All bottles are blown in lass and the actual blowing that lass industry The first type ofthe bottle and finishi+ng it, thus doing aith three of the sixone bottle In appearance the bottle-blowingin the sa five molds One of the platforms revolves close to the furnace door, and as each atherer draws fro made at the time, and places it in thearound another atherer Meanwhile a nozzle has snapped down over the firstthe blowing As the mold comes to a point diaain, and a handler takes the blank, as the bottle is called at this stage, and places it in aplatform This mold closes and compressed air blows out the bottle as the platforain it opens and the handler takes out the finished bottle, replacing it with a new blank drawn from the mold on the first platforatherer, a handler, and a carrier-off

It is also e of about forty bottles per ainst barely twenty

A newer develop rod of refractory clay is given a churning lass thru a tube As enough glass for one bottle appears at the lass falls into a trough which conveys it to the blank h is made to feed three or four machines at one time As many as fifty bottles ais to be seen in another factory in the south Jersey district Here it is the boast of the superintendents that froht cars in which it is brought to the plant till the finished bottle is taken by the packer, no human hand touches the product; and their statement is a matter and cullet are in separate bins; an electrical conveyor takes enough of each for a batch to abelt to the furnace At the front of the furnace, instead of doors or lass Outside the furnace revolves a huge machine with ten arms, each of which carries its own mold and blowpipe As each arlass is sucked into the mold by vacuum; the bottle is blown and shaped in the course of one revolution, and the , drops the finished bottle into a rack which carries it to the lehr on a belt It passes thru the lehr to the packers; and as each rack is eain on the belt, which carries it up to the o of hot bottles and conducts it again thru the lehr The entire plant-- the bottles, delivery to the lehr, and packing--is synchronized exactly Men unload the cars of sand--men pack the bottles

The intermediate period is entirely hted and ventilated as a department store, and except in the immediate vicinity of the furnace there is no heat felt above the daily tee well over a bottle a second, and by an exceedingly clever arrange appliances an accurate record of the output of each machine, as well as the temperatures of the furnaces and lehrs, is kept in the offices of the company The entire equipment is of the most modern, froas-plant to the packing platforms In addition, the plant boasts a complete machine shop where all the molds are made and the -power to the super-efficient ress of hu to every product of man's hands, from battleshi+ps to--bottles

SPECIAL FEATURE ARTICLES

(_New York World_)

One illustration, a half-tone reproduction of a photograph of the exterior of the theater

THE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAYHOUSE

A GIFT TO THE EAST SIDE--HOW THE SETTLEMENT WORK OF MISSES IRENE AND ALICE LEWISOHN HAS CULMINATED AT LAST IN A REAL THEATRE--ITS ATTRACTIONS AND EDUCATIONAL VALUE

The piece is the Biblical ”Jephthah's Daughter,” adapted frohty man of valor,” has conquered the ene over his victory, for the tribe of Israel has been at its weakest But now comes payment of the price of conquest The leader of the victorious host promised to yield to God as a burnt sacrifice ”whatsoever cometh forth from the doors of hter ca and beautiful, advances toward the altar on which fagots have been piled high In her hand is the lighted torch which is to kindle her own death fire

The chorus chants old HebraicThe play takes on the aspect of an ancient religious ceremonial Old men and woetful of the horror of huious fervor

Such is the artistry of the piece; such the perfection of its production

Yet this is no professional perforht of the new community theatre of New York's densely populated East Side

At No 466 Grand Street it stands, far away froian building It is but three stories high, built of light red brick, and finished hite arish oods Peddlers with pushcarts lit by flickering flaaudy neckties and bargain shi+rtwaists Blazing electric signs herald the thrills of movie shows And, salient by the force of extreme contrast, a plain little white posterboard makes its influence felt It is lit by two iron lanterns, and reads sihborhood Playhouse”

The Misses Irene and Alice Lewisohn of No 43 Fifth Avenue have built this theatre It is their gift to the neighborhood, and symbolizes the culhborhood's people

Eight years ago the Henry Street Settlement started its scheh the ue ideas as ”Iirls of the Settlement who performed in these pantomimes It was they whoand danced

And both daughters of the late Leonard Lewisohn were always interested and active in pro this work

Out of it, in due time, there developed, quite naturally, a drayrown pieces like ”The Silver Box,” by John Galsworthy, and inspiring dramas like ”The Shepherd,” a plea for Russian revolutionists, by an Aan Such was the ehborhood to this draiven at Clinton Hall; and as a result a substantial sum of money was forwarded to ”The Friends of Russian Freedoeant, which roused the entire district to a consciousness of itself--its history, its dignity and also its possibilities