Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 20, 1912, Page 8

NORWICH BULLETI 1912 SILVERING ROOM, olid Silver Solution Is Put {n the Vacuum Space. and has lived there since. Mrs. May- nard passed away about a year ago. Mr. Maynard is survived by two dayghters, Mrs. Dudley Perkins of Gales Ferry, and Mrs, Joseph E. Car- penter of Fort Point, and also leaves seven grandchildren. | with M | nces M. Gifford, second the late Arnold and Phila their marrisge Mr. and lived for two years on one an's fine farms in Griswold. man then sold his Griswold purchased the Gifford et Plain, which has wh as the Lyman.home- an was perhaps the tle in eastern Connec- » owned much fine stock. s a member of the h of this city, which tly feel loss of one Ively interested in its CIVIL CASES ASSIGNED. Special January Session of the Supe- rior Court Opened Friday Morning. In the superior court here Friday morning Judge Wheeler ordered the Bpecial January session of the' civil superior court opened and sfating that he understood the criminal business wauld be disposed of 80 that civil cases could, be tried next weelk, the following court matters were assighed: Wednesday, Jan, 24—Charles Walker vs. Mary A. Walker; i passed away Nov. 80, ing members of the Lyman, who resides tead on East Great Plain, Robertson and. Mrs. hayer of this city, Mss.. J. Bushnell of Manchester;, and A. THERMOS POINTERS SHIPPING ROOM, Spot in the Thermos Factory, Leo King vs. Flora M. King; | England Cigar and Tobacco Co. | Schwartz. | _Thursday, _Jan. 25—Minard _ve. | Royal Linen Mills, inc.; Lucy J. Glea- son vs, Charles F. Thayer, Tuesday, Jan. 30 (special)—Waldion | B. Brown ot al. va. Norwich Belt Man. ufacturing Co. New vs. by heart trou 12d been a suf- | Too Progressive for Bob. | Among those who will not be prom- inently mentioned in connection with the La Follette cabinet is Governor | Osborn. of Michigan.—Boston Tran- script, born in that part on which has since ) Ledyard, In his early 24 on the boats and was an, but ten years ago 1 a farm et Aliyns Point FINISHING, CLEANING AND BOXING. es in Making the Thermos Bottles. ’ AMERICAN THERMOS BOTTLE CO. Large Manufacturing Company of New York City Which Will Come to Norwich—Company Will Pay Taxes From Start—Crowded in Their Second Building as Large on Bottles and Machinery Connecticut as the banner state of the union in which to locate a manu- facturing plant and the ideal shipping tacilities offered by the site proposed in Norwich for the factory of the Amerlcan Thermds Bottle company, together with the expectation of get- ting out uf cramped quarters - and bringing thelr entire plant under one roof, were reasons advanced for the company wishing to leave New York, to a Bulletin reprosentative, who call- ed upon the president. Willam 3. Walker, this week, at their New York offices, 243-247 . West Seventeenth street. Reasons for Leaving New York. “We consider Conneclicut the best manufacturing state in the .union,” said Mr. Walker in answer to the query as to what advantages they expected to gain by removal from New York. “We use a lot of brass goods and you [ can't beat- Connecticut for its brass goods factories. Your site, with mi railroad and water freight shipping | tacilities is unequaled. At the present | time you can sgee only about one-third | of our plant here, and we are doing | work on several floors and in cramped quarters where we have to carry our goods back and forth with much handling that would -be unnecessary if we were in a factory on one floor, where our business could be carried on upon the U system, the raw mater- ial starting at one end and moving in steady progression from one stage to the next till it was turned out fin- tshed.” Crowded in New York Factry, A later inspectign of the New_ York plant, when pictures of the industry | in operation were taken, substantiated | President Walker's statement. In the twelve-story building in which the | factory is located, the ninth, tenth and | eleventh, third and fourth floors are | used, and where the various processes | of making the bottles are carried on, | machinery, operatives and product are | crowded into such restricted quarters | that It is impossible for the pictures | reproduced herewith to give any ade- | quate idea of this busy industry where | ninety employes, men and women, were busily at work. Limitless Possibilitie: “We have & product for which there is a demand at every period of life, from the cradle to the grave, and from every class of people. We are only reaching one per cent. of the people at the present time. What the East- man Kodak company was to Roches- ter, what the National Cash Register company was to Dayton, and the Un- derwood typewriter to Hartford, we believe the Thermos company will be to the city where it locates. We be- leve we have a product for which there is more of a demand than for kodaks. The possibilities are limitless.” Two Buildings at Norwich Plant. “At the present time we have be- tween 300 and 400 peopls worklng on Thermos material in this and our aux- iliary plants. We began with im- porting all our glass from Germany, but we are_now getting American glass from Vineland, N. J., and from Indiana. It is one of the possibilitios that we would make our own glass at the Norwich plant. We would do much of our leather work there also. We would want & ome-story brick buflding about 200 feet wide and 376 feet long, and so located on the lot that there would be o basement story to which a spur track would lead from the railroad. We expect also to erect at once a bullding of similar size. We would pay taxes and insur- ance ‘during the time the contract was in force with the Norwich company that is to crect the building. A Flood of Orders. “We have at all times menufactured on the ratio of 8 to 1 between manu- facturing cost and retail price, sell- ing at three times what it costs to make, and through improved machin- ery and the use of American giass instead of glass imported from Ger- many we have been steadily cuiting down manufecturing cost. Reductions in the retall price which ave have been able to make have resulted in such a flood of increased business that we are crowded to the limit to keep up with our orders,” Fresident Walker went into details on meny significant points in connec- tion with the company’s business, as shown in the “Thermos Pointers” in these columns, the facts contained thereln being gleaned from Tis an- swers to inquiries made, the whole presenting convincing reasons why the citizens of this city should unite thelr | strongest efforts to securing: for Nor- wich this growing and thriving in- dustry, which is already recelving the endorsement of #c many Norwich business men whom the local commit- tee is interesting. A Bottle Within a Bottle. Generally = speaking the Thermos combination consists of two glass bot- tles, one inside the other and joined at | the neck, the space between the two| being a vacuum through which neither | heat nor cold penetrates. The inside | bottle is the holder for any liquids which the user may choose to place in it The whole is enclosed in a metal case, with screw cap, to protect the bettles from breakage, the Thermos bottle guaranteeing to keep boiling | Haquids hot 24 hours and ice cold lig- | 1dls cold three days. With this idea of & double bottle in | mind, it is easy to follow the processes which are carrled out at the New York factory. Cracking and Drawing Down. This begins in the cracking room, where the outslde bottle, which is open &t both top and bottom at this stage, is cracked off to the proper length, | both at neck and bottom, in a ma- | chine in which a fet of gas flame plays upon the points marked by a diamond, | cracking the bottle off at the two| marks, The Asbestos Pads the Secret. The two bottles are next placed to- gether, having inserted between them two sets of small asbestos pads, these asbestos reinforcements between the hottles being a_diatinctive feature up- on which the patents owned by this| company are based and are found in | no other heat-holding bottle made. Tn | other makes of heat-holding bottles the inside one must be supported at e bottom, a frequent source of breakage, but the reinforcement fur- nished by these little asbesths pads in the Thermos obviates any need of sup- port at the bottom and there is non: The Insertion of the pads is done by female help, half a dozen being em- ployed at this work. | ng Flame for Minute Cracks. In the cracking room are also the drawing down machines to which the bottles come after the asbestos pads have been inserted, In the drawing down machines the heat is applied by converging get jet flames, melting the bottom of the outside bottle so that it can be drawn down to a pointed form, closing up the bottle inside, To heal up any minute cracks which may have developed in the cracking pro- Dollars Worth of Business Done Each Year—34 Patents To the blowing room, in which 20 men are kept busy, the bottl next | pass, subjected again to a g ame | to have the. pointed bottoms runded | cut to tne required form by the expert | glass_workers, who also fuse on th two hollow glass tubes callea capi { laries, through which later, in tha | Present Quarters—Will Build as One Given Them—Million Owned. cess, a hot flame iz played:over them for a few seconds as they are placed | in groups upon a turntable after leav- | Ing the cracking machine. The work of cracking and drawing down is per- | formed by male help, ten men being employed in this department, Rounding Out the Bottom. pumping room, the air is extracted to | make -the vacuum. In the blowing | room also the necks are sealed togeth- | er under the potent touch of the gas | flame. i Silvering Shuts Out the Light. From the blowing room the botlles, now firmly fued together at the n. pass to the silvering room, where the work is done by female help, ten wom- en and girls being employed her Through the holiow tubes, or capilla- ries, which have been attached to the | bottom of the bottle, a pure silver so- brw" lution is poured into the tween the bottles. It is sha as to silver the glass completely, h: ing the effect of closing all the pores, and being used for the special reason | that luminous rays radiate heat, wh space CRACKING AND DRAWING DOWN ROOM ‘Where the Process of Making Thermos the silver deposit will reflect these| _ Y Ly o SO e rays and not allow them to pass R through the vacuum chamber and thus e would pay all insurance | on Mountain Regions in er and | tram G. Spencer of ‘Springfield, for the affect the contents of the bottle. The d taxes from the time the building | Winter as a Field for t ature En- 1i; of Miss Martha B. Blackstone, women Who do the sllvering work at| Was erect<d and during the period the | thusiast. Mr. Whiting spoke from his by Judge John C. Crosby sinks of hot water, into which the deed was held in escrow; all he asked | personal experience§ the n erfor urt at Pittsfleld, bottle is dipped after silvering. was that tae property be put into the | tains of this country and of Friday. The motion for an and illustrated his remark: cellent stereopticon views, th w s made on the ground a reasonable valuation. 2 e laweyrs for the defense need- Dried in the Ovens. 3 greatre Adjoining this is the oven room, | |LLUSTRATED TALY TO number of which were taken from pho- nal time in which to go over * where the bottles are dried after sil- | tos made by the speaker. Allen La- mtaMzMWYP WYP YPPP vering, remaining in the ovens sev- | PARK CHURCH MEN | tham operated the stercoptic At | the of evidence introduced eral hours till every particle of t- — | the close of Mr, Whi | a ure has been evaporated. Here are(Given by E. B. Whiting of New Ha- | rising vote of thanks > NS LT 2180 the testing cauldrons, from which| ven on Mountain Regions in Sum- | Mr. Whiting spoke before the clu Unclaimed Letters. water at the required temperature i3 furnished to test thorov about two months ago. | ly each bot- The meeting was then adjou mer and Winter. ned to | nclaimed letters at the tle, to see that it holds the heated liq- o , I | the basement wher per was served pos 3 veek a e about forty members postoffice for the we uid the required length of time. | t at Friday evening's meeting |a0d & Pleasant social hour enjoyed. | 1812, follows: Mikiey te Vasii o Men's league of the Park Con: | Phonograph selections added to the | Henr: % jea | STeBational church held in the Osgood | Pleasure of the evening. | hester Sealed together at the neck, rounded 4 < — Patrick Foley, M s Me Following the reading of | atrick Foley, Mrs, and Sloned, 8t the Dofom, and’ail the minutes of previous meeting, | Sprained His Ankle. | y Geer, Jos. G- e e o maor, (S8 O Hen the Sollpw of recently appoint- | On Friday afternoon Frank Johnson Hall, Honorata Jajesnlcu, whiers: the- il Teocths o an ed committ connection with the | of No. 24 Quarry street slipped on . Charles H. Lord, e Rhe > creation o= 5 | Men and Religion Forward movement | sldewalk and fell, spraining his ank M . ““ W l“e}r[- Tea o ] vtulznt, Mrs. J. H. which enables their contents to reta &, Mrs. Gertrude either heat or cold alike for long p innie Truax, ods. Forty-six nps, in charge of a | . dozen men, is the equipn this | department ,each pump taking elght bottles at a time, and the process of forming the 30 to 45 minutes. larles the air is drawn uum spece by the lary being sealed wi when the vacuum is co Finishing, Cleaning and Boxing. Passing to the finishing room, o another floor, whera the metal shoul ers are attiched by to the bottles, they are fi in acid | to roughen the nec nited States, Can- Islands, Hawali, 0, Sou gas flamo | | each cap 1 | | | the bot- es for making surface for the cement. -The bottles | ar et s stand for about three days till the ce- | ! for a sales ment has thoroughly harc and | i : % are then ready for ass ! boxing In the various forr they are put upon the m: finishing, cleaning, emb boxing is all work whi: by female help, about 20 w girls belng employed in ment. Grinding the Carafe Stoppers. ‘ | similar n inferior arti- ling patents the can b controlled by aft of Berlin mitedl of Lon- bility of the absorbing galning the Thermos npan ing room also the ground for the newest mer: ily, and one w ing quite generally ado; York hotels for its utility ter carrier for gu the other used, stnce they thing for stoppers wh story,, brick, in length, | ih spur track to basement floor ; he company ex- I re second factory 1 Pre i 5,000 bottles pex = T 2 combined payrolls ¢ and auxuflary Expects 2,000 employes in five company will pay the n leavin ping facilities offer ¢ Pa, is ready to take the | n the Norwich terms, are to be put into the bo! A CORNER OF THE BLOWING ROOM. expansion resulting from n:ake it impossible to use glass stop- Where 20 Glass Blowers Are Employed | pers, | Shipping and Stock Rooms. | rance on the Nor- The third floor of the bu s | It was th contract with utilized for shipping room but ufter 15 in force, stock room for finished product, hue it was New York is ing a force of 15 men busy, rain. plant in one fourth floor is entirely taken u s, L. — anufacturing unfinished stock, d a pi Pren- | TIME FOR FILING he Connect!- d as a stoc Reoapitulation. For the ct Information of the | citizens of Norwich upon & number of points invo pany proposition, local committee h lowing recapity which they are qu The American Thermos Bottle cor pany was brought the attention Norwich by W. H. Seeley, n the industrial bureau of the New Haven & Hartford 1t the citizens of $75,000 for factory ican Thermos Bo agree to Nor vertising Norw Thermos bottle, be comes the property 5 Thermos Bottle company | In case the factory down it reverts to the izens who furnished the can be used ag an induce over compunies to locate in Every one who contributes § a puilding lot 50x100 on the Dr. estate. These building lots wi hance in value rapidly when fac are located in that section. The 1 t odayare easily worth $300 All members of the No dustrial Improvement assoc have a voice in the aff the | company and will elect directors and | officers to manage the property and | arrange the detalls of the building | operations and finances, | | basement {s and _fine d in Nor- spoke briefly on [ EXTENSIONS EXTENDED. oke y | = e proposition which ¥ Motion of Counsel for Spencer Grant- ed by Judge Crosby. members sk g of the boar dof trade n ning. Haskell then introduced Whiting of New Haven, who n exceedingly Interesting talk offered $50,- is an old offered cileut and Norwich, ideal An exten time to the verdict 1 Fe v 1 of It rned location. & gave | & { i mo: It 1g the intention of the American Thermes Bottle company to immedi- ately erect at thelr own expense on the Mason property a second factor of the same size as the one erected by the -citizens of Norwich. The movement for the indu development of Norwich being ular one, every citizen ald it to the extent of his abili there being no one to receiveany bo nus, commission or saiary for pro- | motion or expenses. | Options on the Dr. Mason property | will expire February 15 on which date | the proposition of the American Ther- | tacs . Bottle company will be with- | drawn. Expert male help of' the American Thermos Eottle company are recefv- ing from $30 to $80 par week, It is expected that 2,000 hands, will be em- pioyed within five years. ~An open meeting of the Norwich | board of trade has heen called for Monday cvening, to which every man who hag the welfare .of Norwich at heart wil be welcomed. The question of taxes and insurance on the building to be erected for the American Thermos Bottle company having arisen, W. B. Walker, president of the company, communicated with the lccal committee om Friday and l