and Kane, all in Pennsylvania, and at Hartford City, Ind. 
The company inaugurated the “continuous tank” melting 
furnace in-the window glass industry and now operates 
the largest glass-making furnaces in the world. Its pro- 
ducts include single strength and double strength window 
glass; 16-oz. picture glass, photographic dry plates, X-Ray 
plates, 26-oz. glass, 29-0z. glass, 84-0z. and +& crystal 
sheet. During the recent war, the company supplied all 
the glass for the army cantonments, and produced and 
shipped as high as 2,000,000 circles a week for use as lenses 
in gas masks. The products of the American Window 
Glass Company are well known in all parts of the world. 
UNITED STATES GLASS COMPANY 
The United States Glass Company is a Pennsylvania 
Corporation, organized in 1891 by the taking over of what 
at that time were among the largest and most prominent 
concerns in their particular branch of manufacture. It 
was one of the very first of industrial mergers, the same 
being formed with the idea of being able to make consider- 
able savings in the cost of producing and marketing the 
product. Only the most successful concerns were in- 
cluded at the time and the company started operations 
under very promising conditions. 
The line produced is the largest of any concern in what 
is known as the pressed blown table glassware business, 
which does not mean that articles only for table and house- 
hold uses are manufactured, but in reality the making of 
any article in glass which can be produced with the same 
or similiar equipment. 
Its product includes all kinds of articles for home and 
business purposes, such as Sugar and Cream Sets, Berry 
Dishes, Salt Bottles, Goblets, Tumblers, Water Pitchers 
Oil Bottles, Vases, etc., both in plain Crystal as well as 
Etched, Cut and Decorated. Also special ware, such as 
Blanks for Cutting, Door and Furniture Knobs, Automo-