C. L. FLACCUS GLASS COMPANY 
The business of this concern was established by C. L. 
Flaccus in 1879 and incorporated in 1904, with a capital 
stock of $500,000. This was increased in 1919 to $750,000, 
Its plants are located in Tarentum, Pa., and California, 
Pa. Tn 1919 a consolidation was effected, in which the 
Imperial Glass Co. of Charleroi, was merged with the 
C. L. Flaccus Glass Co. The company maintains selling 
agencies and warehouses in New York, Philadelphia, Bos- 
ton, Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit. Its product in- 
cludes a general line of hand-blown and machine-made 
bottles and jars. The company was the first to manu- 
facture wide-mouth bottles and jars by the machine process 
in 1892. It was also the first to introduce natural gas in 
the melting of glass. This was done in 1881. The com- 
pany’s general office is in the Empire Building, Pittsburgh. 
The officers are L. G. Flaccus, President; C. L. Flaccus, Jr., 
Vice President; J. C. Unverzagt, Treasurer and Secretary. 
THE PHOENIX GLASS COMPANY 
The Phoenix Glass Company was organized in 1880, 
by Andrew Howard, formerly connected with the Union 
Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, with a capital- 
ization of $30,000. The company was reorganized in 1891, 
the capitalization being $700,000. Its plant is located at 
Monaca, Beaver County, Pa., on the New York Central 
Lines, and occupies a space of about ten acres. The com. 
pany was originally organized. for the manufacture of 
specialties, but later made a very large line of lamp chim- 
neys, and was the first company west of the Allegheny 
Mountains to produce opal glass and rich cut glass. They 
are now the largest exclusive manufacturers of illuminating 
glassware in the United States, to which they devote their 
entire efforts. The product consists of glass for electric, 
oil and gas illumination, from the cheapest to the very 
highest grade of ware for this purpose, embracing plain. 
etched, cut, and the richest decorated ware. The largest