Manufacturer Notes: American Glass Works & American Glass Works LimitedPittsburgh Directories1880 Leng Fred, glass blower, 84 Seventeenth, s. s. 1887 No entry 1888 No entry 1889 No entry 1890 Leng Chas, blksmith, 1906 Jane, h 121 S Nineteenth 1890 Ad ESTABLISHED 1876. CHARLES LENG, GENERAL GLASS HOUSE BLACKSMITHING, 1919 MARY ST., S. S. Blow Pipes and Tools of all Kinds in Stock and Promptly Made to Order. Estimates Furnished 1890 Leng Fred, mangr, 121 S Nineteenth 1890 No entry 1891 Leng Chas, blksmith, 1919 Mary, h 1906 Jane 1891 Ad ESTABLISHED 1876. CHARLES LENG, General Glass House Blacksmithing, 1919 MARY ST., S. S. Blow Pipes and Tools of all Kinds in Stock and Promptly Made to Order. Estimates Furnished 1891 Leng Fred, mangr, 121 S Nineteenth 1891 No entry 1892 Leng Chas, tool mkr, 1919 Mary, h 1906 Jane 1892 Ad ESTABLISHED 1876. CHARLES LENG, General Glass House Blacksmithing, 1919 MARY ST., S. S. Blow Pipes and Tools of all Kinds in Stock and Promptly Made to Order. Estimates Furnished. 1892 Leng C Fred, mangr, 121 S Nineteenth 1892 No entry 1893 Leng Chas, blksmth, 1917 Mary 1893 Leng Fred, glass wkr. 121 S Nineteenth 1893 No entry 1894 Leng Fred, glass wkr. 121 S Nineteenth 1894 No entry 1895 Leng Fred C, glass manfg, 121 S Ninteenth 1895 No entry 1896 Leng Fred C, glass manuf, 121 S Ninteenth 1896 No entry 1897 Lang, Fred, glass manf 121 S 19th 1897 No entry 1898 Leng Christ F, glass manuf, 121 S 19th 1898 AMERICAN GLASS CO, 54 WESTINGhouse bldg. J A Chambers, prest; E I Phillips, secy 1899 Leng Charles, glass blowers tools, 1921 Mary, h 1917 Mary 1899 Leng Christian F, glass mnfr, h 418 S Atlantic av 1899 AMERICAN GLASS CO, 54 WESTINGhouse bldg. J A Chambers, prest; E I Phillips, secy 1900 Leng Frederick C, manf, 418 S Atlantic av 1900 Leng John N, 418 S Atlantic av 1900 Leng Louis, bottle Blwr, 418 S Atlantic av 1900 Leng Wm P, glass blwr, 418 S Atlantic av 1900 No entry 1901 Leng Frederick C manf 418 S Atlantic av 1901 No entry 1902 GLASS--Flint Prescription American Glass Works Carson ext Bell Phone South 252 1903 American Glass Works Carson Bell phone South 252 1904 Leng C F broker 345 4th av 1005 Bell phone Court 2151 h 418 Atlantic av 1904 No entry 1905 Leng C Fred mngr 345 5th av 1005 Bell phone Court 2151 h 418 Atlantic av 1905 American Glass Works 345 4th av 1005 1906 No entry New York City Directories 1908 Leng Christian F broker 42 Bway R 1614 h 478 Centl pk W _______________________________________________________________________________________ 1880 Baldwin Township Census 59 72 Miller John H. W M 32 Grocer Penna ----Elnor W F 30 Wife Keeping House Penna Albraugh Alice W F 16 Domestic Servant Penna 1900 Pittsburgh Census Ward 20 418 Atlantic Ave 207 224 Leng, John Martin Head W M Oct 1828 71 M 40 Germany 1865 35 NA Retired -----Barbara Wife W F Apl 1836 64 M 40 9 7 Germany 1865 35 -----Emma Daughter W F Dec 1870 29 S Pennsylvania -----Fred C Son W M Apl 1858 42 S Pennsylvania Glass manufacturer -----William Son W M Aug 1868 31 S Pennsylvania Glass Blower 1900 Baldwin Township Census 4 5 Miller John H. Head W M Feb 1848 52 M 27 Pennsylvania Grocer ---Eleanor J. Wife W F Nov 1849 50 M 27 0 0 Pennsylvania Griffith David Bro in law W M Aug 1843 56 S Pennsylvania Collector Beckes Maris Servant W F Feb 1877 23 S Pennsylvania Servant 1910 New York Manhattan Ward 12 4801 Central Park West 15 224 Leng Christian F Head M W 53 M 5 Pennsylvania Broker Bonds -----Charlotte W Wife F W 41 M 5 2 2 Pennsylvania None -----Fritz Son M W 3 S New York None -----Jerome H Son M W 1 S New York None Moreland Elizabeth Servant F BL 65 Wd 1 1 United States Nurse Private Family 1910 Pittsburg Census Ward 8 409 Atlantic Ave 57 57 Miller John H Head M W 62 M-1 37 Pennsylvania Own Income ---Elenor Wife F W 60 M-1 37 0 0 Pennsylvania None Dermer Miranda Sister F W 54 Wd Pennsylvania None _______________________________________________________________________________________ Patents 411,043 09/17/1889 Method of Forming the Necks of Fruit-Jars Christian F. Leng and Charles Leng 423,482 03/18/1890 Bottle-Finishing Machine Christian F. Leng and Charles Leng 428,214 05/20/1890 Bottle-Neck Finishing Machine Charles Leng Assignor One-Half to C. F. Lang 648,272 04/24/1900 Machine for Finishing Glassware Charles Lang Assignor of One-Half to Christian F. Leng _______________________________________________________________________________________ Maps 1886 Hopkins Atlas of the Vicinity of the Cities Pittsburgh and Allegheny Pennsylvania, Plate 20 1896 Hopkins Pittsburgh 1896 Southern Vicinity Plate 8 (Shows proximity to Beck's Run) 1896 Hopkins Real estate plat-book of the southern vicinity of Pittsburgh, Penna., Plate 1 1905 Hopkins 1905 Southern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, Plate 3 _______________________________________________________________________________________ The glass factory at Redman's Mills, Pa, has started up with a force of practical blowers, etc. Wheeling Register (Wheeling, West Virginia) February 20, 1887 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Redman Mills.. | Allegheny... | J. H. Miller......| 72.95 | Official Register of the United States containing a List of Officers and Employees in the civil, Military, and Naval Service on the First of July, 1883, Volume II The Post-Office Department and the Postal Service (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1884) _______________________________________________________________________________________ John H. MILLER, merchant, Redman Mill, was born Feb. 26, 1848, in Westmoreland county, Pa., son of John and Jane B. (Hartley) Miller. John Miller was by trade a blacksmith, and was in the coal business and the manufacture of salt in Westmoreland county. In Allegheny county he followed merchandising, and also founded the Iron City docks. He was a man of good business ability, and an earnest Christian. He died in February, 1882. The names of his children are Morris, John H., William, Charles, Miranda. Hester and Elvira. John H. Miller was a blacksmith for seven years, and then engaged in mercantile business. He was one of the founders of the American Glass-works, limited, and is yet one of the proprietors. He married Miss Eleanor Griffith. They are both members of the Baptist Church, of which he is a deacon; he is a republican. History of Allegheny County Pennsylvania (Chicago, A. Warner & Co., 1889) _______________________________________________________________________________________ The American glass works at Redman Mills, Pa., though urged to go into the projected combination of manufacturers, are going to keep aloof from any and all entangling alliances, and President F. C. Leng feels assured that the reputation made during the past five years will enable the firm to dispose of all their product readily at fair prices, despite the building of fancy factories and ample capitalization. Pittsburg Daily Post (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) July 18, 1892 _______________________________________________________________________________________ The American Glass Works Limited vs. Fred Gaskill, notes. Judgment for the plaintiff for amount of two notes. Chariton Herald (Chariton, Iowa) November 17, 1892 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Reply of American Glass Works, of Redman Mills, Pa., manufacturers of glass bottles and jars. [Established February 17, 1887. Capital invested, $75,000.] Our production since 1887 has been bottles and fruit jars, with an average output for the past seven years of about $125,000 per annum. We have worked one month less in the two past years than in the two years previous; when operating at all we operated in full. The reason we have worked one month less in the past two years than in the two years previous was largely due to the tightness of the money market, caused by the financial panic which affected all manufacturing industries. We are in favor of a specific duty, for the reason that an ad valorem duty is taken advantage of by unscrupulous importers, and is detrimental to our interests as manufacturers. We consider a specific duty of 1 cent per pound on all green and amber bottles fair and equitable, and about the only thing that will place us on an equal footing with the foreign manufacturer. Our reasons are as follows: With the present specific duty of 1 cent per pound we are barely able to hold our own against foreign importations. It is true the importations in our line have not been as large as those in other lines, but this is largely due to the fact that much of our goods is sold to small buyers, who order only when they are in actual need, and who have their name and registered trademark blown in their bottles and can not wait on the goods until they are made in Europe and shipped over. Plain ware, such as wines and export beer bottles, are sold as cheap in this country as they can be imported, with perhaps a 10-cent better price per gross on the American production than that of the foreign. Any reduction in duty on our line of goods will necessitate a reduction in wages. We are unable to say precisely what reduction in cost of production would be necessary, but believe it would be close to the reduction made in the tariff. The wholesale price of quart and pint exports was $4.80 per gross and $3.75 per gross, delivered as far west as Milwaukee and as far east as New York. Other lines of goods, such as soda bottles and champagne beer bottles, have been bringing from 5 to 6 per cent better prices than the exports, but were bought in much smaller quantities. Domestic competition in the past four years has been large and ruinous. Foreign competition has not affected us any more in the past four years than it did in the four years previous. We are not producing as many goods this year as last year, owing to the general dull times and dullness in the money market. The wages of skilled labor is as high to-day as it has been in the last fifteen years. Unskilled labor has suffered a 10 per cent reduction during the past month. This is the first reduction on any class of labor ever made by this firm. It would be almost impossible to give you an exact estimate of the cost of living of the families of any of our skilled workmen. It depends largely on who they are, particularly as to nationality. The man of German descent as a rule is the most thrifty, and we have known some who, out of a yearly earning of $1,500 or $1,600, have saved as high as $900, which left them $600 to $700 for maintenance for themselves and families. There are others, however, who live up to every cent they make, and who at the end of a season's work have nothing to show for it. We have no difficulty in construing the existing law in regard to importations of the class of articles we produce, and therefore have no suggestions to offer. Voorhees, D. W.; Committee On Finance, United States Senate. Opinions of Collectors of Customs Concerning Ad Valorem and Specific Rates of Duty on Imports (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1894) _______________________________________________________________________________________ Court Notices The American glass works has asked for a receiver for the Lakeside Bottling company. The property has been placed with D. W. Nickerson for sale, and an injunction restraining such disposal is asked for. The Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) October 13, 1894 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Name of factory or Workshop. | Location | Goods Manufactured ........................... ALLEGHENY American Glass Works, .......| Redmonds Mills, ...............| Bottles, .......... Employed: Males: 83 Females: ... Under 21: 18 Males 13-21: 18 Females 13-21: ... Eighth Annual Report of the Factory Inspector of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Year 1897 (Harrisburg, William Stanley Ray, 1898) _______________________________________________________________________________________ FIFTEENTH INSPECTION DISTRICT. ____________ T. A. BRADLEY, Inspector. ____________ Allegheny, Pa., October31, 1898. Name of factory or Workshop. | Location | Goods Manufactured ........................... American Glass Works,........| Redman Mills (Pittsburg), .....| Bottles and jars, ............. American Glass Works,........| Redman Mills (Pittsburg), .....| Bottles and jars, ............. ........................... Ninth Annual Report of the Factory Inspector of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Year 1898 (Harrisburg, William Stanley Ray, 1899) _______________________________________________________________________________________ Name of factory or Workshop. | Location | Goods Manufactured ........................... American Glass Co,..............| Becks Run, .....| Glass bottles and jars, ............. ........................... Tenth Annual Report of the Factory Inspector of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Year 1899 (Harrisburg, William Stanley Ray, 1900) _______________________________________________________________________________________ WANTEDThirty (30) young boys at the American glass works, South Side, one block beyond Beck's Run; steady work and full wages guaranteed. Apply to the Manager at the works. The Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) May 3, 1900 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Male Help. WANTEDMan to attach stoppers to beer bottles. Apply at the American glass works, Pittsburgh, S. S., one block beyond Beck's Run. The Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) June 2, 1900 _______________________________________________________________________________________ ADVANCE ON GREEN BOTTLES. Manufacturers Offset Wage Increase By a Ten Per Cent Advance on Products. The Green Glass Manufacturers' association has decided on a price advance of about 10 per cent, according to the National Glass Budget. This was decided on after the wage conference with the blowers association, which granted the workers an advance of 7 per cent, over the list of last year. On 22-ounce ware and above the advance will be 8 per cent, and upward. Making green glass bottles in Pittsburgh are the following concerns: American Glass Works, Cunningham & Co., limited, D. O. Cunningham, and the Seamless Glass Company. There are near a score of concerns making green bottles in Pittsburgh and their pot capacity aggregates 179 pots. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) August 11, 1900 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Name of factory or Workshop. | Location | Goods Manufactured ........................... American Glass Co,..............| Becks Run, .....| Glass bottles and fruit jars, ............. ........................... Eleventh Annual Report of the Factory Inspector of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Year 1900 (Harrisburg, William Stanley Ray, 1901) _______________________________________________________________________________________ The American Glass Works (Leng's) Becks Run, Pa., will start its green bottle plant Monday. Bridgeton Evening News (Bridgeton, New Jersey) September 24, 1901 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Name of factory or Workshop. | Location | Goods Manufactured ........................... American Glass Co,..............| Baldwin township, .....| Window Glass, ............. ........................... Twelfth Annual Report of the Factory Inspector of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Year 1901 (Harrisburg, William Stanley Ray, 1902) _______________________________________________________________________________________ The American Glass Works, Frederick Leng, proprietor, at Redman's Mills, at Pittsburgh was destroyed by fire on Saturday morning the greater portion of the plant being damaged and only part of it left standing. Only one blowing was lost, though, and some shops were started in the undamaged portion on Monday, although the other side of the factory was almost completely destroyed, including the blacksmith shop and sorting and packing department. Five annealing ovens were ruined. The plant will operate in full while repairs are made. Sandusky Daily Register (Sandusky, Ohio) January 14, 1902 _______________________________________________________________________________________ It is reported that C. F. Long (sic) has sold to the Pittsburgh, Virginia & Charleston Railway Company the American glass works property near Redmans station, Baldwin township, and another irregular plot in Carlson street, near South Thirty-fourth, Twenty-fourth ward, for a consideration approximating $300,000. It is understood that P. D. Nicois & Co. handled the sale. The glass works property fronts 185 feet in the south side of Carson street and extends 100 feet deep to the right of way of the P., V. & C. The other plot fronts 348 feet in the south side of Carson and extends 236 feet deep. Pittsburgh Daily Post (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) November 12, 1902 _______________________________________________________________________________________ The deed has been recorded in the sale of the American Glass Works property, on Carson street extension, to the Pittsburgh, Virginia & Charleston Railroad Co. The S. C. Hays homestead was included in the deal. The total consideration was $300,000. Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) November 12, 1902 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Name of factory or Workshop. | Location | Goods Manufactured ........................... American Glass Co,..............| Beck Run, .....| Glass bottles, Jars ............. ........................... Thirteenth Annual Report of the Factory Inspector of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Year 1902 (Harrisburg, William Stanley Ray, 1903) _______________________________________________________________________________________ PORTER TELLS WHAT HE OWNS Will of Second Ward Liquor Dealer Discloses Sensa- tional Conditions ........ ... I owe the American Glass Works $585. ....... Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) January 24, 1904 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Go To North American Soda & Beers Home |