Manufacturer Notes: Queen City Glass CompanyMr. Ben F. Biser, of the Queen City Glass Works, Cumberland, who has been spending his vacation at his parental home in Knoxville, spent yesterday with his uncle, Mr. C. F. Dixon, West All Saints street. He returned home this morning and will leave there tomorrow to resume his duties again.The News (Frederick, Maryland) July 21, 1891 _______________________________________________________________________________________ NAMES OF CORPORATIONS. | Aggregated Value of Shares of Stock | Assessed Value of Real Property | Amount of Credit allowed for Investments paying Taxes | Mortgages held....| Amount of State Taxes Due on Shares of Stock ................... Queen City Glass Company of Cumberland, Md....|15,000.00| 6,200|...........|...........| 15.62 ................... Shaw, Frank T.; Report of the State Tax Commissioner of Maryland to the General Assembly At the January Session, 1892. (Frederick, Baughman Bros., 1892) _______________________________________________________________________________________ FROM WHOM RECEIVED Year. | Amount. ................. Queen city Glass Company, Cumberland....... 1894 & 1895 34.64 ................ Smith, Marion DeKalb; Annual Report of the Comptroller of the Treasury of the State of Maryland For the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 1895 (Chestertown, Wm. B. Usilton & Son, 1896) _______________________________________________________________________________________ SMALL STRIKE. On May 18 five female employees of the Queen City Glass Factory, known as the Stopper-Wire Trimmers, made a demand for an increase of wages from five cents to eight cents per gross for placing wire on stoppers. They were making at the time about a dollar a day. They struck for one day and then returned to work without receiving the advance asked for. There was no organization. BOYS STRIKE. On February 19 twenty carry-out boys employed by the Cumberland Glass Factory of Cumberland, Md., made a demand on their employers for an increase of wages from thirty-five to fifty cents per day. The strike was unsuccessful after the boys had lost a week's time. But subsequently the firm raised the boys' wages to forty cents a day. Smith, Thomas A.; Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Industrial Statistics of Maryland 1900 (Baltimore, Sun Book and Job Printing Office, 1901) _______________________________________________________________________________________ TABLE No. 16. Showing the Balances Due by the Incorporated Institutions Hereinafter Named, as of September 30, 1903, Exclusive of Interest. ..................... Queen City Glass Co., of Cumberland........................ 10.20 ..................... Hering, Joshua W.; Annual Report of the Comptroller of the Treasury of the State of Maryland For the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 1902 (Westminster, Democratic Advocate Print, 1903) _______________________________________________________________________________________ Glass Works Idle. The Queen City Glass factory shut down yesterday and will probably remain closed during the rest of this week. No special reason is assigned for the temporary suspension of work, although the shut down is likely due to a surplus of stock. Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland) January 25, 1905 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Likely to Start Monday The Queen City Glass Works have been closed down this week owing to the failure of a car of lime to arrive. Mr. Mertens says he expects the lime this week and the works will start again Monday. Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland) January 27, 1905 _______________________________________________________________________________________ QUEEN CITY GLASS WORKS IDLE UNTIL NEXT MONDAY. The Queen City Glass factory closed Saturday to remain idle one week. This suspension of work is said to be due to the condition of the market this year. An over supply of the finished product seems to be on hand in factories and warehouses call for retrenchment in manufacturing. This condition occurs every few years at all factories of this character and the men engaged here are not disappointed even though they are not as steadily employed this year as in former years. Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland) February 27, 1905 _______________________________________________________________________________________ THE GLASS FACTORY _______ MAY CLOSE DOWN FOR THE SEA- SON AT THE END OF THIS WEEK. _______ The Queen City Class factory will probably close down on Saturday of this week not to open again until after the summer season. The condition of the market and the fact that the warehouse at the glass factory is already more than well supplied with the factory product, makes a closing of the works at this time absolutely necessary. The factory has been idle several weeks during the present winter, owing to the over supply of glass on hand, but the proprietors decided not to close the works entirely until the advent of spring, when the men would have a better chance to obtain other employment. This is the first time this industry has shut down for such a long period in thirteen years. Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland) March 22, 1905 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Personals. Messrs. Emil Beck, Samuel Price and Wm. McDermott, formerly employed at the Queen City Glass Factory will go to Manchester, Va., tonight to take temporary employment in a factory there. Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland) June 2, 1905 _______________________________________________________________________________________ ...Cumberland Glass Company, glass;.... Fox, Charles J.; Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Statistics and Information of Maryland 1906 (Baltimore, Kohn & Pollock, 1907) _______________________________________________________________________________________ F. L. TILGHMAN KILLED ______ Cumberland Business Man Stepped in Front of Passenger Train, Special to The Washington Post. Cumberland, Md, Mar 23,--Frisby Lynn Tilghman, aged seventy-five, was killed by the eastbound Baltimore and Ohio accommodation train, here, this afternoon while crossing the tracks at the Queen City Glass Works, South Cumberland. He stepped out of the way of an immigrant train, directly in front of the accommodation train, the approach of which he had failed to note. He was hurled many yards and death was almost instantaneous. Mr. Tilghman is survived by his wife, who was Miss Billing, of Petersburg, Va., and two daughters. Mr. Tilghman was a native of Cumberland. He was connected with the Baltimore and Ohio engineering corps when the road was constructed from Cumberland to Wheeling. Later he had charge of the business of the Borden Mining company, at Linn's Wharf, Cumberland, for many years. For the last eighteen years he had been confidential agent for the business department of the Queen City Glass Works, of which Frederick Mertens, the Washington capitalist, is the head....... The Washington Post (Washington, D. C.) March 29, 1907 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Have Returned. The glass-blowers who have been spending their vacation here were called back to Baltimore yesterday. These men formerly worked in the Queen City Glass Factory here, but since that plant closed have been engaged in a Baltimore glass works. Among those who left for the Monument City are: Messrs. Henry Weber, John Weber, Henry Teel, Joseph Green and Oscar Nelson. Evening Times (Cumberland, Maryland) September 4, 1907 _______________________________________________________________________________________ ...Cumberland Glass Company, glass;.... Fox, Charles J.; Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Statistics and Information of Maryland 1907 (Baltimore, Geo. W. King Printing co., 1908) _______________________________________________________________________________________ ...Cumberland Glass Company, glass;.... Fox, Charles J.; Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Statistics and Information of Maryland 1908 (Baltimore, Kohn & Pollock, Inc., 1908) _______________________________________________________________________________________ Queen City Glass Works May Resume. Special to The Washington Post. Cumberland, Jan. 28.--Glassmen from Pennsylvania are making an inspection of the Queen City Glass Works at Cumberland, controlled by Frederick Mertens, of Washington, D. C., with the view to reopening the plant, which has been idle for some years. City council will be asked for certain privileges. About 200 men will be employed. The Washington Post (Washington, D. C.) 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