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GLASSMAKERS AT THEIR WORK
The man on the left has just been gathering glass from one of the huge furnaces. The next man is blowing the glass for a French coffee pot. The one next is cutting glass. He holds it against a wheel, kept wet by water dropping through that tube.

Here we are in the yard of a glass bottle factory. That heap of broken bottles will be made into new ones. The white substance in the bin is soda, which is used to make the glass melt faster in the furnace.

Photographs on this page copyrighted by Brown Bros., N. Y.

Here is a man at work at a small fuel oil furnace at which globes or bottles are re-heated previous to finishing. The next picture shows a workman finishing a fish globe which has been previously heated at the furnace.