Bernardsville News from Bernardsville, New Jersey • Page 5

THE BERNARDSVIT.LE JULY 2 American Class By John T-Cunningham parties, dances and oth- Four of the most pamperedUr entertainment in the glasa workmen ever to arrive inttown. America strolled down the When the elder Wistiir died gangplank at Philadelphia son Richard con- the late spring; of 1739, bound for Casper Wistar's glass fac- ory in New Jersey. Wista'r paid dearly for that Training Borough Activities i. Smaller Miller Sr. of on Fri, 26, a party in honor birthday anniversary Mrs.

George Mur- of Santa 738, he engaged Capt. John Marshall to bring them to merica from Rotterdam. Marshall charged Wistar rincely sum of 58 pounds lght shillings, and carried Dromlses to the Rotterdam our that Wistar would give em lard, food, working naterlals and servants. The workmen hat attention for the best reasons: they could blow lass and Wistar could not. VWhout them, Wistar would ave forced to forget is dreams of a glass em- ire on "the great road to ilesgrove" In Salem Coury- spending thi 1 summer grandparents, Mr.

and Host of Mend- is, Gewge C. Zi anil sons, George Jr. K'll, of New Castle concluded a week's Mr. Zimmerman's par- ami Mrs. Edward Li of Mendham tatncui Fagan, daughtei nd Mrs, Hubert Fagan road, is spending nur with her grand E.

M. Davis of Garden Ws Week Your Rutgers lirden Reporter all the laurel in this yi'ar is white Brs 11 is pink. a is?" ousjht on a letter Briilm'ton Gardner ask jadv ii'i on other sub up an interesting fcral. according to Don home horticul plilt at Rutgers, thi Ing you can blami jealhor. Heather, such as we've foring, nukes the ret almost any plan p.

allowing other col through. laurel may have been less white in Sout ll pink in some fer parts of the Gar I Hay 'Wash Out' pculturists, knowin lai-redness of red i jlher, rarely recom I rwi and bronze shade that bloon tb- because the out." example, probabl the to many ham a Japanes "lay turn more there in th time, but yo 'I until summer' ll the red fade. Thi red maples is mor way, amon 'rom seedlings tha produced by graf of a gradu applied a when progres enhncp tax rate on the amount a received. tinued the operation in the lace of a new difficulty England's decree that Am- iartet. On December mcan manufactures must cease.

men kept blowing. New Jersey's Governer Blecher wrote in 1752 that he could get no information on the Wistar plant because "the undertakers are very close and secret." Belcher noted that the plant 'had ibeen started by "one Caspar, a German who lived at Philadelphia" but he learned very little beyond the fact that Wistar had risen from "a very poor person" to a "fortune of 200 to 300 pounds sterling." Workers came and went at Wistarburgh. Despite promise -to teach the Wistars and "no one else," the origin a 1 Rotterdam blowers trained helpers. These, in turn, moved outward into other parts of southern New jersey, to Pennsylvania and northward to New England. Wistarburg'h has rightfully been calle.i "the mui American gin A 17G9 advei ed continued output in the Wtjtar "plant gtwt consisting of common tiTitff "lamp glasses" "'most of bottles." also electrofytaf globes and tubes Colors inged from eietr to 1 ceen id amber Sum.

practical economics rauwht up with jartlculftrly when the Revo- ution crippled all American manufacture Wistar glass declined and 111 1780 Wistar tried unsuccessfully to sell the works, 1.500 acres of land. 'ft large mansion house" and other buildings, Wistarburgh ended forever in 1782 and the passing years have removed all evidence at the site. All that remains of America's first successful glass enterprise is memory- or an occasional and ex tremely valuable bottle marked with a large I Copyright 1984. STATE OF NEW JERSKY TERCENTENARY COMMISSION. Wistar's first fame and modest fortune rested on the ne brass buttons that he made in Philadelphia.

Howver, when he acquired land Salem County in 1738, 'he oon recognized that the ombination of fine sand and lentiful woodlands could add to glass IF he could et blowers. He had little cause for op- Imism, for glass manufac- ure didn't exist in America in 1738. Ventures started arlier at Jamestown, and Salem, had fail- because basic skills were acking. Hence the four who arrived 1738 wera, gretted with all he attention usually reserved or visiting dignitaries. As hey headed for Salem with their glass pipes in hands and knowledge their heads, William Went zel.

Casper and John Halter and Simon Kreismeier were better than potentates. They were magicians: they could sand into glass. Casper Wistar and his son Richard greeted the Rotterdam workers, made them omfortable and extracted a promise. The glass 'blowers would teach the Wistars and "no one else" the secrets of their trade. In return, the blowers would receive one-third of all profits.

With the amenities out of the way, work began. The blowers made alterations in the factory, changed the formulas a bit and lit the Ares. Soon the molten sand ran white hot and the workers dipped their pipes, delicately picked out blobs of and bekaJi to blow. Such magic! From their pipes came bottles, igoblets, demijohns and even flat glass fit for window janes. More important, from iheir pipes came distinct proof that fine glass could ae blown In America, de spite the original failures elsewhere.

The New World's first successful glass rnanu factae lhad begun. The success prompted other immigrants to make their way into the Salem wilderness. 9y 1743, at least SouUl Slre et HORSE SIZES AND SHAPES The unit of measure known as a hand, used in measuring horses, is four inches. Size figures are based on measurements taken from Ihe ground to the top of a horse's withers, the rounded bony ridge where neck joins shoulders. According to thp Book of -Knowledge, saddle horses average about 15 or 16 hands high, whereas draft horses may reach 18 or 19 hands.

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Invest In Your Future invest in an Olympia portable! a breeze to operate finest advanced features ptrcisionbuilt quality hundy carrying case yours lor Just pennies a day Guaranteed 1 to 2 years 59 50 TO HY-GRADE TYPEWRITER STATIONERY CO. Phone JE 9-3866 some of the Kotterdam glass L. F. WESCOTT blowers 'had secured for that year a Catholic priest visited the site and baiptized Ma-rtin Alter, the son of John and Catherine Alter. Wistar built a general store at the glass worts and the thriving little town of Wistarburgh rose around the smoking furnaces.

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