Show WHERE BROKEN GLASS CLASS GOES opening for tho the theatrical season increases the demand for it did you ever think ot of what becomes of all the glas alasi broken in a glass class factory asked the man with the cigarette as lie ho filled one of his pockets with matches from the safe on the table the remark was made apropos of 0 nothing and tn the speaker waited united as it if he be expected some one to ask him about it but no one L did and 11 he continued 1 I was passing a glass factory on clark avenue yesterday when hen I 1 saw several battels filled with broken glass being loaded into a wagon aly pieces ranged front from the size of a mans mana hand down donn to fragments no larger than ft a dime perhaps I 1 have noticed it ft at all had bad I 1 not heard the driver say to the man who mho was rolling roll liis the barrel into the vehicle bo be careful there and dont break that all to pieces struck me as q queer toner considering si tho the tact fact that the glass was apparently useless and curiosity took me inside tho the fao factory Lory where I 1 asked a fellow about it and do you know the factory gets a a pretty good price when you think that it would be thrown away if you were acro running the factory and know your business yes lie ho says to me trado trade in brokon broken glas la Is pretty good just now you see nee all the theaters arl are opening up and they lift ne e a supply on hind hand all the time what for tora why dont you know no farce comedy I 1 Is 9 complete unless some one jumps ahr through a window A A play xa without that in it IL take at all it u wound be in direct violation of stage tradition and when the villain or the ibe hero or the irish comedian jumps through the oiled paper window panes and you hear the sound of 0 breaking glass d ont dont you ever flauro flog euro out where here the glass glasa that is broken comes from well do you know now gentlemen the way the fellow put that question to me I 1 actually felt ashamed ofay ignorance lie he asked me ina if I 1 thought the stage hands broke plate glass mirro mirrors seven nights n a week meck with three mat mati I 1 nees I 1 wilted and then ho he took pity on me it seems that all tho the broken glass Is sold to tho the theaters the variety houses have to have a big supply for nearly t very every week soure some one Is supposed to f fall all through a NIn window dov with a glassb glass b breaking reek I 1 ng accompaniment the society di dramas janots dont have so much of title this and it take much to supply them b but where the aque nourishes Rs ita a poor show that use ue up lip a dozen barrels a week with daily matinees mati nees the glass Is taken to the ta Upa anto tir r and stored tn in the cellar whon when ft t Is required it la Is shoveled d into a box and taken to the istace different theaters have different mays eye ot t breaking the glass but the best beat Is 71 that at 11 in uso use in two of the best beat houses n in this city 11 the they hate hai e abig a big box with anith ancron an iron plato plate about EL a toot foot frum from the bottom of it a sort of false bottom as it were this Is to present a dead break at the time when the window Is to he broken approaches a stage stae hand with a shovel ful of glass stands ready for tho the cue it comes and the glass Is thrown into the box with as aa much force as aa ble it if the work Is well done the effect t as heard beard by tire audience Is i lar imor to that produced by a a window ieng broken now ef ct course the sound Is riot not the carric but you notice that vo when hen I 1 tap ion this empty gless class an entirely different t sound Is heard than B M hen rut but some one sake him it if ho he prefer to experiment with a full elau class and he stopped akin talking st louls louis globe democrat |