Show MAKING OLA GLASS DIG BIG INDUSTRY Important Phase of Auto Auto- Automobile Automobile Automobile mobile Business In Its Its I Manufacture An interesting Instance here one Industry serves another Is seen Hen In the connection bet between een the plato pinto glass glau Industry and the automobile business eys W A Roe Ross Rosi of ot Reed Ross Payne co local dealer In Durant and Stars Cars Car The The automobile Industry Is less dependent on the plato plate lass glass Indus indus- industry Industry try than the glass glais t factory upon the tho automobile The Tho best automobiles large and small make use of ot Plato glass Klass for Cor windshields and windows s the I ho plate glass Industry might not prosper continuously with Ith out the automobile manufacturing Plate glass manufacturers acre w formerly dependent upon the build build- building building ing Industry for tor the sale ale of ot theft product and the building industry is eema to ha hate ha I Its lis ups and 10 downs donna ns Tho The periods of ot lull In construction construction tion lion m meant ant Idleness for tor the plate glass plant plants and put them to great Ireat expense In keeping their forca fores to- to to Plate glass workers be skilled craftsmen with intimate know lodge ledge ot of delicate processes s sI I i Then came the automobile At first only windshield 1 glass gliM nos 0 needed but soon the closed car came into Inlo common use uio and required required required ed largo large quantities ot of o the finest quality of plate glass C Even Cen en the transparent Isinglass or celluloid window panes In the rear ot or the tops lops of ot open cars were erB replaced by b plate glass This This worked further conom economy for the pines plants Of at the many heets of ot plate glass few are Cla- Cla flaw flawless less The size of ot windshield and auto aulo glass being small tho e manufacturers could make perfect small pieces out ot of Imperfect larg larg- larger larger er 81 sheets of ot glass little wastage The The plate glass mills of ot to today ay find that the automotive e demand for tor their product Is the mainstay ot of their business with the building trade trado a convenient 1011 accessory to prosperity Some dome automobile manu manu- manufacturers manufacturer manufacturers on a large scale have found It ad advantages to own plate te glass plants A A recent acquisition ot or Durant rotors Motors Interests was the American Plato Plate glass clan Company of ot Kane Penns Pennsylvania whose plant Is the sole Industry of ot James City a near near- nearby nearby by village grownup grown up about the glass Ilus factory The population of ot James City made up principally of ot glass work work- workers workers ers receive with alth Ith joy the news that the American Plate te Glass Company has joined the Durant industrial family They express the opinion this Is the best move moe made bythe by bythe the comp company ny since Its organizAtion In If 1906 OS and eagerly follow Collow news ot of W C Durants Durant's activities |