“The United Glass Company. Without a doubt the most prominent and largest industry of Ithaca is the above concern, which is one of the largest and best arranged glass works in the country. The main furnace buildings are 100 x 205, 100 x 100, 75 x 100 feet in dimensions and contains two eight-pot and two ten pot furnaces. There are two flattening and annealing buildings each 90 x 125 feet, while the two buildings occupied by the cutting and packing departments are 10 x 150 feet each. The engine rooms, mills for grinding the crucible material and the box shops are 40 x 115 feet. The crucible buildings where the melting pots are made are two-story structures 40x125 and 40 x 60 and the batch houses are 38 x 62 and 30 x 60 feet each. Both single and double-thick patent white crystal sheet glass is produced, the works being built according to the most improved plans for the economical production of a superior quality of glass, and furnish when running, full employment to 250 men. The works were formerly known as the Ithaca and Washington, but two years ago were consolidated and became part of the United Glass Company, who control in different parts of the country nineteen other works. The works here are in charge of Mr. B. F. Slocum, an expert glass worker, and under his wise and able management the future prosperity of these works seem positively assured.”
J.A. Miller, Ithaca NY as a City of Residence and Manufacture, Elmira, NY: Telegram Co., Printers, 1891, 41