There once was a pipe company in my town ?

[WNYTONY]

Our newspaper does a Turning Back the Clock column where they post stories from the old newspapers from 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago.
This one was in today's paper - from 1915. Apparently there was once a pipe company here ?
I wasn't thinking of smoking pipes until I saw "briar from France and Italy". That means smoking pipes, right ?
25,000 pipes a day in 1915 sounds like a large number though ?
Any thoughts or anyone ever heard of WH Utter & Son ?
Just thought some of you pipers may be interested in seeing this.

[Tobias Lutz]

That's awesome, Tony. Get to researching now

[AndyCAYP]

Wow! Ok, I need to track down one of these pipes! I have a cigar box from the company that was here in Warren for a few decades, and now I'll need a pipe from the place just up the road from me!

[WNYTONY]

That's awesome, Tony. Get to researching now

Sure thing - just tell me which library she is at and I am there !

[cbr310]

I think that library is haunted! looks like a ghost on the walkway! I did a quick search cause now I'm curious and nothing much came up except that brick expansion building.

[WNYTONY]

I saw a note on one website that was a register listing of some sort that had it listed as a pipe factory. But I think the listing was much later - like the 40's and have no idea if it is still around. The notation right after this one referenced the area population at something like 15,000 so 25,000 pipes a day just seems huge !?!

[Emperor Zurg]

I think that library is haunted!

Good place for a bowl of Haunted Bookshop maybe...

[AndyCAYP]

I saw a note on one website that was a register listing of some sort that had it listed as a pipe factory. But I think the listing was much later - like the 40's and have no idea if it is still around. The notation right after this one referenced the area population at something like 15,000 so 25,000 pipes a day just seems huge !?!

Most likely they were selling to another outfit (like a catalog), that would explain the production volume. I Google searched last night and there isn't much online about them, but I do see they lasted at least through the 40s.

Tony, do you have a historical society? A trip over there may be warranted... If you don't, I can always pop over to ours. I'm not sure how far outside of Warren County they venture, but they might at least have contacts for someone better versed in the history of your area.

[WNYTONY]

Most likely they were selling to another outfit (like a catalog), that would explain the production volume. I Google searched last night and there isn't much online about them, but I do see they lasted at least through the 40s.

Tony, do you have a historical society? A trip over there may be warranted... If you don't, I can always pop over to ours. I'm not sure how far outside of Warren County they venture, but they might at least have contacts for someone better versed in the history of your area.

Catalog ? in 1915 ?
I think that was a typo and it was 25,000 a month or year. 25,000 a day with 100 workers is 250 per employee with no real production equipment...

I'm sure we have a historical place in town. If I get a chance I'll see what I can find out, but now you're asking me to actually move my butt and do something.
I just figured you pipers know it all !

[AndyCAYP]

Catalog ? in 1915 ?
I think that was a typo and it was 25,000 a month or year. 25,000 a day with 100 workers is 250 per employee with no real production equipment...

I'm sure we have a historical place in town. If I get a chance I'll see what I can find out, but now you're asking me to actually move my butt and do something.
I just figured you pipers know it all !

I agree about the typo. That said, who knows, they could have been mass-producing pipes (even at 25k a month) & sending them to Sears or something like A&P.

I find it odd that there's little mention of them online outside of references to this article and one notice in the 40s. You figure a place that had to have produced a few million pipes over the years would leave something behind more substantial than a newspaper clipping.