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in the fire that destroyed it and was not rebuilt as a glass works. This pass followed the ground past the fire as far as the sources reached, and what it adds is first the fire's own fuller telling, from the Walkerton Area Historical Society's exhibit drawn from the Independent: the blaze was spotted from the railway tower about one in the morning; it started in the salesroom, lately used as an office; the electric current had been cut three or four miles outside town, which left the water pumps useless against it; arson was suspected and never proven; and when it was over, only part of the bare walls was left standing over the works that had employed 65 hands.
Past that night, the record reached goes quiet, and the quiet is printed as found. No source reached — not the historical society's exhibit, not the directories and gazetteers banked, not the modern plant canvass — names a next use for the cut-glass ground: no successor factory on the site, no date for the walls coming down, no present occupant tied to the parcel. The succession this section asks for therefore stands half-told on the record reached: glass works recruited in February 1910, cornerstone that April, cutting from August 1910, burned out in February 1919 — and then, at the strength reached, silence. The settler for the whole question is the same pair of records that settled the fire: the Walkerton Sanborn sheets read sheet by sheet across the editions, and the Independent's own run, which reported this ground's doings while it had them.
Sources: Walkerton Area Historical Society, Central Cut Glass Co.