The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-10-22
HERE GOES /!
The Works of the Perrin Manufacturing
Company Move Along.

AOIllpdIly 4NAONS
Monday witnessed the starting and per-
manent establishment of another enter
prise that will be of general interest and
benefit to the people of Kenosha. At
nine o'clock the big wheel in the engine
room of the Perrin manufacturing COM
pany began to revolve and with it the
machinery used for the construction OF
husk mattresses began to move and the
male and female employees of the institu-
ton watched with eager interest the turn
ing out of the first mattress of this kind
in Kenosha. Every piece of machinery,
worked smoothly and every employee
worked in common sympathy with it,
Before dusk the first load of mattresses,
with Hansen & Becker's driver, Frank
Mckenzie and a TELEGRAPH-CoURIE
reporter perched on top, drove into town.
Mr. Perrin kindly took us through the
factory and explained every piece of ma
chinery The lower floor of the main
building is occupied and used exclusively
for the mattress department This part
of the establishment is 54x175 feet long.
II contains four patent stuffing machines,
hair, moss and cotton pickers, and self
feeding sewing machines for sewing the
mouths of the mattresses as they are.
stuffed. In the north east part of the
lower floor is the sewing room where
thirty girls and women feed as many
Wheeler s. Wilson sewing machines and
make the ticks. These machines have
capacity of 1900 stitches minute and are
moved by steam. From the sewing room
| the ticks are taken to the mattress room
where they are filed by means OF this
patent suffer that we mention. 1t works
on similar principal to the common sau-
sage suffer but the beauty and use of the
product is something different. From the
suffer it is taken to the self-feeding sew
ing machine where the end is sewed up.
Then the tick withaits contents is taken to
the mattress maker where they are
stitched and tufted and sent to the pack
ing room where they are made ready for
shipment.
The second floor Of this main building
is the feather department where feathers
| are taken in the raw state quilted, cleaned
and made into pillows and ticks. Ex-
perts say that this feather room is ar
ranged to better advantage than any other
| in the United States The steamer used
for steamng the feathers is the largest in
the world We might say that Mr.. Per-
rim is authority for the statement that -
uses nothing but the domestic feather
that the American goose feather is supe-
rior to all others with the single excep-
ton of the Elder duck which produces
very fine and costly down. Scattered
here and there over the premises are the
primary departments commonly used in
all manufacturing establishments. In
one Of these is the common dirty rags
which come in bales and are put into
machine and before they appear in anoth-
er room are cleaned, medicated and come
out a mass of woody stuff perfectly clean
and healthy. This woody matter is used
in the construction of the mattresses.
The refuse is carried to another room and
after much is accumulated is sent to the
paper manufacturers where it is made in
to white paper. Mr.. Perrin will run 100
hands winter and summer and his inStitu
ton will be marked advantage to our
city Mr.. Frank Luther, is able lieuten-
ant viii personally look after the bust
dess. Their capacity will be 900 mat
tresses daily, Their pay roll amounts to
ST, 200 week and this money distributed
in Kenosha by one hundred thrifty men
and women means quite an item to the
city. They are generally well to do me-
chanics and will no doubt assist great
deal in building up a pretty residence
portion of the CITY,