The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-11-28
MAkEGL0VESATH0 HOME
New Factory Develops From
Home-Industry Movement.
TO USE PUGET soUND HIDES
Decisive step IN Policy OF Fostering
small Observation-Disclosures
Covers the State.

Seattle is to add 10 her already long list
Of industries . glove factory. To be more
accurate, the glove factory has been estab-
lished. At the meeting or the trustees OF
the Chamber or Commerce yesterday Sec
rotary Tracy II. Robertson reported hat
the glove factory had been definitely To-
Gated in this city. that the machines were
being put in yesterday. and that the fac
tory would begin active operations imne-
diately.
The establishment OF this factory Is the
direct result OF the home industry move
ment- Shortly after the publication in the
Post-Inteiligencer OF the first article on
pa~tronizing home industries. G.. S. Pear
son and NJ. b. Pearson, OF Stanwood, the
projectors OF the glove factory, came TO
this city. and calling az the Chamber OF
Commerce. stated that they had been at
tracted here by the manifest intention OF
Seattle 10 build up manufacturing. They
were at once offered the most favorable
terms, including the choice OF any one or
three sites for their factory. OF these they
accepted what they thought the most
available. the old custom house rooms in
the Hibhard * Norton building on the
Yesler wharf.
The factory Will turn out an excellent
quality Of heavy buckskin gloves, suitable
for millmen, founders. stevedores and
longshoremen. motormen and conductors,
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heavy outdoor work. The pelts are Sc
cured on Puget sound and are tanned by
Hibbard e. Norton. so that the whole in
dIstry, from beginning 10 end. is truly a
home Industry. Another feature OF the
enterprise will be its aim to develop a
home market: and while its output at
first will be small, IL win adapt itself
readily TO any enlargement that MAJ be
found necessary. The policy OF the Sound
cities has been heretofore 70 figure on
miHion-dollar plants, with the result, in
TOO many Instances, OF a failure to estab-
Hsh any plant whatever. The present pol
icy OF the Chamber OF Commerce Is TO
secure the establishment OF small concerns
and by giving them good facilities for
gaining a foothold TO build them up into
large concerns by utilizing and developing
home patronage, and thus TO educate
skilled labor from among home people.
The ultimate idea Of the home industry
movement was brought out at the meet
ing OF the trustees yesterday. when the
following resolution, introduced by George
w. Hummer, was unanimously adopted:
I'm furtherance of the home industry
movement in the city OF Seattle. and be-
lieving that such beneficial results as
have already followed therefrom can be
extended to a broader field TO the further
direct benefit OF Seattle, It is
Resolved. THAT the Seattle Chamber of
tAtiiAtEfCe, nearby iUIbfSfilZ ne patronage
by citizens OF Seattle OF all local manu-
facturers and producers. or equal terms
and conditions. recommends that in the
event that such local manufacturer or
producers can not or do not supply the de-
mand. the patronage OF the citizens OF
Seattle be given In such cases. first 10 any
manufacturer or producer within the
state OF Washington. or IL the demand
cannot be supplied from within the
state, that preference be given to any Pa
ciac coast product as against any i'm
ported article from any other section,
equality IN prices. terms. quality and con
citions always being a conditional pro-
viso IN behalf OF the onsume
\. Amunds, vice-pTesident OF the Scan
dinavjan-American bank. was elected to
membership in the chamber.
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