The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-09-15
THE ROBBINS TABLE COMPANY.
Now Adding New Machinery and Doing
the Biggest Years Work in Its History.

Now Adding New Machinery and Doing
the Biggest Years Work in Its History.
For the last two years the Robbins
Table Company has been continuously
increasing the size of its plant by small
changes and at the same time adding to
the convenience and cheapness with
which its work could be done. Dry
kilns have been increased in size, the
main shop has been extended number
of feet, and last year fine large brick
boiler house was built, furnishing am
pie room for the convenient and econ
omical working of the duplicate sets of
boilers with which the plant is provid-
ed. At about the same time that the
new boiler house was being built a
large extension was also being built to
the south shop and elegant commodious
offices were built in the front of the lat
ter building
Just now two large machines, a
thirty inch planer and ten inch stick
er, are being put I'm place in the shop.
AS it was, the work on the machines
replaced by the two new ones has been
the work that has been continuously
behind the rest, and it is estimated that
the change will almost double the ca
pacity of the plant. The value of the
new machinery will approach one thou
sand dollars. In addition to these
changes now being made, changes are
in contemplation in the dry kiln where
by an improved process and slight
increase in the size, the capacity of the
kilns will be largely increased
Up to the present time the company's
business for this year has been the best
of any year since the beginning of its
operations. Usually a stop of two or
three weeks has been made every sum-
mer when trade was dull, and the time
was occupied in repairing and rear
ranging machinery, This summer the
company had been unable to catch up
with its orders and the longest stop it
has made was one of three days about
the fourth of July. The company Is
still behind on its orders and has had to
decline several orders for car load lots,
The entire plant was never before in
such good shape and the present force
Of nearly sixty men has never been ex-
ceeded. The pay roll amounts to lit
tie over four hundred dollars per week.
The line Of goods manufactured is
well known to nearly every Owossoite
and probably to nearly every one in
Shiawassee county as it should be.
Altho nothing but dining room tables
are made yet the Robbins patent exten-
sion tables are so far ahead of all other
styles for convenience that the com.
pany has its difficulties rather in keep.
ing up with orders than in disposing of
its finished product. And in point OF
finish and elegance of design the com
pany puts out lines which would be an
ornament to any market. In price
they are made in grades to suit the
pocketbooks of all,
The goods are marketed by CONNER.
cial travellers, none of whom travels
exclusively for this firm, however, but
all represent other companies which
make specialties of other lines of furni.
ture. Nearly all of these representa-.
tives do a good business for their Owosso
company. A feature of the business
done this year is the good collections,
if anything better than before, tho this
firm has lost very little by poor collec.
tions at any time.
The firm is one which has grown up
with the city and whose interests are
Identical with those of the city, 1t has
been one which has year by year fur.
nished a large number of families with
their means of livlihood and has been
one with whom Its employees have had
no fault to find. Though comparative
ly recently it has become an incorpo.
rated company, the management Is still,
as before, almost exclusively in the
hands of Mr.. Joseph H. Robbins, Jr.,
and his sister, Miss Charlena Robbins,
who give their entire attention to the
work, and the work is of kind that Is
q credit to Owosso.