The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-01
ADDITION OF $4,000
TO The CAPITAL STOCK
Stockholders Of the AIIen-Higgins Wall
Paper Company Vote to Issue New
Stock to Bear Seven Per cent Interest
WORCESTER CAPITAL INTERESTED

tertaining because there are few plants
of the kind in this section of the coun-
try and there is not one in the coun-
try that is SO well equipped for turn
ing out the pest grade of goods. There
are some whose capacity is larger but
there is no other factory in the country
that can do some of the work done in
Worcester. No other plant in the
country can print q wall paper wSose
designs contain more than twelve col
ors. The Allen Higgins Company plant
has press which can print a design
containing sixteen colors. 1t is the only
machine of the kind in the country
and the beauty Of the combinations 1t
can turn out has had a lot to do in
giving the company the position it now
holds in the wall paper trade.
The specialties of the company made
possible by this giant of wall paper
machines are rapidly becoming known
among the wholesalers and the jobbers
and there is a steadily increasing de-
mand for them. Heretofore the lack
of capital has prevented the company
from pushing it's product as it would
like but now 1t can safely be said the
great variety of goods will be brought
to the attention of every jobber doing
business.
The output of the plant includes white
blanks, grounds, damasks, color bronz-
es, embossed bronZes, tapestries, silk
stripes, bragas, veloutines, vanished
tiles illuminated metallic effects, Gre
tonnes with matched drapertes, satins,
and panel borders with corner pieces
for side wall or ceiling ornamentation.
No other concern in the country can
turn out the machine-made panels and
the Worcester company's watered-silk
effects are a feature of the trade. Eight
other American concerns are trying to
make these beautiful effects but the
Worcester factory is securing better re-
suits and is outselling all its competi-
tors in this line. Its vanished tile pa
per for special use in bath rooms Is
another feature of the trade that Its
competitors cannot quite reach. 1t has
the best tile racks in the country ant
this enables 1t to turn GU 5000 rolls {
day-a big job when 1t is considered
that the paper as 70 be printed ant
vanished and the varnish allowed t
dry.
No other concern in the country
making the same grade of goods turns
out so much and even the large output
of the Worcester company can now be
increased The working force Of the
company averages 200 employees, whose
daily output averages from 10000 to
Ao,ObU IOllS he pldIll CdI ne EASILY
equipped TO turn out 10000 rolls a day
And all this is in high grade goods
The company gives none of its time
to producing very cheap grades of
wall paper because there is a big mar
ket for the best goods and the com
pany is striving for this trade.
1t is well on the road to success and
its travelling men are sending in daily
orders for goods to be shipped 20 new
fields. The paper sells almost on sight.
the beauty of it's coloring and its art
istic design and handsome finish ap-
pealing at once to the taste of the
home decorators throughout the coun-
try
The company has now ready for next
years trade about 5000 different COM
binations. OF course these are not all
different designs, but the color com
binations that can be and are worked
into one design make it ljoK like a
new thing. The sample 90 oks for next
years trade contain a bewildering as
sortment of colors and designs and
when they are sent on the road, Wor-
cester notoriety will get up another
peg.
The company has not brought fame
to Worcester in a new line of trade
alone. 1t has added another branch to
the tree of skilled labor and most Of
the company's employees are highly
paid because the nature of their work
is such that it requires men IF brains
to do it. This branch will continue to
grow as the business expands on the
lines mapped out by the newly organ
lied company.