The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-02-18
Furniture Journal Speaks in Highest
Terms OF the Plant Of The Ke-
nosha Crib Company.
RECORD IS A NOTABLE ONE
Company Has Been Engaged In Business a
Little Over Decade srd the Plant is
One of the Most Sta Bile In Kenosha.

The Furniture Journal, one of the
leading trade journals in the West, in
the issue for February pays a high
compliment to the Kenosha Crib Com
pany of this city and tells an interest
ing story of the development of the
plant during the decade that it has
been doing business in Kenosha. The
article is as follows:
what can be accomplished by two
men, with nothing to start with but
pluck, energy and perseverance, has
been demonstrated by the successful
business built up by Messrs. Fred c..
Hannahs and Johnson A. Jackson, of
the Kenosha Crib Co. Both of these
gentlemen grew up together from boy
hood; they were schoo1mates and
chums, and when they reached mans
estate they worked side by side at the
bench together, but they we're not the
kind of men to be content working for
some one else, but belong to that class
of citizens who have done so much to
build up manufacturing industry in
all parts Of this country; so in 1882
they formed partnership and began
the manufacture of cribs and cradles.
They being the pioneer manufac-
turers of this class of goods and the
first builders of cribs and cradles
fashioned after the old style trund1e
bed. They never made anything Of a
cheap or trashy character, both being
thorough mechanics; their goods from
the first were we'll constructed and
finished, so that from the start their
line of chi1dren's goods has always
set the pace and stood high in the es-
timation of the trade.
The business was continued as a
partnership for ten years, or until 1892,
when it was incorporated, Mr.. Han
nahs being elected president and Mr..
Jackson secretary and treasurer, and
they have held these positions from
that time to the present.
While the company still has large
annual output of children's goods, four
or five years ago they began to manu-
facture few cheap stands and par1or
tables. This was more or less of a
side issue, but the goods of this class
that they turned out gave such salts
faction to the trade that the demand
for them grew rapidly so their table
line has been gradually extended, UNI
til today they are making one of the
best lines of staple goods of this kind
in the country. Their factory is a
model one and is equipped with ma
chinery from the very best makers in
the country, besides lot of special
machinery that has been invented and
built by Mr.. Hannahs, who has active
charge of the manufacturing end of
| the business, and who is one of the
best a11-around factory men in the
country.
The demands Of their business has
pacity several times, and now they
have a factory, the entire length of
which is nearly $40 feet. AS long as
they have been employing labor they
have never had a strike or any labor
difficulty with their men. Both Mr..
Hannahs and Mr.. Jackson are very
democratic and are on familiar terms
with every man or boy in their en-
p1oy, and if any one working for them
has a grievance they always feel at
perfect liberty to go to either one of
them and talk it over, and, while the
entire force is under perfect discipline
any little difference or misunder-
standing that comes up is quickly adj
| justed, so that harmony prevails in
all departments.
Both Mr.. Hannahs and Mr.. Jack
son are interested in other industries
in Kenosha, Mr.. Hannahs being pres
ident of the Windsor Spring company
another one of the successful factories
in the thriving Wisconsin city,"