Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-06
LARGE ANNEX
70 SILK Mill

+. Q. Hartman, proprietor of the
Nemoloton Silk mill, will break ground
at Riverside today for a large annex
to the parent plant in this city. which
will give the residents on the South
Side prosperous industry and enable
Mr.. Hartman to provide for his con-
stantly growing business.
The news of this new move of Mr..
Hartman was sprung upon the people
as sort of a surprise. Seated in his
home last night the proprietor of the
famous group of silk mills explained
to representative of this paperhow it
happened that he decided to build in
Riverside. 1t is fact, he said, that a
large proportion of his most proficient
help live in Riverside. Many of them
have a mile and half and upwards to
walk each morning and evening, which
is tiresome enough in fair weather, but
which in stormy weather, taking the
open bridge into account, becomes a
positive hardship. Mr.. Hartman said
he had been considering the welfare of
these faithful young people for some
time and that in selecting site in
Riverside for his annex he was actuat-
ed solely by desire to provide en-
ployment for them in the locality of
their homes.
The site selected for the Riverside mill
will be two-acre tract at the lower
end of the borough near the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, which was formerly
occupied by the Vulcan Iron Works
and later by the brick manufacturing
plant. The several brick structures,
fairly commodious in size, which oc-
cupy the site, will be of no account to
Mr.. Hartman and they will all be raz-
ed to the ground and an entirely new
and modern structure will be built
suitable for silk manufacture.
The new building will be of brick,
one story high, of slow burning con-
structon. 1t will be 1870 feet long and
| fifty three feet wide. Additions will
be made from time to time as fast as
additional help can be procured. As
Mr.. Hartman has planned, no limit
can be given either of the final size,
nor of the cost or capacity of the plant.
These are matters that will depend
wholly upon the question of help. The
Riverside annex will reach out for ev-
cry available boy and girl on that side
of the river, and the full limit of its
expansion will be determined only by
the number of operatives that can be
procured,
Mr.. Hartman has the finest and most
prosperous group of silk mills to be
found in this State or probably in any
State. The demand for his product
renders constant expansion necessary.
The present year nothing less than
two new silk mills will meet the de.
mand. 1t is with Mr.. Hartman mat.
ter of elf-eongratulation that he sees
his way clear to place one of these new
industries near the parent plant sc
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wages right here among our own peo-
pie goodly sum of the money he re-
ceives for his product.
Mr. Harman's policy is to always
keep on training help. He already has
large number of hands, fairly vel
skilled, who will be well qualified tc
step in at the Danville plant and take
the places of the Riverside operatives
when the annex ON that side of the
river is finished and their services are
needed there. He is still employing
more hands daily to meet the increas
ed demand for help that will be pre-
sented by the Danville and Riversid,
plants. There are 800 hands employed
in the mill here at present.
Work on the Riverside annex will b,
pushed just as fast as possible. Ston,
will be delivered at the site yet tn,
present week and Mr. Hartman hope
to have the plant finished and in op
Grafton inside of sixty days.