The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-08-23
Friends Of the Visible Typewriter
Company See a Great Future
for the Plant
MODEL READY FOR MARKET
Company is Said to be Considering
Plans for a Union With Another
Manufacturing Company in the
Very Near Future

People in Kenosha who have been
interested in the future of the big
Pleasant street plant of the Visible
Typewriter Co. declare that there will
be important developments at the
plant within the next few days, and
while the details of the plans have
not been made public, it is stated that
the changes will insure the perma-
nency of the institution and that in a
short time Kenosha will have one of
the biggest typewriter manufacture.
ing concerns in the country. Since
the recent trouble the plant has been
practically idle, but steps are now be-
ing made to get the men together
again and it seems certain that the
plans under considera ton will be a
success. It is stated that the plans
include the merging of the Kenosha
company with a company in another
city engaged in the manufacture of
typewriters, and that both the model
designed by the Kenosha company
and the model CT the. other company
will be turned out from the Kenosha
plant. A call at the office of the COM
pany this morning failed to bring out
the facts in connection with the deal.
The officials of the company were all
out of the city, and while it was adj
mitted that the plant would be started
within short time, the employees in
charge professed to be entirely ignor-
ant of the plans of the company.
It is stated that the company is to
take practicallya new start and that
ali obligations against the old COM
pany will be paid off before the new
regime goes into power. For the past
four months the expert machinists at
the plant have been at work on a new
model and this machine is now ready
for the market.
The Pleasant street plant has had a
stormy career during the last decade.
In that time it became one Of the big
gest bicycle making plants in the
country, and after the failure of the
Sieg company it was sold to A. d.
Meiselbach who inaugurated the man
nfacture of typewriters IN Kenosha.
Meise1bach made failure of the in
dustry, and the company was re-or-
ganized as the Visible Typewriter
company. While this company was
more successful than the former COM
pany, the venture has not proved a
highly remunerative one.
1t is claimed that the machine is
great Improvement over the old Mel
selbach machine, and that it meets all
of the demands of the users of type
writer's. AS in the past the company
will continue the effort to supply a
high grade machine at low cost, and
while the new model will not be sold
at price as low as was formerly
charged for the output of the plant, it
will be at popular price. Only a
few men are at work at the plant now
and most of these men have been
kept cusy getting out few machines
to be used as samples. Men who
seem to be in a position to know
claim that the deal for the merging Of
the plants will be completed proba bly,
next week, and at that time public
announcement will be made.
In connection with statement sent
to all creditors of the company in re-
gard to the plans for the future, the
company has sent the following state
lnent of its financial condition: