The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-02
Output of the WhitloCk
Brand is to be Very
Largely Increased
ONE OF GREATEST
PLANTS In COUNTRY
Capacity Will Be Nearly Million
Cigars Per Day--Proper,y
On Main Street Pur-
chased for Building
to Be Erected
at Once.

Negotiations have just been closed tor
the sale TO the American Cigar Goihpahs'
one OF the three divisions oil the great
tobacco trust. OF the property irohtihs
eighty eight feet on Main Street. begin
Ming Mt Twcnty-third and extending cast
ward. upon which site will be erected at
once II large addition that will increase
the output OF the present Whitiock branch
to nearly u million cignrs per day.
plnus Tor The addition are now being
drawn and vii! be completed very shortiy'
,rhc work OF construction viii tnen begin
q Immediately and will he rushed tnroash.
IL is Impossible at this time 10 ihuicatc
the dimensions OF the new Duildhle. Dut
II is supposed that II VIII be IN ktepihs
with the size and outward appearance
of the naInmoth main factory. whlch TX
tends for an entire block aiong GARY
Street between 1,wcnty-thifd ana i"en.y-
fourth. This factory Is SIX stories hieh
On the Cary street front ana hse " ..'s
rear. and is one OF the best constructed
nlonts az its kind in the United states.
.rhe Main street side is owned Dy y:
overmnn OF the firm OF +. Oyerman ano
son rJntcrs There are two or three
buildings ON the lot including the osei-
+ man ulaut The site begins az i"en'!
third street and runs eastward eish'y-
eight feet. tal,lng In the four huihps' huihpeis'
.3ol -3-5-7. ghe deeds have not yet pee.A @
filed and the purchase price is pot hhoW-. ~.
A high official OF the company anu at
ovcrrnan himself declined last b.sns "
state the consideration.
,rbc whitlock branch OF the American
Cigar Company is already one OF the
greatest cigar-producing factories IN the
country It's present output " apou,
eyo.0oDo cigars year. The stan Oh
cmnloyes runs IIgh up in the bunsreds.
The plant is now being taxed TO lts iuii
eapacfty. THE addition VIII require
large increase in the working force. anu
viii increase the output 10 about W.
10000 cigars year. This enormous ca
pacity VIII place the Whitiock pranch
in the very front rank OF the cigar iac-
tories OF America
New Ciragette Factories.
i, is understood here. though no ofiiciai
oo,,orn.tibn OF the report could be OBJ
iained Yesterday. that the American 10
bacco Company is now inspecting mum
ber CT cities with the view TO the iocd-
tion within the near future oil three OF
four great new cigarette factories. lness
nlants will be for the manufacture chief
II
arctic. The factories turning out the
naper wrapped cigarette are prepared to
extend their capacity to an almost un-
limited extent, and TO meet any demand,
however great. The work of making to-
bacco-wrapned cigarettes, however, IS
much more tedious and laborious, ana
requires larger working force. me
new factories result from these condi-
lions. Labor conditions will have an
important influence in determining the
location, and it is said that the scarcity
OF girls in the South VIII send all the
new plants to the North.
In this connection 1t was stated fur-
ther yesterday that it has been already
determined to establish one of the fac
tories in Philadelphia. where girls are
plentiful, and where, If the labor condi-
tions are as favorable as they are said
TO be, a smoking and chewing tobacco
manufactory may be opened in conJunc-
ton with the cigarette plant. 1t lis re-
ported that h. l.. Dunstan, head OF the
all-tobacco cigarette department of the
Allen and Ginter branch here. will be
general superintendent of the new fac
tory. and will leave for Philadelphia to-
day. Mr.. Dunstan could not be reached
Yesterday, and an official of the company
was unable to say whether or not the
story OF the Philadelphia factory is true.
He admitted that the American Tobacco
Company Is preparing to establish sew
eral new all-tobacco cigarette factories,
but doubted IL locations had been select
ed for any of them yet.
If Mr.. Dunstan takes charge in Phila-
delphia. II is said that his present posi-
ton will go to Mr.. John Walden, now
head of the paper wrapped cigarette de-
partment here. and that Mr.. Hunter
Howard, for years receiving clerk in the
Allen and Ginter branch, wul succeed Mr.
Walden.