The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-25
LIVINGSON HAS ONLY'QUIT
 FACTORY IN ALABAMA STATE

are always busy rolling the cased goods to the waiting freight cars. The man. ager is young man, remarkably young in view of the business success he has achieved according to gossip. He is not only heavily interested in the Living ston Manufacturing Company, but he has financial Interests in mercantile, oil mill and cotton businesses in the near by town of Epes. He is a tall young man. staiwart of figure and strong of face.
 "of course after we had decided to
 put up this plant and go into the bus mess of making comforte-s, stair pads and mattress material. we had to have an experienced man to start the busi-
 ness off,' said Manager Smith. Tt was new to this section. an fact we went
 into 1t because it was new and because we would be compelled to encounter less competition in it. So when we were ready to begin we sent north and got man who Knew the business from the ground up. We had him here a whole year. He came in to install the machinery as soon as the building was completed and he remained with us un- III the machinery was all in and our hands knew how to run it.
 , We began the enterprise sohe three years ago, but we are just finishing our second year of shipping out goods. The business has been a suc- cess from the start. Our present out put in comforters is fifty dozen a day. In addition to this we are daily turn ing out great orders for mattress ma terial and stair pads. Within the two years we have been shipping the stun out. we have trebled our output. In | other words we are shipping three times as many goods as we were ship ping when we first began business. We have had to greatly increase our
 machinery equipment and we are ex- pecting to increase our room and our facilities.
 We have to buy our comforter cov- CTS from the northern mills. They are
 made especially for us. These, as you know are made in different colors and
 are printed with variegated figures.
 We have special arrangements with the mills and our covers are printed ac- cording to our own selection of fig ; ures and colors. All other material we prepare and furnish ourselves.
 Cotton Stair Pads.
 The stair pads are made of cotton material grown and bought in this section. They are, as you know, used
 to place under carpets on stairways. We do not make mattresses here, but we make material for stuffing mat tresses. This material we sell directly to the manufacturers of mattresses. In our plant this material is made into the exact size and shape the manufac- turer orders. When he gets it he only has to sew the cover on 1t. In all this our raw material is made up of cotton and cotton lintels.
 We are convinced that we have an advantaCe-over other manufacturers of our line Of goods in our location and we are urging this advantage on the trade. We are enabled to get the best cotton grown, the cotton of the Black o1f he fnF fara xryea send out are filled with the fluffiest and cleanest Of cotton and there is no Connecticut rag shoddX in any of them to grow heavy and Hfeless after pts riod of use.
 The Aunt Sallys and the Aunt Mar thas who used to run the neighbor- hood qufltins" on the Alabama hills would open their eyes in wide aston ishment at the way quilts are turned out in the plant of the Livingston Manufacturing Company. One can fan 1 cy the astonishment of the rural Ala | bama quilt makers who used to give | "quiltins" and have the whole neigh | borhood in for a day spent at the old fashioned quilting frames hanging from the rafters of the house surround l ed by the women for miles around with needles flashing and tongues fly | ing ever faster. At the latter day | quilt making. there IS no bountecus country dinner of fried chicken, chick | en pie, fresh meats. eollard greens, corn bread, soda biscuits, pot pies and ginger cakes. The economy of modern industry makes provision for no such accompanimcnt of quilt making. Times change and the condition of today be- comes the tradition of tomorrow.
 Quilt making. where they make fifty dozen a day, is quite different from the old fashioned way in the farm house. Machinery does it all The soft | white cotton is whitted into great long bait, just as wide as comforter The long bat is run through a ma chine, given d final shape and cut into the right length. It is slapped on an- other machine and the cover is wrap | ped around 1t. Then the stitching ma chimes take hold of 1t. The comforter l is run through a fast flying macnine and stitched this way and that way until the eye can hardly follow 1t. And | in the twinkling of an eye 1t is fin- ished and the machine is ready tor more work.