The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-12-13
ADVANCE FOR BROWN
c. C. Brown to Leave the First
National Bank to be Secretary
Of the Simmons Mfg. Co.
WILL BUILD UP GREAT PLANT
Plant to Greatly Enlarge it's Buildings
in the Next Year.-There Will
Be no Changes in the Policy
of First National Bank

A slogan for greater Kenosha was
sounded Monday by the officials
of the Simmons Manufacturing com
pany, which is to become effective on
the first of January, and which will
affect several institutions in Kenosha.
The changes will result in the Sim
mons Manufacturing company's great
plant becoming even greater, and the
First National Bank will also be
affected by the changes made.
Charles G. Brown, who has been
cashier of the First National Bank
for many years and who has been one
of the leading financial men of South
ern Wisconsin, will give up his active
connection in the affairs of the bank
to accept the office of Secretary and
General Sales Manager of the Sim
mons Manufacturing Company. E. w.
Craner, who has been forced to re-
sign his position as Secretary of the
company on account of continued Ill
health, will retire from the employ of
the company.
The resignation Of Mr.. Cramer is to
become effective on the first day of
the new year, and the other changes
proposed will take place the same
time.
Notwithstanding these changes
there will be no backward step IN any
of the institutions affected by the
change, but the progressive policy
adopted years ago will be continued.
The bank will be made stronger and
greater honor to the financial world
of Kenosha and the factory will be
enlarged so that it will be possible for
it to employ probably thousand more
men, making it the greatest indus
trial plant in southern Wisconsin and
the greatest iron and brass bed maxi
ing concern in the world.
In connection with the changes in
the off Gals of the Simmons Company
it is announced that ground will at
once be broken for the extension of
the plant and the company will spend
a very large sum of money in i'm
provements during the coming twelve
months. The plan for the greater
factory includes the erection of three
new buildings. One will be directly
west of the building now used as the
Office of the plant. The work on this
building is now we'll under way. It
will be asbuilding of brick six stories
in height and will be used for manu-
featuring and storage purposes. The
other building will be to the west of
the building built year ago and di-
rectly south of Pearl street. It will
also be of brick and six stories in
height. These two buildings will
give the plant an added six acres of
floor space.
The company will install in the new
building directly west of the present
office complete and up to date Office.
The office will be on the sixth floor of
the building and it will be connected
with modern passenger elevators.
Ultimately this Office will be the main
Office of the Simmons Manufacturing
Company and in time it will necessi-
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from Chicago. This change will
mean much to Kenosha, as it will
bring to the city many high sa1aried
men, and all of the business of the
big company being done from Keno
sha will greatly increase the postal
receipts of the city.
The third building planned is an
addition to the present engine room,
and the building will be made longer
and wider so as to make it an engine
room modern IN every respect and one
suitable for the installation of 1000
horse power, cross compound, direct
connected, electrical unit Of power.
the latest and most up to date method
of generating power. This machinery
has all been purchased and will be in
stalled just as soon as possible.
The managers of the factory are ex-
ceeding1y modest in discussing the
increase in the number of men to be
employed by the company, but it will
be recalled that at the time the
changes were made a short time ago
it was stated that the company would
add three hundred men to the pay
roll, and instead of this number more
than thirteen hundred men were
added. The present change will de-
mand at least a thousand men more.
The Simmons Manufacturing COM
pany is by far the greatest of the in
dustrial institutions of Kenosha. At
the present time the company is en-
ploying 2,30O people and during the
past year the company paid in wages
more than million and half, or
thirty thousand dollars for each work
ing week. Next year the city Of Ke-