Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-28
TOBACCO FACTORY is
|. A PERMANENT SUCCESS
Daily Output Of The Plant Is Now
Over One Hundred and
Fifty Thousand.
BUILDING TO Be ENLARGED SOON
Working Force Has Been Steadily
Increasing Since Christmas and
Nearly Three Hundred People are
Now EmpIoyed-soys and Girls
Satisfactorily Record Broken.

From a sort of experiment, will
grave question as to whether OF
not the city would ever furnish
suiicieht labor to warrant the com
pahy IN maintaining a plant here.
.ne newport News branch of the
h!herican ToDacco Company has
curing its brief existence grown and
developed into a thriving success n
permanent institution. The plant is
now source of profit to it's owners
aud Il valuable addition to the city,s
united number Of smaller indus.
tries.
When the American Tobacco Com.
psny established the factory about
a year ago it was announced that
the size OF the plant would be lin.
lied only to the supply of labor. AT
one ume the labor question became n
serious one and for months it seemed
that the branch might have to be
discontinued because of the inabil-
10y OF the management to secure
hanus. The Chamber OF Commerce
TOOK hand in the situation and
made n campaign in the interest of
ne plant, endorsing it, after q
thorough investigation. as a proper
place for boys and girls to seek en-.
ployment Even this support an.
peared to have little effect The
working force continued INADEQUATE
and the OUTPUT of the factory small
and unsatisfactory.
Boys and Girls Satisfied.
During the past few months. how.
ever there has been decided
change. Gradually the force of en-
pioyes has been increasing; salts
he'd boys and girls have told their
friends and acquaintances about the
work to be done. the good wages
to he made and the pleasant conti-
tons existing at the factory, aid
this has effected result that no
campaign by the Chamber of Con-
merce or any other body could pto.
duce
Manager f, NJ. Cabiness, und.r
whose direction the branch has ie-
come a success, states that siEce
Christmas he hes taken Tn mpye.
than fifty employees and that prize
tically all of these are doing good
work. Two or three rollers" we're
brought here from elsewhere, bu. prac-
t!cally the entire force of nearly
three hundred, which is turning out
100000 Sub Rosa little cigars"
every day, is composed of boys and
girls who live here and who have
learned the work in the local
branch.
Daily Record Broken.
A few days ago the plant estab-
lished new daily record, turning
out 10000 little cigars, boxed. pack
ed and ready for shipment. AS
soon as the weather clears M it
is expected that the working force
will begin to increase more rapidly
and Manager Cabiness proposes to
make the daily output reach the
100000 mark before Spring goes
by.
The maximum output for such
force as can be worked in the pres
ent building is about 2f5,OO0 per
day. The need of more room is
already being felt, however. and the
company is now arranging for the
construction OF sheet.iron ware
house to he located between the
factory and the Chesapeake & Ohio
tracks. The factory is on the north.
easterlv corner OF Virginia avenue
and Thirtyfourth street, at the APP
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