The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-09-02
Anew BUILDINGS TO START SOON
Company Plans Erection Of Big Fac
tory Building to the North of Present
Plant and Handsome New Office
Building Early in the New Year.

The Thomas B. Jeffrey Company is
ITO have within few weeks one of
she most complete telephone systems
ever installed in plant in Wiscon-
sin or in fact in the United States as
the Kenosha Home Telephone Company
has been given the contract for pro-
viding for the connection of all the
portions Of the plant with TELEPHONE.
For some time the company has had a
private system in use in the plant, but
the new system will be connected di-
rectly, with the central Office of the
Kenosha company. Orders have been
given by the company for switch
board having capacity of eighty phones,
but at the present time only fifty -four
phones will be installed. The board is
just about as large as was used for
the whole city for Kenosha ten years
ago. The branch exchange will be
pany and the system will be put in just
like telephone system in a city.
Cables carrying fifty pairs of wire will
carry the service from one end of the
great plant to the other and the cables
will be so arranged that phones may
be added at any time. Every phone
will be connected with the general
phone system of the city, but all CON
nections must be made through the
general Offices of the company. Pri-
waite exchanges are now common in Ke-
nosha factories but the Jeffrey ex-
change will be more of a branch tele-
phone Office than any of the exchanges
installed in the past.
The plant of the Jeffrey Company
is growing by bounds and last night
Charles T. Jeffrey announced that with
in the next two weeks the company
would begin work on the erection of
another large building to the north of
the present plant. Great presses are
now being installed for the handling
of some of the parts used by the com
pany and Mr.. Jeffery states that before
another year is gone the company will
have extended it's plant as far north
as the base ball grounds. When this
land was leased to Peter Breen two
years ago it was thought that it would
hn hofopo 4bo he
needed for factory purposes, but the
growth of the plant has been so rapid
during the two years that within an
other year it is certain that the ball
players will have to be seeking some
other grounds in order to give room
for the demands of the business of the
Jeffrey company.
With the opening of another year
the company will begin work on the
new office building at the end of Park
street and this is planned to be
the most complete as well as the hand
soonest Office building ever erected for
a manufacturing plant. 1t was
planned to start this building this year
but the demands of enlargement in
other portions of the plant were so
great that the company decided to go
ahead with the more pressing work and
leave the Office building until next
year. The plans for the new Office
are now being made and it is certain
that they will be ready by the opening
of the building season for next year.
The outlook for business in the auto
mobile industry is exceedingly bright
and it is certain that as in the past
the Kenosha company will get the big
share of the business in it's class.