The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-09-05
Additions to Four of the larg.
est Local Manufacturing
Concerns Will Increase the
Number Of Working Men.
THESE IMPROVEMENTS
ARE NOW BEING MADE
One Thing That Handicaps 10.
cal Manufacturers in Sc
curing New Men Is the
Shortage of Houses.

INDUSTRIAL COuOlIIOuS OL eu0 City
lead commercial organizations to be-
lieve that within the next year Rich
mond will have made the biggest per
cent Of gain in population 1t has ever
made in one year in the last fifty.
Additions to factories will be respon-
sible for the growth 1t is believed.
The principal additions now in pro-
gress of construction are being made
by the Starr Piano company. the Am
ertcan Seeding Machine company and
the Wayne Works. The Richmond
Underwear company Is erecting q
large factory on North Tenth street
and It too will bring several addition
al families to the city.
Factories Handicapped. y
Wh1le the factories have the work
they are handicapped in inducing Ia.
borers to locate here because Of the
scarcity Of houses and even now con-
ditions are such that many tradesmen
with families stay but short time
and 60 to other cities where they can
1nd residences for their families.
However. local capitalists are now
investing their money in residence
properties.
At the Starr Piano factory, a five
story factory building Is now in pro-
cess Of construction. It 10 estimated
200 moro employees may find work
when the building 10 opened. The
American Seeding Machine company
10 constructing large ware houses on
North Thirteenth street to replace the
present ware rooms in order that
these may be converted into factory
space. An addition to the foundry is
about completed and within the next
six months 10 estimated that at least
two hundred more men may be add
ed to the force. The addition to the
foundry at the Wayne Works was,
like all the other improvements neces-
sitatetd because the company did not
have the space to put out its work
One Of the representatives Of the
company refused to discuss the i'm
provement Monday morning, think
ing It was q purpose to adver-
tise the plant. It is understood
though that the addition will accom-
modate at least fifty more mold
ers. including their helpers. The
foundry 10 located on Sixteenth and
North G streets. 1t is Of brick con.
struction.
The new factory building of the
Richmond Underwear company on
North Tenth street and d. is going up
rapidly and will be completed before
January I. It will furnish employ
ment to nearly q hundred girls al.
though quite . number Of men will
be employed and these probably will
come from other cities.
improvements At caar's.
Gaar. Scott 4 Company 10 ready to
start on the construction Of an addi.
tional building to their plant as soon
a. certain conditions are removed
The company plans to devote the new
building to the manufacture Of gaso.
limo engines for threshing machine
outAts. It 10 estimated that two hun.
dred Of more men viii then find EN-.
ployment at the factory. These ma.
chimes are now being made by the
company outside of the city.
| With the completion Of the addi
tions to factories already started and
the enlargement Of the Gaar. Scott
4 Company. total employment to al
least seven hundred men will be Civ
en-. Commercial organizations find on
Investigation that even q tenth pei
cent OF this number Of laborers are
not now available In Richmond, 70,
al men who desire work have It
Forces OF several Of the larger factor
les have been increased this summe,
and the men were imported.