The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-26
LYNCHBURG FIRM
 ENTERS ST. LOUIS
CraddOck- Terry Co. Acquires Two Big Shoe Manufacturing Concerns in
 Missouri Metropolis

Lynchburg Va, April 25.-tSpeciaL)
 It was learned today from an authori- tative source that negotiations have
 just been eonsummated whereby the
 Craddock Terry company of this city acquires the large manufacturing and
 wholesale shoe business of Burrow,
 Jones SS Dyer Shoe Co. of St Louis, and
 with 1t the Kaut- Keith Shoe Co. of that
 city. This it is stated, constitutes one
 of the most important steps in the his
 tory of Lynchburg's shoe business, and
 the officers of the company are con
 fdent in their opinion that the move not only means a large extension of volume of business for the company, but that it strengthens, In many im- portant features, the already strong position of the company.
 The Burrow, Jones x Dyer Shoe cc. has an established business of more than s2, 2,500,o 900 and operates two large and successfully organized she fac tories-one in the city of St Louis and the other at Louisiana, Mo. These fac tories will be operated on lines or shoes different from those made in the Lynchburg factories. being such as the Craddock Terry Co. are no WhaY1ng made for them in New England and western factories. The deal will afford a most desirable reciprocal arrange ment between the factories located In Lynchburg and those in the west
 The Craddock Terry Co. factories in Lynchburg will supply the St. Louis wholesale house with the lines Of shoes which can be best made here; and, on the other hand, the western factories will make for the Lynchburg house the lines which have been most successful ly developed and made in that section.
 The Kaut-Reith Shoe factory. which IS also taken over in the deal, makes one of the strongest and most popular lines of misses and children's shoes in the country These shoes are made by new process, and in a very superior man. ner, and in the development of these lines particularly the company feels that there is a grat future.
 It was pointed out by one of the officers of the company that, aside from the man. ufacturing and distributing advantages furnished by this consolidation, that even more important still, in the judgment or the president and the board of di- rectors, was the fact that some of the strongest and most successful shoe men of St Louis would be interested with the and furnish the organization for the western department To be asso- ciated with the company in St. Louis. among others are w. F. McElroy and w. M Sloan, who, for. a number of years, had charge of, and through their able management developed the large manu- featuring interest of Hamilton Brown Shoe company of St. Louis.
 This consolidation opens up to the Grad dock-Terry company that large and most prosperous and rapidly growing section of the United States-the central Missis sippi valley and the southwest. including Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas-the very territory which it has been hard to serve and satisfactorily from Lynch burg. The Lynchburg house will, as here tofore, devote most of its efforts to the territory south of the Ohio and Poto- mac and east of the Mississippi rivers. while the St. Louis house will develop and concentrate its efforts on that rich and rapidly growing section of the mid dle west and southwest.
 John w. Craddock, president, and MT. George Mahon, auditor of the company, are now in St. Louis perfecting the de- tails of the consolidation