Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-04-02
SCHRAM MANUFACTURING CO.
WILL MOVE THEIR LARGE
PLANT HERE FROM
OSHKOSH THIS
SPRING
CONCERN WILL EMPLOY FROM
FIFTY TO ONE HUNDRED MEN
Erection of Buildings for This Plant
Will Commence as Soon as Frost
is Out of the Ground
and Will be Rushed

Ladysmi.h gets the chair factory!
This week marks the successful
elimination of Ladysmith's deter
mined effort to land the chair fac
tory of the Schram Manufacturing
Co., who have decided to remove
their plant from Oshkosh. In COM
petition with Ladysmith for the To-
cation of this plant were such cities
as Wausau, Marshfield, Rhinelander
and several others, and it speaks we'll
for the manifold advantages offered
to manufacturing establishments of
this character by Ladysmith that it
should be selected as the future
home of this progressive concern.
The Schram Manufacturing Co.,
known in the past as the A. w.
Schram & Sons Co., is a well-known
concern and has been established in
Oshkosh for many years, over
quarter of a century we are in
formed 1t was primarily to locate
where it could be near the timber,
and where the company would have
room to expand as its business de-
veloped, that the company decided TO
move, selecting this period of ebb-
tide in business as the best opportun-
ity to make such a change. Labor
troubles and inability to get neces-
sary room near their factory to per-
nit of it's enlargement, were factors
that contributed largely in deciding
the company to seek new location.
Ladysmith offered the company
everything it wanted in the way OF
satisfactory site, accessibility TO
large tracts of timber nearby, favor
able freight rates both for its man
ufactured product and for it's raw ma
terial, including coal, for the ship
ping in of which Ladysmith has
very low alexandria, route via SUI
perior. The city also demonstrated
desire to lend every possible en-
couragement for the company to To-
cate here. The water-powers adjacent
to Ladysmith, now undeveloped, were
also points the Schram company's Of
ficials took due cognizance of, for,
eventually, they plan to run their en-
tire plant with electricity.
AS soon as the frost is out of the
ground, the work of erecting the
buildings here will be commenced
and will be rushed to completion.
The main building will be solid brick
and either 1OOx150, two stories high,
or 50x15O, four stories. Ladysmith
brick will be used. This building
will be practically fire-proof There
will also be dry-kiln, engine house,
fine office and other smaller build
ings. The company will bring a train
load of machinery here.
The plant will be located on the
"Alden site," owned by the city,
which is Just couple of blocks west
of the depot.
When the company moves here
it will bring with it from Oshkosh
twenty-five or more skilled workmen
and their families. The factory Will
give employment to from fifty to
one hundred men the year around.
The Schram company specializes on
the highest grade of chairs, large
portion of it's output being of a pat
ented spring rocker, said to be the
only satisfactory rocker of the KIND
on the market. The company makes
a great variety of the most richly
upholstered chairs made in this
country.
The Schram Manufacturing Co. has
a paid up capital of 100000. While
it's principal product has been the
manufacturing of chairs, other arti-
cIes of furniture may eventually be
made here.
Three of the company's directors,
President G.. H. Young and A. G. Her.
mann. of New London, and 0. j.
Lutter, of Oshkosh, were here the
fore part of the week, concluding the
arrangements and signing contracts
to come here Mr.. Lutter is the
manager of the plant and will move
his family to Ladysmith.