The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-12-09
TOLARGEL YINCREAsE OUTPUT
Company Will Employ SIS Women and
Men With the Opening of Plant Here
and Hopes to Get Away from Hoo
Doc on Pleasant Street Factory.

! ANNOUNCING Jno ARRIVAL or the Wis
iconsin Macaroni company. The officials
OF the company which last July pur-
chased at bankrupt sale the plant Of
the United Refrigerator company are
in Kenosha today getting ready to start
operations in the new plant and on next
Wednesday morning the work of dis
mantllng the plant in Milwaukee will
be started and by the first day of the
new year the company will be operat-
ing in Kenosha. Il. E. King of Mil
Waukee is to be the general manager
OF the plant and it is announced that
the company will employ between fifty
and seventy-fve men and women with
the opening of the new Kenosha plant.
1t will take three weeks to provide
for the removal of the machinery Of the
company from Milwaukee to Kenosha
and during this time much new machin-
Iery will be installed. The company is
going to engage in the manufacture of
noodles, spaghetti and macaroni in Ke-
nosha and the local plant will have one
of the largest outputs of any Of this
kind in this section Of the country.
The officials Of the company are all
| Milwaukee men and it is declared that
the stock of the company is held by
just eight men and that none of it will
be for sale with the opening of the new
plant in Kenosha A. f. Hebgen is
president of the company; E. Reiser,
vice president; f. F. Gordon, secretary
and L. E. King, treasurer and general
manager. The officials of the company
have been fully advised as to the exact
nature of the hoodoo which has been
working on the Pleasant street plant
and they have declared that regardless
of this or any other hoodoo they are
coming to Kenosha to do business and
the view Of building up a great indus
try. The company has been most sue
cessful in Milwaukee. At the Milwau-
kee plant the company has used on an
Iaverage Of forty barrels of flour day
but coming to Kenosha the output will
be increased SO that the company will
use 200 barrels of flour daily. With the
opening of the local plant the company
expects to employ about forty girls and
twenty-five men. $4,000 feet of floor
space will be used for the installation
of the machinery of the company.
The officials of the company admitted
that the Pan-American Match company
had been dickering for lease of some
$4,000 feet of floor space at the plant
and that a proposition had been made
to this company. Before. the lease is
entered into the officials Of the maca-
roni company will go to the eastern
factory Of the company and make some
study of the manufacture of matches.
If it is found that this line of business
will in no way interfere with the ma
caroni plant lease will be made.
While many OF the people now en-
ployed by the macaroni company will
come to Kenosha with the plant the
company is expected to get most of its
labor in Kenosha. General Superin-
tendent Kind declared that the plant
would be wholly in keeping with other
industries in the city and that it would
be operated under most progressive
management and could at all times be
depended on to be at the front rank
Of factories of it's kind.