The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-11-30
BUSINESS GROWS BIGGER
OCALA KNITTING MILLS ARE
STEADILY GOING AHEAD

The business of the Ocala Knitting
Mills is growing in leaps and bounds,
and this industry will, within twelve
months, be one of the largest in the
city.
George Giles, the president, is now
pushing forward as rapidly as posi-
BILE the huge two story and basement,
solid brick building at the corner of
Main and Third streets, that will be
the home of the knitting mills, before
the first quarter of the new year is
ended. Already the present quarters
are SO cramped-so filed with work
men, machinery and goods that one
can scarcely turn around in it.
A new knitting machine was added
a few days ago, another today and
another will be installed before the
first of January. This will make sew
en- knitting machines and several doz-
en- of the accessory machines, or the
smaller machines, operated by indi-
viduals, which perform the different
finishing stages of the garments.
Before the new building is ready to
occupy, there will be ten of these
knitting machines in operation and
they will be run night and day as,
while the other portions of the fac
tory is closed down, one operator can
attend to and keep the ten machines
busy, knitting the long webs of goods
for the workmen to finish up next
day, and the double shift can be op-
Grated most economically, both as to
time and labor. One man on the day
shift and another on at night can
knit as much web on ten machines as
a hundred hands can finish during
the day time.
Mr.. Harry Booth, the manager of
the factory, received a telegram late
yesterday afternoon from the fac
|tory's sole selling agents in New
York city, Cliff & Goodrich Co., ask
ing for an immediate quotation on
1000 to 5000 dozen finished garments
for one of the two greatest wholesale
drygoods firms of Chicago, a firm
whose name is known as household
word throughout the nation.
Mr.. Booth had his estimates made
and the wire off by 9 o'clock last
night, deliveries promised between
Jan. 1st and May 1st. Does this not
look like business, when an Ocala
knitting mill, not dreamed of except
by George Giles a year ago, boldly
takes an order for Chicago whole
sale house for hundred thousand
finished knitted garments. This, too,
in addition to all of it's other orders
c. B. Rouss & Co. are preparing to
give this mill "a big order.
Giles made visit to New York a
t few days ago and made the personal
acquaintance of the firm which is tax.
ing the entire product of his mill.
Cliff & Goodrich are sending the
Ocala Knitting Mills their checks for
the full amount of all invoices, just
as soon as the invoice arrives in their
office, sometimes two weeks before
the goods reach the customers, viz
freight, at their widely scattered
places of business, possibly in Savan.
nah, Philadelphia, New York, Denver
st. Louis, Texas, and so on.
The big firm is giving the knitting
mills every aid and encouragement
IS complimenting them on the super
Tor quality of their goods and says
the customers who have used then
are anxious for more, and second
orders are coming in, right along.
It is certainly compliment tc
Giles and his firm that not a single
complaint has ever come in.
1t will be joke on the 0cala mer
chants who did not want to take ony
iof these goods at first, when the op
Iportunity was offered, and before tht
output was sold in New York, wher
they begin to get Ocala knitted un
Iderwear from their wholesale houses
las they are as sure TO do, sooner o.
later, as the sun is to rise, and tht
funny part is, they will not know
they are the goats, unless by th'
lynoroe+ accident