Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-21

plant consists of misses, childrens
and Mckay shoes and in the manufac-
ture of these 400 persons are used,
$50 of whom are girls
With the new machinery, recently
installed, the company, is planning to
increase the factory's output and with
in few months it is believed that the
number of pairs finished daily will
total 1000.
Seven years ago the Kreider Com
pany built new factory here and
employed between rs and 100 men
and women. Business grew and with
1t number of people on the payroll.
New machinery was added as condi-
tions warranted and last year an ad-
dition to the building had to be con-
structed. At that time the plants out
put was only $500 pairs daily so that
to-day the output is Just about 1920
pairs more than laet year at this time.
The shoe industry has become one on
which Middletown is now relying for
the weekly payroll at the plant now
totals $4,000.
Kreider shoes are sold in almost
every part of the country and are dis
tributed by the company's own
agencies. The Kreider Company main
tains offices in New York, Philadel-
phia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and st.
Louis.
Middletown is known, too, for its
stoves. Wincroft stoves, manufac-
tured by the Wincroft Stove Works,
are known all over the county for their
quality and the $50 men employed at
the plant are kept busy turning out
the product in all seasons of the year.
| The business was started in 1856 by
Seymour Raymond. The plant at
that time was little one-story black
smithshop on the site of the present
| four-story building which is about 200
times the size of the original struc-
ture. Joseph Campbell was then
taken into the business and work was
carried on by this firm for some years.
Changes in ownership were made at
various times and the plant came to
be known as the Wincroft Stove
| Works. The present officers of the
concern are Armour w. Brennan, of
Philadelphia, president; ]. G. Balfour,
Philadelphia, secretary and treasurer:
+. NJ. Colquhoun, Middletown, vice
president and general manager. Busi-
ness under the new management is
exceptionally good and the output at
the present time is so per cent. over
the output for the same period of last
| year.
| In addition to the stove business,
| the company maintains a we'll Venti-
lated and modern foundry and in ad-
dition to its own works, castings are
made for a gas stove and gas wateH
heating company in Philadelphia.
The stove plant is among the best
located in Middletown and sidings of
both the Pennsylvania and P. & r.
railroads run to the buildings.
| Cigars are made in Middletown.
also and just now the output of the
Middletown Cigar Factory, a branch,
of the United Cigar Manufacturing
Company, is 200 daily. All of the
cigars are shipped to western States.
The business was established in Mid
dletown eleven years ago, and at one
time more than 800 girls were en-
ployed in the factory. With the open
ing of other industries in the borough,
however, girls left the place and there
is now a scarcity of help I'm the fac
tory as only about so people are on
the payroll. f. w. Buckwalter says
The would give $50 If some person
would bring him 100 girls
Industrial Middletown is completed
by q hosiery mill, owned by the II.
O. Romberger Manufacturing Com
pany, which maintains plants in New
port, LykeEs and Philadelphia. Eigh-