The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-03-16
NO CHANGE IN LOCAL WORKS
New Branch Made Necessary by Large
Increase in Business of the Company
and It Will Be Auxiliary to
the Factory in Kenosha.

LII JUST lGGIt way AcAoond 10 SO-
ing to share one Of its big industries
with Sheboygan. Announcement is
made today that the Chicago Kenosha
Hosiery company is completing de-
tails for the opening of branch at
Sheboygan. The company has closed
a lease on an entire floor of big
building at Sheboygan and machinery
is now being purchased for installa-
tion there and within a few weeks the
name of the Black Cat hosiery is 60
ing to be pretty nearly as we'll known
in Sheboygan as it is in Kenosha. The
opening of the Sheboygan branch is
something of an experiment. If She
boygan girls and women show a liking
to working in hosiery it is possible
that later on the company which has
built up the largest hosiery making
plant in the world in Kenosha, will
build plant at Sheboygan. When
the branch is opened in the northern
city the company will employ probably
fifty men and girls. superintendent j.
HI, Brine Of the Kenosha plant, has
been in Sheboygan for several days
making arrangements for the opening
Of the new plant.
"This is not in any way to effect
our operations in Kenosha," said G. G..
Allen, president of the company. eve
are just going to try out Sheboygan.
The output of the plant is being en-
larged as rapidly as possible and there
has been some trouble in getting help
enough to take care of it. We want
to see if some Of these other towns can
furnish help in such abundance as to
make branch plant a paying PROPOSE
tion. We are going to make only a
few lines at Shebogyan and the fact
that the plant is to be opened there
will not in any way take away any
thing from the Kenosha plant. /"
The hosiery company here is en-
ploying more than twelve hundred
operatives and more are being put to
work just as rapidly as they can be
secured. The company has gone out
into the highways and byways look
ing for women to work the machines
of the big plant and the advancement
has been rapid in the past few years
The Kenosha company is being feat
ured all over the country on account
of the fact that the manufacture Of
its own dyes has made it possible for
it to keep up every one of its lines
regardless of the shortage of dye
stuffs. Long tests of the dye made in
Kenosha has shown that it is fully the
equal of the German made product.
The result of this maintaining of lines
regardless of war condition has caused
the local plant to be practically over
whelmed with orders.
The Black Cat is going into places
where it was unknown before the
shortage of dye stuffs came, and it is
going into these places to stay. It is
certain that new business which has
been developed this year is to result
in a very large increase in the bust
ness of the company in normal bust
ness periods.
No date has been set for the opening
of the new branch at Sheboygan, but
it will be opened just as soon as the
machinery can be set. Sheboygan is
rejoicing greatly over the coming of
the new plant. 1t is to be congrat-
ulated as it is certain that the Kenosha
company will build up in Sheboygan
one of its most notable industries.