The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-10-26

The organization of great syndicate
for the manufacture and marketing of
hosiery and underwear was completed
here today and announcement is made
of the incorporation of The Black Cat
Textiles Company, whose offices and
sales Offices will be in Kenosha and
which will control a number of import
ant plants for the manufacture of
hosiery and underwear in this and
other cities of the country The new
organization is incorporated IN the
state of Delaware with a capital stock
of three million dollars and it is an
nounced that it is to be financed by
Kenosha men. Charles Chester len,
who has been The pt sidssf& 3f She
Chicago Hosiery Company in
Kenosha and under whose management
the company has built up a great bust
ness, is to be the president of the new
syndicate. Announcement is made
that the company has today purchased
the plants Of the Chicago Kenosha
Hosiery Company in this city, com
pany with capital stock of six humid
red thousand dollars and known as the
largest stocking-making plant in the
world, employing more than fourteen
hundred people, and also the plant of
The Cooper Manufacturing Company at
Bennington, VT, company with a
capital stock of five hundred thousand
dollars, which employs more than seven
hundred operatives. At a meeting of
the stockholders of the Chicago
Kenosha Hosiery Company held this
morning the formal transfer of the
plant to the new syndicate was made
and the deal for the purchase of the
big eastern plant was consumated at
the same time. 1t is said that the new
company paid between six and seven
hundred thousand dollars for the
Cooper plant and no price is given out
on the purchase of the Kenosha prop
erty. The Black Cat Textiles Company
will take possession of the Kenosha
plant at once and it will take over the
plant at Bennington early in November.
Charles Chester Allen, Robert w.
Allen and Roger N. Kimball who have
been prominent in the management of
the Kenosha plant, will be prominent
in the new organization and A J.
Cooper, who has been at the head of
the big eastern plant, will remain with
the new syndicate for an indefinite
time. He is one Of the oldest men in
the underwear manufacturing business
in the country as he had been in
charge of the plant at Bennington
since it's incorporation in 1886. The
new company will also take over the
plant of the Chicago Kenosha Hosiery
Company at Sheboygan which was
opened less than year ago, but which
already employs a large number of
operatives and which has been growing
very rapidly. 1t is stated that the
syndicate may in the near future effect
the purchase of other plants of
similar nature in other portions of the
United States.
The officers of the new company are:
President, C. c. Allen; vice presidents,
R. n. Kimball, E. J. Hansen, A. J.
Cooper; secretary, Robert W. Allen;
treasurer, E. L. Shippe; assistant secre-
tary and assistant treasurer, G. H. Gus
It's; the directors include, in addition to
the officers, John H. Brine and A. ].
Burke
All of the plants taken over by the
syndicate will be enlarged and extend
ed. They will all be managed from
central office in Kenosha. The men
now in charge of the plants win re-
main and it is announced that the COM
panv will make no radical change in
the policies under which these plants
have been operated. The financial
management and sales departments for
all plants will be carried on from cen
trail offices in Kenosha.
The taking over of the Cooper plant
blythe Kenosha syndicate viii abe sof