The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-28
NEW BLACKCA
BUILDING TO
Be DEDICATED
Formal Opening to Take
Place New Years Eve
EMPLOYEES ENTERTAIN
New Model Factory open for inspec.
ton by Public on Afternoon
of January I.

The Black Cat Textiles company
will formally open their new mill on
. Scott street on New Years Eve with
an entertainment for the employees
and their friends. Dancing on the
fifth floor will begin at s o'clock and
continue till IL, with Hurleys orches-
tra in attendance. Refreshments
will be served by Spaulding of North
Adams Plans are under way for
some sort of vaudeville entertain.
ment. details of which will be given
later Admission will be by ticket
one OF which will be given to each
employee and will admit two people
The Office force and the foremen OF
the various departments will act as
an entertainment committee.
On New Years Day the mill will be
open in the morning to the people OF
the tomn for inspection. The fore
men in the different departments viii
be on hand to escort visitors through
their rooms, as we'll as tho Office
force, The company cordially invite
everyone to inspect the new plant
from II to New Years Day,
The Black Cat Textiles company Of
ilenosha, Wisconsin, which took over
the Cooper Manufacturing company
last year. is now the owner of four
mills. The plant at Kenosha, where
the main Offices are located, IS used
for the manufacture Of Black Cat
hosiery, as are also the mills at She.
boygan. Wisconsin and Harvard, IIfi!
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Ground was broken for tile new
mill on June /, 1877 and on October
the second floor was turned over
TO the owners. Since that date th
floor has been used in the manhfac
ture of Nainsook underwear
The building which is made Of re-
inforced concrete, is S3 feet wide and
2SS feet long and stories high
About 65 per cent of wall area is
taken up by windows. The finished
floors are of maple. A liquid floor
hardener was applied on the first
floor as well as on all the stair treads
and landings Akier room in the
third story; washing, bleaching and
dyeing rooms in the fourth story and
tank on the roof have coating of
mastic asphalt on the floors, At each
end of the structure is built-in
tower which encloses a fight of
stairs and an elevator shaft.
Cast iron inserts for tho support OF
shafting, piping, overhead track or
any other equipment of this kind
have been laid in typical arrange
ment In the ceilings of every story
With this arrangement. it should. sell
dom be necessary TO drill the slab
and use expansion bolts. A sulphur
bleach house has been built on the
roof made of wood and the bleaching
roums have been framed SO that no
nails or any other metals are exposed
to cause rust drips on the cloth
a power house put up at the rear
Of the main building, houses the boil
ers, pumps, and one engine generator
set, the latter being for emergency
use. A well, located on the premises.
will give the plant an ample supply
of water for all manufacturing pur.
poseE
The manufacturing process in this
mill can be properly called the gray.
ity process. The fifth floor will be
for storage of yarn, and for winding
and knitting yarn, when 1t has been
received from the card room, former.
Iy the Valentine mill, across tho
river. The material then drops to
the fourth floor where It is washed
and bleached, dried and cut. The
third floor will be used for scanning
and finishing. The second floor is
| divided into two sections one side
for the manufacture of nainsook IN.
derwear and the other for inspecting,
pressing and boxing of tho ribbed
product. The first floor is to be used
for storage, packing and Offices.
The building was designed by
Lockwood, Greene and company of
Chicago and erected by tho Turner
Construction company.