The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-06
Big Packing Plant Here Has
Changed Hands.
Charles Wolff To Continue the
Active Management.
TO ENLARGE THE PLANT HERE
President Hawkinson Says Inn
proyements Are Needed.
killing Department To Be
Added to Immediately.

The Charles Wolff Packing company
is now a subsidiary of the Allied Pack
ers. big independent eastern packing
concern. The Allied Packers have
just completed the purchase of a ma
jority of the stock of the Wolff Pack
ing company and are ready to assume
the control here.
1t was announced today that the
present officers of the Wolff Packing
company will continue to direct the af-
fairs of the local packing house. The
only change in the administration per-
sonnet is the promotion of B. H. Stark
from the assistant SUPPLEMENTARY to
the superintendency in place of Theo-
dore Z. Sabin.~
Sabin has recently severed his con-
pany and is now building a home on a
farm near Pauline Sabin had been
superintendent of the Wolff company
for many years
Charles Wolff to Remain
Charles Wolff will retain the active
management of the company. H. NJ.
Harris will remain as secretary.
The Allied Packers compose a big
Independent packing concern The
principal plants are located at Macon,
Ga; Detroit. Mich: Wheeling. West
Va; Boston, Mass, and Toronto, Can
ada, The president of the Allied
Packers is John A Hawkinson. for
merly vice president of Wilson & Co.
= Charles Wolff said today that ma
terial changes will probably be made
in the Topeka plant within a short
time. 1t is expected that the local
plant will be enlarged and remodeled-
Wolff would make no definite state
ment as to what the changes in the
plant would be nor would he say when
work of remodeling would begin.
Firm Founded in 1888.
The Charles Wolff Packing com
pany was organized in Topeka by
Charles Wolff. father OF the present
head OF the company. in 1883. Charles
Wolff. ST., started life in Topeka as
a butcher. He soon branched out and
went into the packing business in a
small way. In 1883 the present COM
pany was organized and since that
time it has grown from small town
packing plant to one of the model
meat packing establishments of the
middle west.
HawI1inson in Topeka.
In statement issued this afternoon
John A. Hawkinson. president of the
Allied Packers. laid especial stress on
the fact that the present organization
of the Wolff Packing company will re-
main in full charge in Topeka He
also decla red that the corporate name
OF tns company mere Will De kept Iuc
sa me and the subsidiary will be known
as the Charles Wolff Packing COM
pany.
Hawkinson asserted that many
changes are due in the plant Consid-
era BILE improvements are to be in
stalled from time to time. but he said
that definite announcement of the
chara cter of the changes could not be
made until estimates were in.
'Hawkinson said that the killing de-
partment of the present plant would
be enlarged Immediately, tho he re-
fused to even guess at the amount of
money which would be involved in
king this change His exact words
were The killing capacity of the plant
here will be enlarged to a great extent
imm ediately."
He predicted that the Charles Wolff
Packing company will grow substan-
TALLY under the new alliance and will
continue to be one of the feature in
4 dustries of Topeka