The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-14
Business on Hand Is Approach
ing the S1,00O,OOO Mark.
in TOPEKA ONLY EIGHT YEARS
Already the Products Are
Known All Over Country.
Transmitter and Motor Earn
Place Among Famous.


of the fact that the company has re-
Gently begun to increase its produc-
ton materially. The popularity of
the company's products is increasing
SO rapidly and the demand upon it is
becoming so great that business is
coming in more rapidly than the COM
pany can take care OF it.
This company has been in Topeka
for eight years. During this time it
has been conducting its experimental
and development work so quietly and
with so little publicity that very few
Topeka citizens were acquainted with
its existence. Almost over night, and
before most of US could realize what
was happening, this company has
blossomed forth as a really great and
important manufa curing institution.
The company and its products seem
to be better known in other sections
of the country than right here at
home.
The company was formerly known
as the Piersen Telegraph Transmitter
reveals the fact that some few To-
pekans were aware of the fact that
Edwin II. Piersen, president OF the
company, together with his own little
organization were designing and per-
fecting a labor-saving device for use
in the telegraph world. Until recent
ly, very little was known or heard
regarding the progress of the COM
pany. 1t was not until the company
had taken on the proportions of
great industrial concern, and the fame
of its products was spreading so rap
idly, that Topeka really awoke to the
fact of its existence.
Use on News Circuits.
The Telegraph Transrnitter has
been perfected and subjected to some
very severe tests on some of the
busiest telegraph wires in the United
States This machine has been sub
lected to the same experiences which
devices. History shows that prac-
tically every great labor-saving ma
chine and'its designer have gone prac-
| tically unnoticed until the device has
suddenly come into practical use and
is in great demand. 1t has won the
prominent telegraph authorities in the
United States. Some of these ma
chimes have been in practical use on
busy wires for several months. In
fact. much of the news matter read
daily in local newspapers has been
transmitted with Piersen Transmit
tiers. Recently these machines sue
cessfully handled Geographic work on
| the longest circuit in the world. This
! circuit is $500 miles in length The
results secured were greater and bet
ter than were ever. accomplished be-
|
| The company is now actually en-
gagged in the manufacture of these
machines.
| Making Motors Now.
While all this was going on right
under our proverbial noses" the same
company has developed and perfected
a gasoline motor which has astounded
motor authorities all over the world.
! National magazines have been eXtoll-
ing the virtues of this engine all over
the country. while we at home here in
| Topeka, or the majority of US, scarce
ly know of its existence. So perfect
Is this new motor, and so superior is
it to any other motor on the market
| that the company is compelled to
work to capacity to care for even a
fraction of the huge demand being
made upon it. This new motor was
designed by E. B. Cushman. who
lives in Topeka So great is the de-
mand on the company for its products
that it is compelled to increase it's fac
tory facilities. When building opera
tons are completed, il will have one
of the largest, and most splendidly
Equipped plants in this section of the
country.
When one goes thru the present
PierSen plant, and reviews the many
thousands of dollars worth of special
machinery, tools. dies and jigs which
the company has made right in its own
plant. and which were absolutely nee
essary before production could be
reached, it is a pleasant surprise. The
prevailing and mistaken opinion of
thousands of people is that great in
dustrial concerns spring up over
night Tt is only by taking a trip thru
such a plant that one can realize what
a tremendous amount of time and la
Dor and money are necessary to pre-
pare such a concern for its actual ex-
istence.
Perfection of Other Products.
i A brief survey OF the early history
of great industrial institutions and the
length of time required by each OF
them to reach a productive or profit
. earning stage. simply emphasizes the
splendid progress which this Topeka
concern has made. Compare the fig
ures below of some of these great con-
Germs with those of the Piersen Man
ufacturing company and you will real
ize just what has been going on in
; the Piersen Plant and what splendid
: progress they have made.
FORD MOTOR CO.: = Frequently
published statements show that it was
seven years before The Ford Motor
: company paid its first dividend. After
the Ford car was in use and the COM
pany had millions of dollars at its dis
; posal, It required eight years before
production was started on the Ford
i starter 1t required five years and
: an expenditure of 100000 before
production could be started on Ford
: son tractors
THE LINOTE PE:-Nine years and
an expenditure of 100000 were re-
: quired before The Linotype company
= reached a profit earning production.
REMINGTON CO.:-The Reming-
: ton Typewriter company required
eight years before production was ac'
THE MIJITIGRAPH: 1t REQUIRED
eight years before this company paid
: Its first dividend
THE 6CUSHMAN MOTOR: 1t wa:
: IL years before the Cushmau motor
t works at Lincoln, Nebraska, paid It:
firs- cash dividend
CASH REGISTER: This company
! IS probably one OF the greatest indus
trial Institutions in the world, Yet j