The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-02
Half Million in Industrial I'm
provements in Topeka.
Considerable More Planned for
the City's Big Plants.
TREMENDOUS GROWTH SHOWN
Manufactures Prove Adyan
tages of Location in Topeka.
Material Increase in Employ
ment Will Follow.

More than 100000 worth of new
factory buildings and additions are in
cluded in Topeka's spring industrial
extension program, it was announced
today.
More than half the new construc-
ton is nearing completion. Two new
plants, announced today, will be com
pleted this year.
A new $4,000 factory, adjoining the
present one, to be completed late in
May to double the output of the firm,
was announced today by D e. Rose.
head of the Rose Trunk factory The
new structure will be of brick, so by
100 or more feet and three stories
high. A fourth story to the present
factory will be, completed this week,
giving the building a floor space of
10000 feet. The additional story
cost $4,000.
The Rose factory, one of the young
est in Topeka's industrial group, has
| grown remarka bly, since established.
Manufacture of trunks was started
on comparatively small scale, the
volume of business gradually growing
until Rose trunks are today distributed
to all parts of the United States and
| Canada. When the capacity of the
plant is doubled with the new building
the firm will go in for a more extern
sive manufacture of wardrobe trunks,
including a trunk invented by Rose.
Canadian patents on the latter were
secured today.
/ Bids will be opened in the next few
weeks for a new 100000 building
south of the present Beatrice Creamery
plant, to serve as an addition, it was
also announced today. The building.
to be freproof and of brick and con-
lcrete, will have a frontage of IS feet
and will be completed in the fall. 1t
will be three stories high. The inside
walls will be of enamel and the equip
ment, as well as the building, will be
discontinued with completion of the
addition, the output of the concern
will be doubled. The new building
will be just south of the present one
at Second and Polk.
NewsIce Plant Warehouse.
new warehouse, doubling the
storage capacity of the plant, will be
completed in the next thirty days by
the Railways Ice company. The i'm
Iprovement will cost about $4,000.
The Topeka Tent & Awning COM
pany's new three-story building at
| 1924 Kansas avenue will be occupied
the latter part of this week or the
The structure. SO by $50 feet, cost
between s45.o00 and $4,000. Capacity
of the concern will be doubled by the
Il improvement.
The Roll Edge Mattress Machine
company, a concern which has been
here about a year, Will occupy the
building at 304 Kansas, avenue which
the Topeka Tent & Awning company
will vacate. The mattress machine
firm will treble it's capacity by moving
J. G. Stoneback, president. said today
The company manufactures a machine
for making roll edged mattresses, the
invention of Stoneback and w. A.
Kelsey.
New Piersen Addition.
Equipment and material had today
been ordered for the new factory
building to be erected adjoining the
, present site by the Piersen Manufac-
, turing company. The Piersen com
, t'pany will put up building 100 bs
100 feet, costing $4,000, this year
Plans are being considered for the
! erection of a whole new plant possibly
, next year if the volume of business in
creases as rapidly as III the recen
, past
: The new factory building of The
: Road Supply & Metal company wa:
: being completed this week. with thu
installation of a heating plant. Th'
structure will give the concern IA 00t
j feet of floor space and cost $4,000.
In addition to the new factor!
buildings and additions several new
+, been, added to the Topeka directory
i Included in these is the Mcdonald
. Shirt factory, a three-fourth million
I dollar concern, which came here abou
month ago from st. Joseph. Severa
firms have also moved and increased
: their output. The Sunflower Bod.
! works, makers of an automobile trucl
. body recently expanded and movet
/. /. from between Seventh and Eight
: streets on Jackson to the Walk factor.
: building between Ninth and Tent
l streets on jefferson street.
81 Grow in Topeka.
You will notice that the new build
lings and additions are being erectet
by concerns that started for the mos
e part in small way in Topeka" Georg
j P. McEntire, chairman of the indus
e trial committee of the Chamber o
< Commerce, said today. This fac
e ought to be the best proof possible
}. that Topeka is an ideal city for firm
or individual to grow industrially
Now that expansion halted by the wa
: is ioosened again, l forecast NOR
growth for Topeka's industries"
In addition to increasing the busi
ness volume of the city's industry, tn
new factories and additions will ma
terially increase employment