The Pulaskian., 1920-12-09
CONSUMES
 MUCH COTTON
JOPPA BRANCH OF THE ROBIN. SON-RODERS COMPANY HAS 1000 BALES USUALLY ON HAND, BUT THIS SUPPLY WILL NOT LAST LONG.

While 1t is not a bonded ware house, the storerooms of the Joppa branch of the Robinson-Roders Com pany has every appearance of being. About LOGO bales of cotton and cot ton linters, besides over $l00,000 worth of high grade materials for covering mattresses are stored there.
 The Joppa branch of the Robin son-Roders Company is one of the most extensive mattress making con- eerns in the United States. Located as it is, in the heart of the cotton country, it supplies other branches of this immense corporation in many other parts of the world. Such con- cerns as Butler Bros, the Fair Store of Chicago, the Grand Leader of St. Louis, and Sears-Roebuck X Com pany, buy practically all their mat dresses from the Joppa branch. The latter company has recently placed an order for 1000 mattresses with the Joppa branch. These are of an exceptionally high grade and are for immediate delivery. As the officials of the Sears-Roebuck Company are highly pleased with the product of the local plant, it is expected to pur- chase several thousand mattresses from it during the coming year.
 The Joppa Company, in its present quarters, occupied building with three floors and basement. Three grades of cotton are used in the man. ufacture of mattresses, a good staple cotton, a low grade and linters. Quite often there is mixture which gives better results than the mattresses made strictly from staple cotton. Practically all the cotton and linters is purchased ins the Little Rock trade territory and is stored in the base ment of the plant. This basement extends entirely through the block and underneath large commercial warehouse. It has a capacity of l. 500 bales. Here also is a fire-proof vault within which the fine grades of material used for mattress cover ing are stored.
 The cotton bales are opened in the basement and conveyed to the top floor by suction. Here eight large felt-making machines are in almost constant operation. These were op- erated night and day most of the time during the war as the Joppa branch supplied mattresses and pill lows for many cantonments as we'll as for the navy. An electric blower collects the dust in this room so that the employees work in comfort There are two large mattress stuffing ma chimes and when stuffed the mat tress goes to the second floor through chute.
 On the second floor are the cut ters and seamstresses who make the slips for the mattresses. In the rear are the mattress makers. They work uPoh uiSH tdDlcS dHu every iHdttIcsS is tufted by hand. The non-tufted mattress must receive the attention of the expert mattress maker, after it is stuffed, in order that the sides are properly sewed in, thereby in- surfing that the shape of the mattress will be retained. On the first floor are the offices and the shipping rooms. Esh mattress is slipped into large paper bag in order to protect it during shipment and in addition to this the sides and floor of the cars are lined with heavy paper.
 The Joppa branch has for some time contemplated more extensive home of its own, but the building program has been postponed until next year. As the Joppa branch con sumes a hundred or more bales of cotton a week when in full opera ton, 1t is plant we'll worth having, and a few more of them might have a tendency to increase the price of cotton.
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