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pany's branch factory has been in OPP
Grafton in Mount Vernon one week.
The officials of the company like Mt.
Vernon. Mr.. w. G. Jones, company
manager, said yesterday that Mount
Vernon was one of the finest small ci.
ties he had every visited, and he knew
he would like the city as place to
live and work.
The results of the first weeks fac
tory work have met with the entire
approval Of the company officials. The
eight girls, forming the first squad
employed, have shown the employers
that the quality Of Mount Vernon la.
Dor is right, and that soon they will
not only be "employes" but skilled
mechanics in the new industry. "The
girls have done wonderfully" was the
comment of Mr.. Jones. 81 feel so sure
of the companys future here in this
small venture that today sent for ten
more machines which will be running
full force in the course of the next
ten days"
The factory when running full force
in its present quarters will employ
fifty girls, and will work entirely with
the companys bathing suit industry.
This department is one of the many
in the greater Rich-Sampliner con-
cern.
What will this mean to Mount Yer
non? 1t will mean that so girls not
hitherto employed will have a good
Job, one in which they will be learn
ing trade that they can use all their
lives, and at which they can make an
llexcellent living. 1t will mean week
ly pay roll averaging approximately
$500 per week, or yearly pay roll of
approximately $4,000. 1t will mean
that great portion of this money will
60 out into the many lines of industry
and commerce in Mount Vernon, and
that the whole city will be greatly
benefited.
Mr.. Jones stated yesterday in an in
terview, that II the company here
found the small branch factory 60
ing concern, and found further that it
could get between two hundred and
three hundred girls and women inter-
ested in this new industry, that new
factory building would be erected in
Mount Vernon, and the city become
one of the homes of the Rich-Samplin-
err knitting business.
In case the factory does place such
a factory here 1t will do most of its
knitting business here. II will cover
this part of the production from the
beginning to the finished product.
Such factory will have the follow
Ing departments. knitting, cutting,
sewing. finishing, winding, box and
shipping. Many men will of necessity
be employed In the larger factory in
prospect, especially in te hnitting,
box and shipping departments
What will this project mean to
Mount Vernon? 1t will mean the EN-
ployment OF 200 people mostly women
and girls. hitherto unemployed. The
weekly pay roll will approximate $2,'
OO0 The yearly pay roll will approxi'
mate $104,00 1t will mean new and
up-to-d factory building in the city
1t will mean an increase in every bust
ness and enterprise within the city
limits.
The Rich. Sampliner Knitting Com
pany has been one of the leading con
Germs OF its kind In this country fol
25 years. The Mount Vernon venture
Ia not an experiment In the business
The company Is moving here hoping
that 1t can secure the necessary labor
needed In the production side of theil
business II it gets this necessary Ia
Dor quota here, the greater factory Il
practically sure thing for Noun
Vernon.
The company manufactures only thu
| highest grades OF knit goods, and the!
tit louuu III tho iooNahh 'e'o'
, stores of the country. Its goods in
, clude, bathing suits. sweaters of al
kinds, knit caps and hoods, and man,
, other articles Of knit goods veal
: Their products are always In demand
In case the larger factory is locate
. In Mount Vernon the volume of bus
l ness would necessitate the installs
!. tion of paper box factory and
. wooden box factory In connection wit
. the company, in both of which me
t would figure largely on the pay rol
II like your Chamber OF Commert
here" said Mr.. Jones'. at is might
fine organization. l like the energy an
o pep of the men who worked with ,
Z on this factory proposition. 1t WI
s. largely the persistence OF Presidel
Kahrl, Secretary Russell and the mel
l 4. a..Ia rx<.~ a. a.