Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-04-01

Howard Field, H. p. Dalton, Arthur
NJ. Snow and Fred D. Howe have ar
ranged for the purchase of the Eat
on company's property and business
in this city
Operation of the plant on Gage
street by the new company will be-
gin in a few days and every effort
will be made to make the business
of the Capital City Corporation :,
continued source Of satisfaction to
the people of Augusta
Ernest A. Gray and John Dixon
are the new members of the cor
poration, their appointment coming
in recognition of their work for the
firm. About 800 hands are at pres
ent employed at the Augusta factory
and between 500 and 600 are en-
ployed when the factory is in full
operation. The trade conditions are
very satisfactory and are now getting
back fast to normal. Even this
week, the report comes from the
'factory's. Office, that the sales have
been very good. =.
The daily output Of shoes at the
present time is 1900 pairs and the
normal output is $500 pairs a day.
The average pay roll of the factory
is about $4,000. this being MAIN
tanned for several years, during the
war and after the war. Naturally
the slump in the shoe market af-
fected the Augusta factory.
= The product of this factory is me-
dunn grade mems welts for jobbing
and wholesale trades. The shoes be-
sides being sold in this country are
sold in other countries, Cuba es-
pecially.
Mr.. Gray who will be the business
mead of the new firm at Augusta has
had long experience making fine
welt shoes. His first real knowledge
of the fine points was obtained with
the close association he had with one
Of the most famous south shore dis
trict of Massachusetts shoemakers,
Gard" Jones. When Gard" was
associated with the old Enos Rey-
nolds factory of Brockton. Mass.
Later Mr.. Gray was with the w. L.
Douglas Co for eight years: the
George +. Keith company for four
years. In the latter place he made
the reputation as a foreman that OBJ
tanned for him the position as super
intendent of the c. S. Marshall COM
pany which place he filled for four
years. The c. A. Eaton company Sc
cured Mr.. Gray to come to Augusta
and accept the management of their
interests here. He began his service
here, January 1. 1912. being with
them continually since.
Mr.. Dixon, the other new member
of the newly organized corporation
has been in the shoe factory for the
past 50 years, He began his career
in Brockton, Mass, with the Emer-
son Shoe company, being with them
for 10 years. Then he was with the
e. A. Eaton company, also at Brock
ton for one year; three years in Lew
ston and Auburn shoe factories and
for. the past IS years with the c.. A.
Eaton company in this city. He was
the foreman of the cutting depart
ment and for the past five years has
been assistant superintendent of the
factory.
For the last two or three years
Mr.. Dixon has had charge of the de-
tails and costs department His dut-
les will include the same under his
present position as they did in the
old company. Mr.. Dixon is a men,
her of.the Universalist church, Beth
any Lodge, F. & A. NJ. and Cushnoc
Royal Arch chapter. He has been
in the city government. having been
a councilman in Ward Two in 1916.
The workings of the company will
be the same az far as the personal
is concerned