The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-08-13
General Offices of Peerless
Mills Moved From
Boston
BUSINESS is
CONTROLLED HERE
Treasurer F. D. Ladd Re-
ports Good List of Fall
Delivery Orders

The Peerless Knitting Mills Co. has
moved its general administrative Of
| fees from Boston to Barre. This com
pleted the general closing of the plant
at Mattapan, Mass, as a producing
unit, and means that the business is
now located almost wholly in this
city and controlled from here.
During the past year the company,
in common with other large industrial
organizations had many setbacks and
reverses. Wholesale cancellations OF
orders and heavy inventory losses had
to be taken during the early part of
the year. The company was reorgan-
lied in the summer of 1919 when busi-
ness conditions were good and had a
successful fall season in that year;
but, in the early part of 1921, when
the general slump came, it hardly had
sufficient time to get well started be-
fore it was found that general cur
tailment of production was necessary.
MS was just at time when the new
plant here was being finished and
placed in operation and so this mill
was run on a part time basis for the
rest of the year.
However, during the past six months
the Barre mill has been gradually as
suming the responsibility for the out
put of the business, and when the di-
rectors decided that the new mill here
would become the home office of the
company it brought practically the
whole business to this city
The treasurer, +. d. Ladd, reports
that orders already received for de-
livery this fall assure the continued
operation of the mill on full time in
definitely. The company now employs
about go women and will probably
double this number as soon as prac-
ticable 1t is expected that nearly all
the shipping will be done from here
In preparation for the moving of
the general offices and accounting de-
partment to Barre the small office,
which was originally built, was great
ly enlarged and extends along the
front of the building on South Main
street 1t is well lighted and well
equipped.
A. H. Sprague, the assistant treas
urer, who j. in charge of the general
office and accounting department, is
breaking in new help to take the place
of those who were taken off the pay
roll when the company moved from
Boston
The manager. JOHN T, Lyons, is
making strenuous efforts to build up
an organization Shich will be second
to none in the underwear business, and
is ably seconded by his assistant, A.
ID. Russell, who is the superintendent
of this mill. =. L. Shepard is in charge
Of the knitting department; Miss
Daisy Pirie is in charge of the finish
ing department, under the direction of
Miss Edla Collette, who is here tenn
from Boston. and Miss Bren-
nan is forelady in the pressing, ex-
imining and boxing department,
while T. j. OConnell is the head of the
lyeing and bleaching department.
The company maintains a general
sales office in Boston with branch sales
,fiiees in New York and Chicago. r. A.
Scott, the president, is giving practi-
ally all OF his time to the selling end
md Mr. Ladd and Mr. Rogers are d.
ecting the financial part of the bust
less
II would seem that, with an appar-
ntly successful season ahead, this
business will soon become a very valu-
bic asset to this city.