The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-12
SERVUS RUBBER
!, TO PUSH PLANS
! FOR new PLANT
SITE VIII be Selected This Week
Increase Capitalization TO
$1,000, 900.

~ Servus Rubber company, having
Increased its capital stock from
81 $500 900 to s1,0O0,000 will decide
.upon a Rock Island site this week,
4 give the plans for the construction
Of its first unit into the hands of
II architects for detailed amplifica-
= zion and elaboration in the course
of the next few days, and an
PC nounces that it expects to be man
ufacturing rubber footwear with
Il in three months.
si1k Judson j. Adams, president of
the corporation said today that
$500 900 worth of the stock would
he sold outside of Rock Island
county, but that with the support
OF the Chamber of Commerce, fin
ancial institutions and citizens,
5000. 900 worth of stock will be
sold within the borders of this
county More than $4,000 worth
'IYof the $780, 900 issue has been al
ready subscribed.
REPRESENTATIVES of the Edward
s Miller company of Chicago. "busi-
ness builders will handle the
stock issue Trained men, accus-
TONED to selling first class securi-
ties are already at work. and ex-
pect to float the entire issue with
out difficulty.
Design First Unit.
- The design for the first unit to
-zbe constructed in Rock Island calls
for a three story building, so by
800 feet. This unit will have a
capacity of 5000 pairs of shoes
each working day and will employ
i about 500 men and women. The
cost of the building, land and
equipment will exceed $4,000. An
additional unit if the same size and
capacity is to be erected as soon
as the first unit is equipped and in
operation.
With the exception of from 20 to
% experienced rubber footwear
L workers who will be secured from
eastern points and will serve as
foremen of the different depart
ments, Rock Island labor will be
i employed.
IL Officers of the Servus Rubber
company were in conference yes
= terday afternoon and last evening
with the committee from the
1 Chamber of Commerce and a num-
her of Rock Island business men,
and the announcement that the
corporation is to proceed at once
with its contemplated plans in
Volving the sale of the stock and
the erection of the first unit is
authoritative.
The Servus Rubber company will
be the only rubber footwear plant
in Illinois, which is the center of
great market, consuming nearly
s40,000,0 900 in rubber footwear an
nually. Over so per cent of the
rubber footwear made in America
pis produced in four or five eastern
Estates, and over 60 per cent of this
yearly production is sold within
500 miles of Rock Island
%The company will accomplish an
average production during the first
year of at least $500 pair each
working day, which is only about
two-thirds of the 5000 pair capac-
ity of the plant, it is estimated.
Every Indication is to the effect
that this immediate production av-
!. erage will be readily absorbed by
shoe dealers who are stockholders
Of the company.
Leaders In Industry.
Judson j. Adams, formerly west
ern sales manager of the Beacon
Falls Rubber Shoe company, is the
president, and has. made a close
study of the actual manufacturing
problems in producing quality
footwear. The vice president is
Lawrence B. Icoly, who is the
president of Thomas Z. Wilson and
company, manufacturers and dis
tributors of sporting goods, firm
which is said to distribute annually
about quarter of a million dol
lars worth of canvass rubber soled
shoes.
Irwin S. Rauch, second vice
president, left an important posi-
ton with a large eastern rubber
footwear concern to become ger
eral sales manager of the Servus
Rubber company. For over 20
years he owned a large retail shoe
store. and has sold rubber footwear |
for % years John T. Crowley, !
former general superintendent of
the Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe COM |
pany's mills, is the manufacturing /
director. He has grown up in the |
rubber industry and has designed |
many popular types of rubber foot !
wear.
Hasbrouck Haynes, treasurer. |
has been connected with some of |
the largest organizations in Ameri- !
ca, among them being the Pack |
ard Motor Car company, the Studa- |
BAKER corporation and the James !