San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-17

Lee Brothers Company, manutact-
urers of work clothes, was established
in September of 1922, but in spite of
its short term of business is already
known as one of the largest work
clothes factories in San Antonio. This
factory occupies an entire floor OF
the Goodyear building on South Flores
street. Practically ALI of Southwest
Texas is included in this company s
trade territory. Besides yarions kinds
of work clothes the Lee Brothers
Company manufactures a line of wash
golf pants for which the company is
finding a ready market. More than
40 girls are employed in this factory
and manufacture the work garments
Leo Lee, Lola Lee and w. A. Hohner
are members of the firm.
The Lee Brothers Company's trade
territory extends throughout South
west Texas, according to Leo Lee, but
only during the last several weeks has
the company begun to cultivate a
trade in San Antonio. With the adj
dition to Mr.. Hohner to the firm, who
is handling city sales, business in San
Antonio is picking up, Mr.. Lee says,
and the hundreds of jobbers and re-
tailers here who had never heard of Il
plant here like the factory which is
owned by the Lee Brothers Company.
are responding with large orders. The
factory has had considerable trouble
recently in supplying the demand for
its products on account of the short
age of cloth. The short cotton crop
of last year is preventing the mills
from producing the cloth in the guam
titles demanded throughout the coun-
try.
Large Contracts Already.
News of this factory and the salts
factory way in which its managers
are doing business is spreading rapid
ly and the signing of many large con-
tracts by the Lee Brothers Company
is the result. Besides this the factory
is said to be one of the largest of its
kind in San Antonio despite its short
term of business.
recently by the Lee Brothers Com
pany, is one to furnish the +. b.
Miller Manufacturing. Company of
Waco with 200 dozen suits of work
clothes a week. The work clothes
manufactured in this factory are gain
ing a reputation for being some of
the most durable work garments on
the market. Blue denims, express
stripped overalls. brush jackets and
pants. kahki pants, cottonade pants,
one-piece work suits and numerous
other kinds of weainrg apparel are
manufactured in this factory. Among
the special garments manufactured
are wash golf pants which are find
ing q ready market at cost of about
So. Another is suit for the Y. w.
c. A. girls that are employed in the
factory. This suit is made of gray
cotton cloth and is composed of a
short skirt and knickers. The girls
wear the suits to work during the
day and on the evenings that they
attend the gymnasium.
Girls Make Garments.
There are more than 40 girls en-
ployed in this factory. They work
eight full hours day and are paid
according to the number of garments
they make. Many of them are paid
as much as $40 week while others,
probably the inexperienced. make As
low as 81 week. Team work in this
factory is essential, Mr.. Lee says
Each girl has certain part of the
garment to make. If some girls are
able to turn out their part of the gar
ment faster than the others it is the
duty of the foreman to place more
girls on the machines that are not be-
ing operated as fast that that particr.
lar portion of the garment may be
produced in larger numbers and in a
! shorter period of time. 1t is exceed.