Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-05-05
IN JOUR
TOWN
a GRICULTURE is the backbone

coun.fy-Of any part or section
of country.
But it's manufacturing industries and
the payrolls that they bring forth that
make a city out of town.
brownsville needs more of industries
such as that of the McNair CIothin,
Msnufacturing Company. out on From
ton Street.
here IS beehive Of industry. If
you dont believe it, just make little
Tip out there and peek into the doors
flity women and girls, systematically
putting. together shirts, trousers. riding
trousers, working jackets. Thousands
Oh dozens of these articles are Skinned
out of Brownsville every month. They
are bought not only in the border coun,
try, but in far flung parts of the state.
They are good advertising for
brownsville, for they carry a Browns
vile tag, announcing the brand, "Dur,
able. -
Are they meeting a popular demand :?
lhey are, decidedly 50. If not. the but
Ton mole machine would not be going at
Il q hhsek Speed. The facing machine
would have little to do The stitchers
would be idle at least part of the time.
The numerous other machines would
not be creating an almost deafenine
hum in what seems to the layman mad
rush to get pair of trousers out for
some workman out in the brush.
Every SO often they add something
new to the line out there at the Nc
Nair plant.
The factory is aligned with the Val
ley Wholesale Drygods Company of
Brownsville, and the entire output i.
handled by this company
Asked Ben Freudenstein, one of the
officers of the company how they hap
pehed to begin manufacturing working
trousers.
"It was blunder, mostly" he said
"You see, someone told US there wa'
big demand here for French cotton
ade. So the wholesale company loaded
up with what we found later would be
enough French cottonade in bulk to last
this country for twenty years.
Here we were with big supply Of
the stuff. our money invested in it, and
no market. So it occurred to as that
maybe I'VE could get Jack MeNair to try
his hand at cutting out and making
pants.
Jack found he could do it. We tried
making up few dozen. Our customers
fell over themselves taking them away
from US. Our market was ready for
us So we bought some special mach
ines, and that's how we blundered into
the business Of manufacturing working
pants"
And r. A. Rosenthal. president of the
drygoods company. volunteered the in
formation that the company has other
articles in mind that might be profit
ably manufactured in the Brownsville
plant
Anyhow, it's one Of those Industries
that Brownsville has the labor for. II
is available here, in plenteous quanti'
ties. The Mexican girls and women
make splendid workers in a factory of
this kind. and the officers of the COM
pany are lodu in their praise of the in
dustry and enthusiasm of the workers.
In fact they are already planning for
better working conditions for their en-
ployes, seeking to keep them always
healthy and satisfied in their work.
Turning from industry to the tourist,
cur lively curiosity about the proposed
tourist hotel caused US to put this ques-
tion yesterday to Lee B. James:
''Mr. James, are you going to build
7 dat hotel?"
Young man." he said, "if we were
not ready to begin work on that hotel
] assure you would pack up and light
out for another climate. for | know if
we fell iown living in Brownsville
wouldn't b safe for u.s.
This is assed along for the informa'
ton and bknefit Of the doubling Thom-
ases, if th|re are any.
Next Saturday the curtain rings dow
on the bonus campaign. On that da
the hotel committee proposes to con
clude it's final contract with Messrs
James and Dickinson. If the S65,O0O i
not all available, the committee feel
ing a deep sense of the responsibility
thev have agreed to shoulder. are plan
ming to 20 the limit in securing tn
balance of it. At this writing, it is salt
the amount on hand is well in exces'
Of S50.OO0s
In another forty days, work on tho
hotel construction will have commenced
If the 1000 is in hand.
And. speaking of this and that aho
the other thing. did you know that i
is next to impossible to buy business
property in Brownsville:
If you didn't know it, just try get
ting into the market.