Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1899 — An Important Industry. [ARTICLE]

An Important Industry.

The Brockton, Mass., Times says that at the factory of the W. L. Douglas Shoe Company in that city the pay roll for the week ending Sept. 30, excluding superintendent. foremen, salesmen and all clerical help, showed the average earnings of the employes, large and small, to be $15.54 per week. This was not an extraordinary week. It waa the customary pay roll. The Douglas factory has been closed but one week this year, and that for the usual summer stock taking, and it will be closed bat three days the latter part of December. This would make but nine days oat of the year that the factory is closed. Owing to increased business, another addition is to be made to the Douglas factory. It will be 100 feet long, 40 feet wide, and five stoffies high. This addle tion increases the capacity 25 per cent. The W. L. Douglas Shoe Company has the largest factory in the world, producing an advertised line $3.50 and s3.o* shoes.