Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1917 — ANOTHER FACTORY MAY LOCATE [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER FACTORY MAY LOCATE

In RensseUer —Chicago Concern Is Considering the' Change. The Roth company of Chicago, manufacturers of women's house dresses, is seriously considering the matter of moving to Rensselaer in order to free themselves from the troubled labor conditions of the city. B. J. Jarrette of this city has been active for several days in the preliminary arrangements, and while it is not yet a settled fact that |he concern is to come here, it seems reasonably certain. The Roth company has been established in Chicago for eight years and is said to be well rated and a responsible company. They are said to be quite particular as to the working conditions in their factory and insist on the very best, and for that reason Mr. Jarrette has looked at a number of locations in this city which will be shown to the head of the concern when he comes here, which he is expected to do almost any day. It was stated that the upper floor of the Columbia furniture factory building would probably be chosen, but this is probably erroneous as the location is not suitable. /

The concern proposes to employ in the neighborhood of one hundred women and girls, most of whom will be local parties, and about fifty applications have already been received by Mr. Jarrette. At the present time the company is said to have orders ahead for practically |50,600* worth of their product, which would insure their success from the start. Later—The factory people came down from Chicago yesterday noon and spent some time in looking over a few locations down town, and were apparently quite well pleased with some of them. If this factory should locate here, it will be without one cent of bonus, they asking nothing more than .desirable quarters and the assurance that the necessary help can be secured here, and it would appear that both of -'pse conditions are to their satisfaction.