STROUSE, ADLER & CO., NEW HAVEN. Strouse, Adler & Co., New Haven, manufacturers of corsets, corset clasps, boning wires and paper boxes and converters and importers of all kinds of corset materials. Principal warehouse 412 Broadway, New York, with branches at Boston, Philadelphia and San Francisco. The business was established in 1862 in one room containing 1,250 feet of floor space, and has grown until today the factory buildings cover four and a half acres of ground containing 132,425 feet of floor space. When the business was commenced only one style of corsets was manufactured, the daily production being about ten dozen. It has continually increased until the present time when the daily production has reached about 600 dozen, comprising a variety of nearly 500 styles and shapes adapted to the varied requirements of different figures and made from a great variety of materials, from the ordinary corset jean to the finest brocaded silks. The company convert all the cotton goods consumed and manufacture the corset clasps, side steels, boning wires, paper boxes and many other materials used in the manufacture of their corsets. The finer corset materials such as coutil, batiste, silk, satin, and various brocaded figured novelties, many of which are woven especially for the purpose and not manufactured in the United States, are largely imported by the firm, they being the heaviest importers in the port of New Haven. The machinery used is the latest and most improved obtainable, much of which was invented and built upon the premises. A large number of employes are given steady employment. THE SEAMLESS RUBBER COMPANY, NEW HAVEN. The Seamless Rubber Company was organized under the joint stock laws of the State of Connecticut in 1877 with a capital of $50,000, which has since been increased from time to time to $250,000, all paid in in cash. A small tract of land was purchased at New Haven in 1877 and they built a factory of about 2,500 square feet, which has been enlarged from time to time until the present working floor space is about 100,000 square feet. The present number of employes is five hundred and annual output three-quarters of a million dollars. The first product of this company was the Seamless Rubber nipples which were manufactured under letters patent. These nipples proved a success from the start, and to-day the company is producing thousands of gross annually where originally the product could be figured in dozens. From seamless nipples they went to rubber hot water bottles, soft rubber syringes, rubber elastic bands, rubber gloves, hospital sheeting and a general line of rubber druggists' sundries. The company has also a hard rubber department, which produces the hard rubber pipes and fittings used for their syringes. |