Clipping:Manufacture of baseballs
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| Date | Wednesday, May 22, 1889 |
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| Text | J. D. Shibe & Co., the well-known Philadelphia manufacturers of base balls and base ball goods exclusively, have by reason of increased business found it necessary to build a new factory which is one of the largest in the country. The main building is 100 x 40 feet in extent and consists of five floors. This is supplemented by a large warehouse for the storage of goods. In the basement of the main building will be found the engine room and packing department, on the first floor the office and pressing and winding machinery as well as the immense drying room, capable of holding 2000 dozen balls. On the second floor is the sewing department for the fine grades of balls. In the later department skilled men only are employed, this firm being the first to originate this feature, the only successful system we believe, of placing on balls covers that will not rip or loosen in batting. The third floor contains the sewing department for medium grades, retailing for twenty-five cents and fifty cents; here some fifty or sixty girls are employed. Altogether the factory gives work to about 250 hands, who actually turn out daily 1500 dozen balls. The cheapest grades are given out for sewing to married women who return them to the factory when finished. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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