Show ELGIN FACTORY MEN TURN FIREFIGHTERS f Emp oyes of the Elgin Motor rotor Car corporation turned fire fighters and in incidentally incidentally incidentally in- in proved their loyalty recently when a fire broke out in Argo a suburb suburb suburb sub sub- urb of Chicago where the Elgin factory factory fac fac- I tory is located News of this stunt has I I just been received by A. A II H. Meredith local distributor of the the Elgin Egin The flying embers from the blaze for a awhile awhile while threatened not only the plant of the Elgin Egin corporation n but also the two huge circus tents filled with cars carsin carsin in the process procesa of assembly Before the could spread the I alarm a score of of the factory fac fact tory were were on hand although it was 2 a a. a m. m when the fire started They organized quickly and moved all the cars out on to safe ground The tents about which most concern was felt are being used to supplement tho the production capacity of the Elgin Egin plant Charles S S. S Rieman vice pres president president 1 I dent an and general manager has been forced to resort to this emergency I method pending the completion of the I I additional new factory buildings now under process of construction The new buildings will when finished be I two and one-half one blocks long Ground I was recently broken Mr Rieman turning turning turning turn turn- ing the first spade of earth and the excavation work is now practically fin fin- Even with the present factory buildIngs buildings buildings build- build Ings and the tents the Elgin corporation corpora corpora- tion is crowded for space and the new buildings will prove a w welcome relief Mr Rieman announces A record of cars in a week w was was s recently set at the Elgin plant which will be placed on a forty-car forty per day schedule before before before be be- fore the end of the month Dealer contracts contracts contracts con con- tracts are being closed at th the rate of five to ten a day and the distributing distributing distributing dis dis- dis- dis organization is expanding In keeping with the Increase in production The 11 Elgin gln has shown an increase of 1074 per cent in sales and andI I production in a year 1249 per cent in inI factory floor space and 2000 per cent I In assets |