Barberton plant to be operated by A.L. Dyke on insulators

BARBERTON NEWS

BIG COMPANY WILL MAKE

THIRD RAIL INSULATORS

One Hundred Thousand-Dollar Corporation to Ask

Charter Next Week --- To Take Over Pottery Plant.

(Special to Beacon Journal.)

Barberton. O., Aug. 22. — Within an­other month, if the promises of those interested are to be relied upon, Barberton will be able to boast of another industry which will be known as the largest of its kind in the entire world. Before another week is past the Electrical Insulator Manufactur­ing company, with a capital of $100,000, will have been incorporated for the purpose of taking over the prop­erty of the Barberton Pottery com­pany.

Since the plant passed into the hands of the courts about a year ago, it has been lying idle. O. C. Barber, H. B. Camp and M. O'Neil later pur­chased the property and a month ago A L. Dyke, who has been for the past four years identified with insulator manufacturing companies at East Liverpool, secured an option on it. It has now developed that Mr. Dyke is at the head of a company in which some of the leading capitalists of Akron and Cincinnati are heavily interested. Incorporation papers will be taken out next week, the property will be turned over to the new com­pany and inside of 30 days, Mr. Dyke says, it will be in full operation. Three hundred people will be employed by the new concern.

"The insulators which we will manufacture will be the kind which must resist the highest possible volt­age, such as third rail insulators," said Mr. Dyke Wednesday. "They are to be manufactured from the best grade of high-test porcelain, But we will make other grades of insulators also — infact we will produce everything along this line. The plant contains the most modern machinery of the very kind that is necessary in this business, and there will be no delay whatever in getting started. There will be several skilled work­men brought to Barberton from other cities, but the greater part of our em­ployes will he secured here.

Six men will own the entire amount of stock and four of these live in Akron. Over two-thirds of the capital in the enterprise comes from that city. That the business will be suc­cessful is already assured, as com­panies which require such insulators have contracted for a supply sufficient to keep the local concern busy for a full year. A. L. Dyke, who is to be gen­eral manager of the company, has been connected with various enter­prises of this nature for the past 16 years. He was for 25 years a resident of Akron and is well known in that city as well as in Barberton.