History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . r. Solomon Silberstein tookhis son, Meyer, into partnership. Theycontinued in business together until May24th, 1918, the date of the elders present head of the business is MeyerSilberstein. He is the chief executive ofS. Silberstein & Son and the president ofthe Multi-Products Export Corporation, theexport department of S. Silberstein & Son,w^hich was incorporated in February, officers of the latter Company are:President, Meyer Silberstein; vice-president,Fred Kissner; treasurer, A. Joseph G
History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . r. Solomon Silberstein tookhis son, Meyer, into partnership. Theycontinued in business together until May24th, 1918, the date of the elders present head of the business is MeyerSilberstein. He is the chief executive ofS. Silberstein & Son and the president ofthe Multi-Products Export Corporation, theexport department of S. Silberstein & Son,w^hich was incorporated in February, officers of the latter Company are:President, Meyer Silberstein; vice-president,Fred Kissner; treasurer, A. Joseph Geist;and secretary, George H. Rosenstein. The Company has offices in the largetrade centers of South America, in Mexicoand Canada and has an office in Paris. TheExport Corporation handles all classes oftextiles, including piece goods, knit goods,and made-up garments. 353 HISTORY OF AMERICAN TEXTILES. UNIVERSAL WINDING CO. For many years prior to 1890 few im-provements had been made in the art ofwinding fibre for market or for use inmills, the attention of manufacturers of. JOSEPH R. LEESON Founder and President of Universal Winding Company winding machinery being centered largelyon the production of machines to be soldat low price. Joseph R. Leeson recognized the crude-ness and defects then existent, and soughta method of winding which would insureperfect delivery of the material for all pur-poses—either for market or for succeedingoperation in mill practice without subject-ing it to undue stress or abrasion. Withthis intent he secured the services of awell-known inventor, Simon W. Wardwell, who evolved the principle of winding nowgenerally known as the Universal, andinvented machines to make available hisdiscovery. Whereupon Mr. Leeson tookout fundamental patents covering the pro-cess and machines. The economies and advantages of thissystem were so apparent as to insure theprobability of its universal adaptation forboth market and mill purposes, and ?war-ranted the adoption
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