. History of Bridgeport and vicinity. eared and educated but having decidedto try his fortune in the new world he crossed the Atlantic in 1865, four years before hisfather came to the United States. This was immediately after the Civil war, when farmlabor was very scarce in the south, and southern plantation owners had agents in New Yorkcity hiring all such help as was available. Thus it came about that Mr. Rometsch was hiredand went to Alabama, where for two years he was emjiloyed on a cotton plantation. He wasfour years in Tennessee, where he was similarly employed, and then went to soutlier
. History of Bridgeport and vicinity. eared and educated but having decidedto try his fortune in the new world he crossed the Atlantic in 1865, four years before hisfather came to the United States. This was immediately after the Civil war, when farmlabor was very scarce in the south, and southern plantation owners had agents in New Yorkcity hiring all such help as was available. Thus it came about that Mr. Rometsch was hiredand went to Alabama, where for two years he was emjiloyed on a cotton plantation. He wasfour years in Tennessee, where he was similarly employed, and then went to soutliernIndiana, where he worked on toliaci-o plantations for six years. It was about 1877, whenMr. Rometsch returned to New York city, where his father tlum resided, he having emigratedfrom Germany about 1869. In New York city he learned the making of display forms forcorsets and devoted several years to that business before he established a business ofhis own for making plaster casts and molds for the making of fancy candy and faniy candy. FELIX ROMETSCH ]5Rll)(iEl0KT AND VJCINITY 357 boxes, known as French eamly boxes. In 1S83 he became a resident of New Haven, Con-necticut, where he was in the employ of tlie Inion Form Company for several years, makingcorset disphiy forms, and wIkh that company was dissolved all the ciiiployes went to NewYork. .Subsequently Mr. Konietsch removed to Norwich, Connecticul, and took ciiarge of theform making department of the Norwich Nicklc and Brass Comjiany. In 188,). however, hecame to Hrid^eport as manager of the dis]ilay form dc|iartment for Warner Brothers CorsetCompany and remained with them live years. Having decided to discontinue that branch oftheir business Mr. Rometseh persuaded tluit company Ui promise that they would give himall their orders for display forms, which they have ever since continued to do. He not onlyhas the patronage of Warner Brothers but also makes all the forms for a number of othercorset companies, including the La Res
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