2011.058

Korn, Lewis

Gift

Gift of Lewis Korn.

1937 - 1937

Date(s) Created: 1937 Date(s): 1937

Notes: 2011 058 0010 newsclipping in facsimile FISHER CANDY COMPANY OWNERS ARE RETIRING FROM BUSINESS Jersey Observer, Friday Evening, August 27, 1937 - The Fisher Candy Company, one of the first of the large manufacturing concerns to locate in Hoboken, closes it doors this week after nearly forty years of business activity in the Mile-Square City. - 'We feel we've had enough of hard work. We want to take it easy from now on," say the three brothers who launched, and conducted, one of the more important candy businesses in the metropolitan area. - And so, President Sol Fisher, Vice President L.A. Fisher, and Secretary Treasurer A.C. Fisher, are cleaning away the last traces of their accounts and possessions, leaving behind them a remarkable record achieved in the unpredictable candy business. - SETTLE ALL ACCOUNTS - For they have settled every account, to the last cent, have placed as many of their old, faithful employees in other positions as was possible, and now are ready to enjoy the profits accrued. - Realization that it was time to call quits, came some time ago to them. As "L.A." aptly described it yesterday to a Jersey Observer representative; "While I was traveling through the Northwest, last year, I saw this circular reading: 'See this work,' and underneath it, in very small type, was the phrase: 'before you see the next world.' - "That was hint enough," said the vice president, who celebrated his seventieth birthday the eighth of this month. "I decided that it was time to play. And my brothers realized it was time to take a rest also, after more than fifty years of work." - "A.C." as Aasher C. Fisher is known throughout the trade, is the baby of the three. At the age of 66 today he is the same dynamic personality as he was when he founded, by himself, the business which was to grow to imposing proportions. - NONE TO CARRY ON - Perhaps if there was a younger stock of Fishers to follow up the advantages created by the older trio, the business might have been continued, the vice president pointed out. But he and Brother "A.C." are childless and Sol Fisher's sons, Mitchell and Nathan J., were destined to follow in others' footsteps. - Mitchell, a prominent rabbi, was to become an even more prominent attorney, and today is associated with Samuel Untermeyer, the famous traction lawyer. Nathan, the younger brother, is also and attorney with offices in Hoboken. There are two daughters, Clara and Ethel. - Brother Sol was the first to come to the United Sates from his native Lithuania. He was 13 years old then. Next came Louis A., at 16, and last with their parents, "A.C." at the age of 15. - FOUND HOBOKEN AVANTAGEOUS - They all joined together in one happy family in New York, where a livelihood was gained in the grocery business. A customer interested "A.C." in the candy business, and so he broke away. Later Sol and "L.A." went out West to win their way. - However, "A.C." knew he had a good thing, and he sent for his brothers. They answered his call so a modest wholesale candy business got under way. The brothers-three decided, as so many other company officials were to do later, that the city of Hoboken offered more advantages than any other city for a growing business. - And so, about forty years ago, they came to Hoboken and opened their factory at Eleventh and Grand streets. As the business grew they built additions until their factories were to cover nearly two whole blocks, the main factory running the entire length of Eleventh street, from Grand to Clinton, and the warehouse to cover most of Eleventh and Clinton streets. - HAD EMPLOYED 200 - During the busy seasons as many as 200 persons were employed in the plant. While the three brothers conducted the business end, their two nephews, Mitchell and Nathan, more recently handled the legal transactions. - Manufactured in the place were a general line of hard candies, gum, jellies, creams, chocolates and an item well known to the trade, "Pin-apps." - Whether the plant it to be dismantled and sold piecemeal has not been decided yet by the three partners. They state that it is their preference to sell it outright so that there again will be employment for the many workers they had been unable to place. This, too, would be beneficial to the city, bringing additional payrolls and taxes. - L.A. Fisher resides at 29 Bentley avenue; Sol Fisher at 1127 Bloomfield street, Hoboken, and A.C. Fisher at 898 West End avenue, New York. [end] Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2012-05-15