The Factory's occupants after South River Spinning Co.

In March 1932, a report in the Buffalo (NY) Courier Express said that 11 carloads of equipment from the South River Spinning Co. had arrived in Whitehall, NY (near Lake George) and would be set up in the Champlain Silk Mill Co., creating an initial 100 jobs. Nine more carloads were expected.

August 1933, the South River Spinning Co., signed the NRA Code and it's 225 employees were working a 40 hour week after getting a 25% raise in July.

Yet in May of 1934, noting that Blumenthal's company had moved out ("...it had been in disuse for a long time...") it was announced that the Continental Briar Pipe of Brooklyn would be moving into the plant (although later articles suggest that they only occupied a portion of the complex, on the third floor of one of the buildings).

The buildings changed hands several times and was eventually divided up and leased out to a number of tenants. A 1953 city directory shows 9 firms at the address - 123 Whitehead Avenue - including 6 garment manufacturers[BELOW], as well as a shoe company and a toy piano firm.

In 1969, drums of chemicals illegally stored in the nearby abandoned railroad freight depot caught fire and exploded. The flames spread to the former Herrmann, Aukam & Co. plant and destroyed a large portion of the buildings in what was called the worst fire in South River history. The four

remaining tenants (3 garment firms and the owner's own Liberty Cork Co.) were forced to move. Two 70 year old residents were interviewed by The Home News. Joseph Koenig recalled using the Herrmann, Aukam plant's public bath houses. John Makewski pointed towards the destroyed railway station and recalled "...a couple of pretty tough strikes...in which a couple of people were killed.”