The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-11-09
The Taylor Maintaining Company.

|. In our local columns to-day appears a
report Of meeting held on Friday night
OF last week, for the purpose Of considering
the feasibility of reviving this most i'm
porsant industry. The meeting was very
large, the Court House being we'll crowded,
and the participants we're unanimous in
the opinion that the works should be re-
opened. This opinion is common to the
entire community, aad as in union there
is strength, an early reviving of this in
dustry may be expected.
There seems to be some difference as to
the plan to be pursued, but it is hoped that
a speedy solution of the question win be
reached and the object in view attained.
The committee to arrange a plan and to
solicit subscriptions are men of means, of
excellent business capacity and sound
judgment. Their conclusions, no doubt,
will be accepted by all, as the chief object
Of this community is to resuscitate the
shops, the plan being of secondary impor-
lance. Those who expect to take stock,
in order to revive the industry, with whom
we have conversed, do not intend doing
so as a mere business speculation, but with
the object primarily Of sustaining manu-
factory which will give employment to
large number Of mechanics and others who
are now idle, and with limited means, and
for the purpose of reviving the trade to
our business men which has been lost by
the suspension of the Company. That the
investment will be paying one, those
most familiar with the business of the
works, are confident As heretofore stated
in these columns, the Taylor Manufactur-
ing Co., after years of trial, were just begin
ming to reap the reward of their labors.
Their engines had reputation for sim
plicity and capacity uDequalled by those
of other manufacturers, and their excel
lence and superiority were becoming known
throughout the world. In this country they
have distanced all competitors, and, from
all sections orders for them have been
steadily increasing. In Europe, also, they
were rapidly gaining ground At the
Paris Exposition, where one of them was
used to drive machinery, they took several
premiums in competition with the best
makes Of the old world, and orders for a
number of them to go to Germany and
other European countries have been re-
ceived. There was no lack of work, aud
the prospects were such as to give the
Company reason to believe that very large
trade would set in before another year
would roll around. Lack of means was
the cause of the suspension, and with cap
ital supplied sufficient to operate it, there
Is every reason to believe that the stock
would pay handsome dividend.
The committee selected to devise plan
for reopening of the works are already at
work, and 1t IS hoped that every business
man, and men ofmeans generally, through
out the city and county, will lend help
ing hand, by subscribing to the capital
stock as literally as their means will per-
NIT, In taking stock you are not only
making an investment that is believed will
be remunerative, but you are affording
means of subsistence to large number of
mechanics now tut of employment, and
sustaininga an industry which will add much
to the interests Of the city, county and
State. Let all act, and act speedily.