The Newtown bee., 1879-12-03
Are We to Have Manufactures ?
Upwards of Fourteen Hundred Dollars
Subscribed Toward r forming a Stock
Company--How Hating can be Made
Profitable--A Subscription List Start
ed--A Letter From Interest.

Company--How Hating can be Made
ProfItable--A Subscription List Start
ed--A Letter Prom Interest.
EDITOR BEE In the last issue of your
spicy journal we endeavored to show
more fully the great advantages that
must accrue to our town if manufactures
were carried on. We went so far as to
show how a meeting for this purpose
could be successfully summoned, organ
lied and conducted. With manutactur-
ing in our midst, we tried to show what
Newtown would become few years
hence and we think we in nought exag-
gerated. On the contrary, we are salts
fled we could add to the picture. and not
exceed the limit of the blessings which
Newtown could reap from resurrecting
even her former limited manufactures.
This week we have heard from unques-
tionable authority, that Newtown gen.
tleman proposes to invest one thousand
four hundred dollars in such an enter
prise. All honor to such a man-it is
such as he that have made our beloved
country what it is to-day, and be the
hope Of its future in the time to come.
We understand another gentleman will
also give reasonable share, and 60 will
not withdraw it, either" Now. that the
matter may be speedily brought to a sue
cessful conclusion, we take the liberty of
suggesting to those gentlemen that they
repair to the store of SanfordG Hawley,
or to the office of this paper, and sign
their names on q list that will be pro-
vided. Then let all others who intend
becoming stockholders do likewise. At
ter this let them insert a notice in the
BEE, the purport of which will be to in
vite all such stockholders to meet, say
at the office of this paper, the ensuing
Saturday at 7 80 p. m. Then constitu-
ton and bylaws can be agreed upon, to
the satisfaction of all concerned; a Pres
ident, e-Presdent, Treasurer and Sec
rotary can be elected. After this an Ex-
ecutive Committee can be appointed,
whose business shall be to inform them
selves about what business is best calcu-
lated to be successful here. After this
everything will be in good order, and
much annoyance will, in the future, be
obviated. The same thing can be done
in Sandy Hook and list opened at Mr..
Augurs Office, or at the store OF Glover,
Warner & Clark.
You may ask, Mr.. Editor, why be thus
minute? Simply, because it is we'll that
the fIiends of this enterprise should know
and act confidently with each other, anu
anyway, it will hurt nothing to act in the
matter as speedily as prudence will per-
} NIT.
!, With regard to hat mandatory, we
! can say that, in our opinion, and we know
something whereof we speak, one can be
opened, with a capital of say from four to
, six thousand dollars; but it can readily
be understood that a company with
> twelve thousand dollars capital would
} be in better position to avail itself OF
= any advantages which lnay be placed al
it's disposal.
We believe that our assertion on this
3 point can be fully corroborated by any
) hat-shop superintendent in the country
hat-shop running on commission work
g which, after all, although not the most
/ lucrative, would certainly, for new firm
: be the safest.
e Next, considerable of the success would
depend on the competency of the mai
. who would superintend such a shop AL
: though we are averse to anything Dor
: dering on personality, yet in this connec
r ton we would suggest the name of Ben
5 jamin Bailey, of Danbury, as we under
. stand he is not at present engaged, h'
r being a most competent person for such
q position. His connection with the hat
: ting business is OF many years duration
); having been engaged in that manufacture
r in Mexico, and for many years in thi
# country. Such experience and ability q
e his would certainly mean succeas.
+ We think that letter from Ho chkiss
e Vile speaks volumes. Mr.. S. Mason has
:. in the cutlery business, a most enviabl
IS reputation. His connection with and in
q terest in such business ought to b
10 guarantee that a failure would b
t, almost impossible. 1t is only reasonabl
n to suppose that he will meet with niue
encouragement: but would it not be NOR
IL practicable for that gentleman to say q
1t once what is the nature Of the assistance
: il any, he expects from the people {
III Sandy Hook. By SO doing intereste
e parties can know at once how his term
re can be met. and thus prevent unnecess;
u ry and protracted delay. We cannot 70
s. bear requesting our readers to look {
le the town of Bethel from the depot as fl
s, us the foot OF Copert Hill, towards Dal
ry bury, and then around the Grassy Plai
BY road as far as Stephen Bates, and,
fact, as far as Sharp's Corner, then a
I'll ever the country lying behind Mr.. Ben
SO diets residence as far as Mountain Pom
u and when we say that all these building
IN have been erected and purchased almo
1d exclusively through Orrin Benedict
en shop. Now, then, we ask in all sincerit
s. If we have over-estimated the advant
I'D ges of manufacture in any town. Sti
ct further we can say that when propert
even in Danbury, was depreciating o
most at bankrupt rate, most Of this v
VI have been speaking of was steadily 1
,r- ereasing-aye, in times of depression tt
Is equal of which this country, perhap
W. never saw. Behold what spiritt
is man can do to enhance the value OF
w own property, and to shower blessings (
as those whom he employs. Everyone
ad Sandy Hook and Newtown repeat CONT
On ually that the articles in the BEE relati'
lis to "Newtown's Stagnation have be-
n most opportune, but we wish to see the
- ant mora anarnaticallu in this matte