The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-11-14

eXpedlency and necessity of resOrtlng TO
some method best calculated to induce
customers and patrons from all parts OF
Northern Ohio to make Cleveland their
place aud objective point of retail as
well as Wholesale trade, and the same
time be conducive to the encouragement
and maintenance of our different plac-
es Of amusement. The experiment has
already been made by the largest cloth
ing houses to erect bulletin boards all
over the northern part of the State, eve
ry gable end of stables, barns, smoke
and spring houses all along the different
rail, state and county rOads-haVe been
erected within the last year or two at
great expense, to ali of which we
all contributed an equally prOpOrtionate
share, and at this very time quite large
number of bill posters are engaged i'll
the same line of business. There are
Youngstown, Canton, Akron and places
of less population, within 100 miles of
Cleveland, that are becoming quite COM
petitiVe business centres in the whole
sale as well as retail line. The same
dramatic attractions that perform here
also perform there, and very often to bet
ter paying houses. The advantages those
places have are in cheaper rents, less
taxes and cheaper living. The self-evi-
dent facts are, we have too many cloth
ing stores, dry goods and other CONNER
cial houses, TOO many restaurants and
lager beer saloons, and decidedly too
many places of amusement. Our pOpu-
latiOn Is too limited and too lndispOsed
to give them all a living support. You
are no doubt aware that great many
of our richest and most aTistOcratic fam
lilies do their principal shopping in New
York and Boston, in such as pins, need
les, threads and buttons, they at times
buy at home.
Mr.. Hanna, of the Euclid Opera House,
fully endorsed every word the chairman
uttered, TemaTking that he Is not pub
lie speaker, but an active cO-OpeTatOr in
any movement calculated to give relief
and encouragement 10 all interested in
Cleveland. He further stated that year
or so ago he worked very hard, in very
inelement weather, to draw Operatic
custom to his house; he visited several
of the larger towns with his stereOscOpe,
on the plan of Adam FOTepaugh and p.
I. Barnum, it also failed. That he had
a conference with the management Of
the Valley and COnnOttOn r. r. Co.'S,
who also feel the necessity and impOT-
tance of creating more business of all
kinds for their respective lines, and as
IL Is presumed these railroads were con-
structed principally for the interest and
progress of Cleveland, and looked upon
in their inCipiency as channels for the
importation of coal to our city, with
such incidental passenger emOlument
which the various attractions here
might induce to bring to our metrOpO-
lis. He therefore moved that commit
tee of three be appointed by this meet
ing, consisting of MOTdecai McMillen,
Lazarus Solomon and Timothy HOpkin-
son, whose duty it shall be to draft a
plan best calculated to have the desired
effect. The committee at once retired
to the ladies' paTlOT, in the same block,
and after an absence of about 30 min
utes, made the following report, prefac-
ing it with few remarks, that it was
thought best for all interested to have
it appear in that form, notice signed
bysMcGillen 81 Co., and distributed all
over the country, for an excursion on
the above principle, to be had NOyem-
ber 18th, 1888.