The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-08-22
NOW OR NEVER /!
4 Chance to Boom LamhertViIle.

Five practical potters of unquestioned
business ability and experience, with am
pie capital to carry on the business, want
our Improvement Company to erect
buildings and lease them for term Of
years at fair rental, with the privilege
of purchasing.
These buildings for four-kiln pottery,
with steam engine and shafting, will cost
about $4,000. The Improvement Com
pany has $4,000 subscribed, and there
fore It is necessary to secure $4,000 ad-
ditional. Every person in this city is
equally interested with the Improvement
Co and should do his part to make the
effort success.
The officers Of the company do not pro.
pose to spend their time in another can
vass OF this city, but have called meet
ing of our citizens at THATcHER's HALL.
on next TUESDAY EVENING. at o'clock,
when, If general interest is not shown
by a general attendance, the whole mat
ter will be abandoned. Now, If the peo-
pie who have been growing at the I'm
provement Co. for not doing something
really want anything done, let them come
out and help do something.
II the people who pay taxes in this city
would subscribe each an amount equal to
the taxes they pay, the sum can easily
be raised.
Below, correspondent explains more
fully the project:
The time has come for decided action,
whether the city of Lambertville shall
have boom, or remain as 1t Is. There
has been proposition made to the Lam,
bertville Improvement Company by reli-
able parties, that If the Improvement Co.
will erect buildings suitable for four
kiln pottery, they will obligatet themselves
to lease and operate the same for term
of years with the privilege Of buying it in
the near future at its cost value. This is
the first good offer the Improvement Co.
has had, and 1t is rare chance to improve
our city aud every citizen should feel its
Importance and real value.
This pottery when In full operation,
will employ over one hundred hands and
when enlarged, as doubtless it would be,
like those In Trenton, will then employ
over two hundred operatives.
This good beginning will no doubt (lise
in other places) bring to our city further
improvements OF great value. There
must be beginning. Our Improvement
Co. has tried hard and had many offers;
few If any of which, before this, have
been worth an effort to have them located
here.
These men can furnish their own capt.
tai, and run the business, provided we
furnish the buildings with steam engine
and line shafting, the total cost of which
Is estimated at $25, 900.
The Improvement Co. have over four
hundred shares of their capital stock sub
scribed, and some money already paid To-,
which in part was invested in the pur.
chase Of about five acres of land, located
at the junction of the Belvidere Delaware
and Pennington Railroads, in the north
ern part of our city. These lands are well
selected, on which can be built several
potteries, factories, Sc. Each share of
the capital stock of the improvement Co.
is $25, to be paid In instalments, when
called for, In case of improvements. The
four hundred shares already taken, when
paid up, will amount to $4,000. aud to
raise the required sum to build the new
pottery. which will cost $25, 200, will re-
quire six hundred additional shares to
raise The needed SIS, 1000. Now all this
is at the disposal of our citizens, whether
they will come forward aud take this
stock and put FIRST class pottery 10 oper-
alton right here 10 Lambertville, or re.
main quiet and unconcerned, and these
men go to another place, where they have
fair inducements held out to them al
ready.
The improvement CO. are making an
extra effort to have pottery located in
Lambertville, and to insure success every
citizen must do his individual part In taxi
ing some stock in that company as that
Is the only way this amount of money can
be raised from so great a number of inter.
ested persons.
That one, two, three of our citizens
will come forward and put this enterprise
on its feet, no one expects; but all should
do something, then the new pottery will
60 speedily into full operation. The I'm
provoment Company is the lever to bring
this thing about, and it will be tested 10
few days who will take hold Of the lever
and lift up this long needed enterprise in
our city.
1t cannot be had, without our citizens
will take hold and each do little. ***