The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-05-17
MR., DUEBER TALKS.
What He Says About the City
Councils Pledge.
The County Commissioners Wa'er
Works Trustees and Gas Company
Have Done They Part, But
the Council Has Not.
Jobn g Dueber arrived here yesterday

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ITr Dneher came up to Canton to see
how work was progressing on his
hniIdings He felt somewhat displeas-
"a of he slowness of the city III I'M
Srroving the streets in the Meyer addl-
Hon He said: 81 wonld like to know
Svhether the people of Canton want Vhe
ised To omen up the streets in the Meyer
addition and nothing practically mas
%een done There is Dueber avenue;
DOtbinC has vet been done to it in the
line Of grading and we can't go on
further until something more Is done
Tbe streets are unopened and we are
5aioved TOO much in our work on
account of this negligence. We have
been delayed long enough on account Vi
lahor troubles. Delays are dangerous
and cost money. The whole grounds
Shonld have been leveled Off first
and then graded before there was
a stone layed and then there would have
been no difficulty. This, was the way
tbey did in Mansfield when they Dullt
the government buildings, and shoula
have done the same. But ulu not
want to take the time to do that hrst,
l thought l would go on ana D9llu, anu
that the city would begin 10 improve
the streets and by the time my pulla,
ings were completed the streets Woulu
be finished. But such is not the case
The buildings are up and the men com.
ing here almost daily, ana III wei
weather they could not get to them TOT
mud. | have done what nave prom
ised to do, but the city has not. Inc
Water Works Trustees have done thelr
part and so have the County Commls
siOners, and | will say that the Gas
Company has done more than their
part, but the city council has failed TO
do what they promised they would. II
you will turn your files OF August Il,
1886. YOU will find the resolution passed
by the Council the night before, and II
will tell you Just what the Council
promised to do. -,
"Mr Dueber, have you not built your
buildings a great deal larger than you
first intended ?" asked the reporter.
"Well, no. | intended to make the
the building as large as it is, but accor-
ing to the first proposition | was only
to build the one building, the Watch
Case Factory. Afterward changed
my mind and concluded to build two
buildings. | take great deal OF pride
in nv buildings, and built them as or.
naments to the city. Icould have built
buildings with great deal less money,
and we could have made watches in
them lust as well, but l wanted nice
buildings The Elgin Watch Works OF
Illinois are located in fiat and III very
poor buildings"
At this point Mr.. G. s. Perry, who is
here with MIR. Dueber, said he had been
in all the watch factories in the world
and these buildings were the finest he
had seen.
MFR. Dueber then said that if he had
desired to make money out of anything
else but his watches by coming to Can
ton. he would have bought farm Of
500 acres and built his works upon il
and then cut the rest of tinto building
lots and town would have soon sprung
IN right around his factory. But Saio
he; II wanted the city to make this
money. have enough to attend to my
watch trade. The present facilities
here are not sufficient to accommodate
all the people. When | move / must
move very fast, and if my men were tC
come here now you could not begin tc
accommodate them. Our men don,
work OILY for living, but for a good
living and little more, and they want
pretty good hotel accommodations. ]
will guarantee you to fill all the hotels
and boarding houses as fast as you
build them for the next year. YOuI
neople here do not realize what big
addition this will be to Canton. 1t will
not be very long before we will employ
about 1000 hands. At Elgin they were
in the same fix some years ago, and the
company was compelled to build hotels
for the accommodation of its hands
hut as | said before 1 want the city tC
make this money. Another thing
might say is, that it will take great
MANY cOnVeyances to get the people
away from the shops. When our fac
tory quits work it is like large theatel
letting out. At Elgin they have mum
erous hacks and buses which do moth
ing else but convey workmen to anC
from the factory l don't think the
one street car track on West Tusca
raWas street will be sufficient to accom-
modate the travel to and from Oul
shops"
MIR. Dueber said that he had intend
ed to grade the hill off just east of the
buildings so as to have it in sod by thu
time the men were ready to go to work
but could not proceed because OF th'
delay in establishing the grade OIL
South street.
He said dust was the great thinl
they had to contend with, and the dir
and dust that would arise from level
ing off the hill would largely interfer
with the work in the watch factory.
Mr.. Dueber also said that one thin
that induced him to come to Cantor
was the hospitality of the people hert
and that such people were not to
found in the Ohio Valley, nor in fac
anywhere? He then went out to th
works, accompanied by Mayor Blak
He will leave for Cincinnati this ever
ing. ~,
which Mr.. Dueber referred to in I'll
above article, we give below. 1t W;
read by Charles r. Frazer at publ
meeting in the assembly room on A
gust 20, 1886, and is as follows:
We, the undersigned members OF II
City.Council of Canton, O., do herel
indorse the resolutions adopted tonlg
by the Board of Directors Of the Boa
of Trade, and pledge ourselves to do
in our power to carry out the improV
ments asked for by the Meyer heirs
consideration of their generous offer
land for the erection of the Dueb
Watch Case Company's buildings
CHARLES r. FRAZER,
President
WILLIAM l.. MILLER,
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