Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-01-15
NEW TOBACCO EXCHANGE.
A Much Needed Building Which
Should Soon Be Built.

| meet the wants OF WafenOusemeD
brokers and farmers; a building
whose dimensions aud general aspec
should be more in keeping with the
handsome store-houses on Mail
street, and with the local market o
the largest dark tobacco growing
county in the Union. At a recent
meeting of the Commercial Club the
suggested improvement was the sub
ject of an earnest aud protrscted con
versatio6 and received a hearty and
unanimous approval. 1t is com.
mended to the public as an enterprise
deserving to be pushed TO compile,
ton.
The tobacco market of Hopkins.
vile has long since outgrown the
humble little frame structure on Clay
street. Every warehouseman and
broker Is ashamed of the narrow
quarters in which he is cribbed dur,
ing sales, and where the waiting
fsrmer has, if possible, still fewer
conveniences-that is fthere can be
a comparison of conveniences in 8
house which has no convenience fol
any body. The least one can say o.
the old frame Exchange is that it II
far behind the times, has outlived
its usefulness and is become an eye,
sore to the tlourishing tobacco mar
ket of Hopkinsvile. There are now
six warehouses here having good
present trade and an excellent pros.
pect for largely increased business
within the next twelve months. With
the addition Of a large and fertile ter
ritory TO their field of operation they
may confidently hope for trade ex-
ceeding The most sanguine eXpecta-
tions of the founders of this market
aud reaching an aggregate of mil
lions of dollars, controlled not by
visionary speculation and hazardous
advances, but by the inducements OF
safe and judicious business.
The new Exchange should be q
spacious and handsome brick struc
ture, having ample accommodations
in its sale room for warehOusemen,
brokers, samples, and for planters
and others attending the sales. The
room should be complete in all Its ap.
pointments and arrangements, with
comfortable seats for all, well lighted,
warmed and ventilated, pleasant
and inviting resort for the farmers
where they can sit at ease and watch
the course of the market without
WEAKNESS 1t should be the planters
club room, shelter and general rem
devious during business hours.
Besides the sale room the new EX-
charge should contain a number of
offices for brokers. which would be a
source of income to the company. 1t
was suggested that well-kept lunch
room would be well patronizad by
visitors wanting dime sand witch or
a quarter lunch. All these rooms
would command good paying tenants.
The cost of such building is a
proper subject for careful business
consideration. 1t would be mistake
to be either niggarily or extrava-
CANT in such an enterprise. y lofty
air-cast!e one half of which would
be empty rooms, might be fair for
those to look at who were not called
or to pay for it.
There is no reason, however, to
doubt that moderate percentage on
the actual tobacco trade ofthis market
would, with judicious arrangement
build a handsome Exchange. Nor
is there any doubt that such build
ing would be a splendid advertising
card to invite business. 1t would be
a handsome recognition by the city
of the importance Of the trade, and
the country would be sure to respond
as it does to the advertisement which
the mercantile trade has built up in
the elegant store houses on Main
street. These beautiful structures
with their costly plate glass show
windows invite trade in dry goods
and other merchandise. The invitation
would be just as powerful in the pro-
portions of a building where the
crops are sold which supply so large
A part of the funds for the general
trade. II to the tobacco crop was
added the wheat crop in general
produce exchange the aggregate
trade would reach several millions of
dollars.
Let the watchword be new To-
Dacco Exchange. Our tobacco
town and county should at
,nce discuss the project and put it in
shape for action. Nothing is wanting |
cut the determination TO have this
great improvement. The ability and
means are at hand. Perhaps il
would be more accurate to say that |
nothing is wanting but the leadership
If few enterprising men to con-
the scheme. This consum-
nation would of itself be a guaran-
zee of the erection Of several other
,reatly needed buildings and general
Roll on the ball.
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