Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-14
But the Advertisement Is to Be Paid for
in Good, Hard Cash. s., .-
WHAT BOTH SYNDICATES HAVE TO SAY

ment ut Gettysburg the annual camps of tn
State militia have been invariably named a
stated, and guardsmen feel there is
distinctive grievance attached to tn
innovation in the case of Camp Kensington-
for Camp Kcnsington 1t is and will remain
The camp at Gettysburg was called "Gettys
burg for very obvious reasons. The cam
of the Second Brigade has been offfciall.
named, and it will go down to posterity a
the first instance in which a land compan,
has succeeded in fastening an advertisement
on the knapsacks of the National Guard; fol
as such the Guard, by common consent, re
gard the matter of the nomenclature of th'
Second Brigade camp.
just an Advertising Scheme.
Gentlemen connected with the rival com
panies interested in booming EIlwood ant
Kensington were called upon yesterday fo
| whatever they might have to say in relation
to the article in yesterdays DISPATCH. The
very remarkable fact leaked out that, after
all, neither company had been particularly
| anxious to have the encampment near theil
| respective properties. The Ellwood people
| indeed, were rather glad than otherwise
| the soldiers would not camp in theirvicinity
| though they had made them overtures-
and the kensington boomers only went into
| gentlemen were making such hot efforts tC
have the camp. b. F. Rafferty,, of J. p
| Coppeau & Co., who have to do with the
| hensington property, is frank enough to say
| that his company regarded the location OF
| the guard on the new town as a good nd.
| vertisement, and beyond this he bad no
especial interest as to where the camp might
| be fixed.
at must be remembered" he said "that
| the officers of the Guard visited the site ad-
joining our property long before we were in
| formed of the possibility of the camp being
| located there. 1t is a simple fact that we
| did not make the least effort to have the
camp near our place until we heard of the
extraordinary efforts being put out by the
naturally, we are in the business of booming
| our property as well as other people, and we
| concluded TO make try for the camp, recog-
nizing that its location near Kensington
would be II big advertisement for the new
town. We went into the matter as business
men, and, III conf junction with the Allegheny
Valley Railroad, offered the Guard certain
inducements to camp near us. The railroad
people were willing TO do SO much, but when
William Brown, who owns the Stewart farm,
said he wanted 81 ,0O0 for a weeks rent of the
ground on which the camp was to be located
they were prepared to retire from the deal.
We then stepped in and agreed to pay Brown
Sl,00o.
A Matter of Pure Business.
"In all we have put up So 900 for the privi-
lege of having the Guard at Kensington,
ana naturally we looked for the worth of
our money. So when Mr.. Coppeau-not l.
talked with General Wiley and his staff re-
gardlng the name, it was considered as only
fair that in view of what this company was
eXpending on the Guard. the Guard should
reciprocate by calling the camp 'Kensing
ton That's how the name came to be
chosen. We put up money to advertise our
place, and we looked at the matter from
purely business view, and without any
especial attachment or consideration for the
Guard. We have accomplished our purpose
and the article in THE DISPATCH suited us to
a nicely.
"If any suggestion has been made con-
tinued Mr.. Rafferty,, "that we influenced any
of the gentlemen with whom the choice of
the ground lay it is quite unfounded We
are absolutely free from having done any
thing o: the kind. We agreed to contribute
$500 toward the transportation of baggage,
etc, and have agreed to supply lumber and
other things as inducements to the Guard TO
come to us, but this is the extent of our
transactions. We went into this thing as q
means of advertising the property, and eX-
pect to make money out Off Why should
we pay 81 90 as rent for the Stewart farm
otherwiSe?
Henry Hartman, of the Pitssburg Com
pany, at EIlwood, expressed himself as
pleased the cncampment had not been located
at ElIwood. He said that his company had
not made any especial effort to get the sol
diers, and he thought it as well, as the place
would have been badly cut up by the troops.
The committee that visited Ellwood to IN
spect the ground had expressed themselves
as pleased with it, but tile members wanted
such concessions as his company could not
listen to.
Kicked Against Paying Cash.
1--WE tod the committee" said Merritt
Greene, the general manager of the Pitts
burg Company, 1--WE would give them the
use of the grounds as their requirements in
lumber, and that the reservoir the company
contemplated building would be pushed 90
as to provide an abundance of water. Sub
seGuently one of the committee came to me
and said that strong inducements were
given them at Arnold's, and if our company
succeeded in securing the camp it would be
tion TO what had been granted. The reason
given for this was there was a certain
amount of cash expenditure incidental to
matter was considered by the company, who
declined to entertain it because 1t did not
know what money would be necessary.
This money, ! supposed, was to 9efray legft-
innate expenses Our company did not ask
the camp should be named Elwood becaus o
we considered it would be asking too much
of the State to lend its name to an advertis-
ing scheme"
An officer of the Guard yesterday said that
he for one objected to carrying an advertise
ment on his shoulders for any land COM
precedents in naming camps should be
broken to suit advertising purposes.
Lieutenant Colonel Glenn, OF the Four
teenth Regiment, expressed much surprise
If he had been consulted he would have sug-
gested the name of "Rippey," in honor of
Colonel o. II. Rippey. ..
DR.. Foster, Assistant Surgeon of the Four |
teenth Regiment, was of opinion that the
brigade was being used for advertising pur- |
poses. Camp sam Black" after Colonel |
Black, would have been as appropriate a |
name as any. Western Pennsylvania had !
supplied the nation with eminent soldiers to |
provide names for camps for many years to |
come without being obliged to borrow a title |
from an advertising land company.
Hoping for a Change of Name:
prominent officer in the Eighteenth |
Regiment remarked last evening that he |
had no objections personally to Arm |
old's Grove, but the selection of |
the name for the camp was
D great mistake. He was afraid it |
couldn't be rectified, but he hoped General |
Wiley would countermand the order. The
boys are thoroughly disgusted, and he added
Logan. 1t appears that he made request
for it.
Another officer said: II think that name
will be changed as soon as General Wiley
understands all the facts 1t was slick
job and well worked. The military will not
Use its influence to boom town lots. The
boys don't care where they camp If
the grounds are convenient Whether |
hensington wakes into great city
Or dies natural death, is of no consequence
to them, but they are decidedly opposed in
my way to aid private enterprise by their
presence on their land. 1 know that the
name was given to please Major Logan.
Nobody had any objections. and it was
idoDted out of Difference to him."