The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-06-24
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The Jordan & Good
rich Shoe Company,
RaVGlla, Ohio.
Capita! st,.s, $4,000.

deciphered as representations of wished for
disaster to the prospective growth of this city,
and to which they have contributed lavishly of
their talents. is now complete in all its wonder
full proportions. and for heterogeneous mass
of raked-up nonsense. it my fairly be conceded
to be masterpiece of wandering art. Reduced
to their original elements. its underlying ideas
will discover themselves to be the children of
jealousy and parsimony. making a picture
equally false with one of dream dipped brush.
1t affords us much satisfaction to say to our
readers that we believe everything appearing
on this chart of the savants capable of inter-
probation, has been analyzed, and found to be
either pure mentations or technical legalisms,
introduced as covert excuses for, or attempted
Justification of an unpopular and uncalled for
act
In the meantime, we can assure our readers
that this attempt to strangle the new industries
located here has signally failed and that before
1891 shall have run its sands, other large and
important manufactures will be established in
our growi0g city.
Last Friday papers were sent to Columbus for
the Incorporation of The Jordan & Goodrich
Boot and Shoe Company, with capital stock
of SIS 600. The incorporators areJ w. Jordan,
W. E. Goodrich. c. A. Reed, d G, Goldman, ID.
NJ Clewell, John Meharg, Charles Merits, F n.
Rumbaugh, Wanzor Holcomb. a. Z. Seaton.
Nelson Converse j. S. Smith.
This Company will be strong one in every
way. 1t is composed Of some Of the best known
and most substantial business men of Ravenna.
and with the fine ability of Messrs. Jordan &
Goodrich for conducting the boot and shoe bu-
siness, its future is assured.
Every jobber in fact everybody at all con-
versant with the usiness and accustomed to
visiting shoe towns.unite in saying the Jordan
Goodrich plant is one of the best and most
complete in the country.
Within this magnificent five-story building
there is room for 500 hands. and it will not be
on the program of the proprietors to allow any
vacant spaces to exist in the establishment.
Already they have received large number
of orders on which they are working with might
and main to fill Every morning, noon and
night, the cheering sight of employees going to
the factory in response to the call of its chime
whistle is sufficient to awaken the liveliest
feelings of satisfaction. and is complete vim
dication of the course taken by our worthy
Mayor and public spirited community.
just as rapidly as new hands can be broken
in they will be initiated into the mysteries OF
the trade. until the factory is a great hive of
industry. the pride Of Ravenna. and monu-
ment OF her enterprise.
Last Saturday the first consignment of goods
went out billed to Chicago.
In looking through the various departments,
one is impressed with the very large amount of
machinery required, and to the eyes of those
making for the first time tour of inspection
through shoe factory. it is a surprising sight
to witness the many hands through which
shoe passes ere it is completed.
All this, of course. means emOlOVment for
many operatives. and it requires but slight
addition in each sub department to swell the
numbers up into the hundreds.
Boots and shoes can be manufactured much
cheaper here than in the East and it only re
mains for this great plant to become little
more fully developed and little better known.
ere other firms making different line of shoes
will locate here, This we believe to be as cer-
sai-, s.s.s tiro s,vrda- cold
We were shown samples of the goods made
by the Company since commencing operations
here. and they are certainly making the finest
lines of Mems, Youths and Boys Mediums we
ever saw. The other day a gentleman, a mer-
chant in large Pennsylvania town, was visit
ing in Ravenna, and before returning home
called at the Shoe Factory, and on being shown
the samples. pronounced them, after careful
examination. to be the best shoe for the money
he ever saw, and was almost incredulous ON
being told that they were made by raw hands.
He is one of the future customers of the Com
pany.
Much more might be written of this vast en-
terprise. of its benefits to our city, and the
welcome employment it gives to home labor.
but we reserve that for future issues, dismissing
the subject by assuring our readers tn at the
Shoe Factory is one of the substantial realities
of the place, and an institution of sound finau
cial backing
The walls of the great Carbon Factory are
well advanced, toward completion. aud Monday
morniug work was resumed all along its line.
The building is 240x1OO feet and already looms
up in huge prepo rtions, a veritable Jumbo
plant. 1t will take but a few weeks to COM
plete 1t. and ere Fall we may expect to see the
Globe Carbon Company in active operation in
Ravenna. and added to her list of great indus
tries.
John Barrows. Henry Jones, Elijah Jones and
William Jones are the names oftour gentlemen
who came here from Niles to engage in the
boiler making business. II. W. Riddle prompG-
ly offered them an acre of land at the foot OF
South Walnut street hill. Immediately north OF
the P. & W. track. conditioned that they engage
in the manufacture of boilers for three consec-
d
The deed was at once made, possess ion taken,
and the work of grading INN ediately COM
menced. One building 4OS 81 is about completed
and ere long another. 100x100 feet will be put
up. The establishment is known as the Ravenns
Boiler Works. The company will equip their
plant with 50 500 worth of machinery to start
with, and will command facilities with the
best plants in the country for the manufacture
of all kinds of boilers and tanks, and plate and
sheet iron work of every description.
The b. & o. will at once put in switch to the
new works, and the water mains are now bein 9
extended to the plant. This is most valuable
addition to Ravenna's industries. the worth o
which will appear more fully later on, The
gentlemen composing the company are al
practical boiler makers. thoroughly conversan
| with every detail of the business, having beer
employed for many years in the large manufac
| tory of Reeves Bros in Niles. Ravenna eX-
| tends to them a cordial ard hearty welcome and
| it will be an agreeable duty for the PRESS t.
| note from time to time the growth of their es
| tablishment. And it is well to call attention tc
| the fact that this concern is one of the direc
results of the industrial awakening popularity
| known as the boom,' and would never havt
| been heard of at Ravenna had it not been foI
the activity of the past ten months. just how
many nduuS Will DC employed at urSG the pro
prietors We're unable to inform us. but probably
ten to fifteen will not be an over estimate.
Another industry for which the boom is re
sponsible is the new Brick and Tile Works
now employing 90 hands. large kiln fol
the manufacture of tile is being put up. in addi
tion TO the patent brick kins which We
have mentioned in a recent issue, and in a weel
or so the company will be turning out tile by
the thousands. This is the best plant of it;
kind for hundreds of miles around, and for su,
perior brick both common and pressed, the
establishment is already becoming famous.
And in this same line of business, is the Brick
yard of H, F. Caris, which from a comparative
| ly small establishment in years past. ha:
branched out with new ma achinery and increas-
ed working force, and is now numbered among
the important industries of the place.
Another inspiring phase of the boom, and one
too which twists the deformed reasoning OF the