The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1892-04-21
OBITUARY.


DIED On Friday evening April -, 1892
OF iuanity and lack of enterprise the
city of Manitowoc.
That brief announcement tells the tale.
! The city was never more than poor re-
lation and only the poor mourn It's de-
mise. Not even the petty sum needed to
employ physician would be guaranteed
by those who would profit most by the
continued existence of the weakling.
Dead my Right Honorables and Left
Honorahies;" yes dead, indeed, and not
a sigh of pity from those who could have
put forth a saving hand. The crucifxion
was on that fatal Friday when the savior
of mankind gave up his life. But in the
case of Monitowoc there was no resurrec
ion. 1t is death without glimmer Of
hope. Death with tombstores and bur
led hopes and shattered idols. Death
until the angel Gabriel sounds his trum-
pet and things inanimate put on life.
ManIt0woc is cemetery and can beat
any NlO vi ITO SlLC III IIlC WIN III IhO
number Of Its hearses. 1t has hearses
for Young and old, feeble minded and
feeble spirited; there is not a person in
the city no matter what age, condition
or sex who cannot find q hearse beauti-
fully appropriate to his circumstances In
life. The hearses are fully IN keeping
with their environments, just as If nature
had planned the arrangement so as to
exhibit the highest conception of the laws
of harmony.
It is not so much the loss of the fac
tory as the indisposition to retrieve the
loss that gives us a grave yard aspect.
When Chicago burned down, the loss
brought to the surface degree Of activ-
ity, energy and enterprise which aston
ished the world and gave the city repu-
tation as glorious as that Of Manitowoc
is shameful. But we hug our shame and
seem to rejoice that 1t IS ours. In this
respect we can claim pre-eminence with
out the possibility OF having our claim
disputed, even. We are immense when it
comes to sitting down and waiting for
the COW to come and be MIXED. We can do
more waiting than any other city in the
universe and not grow tired of it.
A factory that employ 200 men and
supported a population of about 700 is
destroyed. It's reputation abroad repre-
scented a cash capital OF at least 100000
to which its successor would succeed
without cent of cash. & had contracts
which cost money to secure and which
would naturally pass to its successor.
1t had trained employees who offered each
amonth's wages to the concern, fully equi
valent to bonus of $4,000. It had an
assured business and trained agents to
hold it. 1t had a quantity of material
which could be purchased cheap as it
prac- icaliy had no value unless the fac
tory was rebuilt. It was shown by care
fully collected data that the product of
the concern could be sold 30 as to furnish
a good profit under proper management
These were the advantages offered invest
ors as purely business enterprise. But
these were by no means the only reasons
clamoring vainly to be heard. The fac
tory was the leading industry OF the city.
It furnished employment to many people
former residents of the place and brought
many people here from outside. Through
il every housein the city for rent was oc-
cupIed at a good rental. Employees were
building, and real estate which was not
salable before, foGnd ready purchasers at
Il good price Fully SlGo,900 per year
was spent in the city by employees of the
factory. u added to the prosperity of
the city at home and advertised it ont
side. No person engaged in any }orun of
business in the city there was who did
no. profit by this industry.
Then the loss OF prestige to the city IN
permitting an institution of this kind 10
die. It is an announcement that Mantle
woe S wholly lacking 10 enterprise and
vitality, that it would rather die than
make an effort to 1--we. We have beeen
boasting and Dragging and finally when
an opportunity came for doing somethin 2
we turned tail like towards and didn't
even lave the grit to make an effort. An
oyster could not have done less except
that az oyster could not have protested
what it would doif the Cpl ortuoily pre-
scented itself. We have been running and
begging for defunct cJneerng, and Ike S.r
Andrew A1aecheak. boasting of our
prowess until it was put t the test and
! then we skulked. That's the kind #
hair pins We are.
No doubt there are many of the enter
pFising(?) wealthy N of the city who
viii declare that The Pilot ii making a
truthful statement Of our condition, is
running the prospects OF the city. II
there is harm IN telling what las beea
done, or rather III telling what cannot be
/ done, then The Pilot is guilty of an Of