The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-19
TRHuq0N'S Big boom.
Rothehilds Will Erect a Factory
There Giving Employment
to Eight Hundred
Hands.
spceia, to tho Jersey citu Ec,cs.

Spccia, to the Jersey Ctu Nc.rs.
TRENTON, April 10, 1Ss5.+There are.
SO many points about the proposition
made by the Rothgchilds to the City of
Trenton with reference to their estab-
fishing a factory here that it is diff
cult to comprehend them all within the
SCOPE Of a newspaper article.
The subcommittee from the commit
tee of twenty-five. Messrs. Case. Grant
and vannest. went to New York on Tues
day. and as a result of Their visit the re-
cuirements of the company have been
modified. The committee will report to
The General Committee today.
The committee say that the citizens
will be required to put up a building
and supply a boiler and engine, the man
shafting, steam heat, and a gas-making
plant. al automic sprinkler and to a
the taxes and water rent.
The sum required to do this is esti-
mated to be $50. 600. The building viii
be three sides of q hollow square, 6OxfC0
feet, three stories in height. This form
of construction VII make the front
20 feet, with 1G0-foot LIS running back
from either end.
The firm are to put in all the ma
ainery peculiar to their business. For
ne first four years they are to pay two
~er cent. upon the cost. They are to
'eep the inside of the plant in repair
nd the citizens the outside. AT the end
If five years they are to have the privi-
age of buying the plant at actual cost,
sss the amount they will lave paid dur
1g the period. They may also take the
ant at any time during the five years
WILL REMAIN TEN YEARS.
They contract to remain here and
operate their factory for ten years. If
they do not buy the plant at the expira-
ion Of five years they ~rel.nQu.sh. their
lain to the two. per cent. they will nave
paid as rent, and the rent for the second
ERIN of FIVE years VIII be three and one
he second Fec den period Of Of ivy i've ! Years uu they
choose to buy the plant they may do so
at cost, and all payments that they may
period viii viii be deducted duo apW' from the the s cost.
The arrangement for the third period Of
WILL EMPLOY 500 HANDS.
The capacity OF the works. as the
dimensions are o given, will be 500
hands. The firm propose to put in 200
sewing Machine &C at j. once, whIch + vi VII
t. she Ta0n t as !aey f. fhapsR viii iris pa 4 s n
more machines, giving employment to
factory employment. will be given to
about 200 others in their homes in sew
ing on buttons
nan the one the firm now operates IN
Freehold. where $4,000 a week is dis
lbursed in wages. The Freehold factory
has not lost a day during that period
Over s2o0,o00 a year IS. distributed il
wages in that town.
year to get the learners sufficiently ex-
pert to make the payroll at It's maxi
HOW IT WILL BENEFIT TRENTON
To show the announcement citizens
nave to contribute towards this acquis.
ton, a gentleman yesterday stated that
two years at least $500 per week, Or
over $125,000. This goes into the hands
Of those WHO neW nave no work, ans
Moreover, it will ali be spent here. TIE
gentleman estimates that 20 per cent. Is
a fair profit on merchandise, and If th.s
men qor Of fire a n viii get Il the mount o.
their subscriptions to stock back in the
shape Of profits in two years IS correct,
tb Tae Kethss yeaas. e espeFienc aav In f ths
business. They are worth over a mil
lion dollars and do a business of tive
m len, a year. se They are aPeug now 6ehans
M A SITE OFFERED.
Fell & Roberts ave determined TO
offer a site for the factory along the line
of fAe Bound Brook Railroad, SIX hur-
bred yards from the Prospect street sta
Ton. They make a very favorable offer.
They will give the land free and will fur
nish all of the bricks necessary to cor
struct the factory. at the market rates,
and will take half of the sum IN stock
and the other half in cash.
They have another lot on Reservoir
street that they might submit under the
same terms. provided the other IS not
satisfactory.
The first lot named may be reached by
the railroad at a three-cent fare by COM
mutation tickets. The Trenton Passen-
ger Railroad Company is about to extend
its tracks to the site.