Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-12-10
A Visit to GAINESVILLE.

GAINESVILLE and Marietta cannot be
said to be sister cities, nor very near
neighbors, yet there is a bond between
them and community of interests
by the Muskingum valley and
brought about without our knowledge
or consent when the valley was hol-
lowed out, when the world was young.
This unity of interests, which has
grown out of the commerce and traffic
of great river valley, is destined to
increase with the progress of time and
growth of population and wealth, so
that GAINESVILLE and Marietta will go
hand in hand down the stream of time,
and whatever shall promote the pros
perity of the Muskingum valley, will
inure to the advantage of both cities
GAINESVILLE has furnished this city
since we began paving our streets
through the a. o. Jones Brick and
Terra Gotta Works, over three million
bcicll and all this has been hauled
oyer the u. G5 D. Il. railroad. Apprecat-
ing n good customer, Mr. Jones invited
the City Council and City officials to
visit Zanesyille and be his guests
while in the city. Secondiug his move
in the matter, the u. & o. L. officials
through j. Hope Sutor, general man
ager, rendered a special car TO convey
them to the city Of brick and tile.
Wednesday morning Messrs, Rech
Bachman, Mcclure, Hardy, Garrison,
Moore, Wood, Henry. Price and Hatha
way, Counclmen. took the car at the
union depot and arrived at the Jones
brick works, in South GAINESVILLE,
about $50 Il. m. Here the various
processes of making paying brick and
sewer pipe were explained and the
klins in various stages Of progress,
some being filed some burning and
some being emptied, were Inspected.
There were eleven kilus in all, which
will hold about 30, GOO brick each. The
works have Il capacity Of about 50, 900
brick pc" day. The material is fire
clay and shale.
Leaving the works we took a street
car for the Clarendon hotel where
Mayor Bell greeted us and tool; dinner
with us
In the afternoon we visited the Amer
ican Encaustic Tile Works, said to be
the largest mandatory of the kind in
the world. They have many orders
ahead for their product Over ,, ,OOO 600
pieces of fine tile have been ordered
for the floor of the Waldorf hotel in
New York City and 500, 600 pieces for
hotel in Milwaukee. 1t is Il marvellous
plant and some of their work of high
artistic value.
We had no time for further sightsee-
ing, although there were several man
ufacturing plants and places of inter-
est we wished to visit
just before we left the Chief of tho
fire department invited us to witness
an exhibition of the fire department
He turned in a general alarm and in
less than two minutes the whole de-
partment, consisting Of one chemical
engine and four hose reels and wagons,
came laundering by, presenting n fine
appearance and giving evidence of the
efficiency Of the department.
The whole trip was in the nature of
reunion Of the men who have laUored
all summer to make beautiful thor
oughfare for Marietta, extending from
the river TO the hills, distance Of over
mile. Men who delved in the clay
and fashioned the same into PAYERS,
and loaded them into cars: railroad
men who handled the cars which wont
like shuttles between GAINESVILLE and
Marietta all summer, and the Council
men who planned, fnanciered and
fought the battle for these workmen,
and all at last through united effort
producing an improvement which viii
last century, and which, like a thing
of beauty, will be a joy forever.
S. j. II.