The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1898-05-26
THE ELEVATOR,

1t was, perhaps good thing for Mani
| towoc that q week ago there was every
prospect it had lost the elevator. The
necessity for activity at once became ap-
parent and the city has been tinRlipg
! with life and animated purpose since.
i There is no stagnatlon now, no indIffer
/ ence, no waiting for good times -to-come
| spirit. Ii there is fossiltn the city who
| thinks good things will come to 1t with
out effort, he keeps as quiet as Spanish
! sympathiZer. The people are stirred and
| when they are. there is nothing they can
not accomplish.
When it was learned that the Northern
Grain Company had practically conclud-
ed to build their elevator elsewhere,
Mayor Torrison IN conjunction with q
committee 1T busipessmen entered into
communication with the officers OF that
company. but could get no satisfactory
| reply. Indeed the kilograms were al
most discourteous in their bluntness and
peremptory tone and almost strained .he
bow to cracking. The officials finally
| agreed to give the committee an audience
and on Saturday the members left for
Chicago. The following are the mem
bers: Mayor Torrison, Mestrs. Vilas
Mulholland, Burger, Rahr, Sedgw,ck,
Fred Schuette and Mueller. They re
turned on Sunday night and on Monday
made arrangements for mass meeting
10 be held at the court house that ev-n
ing. The court house was literally pack
ed. Fred Schueote related fully what the
committee had done, what it had learned
OF the situation and what 1t advls ed
should be done. His remarks we're 81 D
plemented by others made by Mr.. Sedg
wick and Mr.. Villas.
Milwaukee had become a competitor of
,lanitowoc for the elevator and in fsct
had far outbId what we were ASKED to
grant. The company had feeling, be
sIGee, that ManTtowCc was not so kindly
disposed toward the enterprises as to
warrant fair treatment in the future.
The officials seen by the committee we're
soon disabused OF this idea. The diff
Guilty was that the company in dealing
with the CT uacil did not assume a posi-
tive attitude and the council proceeded
to drive bargain the conditions being
such as to largely justify it. There is no
company doing business in the city to
ward which there is q kindIier feeling
that there is toward the Northern Grain
company. The meeting on Monday night
fully demonstrated this. In fact ever
since the company began work on it's first
elevator, the people of Manitowoc have
had only good words for 1t, and it may
expect not only fair treatment but cor
dial support in the future.
The mass meeting was emlnently sue
cessful and away beyond the expectation
OF the most sanguine in the good spirit
shown. 1t was an awakening OF slum
bering force and an exhibition of life
which promise good things.
The Northern Grain company requir-
ed that the dredging in front of its docks
be done by the city, distance of 600
feet, that a culvert for Sherman creek be
put in, that the dock be built, the COM
pany to furnish the material, and that
the ground be prepared for the side
tracks. This was conceded by the CON-
mittee and enthusiastically ratified by
the people. The city council agreed to
do the dredging and to care for the creek
leaving the docking to be done by those
who subscribe. The whole cost will be
about $1,000. The sum subscribed is
greatly in excess of the needs, the people |
subscribing large amounts SO as to make |
certain sufficient sum would be raised. |
1t is Intended to collect certain per |
cent. OF the subscription sufficient to do |
the work contemplated. The committees
are still at work taking subscriptions so |
that the burden may be distributed as
equitably as possible. In very few in.
stances have they failed to get what they |
asked.
Mayor TorrIson received letter yes
terday from the NortheIn GrHin company
stating that what Manltowoc purposed |
doing was satisfactory to the directors |
of the company and that it WAS decided |
to build here. Hall Bros. likewise receiv.
ed the laconlc message, "The elevator |
is yours. Proceed t. unload the piles"
The elevator will be completed Septem- |
Der l. 1t will cost $4,000. 1t is GER
tain that other elevators will soon be
built here and board OF trade will fol. |
low. There are big things ID store for
Manltowoc.