Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-16
CITIZENS MEET
To Discuss the Matter Of Getting a
New Industry. Committee APP
pointed.

meeting, supposed TO be OF the
Board of Trade, but which was really
citizens meeting, for the purpose of
considering the proposition to get the
Manchester Stove and Range Works
to locate here, was held in the rooms
of the Marietta Club last evening.
AS was stated in the newspapers
Wednesday, Mr.. Holiday, one of the
owners of the concern, was in the city
and presented the following PROPOSE
ton to the meeting:
Marietta, Ohio March Is, 1899.
To the Board of Trade of the City of
Marietta, Ohio:
Gentlemen-I hereby submit for
your consideration the following prop
osition:
l will move the Manchester, Ohio,
Stove and Range Works to Marietta
and operate in prudent and business
way on the following terms and condi-
tions:
The Board of Trade to furnish me
free site, the one set aside by the Roy
al Glass Co. for the securing Of new
Industries and known on the plat of
East Marietta Addition and Subdivls
ion as Block 118, give me cash bonus
of $4,000 to be paid as the work of NOV
ing the plant progresses, and secure
for me a loan of $1,000, on five years
time at 6 per cent interest, said loan
! to be secured by first mortgage on the
plant and real estate and to be used in
buying out my associates ait Manches-
| ter, o.
If these conditions are accepted,
will agree to have the plant moved,
erected and in operation in not to eX-
ceed As days, and for every day after
that time for failure to have it in read
mess to operate and actually operating
| will forfeit to the Board of Trade
$1,000 per day until the plant is in op-
Grafton, the same to be deducted from
the $4,000 bonus money.
If the plant is moved here, will en-
large the moulding department to
twice its present capacity, making it
nearly as large as any foundry on the
Ohio river.
will bind myself that no part of the
plant shall be removed from this city
for a term Of seven years.
The plant cost $4,000 when built;
has been added to and with addition
when moved will stand over $25, 900. 1t
will have a capacity for employing so
workmen, and shall expect to employ
that many soon after operations are
commenced.
When the plant is ready to operate
in Marietta, | will incorporate comp
any with an authorized capital stock
of $4,000, will issue $4,000 of this to
myself for my interest and will sell
200 at par, leaving balance of
company's stock of $4,000 to be sold
in the future for purposes which the
Directors may see fit.
will want the loan of $1,000 on con-
ditions allowing me to take same up
beft the expiration Of five years and
would expect to take it up from the
sale of stock or profits OF the concern.
/ will bring a number of families
with me and will need during the next
sixty days, should tnIs proposition be
accepted, at least fifteen houses of
from four to six rooms, and would
desire them built close to the foundry
location for convenience.
l may add that the foundry business,
and especially tuat of manufacturing
stoves, ETC., is in a most flourishing
condition, and l would be pleased to
have an early consideration of this
proposition and would suggest and re-
quest that this Board send a competent
committee to Manchester to inspect
the plant and realize it's true worth.
would deem it that ten days be suf-
ffcient time for consideration and
would respectfully ask that an answer
be given within that time.
Respectfully submitted,
G. H. HOLIDAY.
After the proposition had been read,
Mr.. Holiday stated hGs long eXper-
ience in the business as an employee
and as employer. his various connec-
tions with the business and told the
persons assembled that the plant was
erected about three years ago at cost
of $21 900; that everything in the plant
is in first-class shape and just as good
as new. That 1t would be advisable to
move buildings and everything, as the
buildings are so constructed that they
can be taken down without the loss of
any part of them and then loaded on
barges and brought here.
When the plant was constructed at
Manchester, there had been charter
granted for a railroad to run to the
town and that afterward the charter
was voided and the road failed of COM
pletion, which left the plant without
shipping facilities, and that the stock
holders found that they could not run
it without experience in the business
and as he had sold his interest, they
finally shut the plant down. after which
time he purchased some of the stock
and now owns good deal of it.
After several questions had been
asked him, a committe was appointed
to confer With the five trustees who
have the free site in the Glass PLAN
Addition in charge and to also take the
necessary steps toward all investlga'
ton necessary to reach a definite con
clusion as to the final move.
1t is thought that there will be nj
trouble in getting the matter fixed VI
satisfactory and that the plant may
be removed here in the near future
seems to be a we'll grounded hope,
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