The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-26
HEME WORKS FOR SAVANNAH.
DUBLIN COMPANY DESIRES TO RE-
MOVE HERE.

| scrIptBons - business Men Who
| Have Looked Into the Matter Are
| Very Much Pleased With the
showing Made by the Dublin Peo-
| pIe and Consider That the Enter
| prise Should Prove n Very Profit
| able One Large Quantities of
These Goods, Made i'm the North
and West, Are Sold Here Annually.
small meeting of business men, held
In a lawyers office in the Provident Build
| ing yesterday afternoon, promises to have
| important results. The object of the
meeting was 10 bring to Savannah man
ufacturng enterprise which, though of
small dimensions at present, has very
promising future before it. There is every
reason to believe now that the movement
will be successful.
] The enterprise In question is the Dub
lin Hame Works. The chief stockholders
in this enterprise, Mr.. T. B. Hicks,
| president and Mr.. j. A. Spain, sec
rotary and treasurer came to Savannah
several weeks ago and conferred with
! some of the leading business men, They
had been attracted. they stated. by The
Industrial movement which had been be-
| gun here, and feeling the need of larger
| field of operations, had come to Savannah
| 10 see what inducements the business men
here were willing to offer.
At their suggestion a meeting was held
at the Pulaski House. at which were pres
ent about dozen business men, includ-
Ing leading hardware dealers and naval
stores men. Messrs. Spain and Hicks ex-
tI1r
with statements of the cost of material
and labor, and the wholesale prices at
| which the goods were sold. These were
not mere estimates. but the actual figures
at which goods had been made and de-
! lvered to the Simmons Hardware Com
pany of St. Louis, and other large deal
ers.
The hardware men expressed their sur
prise both at the excellence of the goods
| submitted and the very low prices at
which Messrs. Spain and Hicks were able
to turn out these goods. The prices, they
| stated, were very much lower than they
were paying for similar DDS to Northern
and Western manufacturers. Messrs.
| Spain and Hicks stated that there was a
| good profit in the business for them at
the prices quoted and the hardware men
unanimously agreed that their profits on
| goods obtained at these figures would be
very satisfactory indeed.
/ The meeting was so well satisfied with
| he showing made that thu chairman was
authorized to select one or Two other gen
| tlemen to accompany him to Dublin for
| the purpose of making an inspection of
| the pant and reporting to meeting here.
The chairman was compelled to leave the
| city on business, and the "trip was never
made The matter was discussed later at
a meeting of the Industrial Associa ton,
| ard decided interest shown. 1t had been
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Hicks and Spain, to make no publication
of the movement, as they had not ac-
quainted their Dublin friends with their
intentions.
Messrs Hicks and Spain returned to Sa-
vannah a few days ago, having been en-
couraged to co so by business men here,
for the purpose of perfecting arrange
ments for the removal of their plant. AT
he meeting held yesterday afternoon at
the office of Messrs. Twiggs &c Oliver
they stated that they had bought up prac-
tically all of the outstanding stock held in
Duhl and were now free to make such
movements as they mg ht see fit.
No public notice having been given of
he meeting there was only a small at
tendance, among those present being
Messrs w. d. Krenson, w. e. Wimpy
C. F. Fulton, T. E. Youmars, r. M Hull
F. NJ. oliver of Savannah Mr.. Peacock
of Thomasville, and Messrs. Hicks. Spain
and Robinson of Dublin. MIR. Krenson was
chairman and Mr.. Oliver secretary.
After some discussion the Dublin men
submitted a proposition to the following
effect: That 1t was the desire of the
stockholders of the Dublin Hsme Works
to remove their plant and materials TO
| Savannah because of the better freight
| rates and other inducem ents, provided the
| present capital stock can be increased to
| $4,000, the present stockholders to have
two Ct the five direct rs of the new beard
The company now has a paid no capital
stock OF SO COO, divided into shares of $1C0
each. At q fair estimate the present value
of the plant including manufactured pro-
ducts ard crude material is upwards of
$1,000. The company has liabilities not
! exceeding $3.50, which would have 20 be
paid before the removal of the plant.
| The meeting regarded the prop csition
with favor and two well known busine
men, having an expert knowledge of ma
| thnery, ard the manufacture Of agricul-
tural implements, were selected to make
the trip to Dublin to inspect the pant and
| material. One of the gentlemen has sig
nlhed his willingness TO make the trip
and 1t is believed the other VIII do so also.
One reason for the desire of the company
| to remove to Savannah Is that ii has a
| very large stock of materials on hand
| ready to be converted into the finished
product. very large order was taken
by the company about a year ago. for a
large Western hardware house, for the
| purpose OF supplying IT'S trade In TINS
| section. The company put in its order
for the necessary ironwork anticipating
no difficulty in having il filled. Like many
others they were caught in the iron famine
of last year, and their iron reached them
too late to be used in filing the contract.
They feel naturally that Savannah is a
much better headquarters for disposing
of large output than an interior point
like Dublin, because of the greater trans
portation facilities and lower freight
rates. An unlimited supply of material
can also be secured here. Thousands of
dollars of these goods are sold annually
by the Savannah hardware men, the naval
stores men particularly being large con-
sumers. At the prices given Il would be
| greatly to the advantage of the local
dealers to patronize the home industry,
and this would assure large patronage
from the start.