The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1900-12-21
THE STIMULUS OF FACTORIES.
How the Mcfarland Fruit Protection Conn
pany Benefits TitusviDe.


In figuring up tbs benefits which the
Mcfarland tent will be to the future of
the citrus industry in Florida, the imme-
diate effect of the establishment Of the
company's plant on the welfare and pros
perity of the town of Titusyille should
not be forgotten.
1t is no exaggeration to say that there
is no industry which either directly or in
directly brings as much money to the
town, furnishes as much employment or
does as much for the mercan-
tile interests of the place as the factory
of the Mcfarland Fruit Protection COM
pany. Among the direct benefits is the
employment Of so large a number of men
and women and the monthly distribution
OF a payroll aggregating $1,000. This
sum of money finds its way into immedi-
ate circulation, and everyone engaged in
business feels the stimulus of this amount.
The butcher, the baker, the grocer and
dry goods merchant, and In fact every
line of business gets its share of this sum.
Aside from that the amount of supplies
purchased directly from local merchants
amounts to thousands of dollars in the
aggregate. Besides affording employment
to the citizens here, numbers of families
have moved to this place and are now oc-
cupying homes and adding to the general
prosperity of the place.
The man who supplies wood for the
furnaces; the draymen who haul the
company's raw material from the depot
and return it in the form of the finished
product; the extra amount of travel to
this place by people who come to do
business with the company and occupy
the hotels and boarding houses; the nu-
merous other means of distribution of
money that do not appear on the pay
roll-all go toward the upbuilding of
the town.
II, from some Unforeseen casualty, the
factory should close its doors; if, per-
chance, it should move to some other
locality-how great q loss the community
would sustain. At this time every house
in Ttusville is occupied; the people have
more ready money than at any time
since the freeze of 1895; the future looks
brighter than ever before and Titusville
bids fair to recover her old-time hustle
and prosperity. 1t can be said, with truth,
that this condition is largely due to the
fact that the people here have had en-
ployment, and the town is, therefore,
self-supporting community.
The increase of the facilities of the Nc
Farland Fruit Protection company has
been steady, and yet 1t has hardly kept
pace with the increasing demand for its
product. Since the manufacture of tents
was begun their utility has been demon
strated, and today the demand is such
that the utmost efforts of the COM
pany and the utmost capacity of the fac
tory is exerted TO fill the orders as they
come in.
The name and fame of the Mcfarland
tent has advertised Titusvile as nothing
else ever did, and it is now better known
than any place of its size in the state.
The president of the company fully APP
preciates the benefits of advertising and
has lost no opportunity of letting the
public know about his tents or about
Titusville; but great as has been the
progress of this the first year of the OPP
erations of the company, the business
of the future will be still greater in
proportion.