Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-21
LOCAL COMMENT.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

Inc nrst definite step in the Rhoades
Carmean reorganization was perfected
slls week when Trustee Greene was
Sven the authority by the creditors of
the concern to reopen the plant and or
crate 1t. Mr.. Greene took Immediate
action and. on the morning following
the afternoon when he was invested
with the proper authority, put all the
men he could secure to work. In few
weeks Mr. Greene expects to have 100
men employed, and so far as possible
will give the old employees their former
positions. Mr.. Greene thinks that with
in sixty days the reorganization of the
company will be effected, with new cap
ital, and under the control of expert
enced eastern carriage manufacturers.
A good republican. man who has
held office at the hands of the party,
and has more than one thing to be
thankful for as coming from the re-.
publican party, made remark at the
east court room Election night that was
not especially becoming to him. He
was an Eckles man. and that was his
privilege, and for some reason or an
other he had conceived the idea that
the story published in the news coll
umns of the T-R before election to the
effect that Mr.. Greene had achieved
the first step in the reorganization of
the Rhoades- Carmean Buggy Com
pany, was one printed for political rea-
sons. He said: We'll, now that
Greene is defeated, suppose the
Rhoades -Carmean Company will not
be reorganiZed." The T.-R. will say
for the benefit of that man, and any
others who may have read the story
in the same light, that Mr.. Greene knew
nothing whatever of it's publication
until it was in print, further than he had
been approached for the facts, when 1t
was known that the meeting was be-
ing held. Mr.. Greene rather OBJ
jected to the publication, be-
cause he feared 1t was premature,
but SO long as meeting had been held
the T.-R insisted on making that much
of the story public. That Mr.. Greene
has been working for Marshalltown
above everything else in his capacity
as trustee of the big buggy property, no
one will deny, not even his political
enemies. The salary of the position
could not possibly tempt him, but the
creditors felt that, as man OF wide
business experience he could accom-
plish the desired results better than
some stranger who did not have the
interests of the city at heartMr. Greene
will carry out his policy in the manage
ment of the Rhoades- Carmean property
as tho there had been no primary cleo
ton. Marshalltown will hope to see
MIN win in this, even tho he lost in his
attempt to become senator
With the prospects good for an early
spring building operations are Begin
ming to assume definite form, and it
Will not be long before labor of all kinds
will be at a premium. Marshalltown
cid an immense amount of building last
season, and has vast arl,cunt in pros
pect. The new pottery plant will begin
manufacturing within a few weeks
giving employment to large number
OF people. The new artificial ice plant
is going up rapidly, and its promoters
expect to be manufacturing by May /.
Work will be resumed on the new st.
Thomas hospital just as soon as the
will permit and the laying of
steel by the Marshalltown Light, Power
Railway Company on South Third
avenue, preparatory to the new paw
ing with asphalt on that thoroughfare, |
has been announced to commence very
shortly. The city's paving contracts
for the summer months will give en-
pioyment to many. In all probability