Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-19
TO GET DOWN TO BUSINESS
Complaint a. to transportation Fa-
cilities Filed.
TO RECEIVE EARLY ATTENTION
Plan to Promote Manufacturing Inter
ests Advocated-Citizen Suggests
Need Of New Factory Laws.

yet wholly organized. 1t Is already having
complaints made to 1t that will have to be
| filed and dealt with as soon az the various
| committees get into working order. One OF
these arrived today. addressed to Mr.
Howe the temporary chairman Of the as
ISOLATION. It was from J. T. Walker Sons.
wholesale dealers in lime and cement They
called the attention Of the association to
| a specific case in their trade. The letter
stated that they had recently ordered 4
| car of unslacked lime from Strasburg. Va.
little town not more than 200 miles
away. and that the car, which started
July Z, did not arrive in Washington until
July II. When 1t did reach here part Of
the lime was already Stacked and the whole
shipment was damaged in addition to be-
ing delayed.
This Is just the sort of a case that the
association will go after as soon as 1t gets
IN working order. Mr. Howe In speaking of
1t said: There La a firm that is trying to do
wholesale business and that is the sort
81 CONDITION that has to be faced in work.
for a business man to meet. Now this COM
plant will have to be turned over to the
association. and. OF course. the association
Will try to follow 1t I'D. That Is one OF the
things that we have organized for When
you come to think, 1t Is pretty bad show
Ing for the railroad. Why. man could
take a team of horses and haul the material
here In less time than that
No Lack Of Publicity.
There Is going to be no lack Of publicity
attending the business boom. The associa-
ton received communicat ton today from
the Moxley Bill Posting Company saying
that 1t was willing to put as many of its bill
boards as necessary at the disposal of the
shippers and put up any advertising litera-
uyon tod 90 aba
ISOLATION now wants to hear from some of
the local printers who are willing to handle
some posters on the same basis, and they
will then start IN campaign of street ad
vertising that Will keep the community in
mind that the association Is really doing
business in earnest.
There will be another chance for dissent
rating news OF the local movement through
out the country This was brought to the
attention of the association through Com
missioner West. He had received a letter
from John Had1ey Doyle. who Is managing
the coming Potomac regatta. Mr.. Doyle
says that there will be the greatest gather
ing of people at the regatta that an aquatic
event in Washington has ever witnessed;
in fact, that 1t will. be one of the biggest
things of the sort In the country. Visitors
will be here he says. from all over the Uni
ted States, and the committee Of manage
ment proposes to do all 1t can to advertise
is here to catch and carry away the enthu-
siasm. The next meeting OF the association
will take up the suggestion and see what
can be done In a practical way to take adj
vantage Of the opportunity
''' Manufacturing Interests.
The question Of manufacturing interests
along with the rest of the business boom
has been receiving serious attention from
ali those interested in the general subject.
There is said to be much opposition in some
quarters in Washington to attempting to
make the city manufacturing town in any
respect At the same time there Is q big
element headed by such men as Charles
G. Glover and others who are willing and
anxious to see manufactures here. and who
will help them. provided they can be
brought without an actual sacrifice of the
beauty of the city.
This matter was being discussed earnest
ly and one of the advocates Of manufac-
| lures in speaking Of the movement said:
II can see no objection to manufactures
IL we do not sacrifice too much to get them.
Washington is peculiar city, as has been
frequently said. We have no vote, anu I'M
der present conditions l do not know that
we want any. But the population ia growing
right along, and there must either be an
outlet for the employment of the people in
legitimate Industries or else they must
leave town and seek a living elsewhere.
The government service will support an
immense number Of people. but 1t is not the
Ideal life for an energetic. young man or
woman. and the growing population Of
the government service anyhow.
Nothing to Be Sacrificed.
Now we do hot want to sacrifice civic
beauty to manufactures We do not want
smoke and dirt to mar the city's beauty
We do not want child labor. and there are
a lot Of other things that we do not want
But If we can have good smoke and factory
laws enacted and then either get the man
| ufaCtories with electric power or dirt burn
tions. we ought to have them inside the
city or out.
I'VE have no vote and we cannot 20 out
and fight for what we want as city as
they do elsewhere. II the council does not
give US what we want and think we ought
to have we cannot roll up our sleeves and
defeat them at the polls the next election
want, and II we do not get 1t. take out our
spite by going home and kicking the cat or
throwing the baby out of the window
Now. these conditions are not ideal The
city would be a great deal better of for q
lot of clean-handed but hard-f1sted factory
operatives and business men who were
reared in different atmosphere from that
of q government employee who has to take
the last word in law from some bureau
chief or other government official.
I'VE do not want to cash in our civic
beauty or anything of that sort to buy
manufacturing supremacy or commercial
advancement. But we do want the good
things that would come along with n
larger class Of hard-working citizens entire
ly free from government control. The move
ment is healthy and ought to be success
full"