The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1906-12-14
To CentralIze Tobacco Trade

1t was announced Tuesday that the
sub committee appointed at the recent
meeting of the State Tobacco Warehouse
Commission to formulate plan for the
erection of new State tobacco ware
house would meet next Monday to make
its final report.
It was learned from authoritative
sources that the subcommittee will re
commend the building of a new up to.
date concrete freproof building on the
lot owned by the State, on the south side
of Conway street, now occupied by ware
house No. 4.
The question of the proposed erection
of a new State tobacco warehouse has
attracted general attention throughout
the State, and the ACCESSIBILITY of such a
course as that of the commission has
been widely discussed. 1t is said that
the commission has arrived at the con-
clusion that it is best build new ware
house because the growers of the Stase,
or at least out of every 10 of them,
favor such d course.
The structure Will be Of Gomez etc, eight
stories high, and Will cover the entire
lot TO the south of Conway street, 100
feet in width and 500 feet deep. The
building is TO face Light street and run
through to Charles street. Ine plans
are IN tue hands OF BALDWIN s. Pennlng
ton, arcnltects, ana Will embrace every
faculty. for security and expedition in
handing tobacco.
The members of the committee believe
that Maryla land needs a modern tobacco
warehouses where the crop Can be handl
ed ana the business connected with the
trade can be centralized. 70 accomplish
this the building Is to be equipped with
a salesroum, or exchange, where the
planter, his conslgnee anu The buyer Can
meet ana TRANSACT business.
For several years The tobacco industry
now thought that by cenJralizing the
trade in one place that the grower the
buyer and the seller will all be benefited.
Three State tobacco warehouses are in
operation in this city, each practically on
an independent plan, inasmuch as the
deputy inspectors have go as you please
ace in securing patronage. This results
in some of the warehouses getting more
than others.
A movement is on foot looking to the
removal of the State tobacco warehouses
from politics. If the commission, which
was appointed under an act of the las,
Legislature, finds that its plans are work
ing satisfactorily, it is proposed to intro
duce law at the next session of the Leg
islature taking cut of the hands of the
Governor the appointment of inspectors
and suberdinates for the warehouses and
transferring to the Tobacco Growers
Association of Southern Maryland the
power to make such appointments.
The money for the new warehouse is
already in hand. About 1916. 900 was re-
ceived from insurance on the old houses,
known as Nos. and 2, which were de-
stroyed in the fire of 1904, and the re-
mainder is made up of money received
from the city for old No. 8, which is to
be used in the widening of Light street.
This money is claimed by the Tobacco
Growers Of Maryland, who originally
furnished the means for the construction
of the State warehouses.
Ii the new structure is found sufficient
for the handling and storage of the crop
it will leave in the hands of the commits
sion for disposal the warehouses on the
north side of Conway street, $50 by 800
feet. Ifit is not thought desirable to sell
them they would yield considerable in
come for storage or other purposes. The
proceeds from sale or rental, it is sug-
gested could be applied to good roads in
Southern Maryland, or to any other pur-
pose that the Legislature might Indicate
IL is argued by those VINO are tamiilar
with the State tobacco warehouses that
lheIe would be great saving by reason
OF the fact that the new warehouse could
be opel ated with less than one third of
The number OF men now employed, by
reason OF the use Of proper appliances
tor the handling of the product
If the tobacco crop should entirely fail
the proposed new warehouse, 1t is sug-
p purposes, and from this source alone a
good revenue could be derived