The Washington herald., 1908-05-31
BUSINESS PAYS PROFITS
Enlargement Comes to Most
Projects Started in Capital.
Stores and Retail shops
Afford Proof of What May Be Done
by Far-Eighted MerchRnts-Fac-
tories Are Uniformly Successful.
Illustrations Cited to Prove that
District is Favored Spot to Invest.


mercial and industrial opportunity. No
American city has better facilities for
trade. none has larger surety OF paying
industry. Commercial facilities are not
only ample. but Of a character which
predicates profit and success from the
start.
II proof Of these facts is wanted. it IS
to be found in the history Of practically
every business and industry started here
in the last forty years. or since the civil
war. Take as an illustration the success
attained by the department stores. Go
ing back fifteen, twenty, and twenty-five
years and these stores were either not
started or were small enterprises building
up gradually and solidly upon the trade
coming to them from the growing city.
Within a few years these great business
places have all erected new buildings or
remodeled and enlarged old ones, extend
/ ing their facilities. adding departments.
and meeting the demand for ever-increas-
| ing patronage. This is not the history OF
one. but Of all Of them The expansion OF
retail trade in Washington, not alone
among the established houses. but in the
multiplication Of places of business. con-
stitutes a commercial history which would
have been considered impossible a quarter
of a century ago. But the trade has
come. and with IL profit, success, enlarge
ment. and a volume Of business which has
at times put existing facilities TO the
keenest tension. almost to the breaking
point
Manufacture Meets with Success.
Along similar lines might be enumerated
a great number Of manufacturing enter
, prises Few failures have marked the
progress Of industry in this city. Money
invested has been safe and demand has
steadily grown. 1t has been necessary in
; most instances to enlarge plants. 10 in
stall new machinery and create larger
? facilities 10 meet the demands OF the mar
. ket. Some persons say, in their proud
n conservatism, that the Capital is not a
manufacturing city, yet the facts belle
= the statement. The District has a large
and varied manufacture constantly grow
a ing and reaping profit II is no stretch OF
= the imagination 70 say that. all things
I considered. II has advanced as far in the
d line Of commercial and manufacturing
e as could we'll have been expected. when
T it is taken into account that during
e the greater part Of its history One-half or
Z more Of its producing agents have been
e employed by the government, and the en-
d ergy for business and manufacture has
/ come from the other half The volume CT
u its commercial business in point OF fact
should be considered from the standpoint
of city smaller in population than
Washington.
transportation Is Ample.
= The facilities of transportation and Of
general trade have been discussed several
3, times in these columns. The railroad ter
Iy minals have been completely rebuilt with
J. in the past seven years and the city
in stands equipped al the present time for a
n shipping business ten times as large as II
TO really has This advantage should not be
overlooked by those seeking places fol
ne manufacture and trade. Il will not De
H. necessary to look to railway facilities al
: ready crowded or to wait for them tC
\. grow with business. They are already in
n advance Of the real needs Of the hour, and
it. factories may come and trade grow e
much larger proportions before the trans
portation facilities are even hustled
In another column to-day appears q
statement Of the banking facilities Of tbs
city. concerning which IL is not necessary
Do 10 say more here than TO repeat that they
are ample TOT an immense eApdlASAou y
on business in the years to come.
70 The real estate business, building, ant
the industries incident thereto have en-
iie loved large growth in Washington. Few
have been the failures. either Of real es
We tate men or contractors. Sometimes tner
nd has been an overreaching and the conse
re quent retrenchment 10 follow. but in III
he main the men engaged in these forms o
-as business have gone on and made money
Ell enlarged their offices and facilities, an
ole have moved forward with the city's eN
no pansion.
- Hotels Have Grown Rapidly.
BE Hotels in particular have met wit
ID much success in Washington. as hav
Sc cafes and restaurants. meaning by tn
OF terms especially places for the feedin
-, Ien Of the people In most instances tha
~ come to mind the growth Of these place
,rv has been constant and the profits larg
ore Theateys and popular amusements haV
unit done well in Washington, the people
ion the city supporting them almost lavisi
ons ly Wherever an Illustration is sougi
- the facts appear in the same light
lon growth. growth all the way
on But It is fair to state that in the fie
ale Of trade industry. and general busine:
for new enterprises, and in this partc'
lar Washington is a city Of Opportunit
re- probably surpassed by no other
-. / American soil
- One illustration in the field Of man
9Jo' facture may be referred 10 as proof
rr- what may be accomplished. Two yea
! is ago a firm Of ready-made clothil
In makers. which had its main factories
the Jersey City, sent member of the fr
ma to Washington TO blaze the way for 7
feet moval hither Of a part Of the plant T
elds man came 10 Washington and tried o
ask. the methods OF manufacture.
cult II was question with this firm wheth
labor of the right kind could be h
here II was found that here were plen
of young women and hoys who could
orts trained TO manipulate the sewing n
ner chimes. and in few months force
r,, operatives had been found here a
h,,,, trained TO the work.
80 Last fall the firm In question NOV
"a considerable part Of its plant fr,
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