Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-13
LARGE SHOPS !
u BUILD ELSEWHERE
saoWA CENTRAL THREATENS TO
BUILD ENTIRE NEW PLANT
AT oskALoosA.
COMPANY is SEEKING
THE LARGER BONUS

us Officials Complain Over What The,
SIS Claim Was Lack Of Police Protection
During tho Strike - This City and
oskaloosa Bid for tho Shops - Mr.
d Norris SECS Presideh HawIey.
r Having outgrown its old general
shops in this city, and being led by a
progressive management which pro-
poses to develop the property and inn
Il prove 1t in every way, the Iowa Gem
trail Will either greatly enlarge Its
shops here or build new shops at Os-
4 kalodsa- There is every reason to be-
Neves that it will decide which it Will
do In short time.
Whether the general shops remain
u here and are doubled An capacity and
enlarged far beyond their present pro-
1 portions, or whether the company
builds q complete new plant in oska-
lcosas depends principally on which
city will RAY the larger bonus
oskaloosa Makes Big Offer
Z !, Both cities have been asked. What
win you Give?" Oskaloosa will reply
thrusa delegation OF business men
waiting ,alpon General Manager Man
4 ley p. Cutter at Minneapolis, that it
twill give free all the land needed for
THE plant and shop track facilities, and
4 a sum of money almost large enough
Ito erect the buildings.
Marshailto~n Offers $4,000.
The question, What would Mar
shalItoWn do?" was carried to Presi-
dent Fred Hopkins. OF the Retail Mer-
chants Association, and the answer Of
B the city was carried to the company
by Mayor o. Z. Ingledueland Council
man A. NJ. Clark. Mayor 1ngledue told
i Master Mechanic C. 3. Gossett that he
would guarantee for the city that 1t
would give to the company SEC, 900 IN
city water, and that after that all the
water required at the actual cost Of
Il pumping, With the prospective shop
& increase in sight it was estimated that
4 this would give the company free wa
!. ter for approximately ten years. This
4 proposition was taken to Minneapolis
by Mr.. Gossett.
Organizing Committee.
Mo definite reply to this offer was
received from the company and Pres
iGent Hopkins, OF the Retail Merchants
Association has been busy organizing
a committee Of manufacturers, whole
salers and shippers to visit General
& Manager Cutter. This committee is ex-
pected to 80 within a few days
InXthe meantime Mayor Ingiedue was
] taken sick and was forced to desist
2 52 my further efforts hee might have
Vie in following up his offer at once.
ID MI. Norris was in; the east an
|OtMline OF the situation was sent him,
/ IA order that he might see President
Hawiey, 81 the road, while in New
4 York The result Of this interview is
{ given In the following letter from Mr.
Norris to Mr.. Hopkins:
red Hopkins, President Retail
i Merchants' Association: You are face
to face with q crisis in your admins
{, tration, as well as In the life Of our
city, Upon receipt of Mr. Wells letter,
telling me that this Iowa Central mat
ter was up, went Immediately to see
Mr.. Hawley, president Of the road. He
told me frankly that they were consid-
Sertiig moving the shops. When asked
MIN why, he replied, because the Os-
kaloosal people want them bad enough
TO pay for them. It is a business prop
Aos;tion with u.s.
Il asked IL there was any objection
+ to the Marshalltown location, and he
replied that there was none, but he
Immediately began to complain about
not having received police protection
In Marshallt Town, and while he denied
that this would influence them any. /
could $50 that he was very sore over
what he considers unfair treatment
during the strike.
~ remembered having been told by
Mr.. Noonan that Oskaloosa was Civ
Ing them good police protection when
Marshall oWnt was not, so suggested |
70 Mr.. Hawley that if her should move
his 800 employees to Oskaloosa they
would Immediately become political
factor there, and he would have no
more assurance Of police protection in
future strikes than he would in Mar
shalltown. He admitted that this might
he true.
You knew Mr.. Sewers is an Oska-
loosa man. AS general solicitor of the
road hee w,ss very much dissatisfied
with what he. claimed was gross ne
eject Of duty on the part Of our city to
suppress laWlessness during the strike.
have letters at home from Mr.. Moo
nan on the same subject, and I am
told that every official, excepting Mr.. |
Cutter. who was not with the road dur
Ing the strike, feels resentful, and after
my visit to Mr.. Hawley / am forced to
believe that: these men harbor desire,
even tho they will not admit it to
themselves, to show a town that these
shops can he, lost. This is made very I
easy: when Oskaloosa stands ready to /
give them as much land as they have
In Marshalltown, and, as Mr.. Hawley /
says, almost build new shops for them.
Oskaloosfa can afford to pay an
enormous sum The Iowa CentraPs 900
men moved to Oskaloosa would fill up
forty square blocks of houses, twelve
houses to the block. Land purchased at
1900 per acre, plated into lots at $3.50
per lot, would net $1,000 per square
block profit; forty blocks. s2S0,000.
1--WE have this in our favor: The Of
ffcials know that the f1oaters in their
hons. al avs oarSo t1a trnllhln and do