Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-20
TWO Travellers
PASSING VIEWS
Mr.. Stewart Specifies a Few
Things That We Need in
Marshalltown
MILLER SEES FACTORY SITES
Veteran Iowa Central Engineer Has
Noticed the Abundance Of Cheap
Sites for Factories Located With
Ideal Trackase, Facilities - 600
Houses Needed.

himself, being employed as an Iowa
Central engineer, today contribute
some suggestions which are worthy OF
attention by our citizens. Mr.. Stewart
sizes up the whole situation briefly by
saying that all we need is permanent
business mems club with club house
and 200 members. such as Grinnell Or
ganized this, week. new hotel, CPL
iseum, an office building, 500 new
houses and an extension of our street
car lines.
Mr.. Miller calls attention to the fact
that Marshalltown has more fine sites
for factories on common switches and
at very low prices than any other city
in the United States. Mr.. Miller has
stated no more important truth here
than either he or any one else fully
realizes. Their letters follow:
Here's What We Need.
Observations of travelling men as
voiced by the many travelling statesmen
who live and own property in Mar
shalltown.
First. A live, active commercial or
ganization with club rooms. with live
president and secretary, and not less
than two hundred interested active
members who will assist at all times
in building up Marshalltown. Towns of
half the population have them and
their members are not afraid to spend
little time and money. (This ac-
counts for the growth of these towns.l
M. - %ov Int
should be taken up at once.
Second. another first class hotel;
some will say that it will injure tae
other hotels that we now have. 1t will
help to increase their business Good
hotels and plenty of them draw people
to your city to live, as we'll as guests
to the hotel. In order to make Goa
yention city Of MarshalltoWn you must
have more hotels and good ones. have
in mind two cities that started in 10
advertise their town by working for
conventions and commenced building
hotels, have built them every year
since and fully one-half of the time
that you go there the hotels are full
and you can not get a room.
Third. A fine office building, cen
trally located to the business district:
a building five or six stories, modern,
would fill up as soon as completed.
Fourth. A coliseum Of some kind.
good sized in dimensions. Nothing VIII
so advertise your city as conventions. l
think it Is up to the citizens to act.
You have one of the best papers in the
state (T.-R) The editor Is a booster.
He and his staff are at it continually
as we'll as other papers in your town.
In speaking Of live commercial
club will say, you draw members from
other clubs together in the commercial
rooms along with business men. trav-
cling men, manufacturers, railroad
men, men of prominence, when in the
city on business, and citizens that
never would associate together in any
other way. That is where deals are
planned and carried out by drawing
all classes together. Certainly the
travelling men have done their part
since they held their banquet in Sep
TENDER, 1907, purely for boosting the
interests Of MarshalltoWn
Since that time many houses have
been built for newcomers as per their
request. The citizens see the demand
clearly and are answering to the call.
One citizen said recently, that we need
500 new houses to accommodate the
demand in Marshalltown. I am sat
isfied that he is right as he is man
Of experience in manufacturing and
q thorough one at that.
Fifth. Interurban roads and an ex-
tension of our street car line in diff
ferent directions which will allow
cheap building sites, not only for Ia
boring classes, but those that prefer
to come and locate here, and be out
Of the congested district. In quite
number Of towns that have in mind
you will see $4,000 and $4,000 houses
built along street car extensions. New
corners will come in, in a great many
instances, and build a house for them
selves and then build more to rent.
Sixth. A public resting place to
accommodate outsiders in times OF
public doings, composed of building
with shade trees. A place of this
kind will draw people to your city In
place of keeping them away, and 1t
will advertise you all over the coun-
try.
You can make this the most success
full year in the history of our city If
YOU will. Get together and do bust
ness and then something will be ac-
complished. Mixing is the only solu-
ton Of success.
F. G. STEWART,
President Travelling Mems Commercial
Club.
Some Cheap Factory Sites.
Editor of T.-R.-To my mind, Mar
shalltown looks better to me than any
CITY in Iowa or any other state. There
is no reason why it should not be
the manufacturing center of the north
central United States. 1t is located
about midway between st. Paul and
Minneapolis on the north, Sioux CITY,
omaha and Kansas City, on the north
west and southwest, ST. Louis on the
southeast on Chicago on the east,
with direct railroad connections to all
of these points, and there is no good
reason why they should not become
distributing centers for all of Mar
shalltown's factories, and as many new
factories as may choose. to take ad-
vantage of the splendid factory sites
that can be secured for small cost at
this time. In speaking of locations for
factories, kindly allow me one crit
ieism.
Most of our manufacturing institu-