The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-08-17
DO|NGS OF BOARD
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why the union should be permitted
to conduct our business for us. We.
pay good wages-what we consider
high wages,-and we treat our men
well, but we propose to hire the
men we please, whether union or
nonunion, and we never will make
our shop a union shop. Before
will do that I'll shut up shop and go
to work for somebody else, the way
| have in former years.
President Smith said he would
like to see the shop at work again,
but he felt sure the Board if it
helped at all, could do so only
through arbitration.
Mr.. Herbeck repeated that there
was nothing to arbitrate, so far as
he could see, but the president said
again that arbitration was the only
aid the Board could offer to help
Mr.. Herbeck out of his difficulties,
and it was voted to name a COM
mittee on arbitration to go over the
ground with the firm and its men
and see if things cannot be ad-
ident Smith, acquiescing in the
Blumenthal suggestion that lawyers
ought to make up that committee,
appointed NJ. f. Smons, Charles p.
Searle and Charles A. McCarty.
William II. Dimmick wanted to
know about the Irving Cliff hotel
resolution, drawn by himself and
Of hn ht- liz
Blumenthal. that had been tabled.
The secretary read the resolution
and Col. Dimmick took the floor.
He said he was delighted to see
so many representative business men
of Honesdale assembled for the good
of the borough. He was glad, he
added, to notice that the Tag day
idea had gotten such a firm hold,
and he said he believed it was going
to be a money-making undertaking
for the Board. He thought the pic
ture of Philip Hone, after whom the
place was named, ought to be on the
button.
Coming to his Cliff hotel idea, Col.
Dimmick said the growth of towns
and cities follows the rearing of
large and handsome hotels. He
said that when the Astors put up
their 100000 house in New York,
a costly hotel for those early days,
the value of New York real estate
commenced to climb, and it is soar
ing yet. More and more big hotels
| followed the Astor house and today
New York is the most wonderful
| city on the North American con-
tinent. 1t is her hotels that have
stimulated the growth of the metrop-
| oils and helped her forge to the
/ front.
In Scranton, he said, there was a
| boom just so soon as the Jermyns
4 built their big house, and now the
| Casey, a fine house 10 stories high
! and to contain every appointment
known to Twentieth century hotels
/ is nearing completion. The open
| ing of the Casey, Col. Dimmick pre-
dicted. will be another powerful
/ boost for Scranton.
THE hotel that it is proposed tC
put on yonder cliff" said the Col.
onel, will be of Wayne county stone
three stories high, and a fireproot
structure from top to bottom. II
will build up and advertise Homes
dale and before you realize the
rapidity of this borough's growth we
shall have here city of 10000
people. We are not asking this
Board for money. There is a pow
erful interest familiar with moderr
hotels that expects to be in Homes
dale shortly to look over the GROUND
and plan for a structure to replace
the hotel that was burned 81 years
ago. But we want the approval o
the Greater Honesdale Board o.
Trade, and with the favorable senti
ment this will arouse we shall bt
able to lay the cornerstone on Labor
day"
The Colonel's talk was applauded
Mr.. Blumenthal moved the Dim
mick resolution be passed. 1t wen
through.
Col. Dimmick offered the follow
ing resolution:
In pursuance of the resolution
passed at the last meeting of thu
Board of Trade giving their undi
vided support and approval to th
replacing of the hotel on Irvini
cliff. be it resolved:
That Charles j. Smith, Cheste
A. Garratt and Charles P. Searle ar
hereby appointed committee to in
! vestigate and to ascertain the ap
proximate cost of a native stone
| fireproof building, on the location o
the one destroyed by fire, and t
= suggest the best and most feasibl
means for its construction.
This was passed.
J Mr.. Blumenthal put in anothe
word for Tag day, the project tina
, is close to this young mans heart
He said it wouldn't be a good plal
for the men of the Board to go ou
} and try to sell buttons, He though
the fair sex ought to do the sci
ing. They could sell 15 times a
: many as the men could, he said.
: President Smith said the idea c
l having the women do the taggin