Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-09-23
BRATTLEBORO'S GREAT OPPORTUNITY
An Industry Which Will Employ 800 Hands at the Start and 800
to 1000 within Short Time Public Meeting Next Monday
Night. .$I2O 900 in Cash Needed

the board Of directors. No bonds would
be issued by the company.
4. Assurance to be given by Brattleboro
people that at least so new tenements will
be erected and ready for occupancy by
the time the mill is ready to start, the
houses to have connection with the water
system and sewer systems Of the viii
lage.
The proposition is based on business
principles. The outside interests are will
ing to come to Brattleboro and are willing
to put third of a million dollars Of their
own money in a plant which cannot be
moved away and to take their chance with
the Brattleboro capital as to the earning
of dividends. The mill, by reason of the
use of electric power, would require less
capital per spindle than in any other
high grade cotton mill in New England.
The labor employed in a mill of this
character is the best grade of cotton mill
help and large portion is it is skilled
labor. The goods proposed to be manu-
factured are the grade used in the manu-
facture Of women's shirtwaists, etc.
II the project can be carried out it
means, in addition to large industrial
growth, the increase in the population at
the southerly end of the village of from
1000 to 1900 next year and pretty GER
tainly a continual growth afterward. q
The tendency everywhere is toward the
use of electric power for manufacturing
purposes, and industries gradually grav-
itate near the power. This is because loss
in transmission and the care and expense
required to make service gives an ad-
vantage to locations near the power. 1t is
for BrattebOro now to take the first step
toward the great development which can
be brought to us by reason of cheap elee-
trio power near at hand.
The interests who purpose to build here
include Messrs. Chace and Hartman, who
are well known in Brattleboro and who are
known to be business men OF the highest
integrity and capacity. They and their
associates require a substantial subscrip-
tion from Brattleboro to the capital stock
because it is a new kind of an industry
for the town and they feel that they must
have the protection which large local in
terests would insure them. The industry
will be of tremendous benefit to local mer-
camille interests and to real estate.
Messrs. Chace and Hartman, and pos
sibly others Of their associates, will be
present Monday night to give all informa-
tion and win have sketches and plans of
the proposed factory. In the meantime
the board Of trade is doing personal work
to get interest aroused. Everyone inter
ested in the development of the town
should attend the meeting which will be
called at o'clock.
The board of trade already have Sc
cured control OF the OConnor farm and
! the Cheselton Kidder farm on South
Main street for use in the erection OF
dwellings il required. and that land will
be furnished for building lots at actual
cost with no profit for this purpose.
At the meeting Monday evening there
will be no attempt to get subscriptions
for the stock. 1t will be simply a hear
ing to hear the fun details OF the matter
presented and discussed. 1t is hoped that
everyone interested will come even though
he is not able and has ny idea OF taking
hold OF the matter in a financial way. 1t
is for the interests Of Brattleboro that all
its citizens become thoroughly acquainted
with the project.