The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-08-17

CLIFF HOTEL RESOLUTION
THROUGH THE WORKS.
The Friday night meeting of the
Greater Honesdale Board of Trade
went just 100 minutes by the clock
and considerable business was done.
The reading of the minutes of the
last meeting, which included the
constitution and bylaws adopted at
that time, took 10 or Is minutes
and then the members settled down
to less perfunctory topics.
The selection of the Greater
Honesdale button for Tag day was
left to the press committee. The
chairman took the samples that J.
B. Nielsen had secured from the
Scranton representative and passed
them around the room for all the
men to see. There were seven or
eight samples and the one favored
by Mr.. Nielsen seemed to meet
very general appreciation.
President Smith had Secretary
Galloway read long letter from
Industrial Agent r. H. Shoemaker
who wrote from Albany, n. Y, and
who gave some pretty practical tips
about working up new business in
the shape of factories, though there
was, of course, nothing local in the
letter. Mr.. Shoemaker, President
Smith explained, is the d. & H. Of
fetal who District Passenger Agent
George E. Bates suggested might be
very glad to join the Board in
Honesdale. Mr.. Shoemaker, Presi-
dent Smith thought, might arrange
to run down in Honesdale some
night and address a meeting of the
Board, which the press committee
could properly advertise in order
to get out a crowd.
The Shoemaker letter-or rather
letters, for there were two of them,
both along the same line-were
referred to the committee on solicit
ing and sites, NJ. E. Simons making
the motion.
Then the secretary read a letter
| from the Scranton Board of Trade,
by Secretary Mark Richards, calling
! attention to the big Industrial expo.
| sition to be held in that city in
| October President Smith said at
/ this point that his attention had
| twice been called to a news story in
a Scranton paper in which it was
stated that a town within so miles
of Scranton had made application
for space. Mr.. Smith said the Scran-
ton secretary had assured him that
Honesdale could have her choice of
places after Scranton exhibitors had
picked out space. At the same time.
the Honesdale president admitted
that his subsequent information, to
some extent gained through the
reading of newspapers, had given
him the impression that the Scranton
board was not particularly anxious
to have outside exhibits.
A letter was read from the bor-
ough council stating that the mem
bers of that body were personally
favorable to the securing of new
industries for Honesdale, but that
it was a delicate question to say
whether or not new concerns should
be exempted from taxes, and also
that the concerns now here, which
have always paid taxes, should
scarcely be asked to stand by and
see newcomers free from taxes.
letter from Carl F. Prosch on
the proposed Texas annexation stat
ed that the writer believed the pro-
ject to be feasible, especially from
the standpoint of the schools.
On motion of Vice-president F.
w. Kreitner, Miss Eliza Nielsen
who copied the constitution on her
typewriter, was voted 50. Her faith
err, who is on the membership COM
mittee and vigorous worker for the
Board, said 1t was no use to vote
the money-his daughter wouldn't
take 1t. However, the treasurer will
mail Miss Nielsen check for 50.
Leopold Blumenthal said that II
is important TO get new concerns to
|, come to Honesdale, and he added
that he felt It was equally important
to keep here the ones we now have
|. He said Mr.. Herbeck was present tc
speak for the one glass shop still
idle. In the opinion of Mr.. Blumen'
thai. the Board ought to have an
arbitration committee take hold
q with the Herbeck-Demer people and
] see what can be done toward q
resumption OF work.
Mr.. Herbeck didn't favor the
committee on arbitration.
81 can't see. gentlemen" said he
that there's anything to arbitrate
Our men have no complaint. TheJ
meet me on the street every day
!, and say they want to go to work
4 But they are afraid to take hold
Some OF them left the shop with
tears In their eyes. and some OF the
= meA I meet ON the street tell me
. they don't want TO work anywher'
else. The union demands that We
run a closed shop. but We novel
will do that. We see no reason