Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-05-19
HOW TO GET FACTORIES.

fitted TO DE great iii"i"'"N'''
site il apparent to any one VINO VIII
make even the most casual examlha-
tion Of its advantages but how to get
,ha men who control the location Of
factories sufficiently interested to make
an investigation Of the possibility OF
locating here is something that mas
nuzzled the men interested in AleXan-
dria's welfare. Detroit has been most
successful in securing the location OF
new enterprises and the following
editorial from the Baltimore Sun out
lining the plaas adopted by that CITY
NAV give or business organizations
some Suggestions that will prove OF
value,
The census returns Of 1910 disclosed
the fact that The most renar kapie
increase in population ana INDUSTRY
in any of the elder cities had been
made by Detroit. This has not been
due to any unusual NATURAL resource
that Detroit possesses; for many cities
that have not grown half SO rapidly
excl her in these particulars. But
her citizens have manifested an enter
prise and energy seldom equaied.
They were pioneers IN the buiidihs
az automobiles, and Detroit has be-
come the centre Of that industry IN
Ameri..l and probably manufactures
more automobiles than any other COM
muni,. in the world. Look through
the !, e of any magazines ana YOU
will !. the large advertisements III
hume us firms that advertise Detroit
ST tn. same time they advertise their
autom hiles orsolher vases.
Supplementing the enterprises estao-
,ished by local capital and local lnven'
ton. Detroit made an organized cam
paien TO secure manufactures from
other cities. How we'll she has sue
c.eded is shown by the st. Louis Re
public, which states that Detroit III
six wears has taken from st. LOUIS
factories worth 100000 The
Repuhlic sent representative to De-
troit 10 find out how this was done.
He found that Detroit had grown al
most as much in the past 10 years
as it had 10 the entire period since
the foundation of the town. lie
found that tins was largely Que 10
the fact that the people had nerve
enough to follow the lead of Henry
Ford and other inventors, and develop
win their cwD money the automobile
industry, which soon attracted out
side capital III immense sums ne
found that Detroit gave every FACILITY
10 manufacturers, and the city govern
nent aud business men united IN
affordiug newcomers every facility.
Among the factories taken from 81.
louis was that of the Burroughs AID
ding Machine Company, which was
refused by the St Louis City Council
the privilege of bringing an alley to
connect sections of its factory, found
itself hampered by regulations and
moved to Detroit where 1t has erected
a factory covering two blocks OF front
age and plant comprising seven acres.
In order TO secure this enterprise De
,roit vacated street, cleared a way
aud honored the Burroughs company
by naming boulevard for the con-
Germ. The Chicago Pneumatic Tool
Company. capital SO, 100000, and
to Boyer machine shops. value S.
OOu 900, were among the other big
concerns moved 10 Detroit. In the
past 10 wears so LARGE factories have
been located there
Yet Detroit does not now give tree
sites. bonuses or other. inducements
of that kind that other cities have
offered But its activities centre III
single great business body, the Board
of Commerce, which has $500 mem
bers, and which does, things on big
scale. Formerly there were large
number Of separate trade organizations.
but Detroit found it best to concentrate
and now all are combined in one. ST.
Louis has q different trade organlza-
tons. Mr.. Wilson, secretary OF the
Detroit board, holds that 1t Is the
fable of the bundle Of sticks over again
Taken one by one they were easily
broken, but bound together they were
uubrsakable. He recommends that
every CITY combine its forces into one
great body, and says city like 81.
Louis should have 5000 members OF
lis Board Of Trade at SlOo each
year.
1t is lively place, this Board Of
Commerce Office the writer III the
Republic says. 'Detroiters are out
for everything in sight. They hear
Of a factory, business that can be
moved, and presto! they fly to 1t like
hawks. They don't waste moment. :
The board conducts a night school IN
railroad rates for business men, ship
pers and shipping clerks. It is in touch
with every industry and merchant, ami
business activities centre there. Be.
sides automobiles. Detroit mama
features drugs and medicines, builds
boats aud ships. makes boots and
SHOES; her freight car works employ
1900 men. her stove works 2,oeo.
She claims AGA 900 inhabitants now
aud frankly asserts that by the next
census she expects to gain more than
lOO,0Ai, aud climb into the same
81 : As Baltimore and St Louis.
t.om the St. Louis investigator 5