The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-12-15
IMPORTANT
ENTERPRISE
Secured For MI. Vernon By
Citizens Assn
Augustine Rotary Engine
Plant To Locate Here
Carefully Investigated By
Industries Committee
The Engine Is OF An Entire
ly New Type
Sufficiently Tested To Prove
Its Great Merit

For some time past the committee on
industries of the Citizens association
has been quietly investigating the
merits of the Augustine Rotary Engine
and have unanimously decided to ask
the location of the prosposed plant for
our city. The engine is of an entirely
new type and yet has been worked
out sufficiently that there is no doubt
of it's merits. The investigation has
extended over a period of several
months and it is only after going over
the entire field and seeing many users
of the engine as well as taking the ad
vice of some OF the best mechanical
engineers that it was decided to at
tempt to secure the location of this
plant here.
Negotiations were then commenced
by the association whereby the people
now largely interested in the success
of the Reeves Engineering company
cooperated with the association in the
effort TO get the industry located here
and arrangements have now been
fully completed for taking over the
control of their porperty and by MAX
ing very considerable additions to the
capital already invested to extend the
manufacture of the present line of
Reeves engines and add the new line,
which consists of both steam and gas
engines made upon the rotary plan
as well as rotary compressors for use
with the engines.
The new engine is built upon lines
which have been for years the dream
been realized by anyone until Mr.. B. F.
Augustine of Buffalo, N. Y, succeed
ed several years ago in perfecting a
working engine. On a recent visit
to Buffalo Mr.. Augustine exhibited
to some OF our citizens with great
pride an engine which had done four
years Of constant twenty-four hour
service and without any appreciable
wear or requiring single dollars
worth of repair. The engineer in
charge of this engine stated to our
citizens that the engine was more
economical than any engine they had
ever used and besides required no more
attention than motor. A large num-
Der of the users of these engines unit
ed in praising the engine in the same
enthusiastic manner when called upon
by the committee in person.
The task now before the members
of the association is to secure the sub
scription to the stock of The Angus
tine Rotary Power Co., of at least
ten thousand dollars which in addition
to the amount already taken by the
members of the Reeves organization
will complete the arrangements neces-
sary and permit of the immediate plac-
ing of this industry here.
The Augustine company are now
operating a large plant in Buffalo and
have more orders than can be filled
and these will Immediately be placed
in this plant which means the Reeves
organization will be pushed to its full
capacity at once and additional ma
chinery installed as soon as it can be
secured and all the plans of the new
organization are perfected. This
means that the working force of the
present plant here would probably be
double early In 1912 with an increase
in the payroll to be expended among
our merchants amounting TO many
thousands of dollars.
One of these engines has been
placed in the window of the Gem
Laundry through the courtesy of Mr..
Auskings and all the citizens of the
city and country about Mt. Vernon
who are interested in seeing Mt Yer
non go rapidly forward in her manu-
featuring business should avail them.
selves of the opportunity cs seeing this
wonderful engine and make them
selves familiar not only with the en-
gine, but vita the plans o. TIE C.ti-
zens' association for securing this
plant.
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