Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1912-02-22
THINGS TALKED ABOUT.


!of Health is going to enforce the law
/ against expectorating on the sidewalks
| Turning Cooper st. corner few days
ago, lady caught mouthful of to-
bacco juice on the skirt of hand
some dress, and almost every Sunday
morning the sidewalks at either the
four corners of Cooper st. and in
| front of Green's Block, are. filthy be-
yond description All honor to the
Board of Health if it take hold of the
spitters with all the strength of the
| law.
The last Governmental obstruction
to the Greep-Best property as a post
office site has been removed
- $3.50
/ Under date of Feb. 9, the manu-
facturers committee of the Board of
Trade submitted the following prop
osition to B. Axe & Co., relative to
the establishment of their business
here. we figure that the property
you require would cost about $4,000.
and we wish to know if you would
accept proposition to make a II yr.
lease on this property at a rental of
$1,000 per year, and at the end of
this term execute a mortgage on the
property for $4,000 at 4 per cent. in
tereStss
Under date of Feb. 20, b. Axe &
Co., reply as follows:
Board of Trade, Woodbury., n. j.,
Gentlemen: We have considered
your proposition of Feb 9th and re-
spectfully submit the following as a
substitutes:
You build factory as per plans
submitted, viz: 60x200 of a substantial
character cement blocks preferred)
with detached heating plant, of suffi-
cient capacity to heat the same (steam
preferred) upon a lot of such size
as to enable us to double the capa-
city of the factory in case our busi-
ness should warrant an additional
building.
fWe to sign a ten year least at
! $4,000 per year as rental with the
koption of buying the building and lot
] in fee simple at the expiration of the
ten year lease for the sum of $1,000.
i AS an act OF good faith on our
part we will deposit the sum of $500
subject to your order with bank
specified by You the day lie contract
lis signed; said $500 to be subject to
our order the day the building is
completed and ready for occupancy;
/ this $500 when paid to be the first
years rent,a receipt for the same being
given to us by the bank and when the
/ conditions of the agreement shall
1 have been fulfilled.
The rent of $500 to be paid in ad-
1 vance from year to year until the
completion of the ten years. The
/ date of the beginning of each years
rental shall be the date that building
/ is completed and ready for occupancy,
and it shall further be agreed that we
are to have the privilege of enlarging
our plant at any time after our occu-
pancy that we shall deem necessary
by the requirements of our business.
/ THE lot to be enclosed by some
simple means the dimensions and
measurements clearly specified and
set forth in the agreement which is
/ to be made hereafter that will accord
with the deed in the event of our pur-
i chasing the same.
Respectfully yours,
B. AXE & CO..,
This proposition will be put before
/ the Board of Trade at the monthly
meeting next Wednesday evening, and
! the manufacturers committee will ex-
pect prompt reply because Axe &
/ Co. want to know.
! On a cost OF $4,000 the manufac-
! turers committee will show that the
total loss to investors will be $640 at
| the end of $10 years.
It's mighty interesting proposition
land every memDer of the Board Of
! Trade, and business men and we'll
wishers of the city generally. should
come out and aid in solving it in the
interest of the city.
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