The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-03-11
PLAN TO BOOST HONESDALE
TOWN TO BE PLACED ON THE
MAP-PRINTER'S INK TO BE
USED.
Enthusiastic Meeting Held Last Fri
day Evening in City Hall by
Brooklyn Eagle Representatives.

out in full force last Friday evening
in the city hall to listen to two rep
resentatives of the Brooklyn Eagle
talk on the subjects of g" The Making
of Great Metropolitan Newspaper I"
and How to Boost Honesdale and
Vicinity" The meeting was attend
ed by about 4 0 men all of whom had
the interest of Honesdale at heart
At the close of the boost session ar
rangements were made to promote
the business interests of the
town. The first part of the en-
tertainment was in charge of M. H.
Weyrauch, of the editorial staff of
the Brooklyn Eagle. The talk was
informal, instructive and very in
teresting. He told of the different
phases connected with the modern
daily newspaper. How the news is
collected, what agencies are used
and how in many instances with diff
ficulty. Anecdotes illustrating the
different experiences of reporters
were told in an interesting manner.
Following this brief outline of the
work, Mr.. Weyrauch completed the
newspaper talk by showing a num-
Der of pictures illustrating a trip
through the Brooklyn Eagles nine
story newspaper building. The slides
were exceptionally clear. They rep
resented the different departments,
first showing the main office, the
news room, art department and
press room. The Brooklyn Eagle is
recognized as the best advertising
summer resort medium in America
1t has men of different ages in it's
employ, one of whom is a veteran
newspaper man in his 82nd year.
The Eagle has battery of Is limo
type machines, two of which were
recently installed at a sum of $15,-
600 each. Upon the latter mention
ed machines eight different styles of
type can be set. The saving of time
is one of the most important items
in newspaper office. To overcome
this so as to make every second
count, devices of a modern nature
have been installed, one of which is
a triple thimble upon which is con-
tanned three rolls of paper. Each
web weighs about eleven hundred
pounds. Instead of stopping the
five large Hoe perfecting presses
when a new roll Of paper is to be in
serted, the presses are slowed down,
but not stopped, and when the web
Is near Iu6 emu d new IOll Is
pasted upon the exhausted web.
Mr.. Weyrauch then told of Homes
dale's advantages. How the place
unequalled any other territory from
a picturesque, industrial, commercial
and residential standpoint. He paid
a very fiattering but not exaggerated
tribute to Honesdale. He referred
to Irving Cliff as being an ideal spot
for summer resort. Mr.. Weyrauch
next introduced ]. Maynard Morgan,
expert of the Brooklyn
Eagle. Mr.. Morgan opened his inter
esting boost address by asking his
audience the question-"What do
you think of Honesdale?" He said
he was very much pleased with the
answers of several of Honesdale's cit
liens as regarding matters expressed
along this line during the day. His
talk was sound, convincing, to the
point and straight forward. Mr.. |
Morgan demonstrated to the audi |
ence what real advertising is and
what it has done for several noted
articles which has come into pub
licity through persistent advertising. |
His address was replete with a num-
Der of good advertising tips. He
told of Honesdale's resources, of its
industries, what the Board of Trade
had done for the town, at the same
time he advised the Board not to
lay back on their oars and drift, but
pull with long, full stroke with a
determination to accomplish bigger |
things the coming year. In his
analysis of Honesdale, Mr.. Morgan |
stated that he knew of no town in |
I,;+ tIof
led industries or where better oppor-
tunities were offered to obtain others
than right here in Honesdale. you |
have the climate, altitude, pure
spring water, scenery and numerous
other advantages that other towns
have not" said Mr.. Morgan. "To at
tract people here you want to adver-
tise, he equoted Tell the public |
of the beautiful rock you have on
the east of the town and other at
fractions. That's how you can
boost Honesdale" Mr.. Morgan then
told of Liberty, N. Y, how the citi-
zens of that town had written to the
Eagle office, Brooklyn, asking for
to regain, if possible,
Liberty's popularity as a summer re-
sort. What was accomplished and
how the summer resort people got
together and how they intend to
conduct a three months advertising
boosting their town. JEFF
'ersonville, Deposit, White Lake,
Lake Huntington,
and Mt. Pocono have
oeen visited and boom matter will
follow in the Eagle. Advertisements
boosting some of these places were
;hown uDOn the canvas nv Mr. Nor
gan.
The stereopticon entertainment
closed by remarks made by some of
he gentlemen present. The Eagles
remained In Homes
lale for few days working on the
project of boosting Honesdale. 1t
s hoped that their efforts will be
crowned with success.
The stereopticon lantern and can
yas used were kindly loaned for the
,coasion hy Rev O. g Wande11 mas