The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-05-21
CAMBRIDGE CITY A
PROSPEROUS PLACE
ALI Its Factories Are Running
Full Force and Business
Is Booming.
NEW PUBLIC PLANT
Is Now to Supply Citizens
With Electricity and Wat
er at Very Low Rates.
eY STAFF CORRESPONDENT.

CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind, May 90
A sure steady growth from the found
ing of this town in 1886 has made it
one of the most substantial towns in
the state. Wide streets, clean and dust
less, well kept trees and lawns, good
business blocks, clean, busy factories
and modern stores and well kept resi-
dences make it the good town it is.
The factories are expanding rapidly,
and have excellent shipping facilities.
Cambridge is an incorporated town
istration is progressive, and every
street in the town is provided with &C.
ment sidewalks of the best quality
and are the pride of the inhabitants.
The streets are macadam and gravel,
oiled each year to make them practi-
cally dustless. Two banks, a trust
company and a building and loan as
ISOLATION all report trade conditions
to be of the best, and Cambridge City
is now enjoying one of the best busi-
ness eras of its history.
The transportation facilities are ex-
cellent. Three railway systems and an
interurban line pass through the town,
all the railway lines being overhead.
The factories employ large major
ity of the male residents of Cambridge
and are very busy now. The farms
about the town are fertile, and the
Cambridge stores enjoy big rural
trade.
The Standard Manufacturing COM
pany is now doing the largest bust
ness of it's existence, turning out,
when working at capacity, eight fold
ing chairs per minute. This company
made the folding chairs for the Demo
cratic national convention last year
and sent them to Baltimore in spe-
cial train. Three casket factories, the
Cambridge City, American and the
Paul companies are busy at all times,
employing together approximately 120
men. The Bertsch Company plant, en-
ploying 100 men, manufactures power
shears and rollers. The National Drill
works, Bartel Overall branch factory,
Scott Stove company and the Canning
ditions this spring.
Inc COnkllnS mill, eSIaDHSneu III
1910, is still operating and is one of
the oldest in the state in active use.
The Sailed Peanut concern is new
one in Cambridge but is steadily
growing and promises to develop into
a large business. This establishment
employees 35 people at present, receiv-
ing large shipments of raw peanuts,
roa-ting, sailing and packing them.
The town government has just COM
pleted a thirty thousand dollar public
utility. a combined water and electric
power and light plant which is now
operating and furnishing the inhabit-
ants with the various services at COM
paratively low rates and making a
very creditable showing for the town.
The Business Mems Association, an
organization formed to promote and
foster industries for the city has been
highly successful in the past, and ex-
poets to bring new concerns to ti.~
town. Several of the big factories of
this place have been secured through
the efforts of this organization.
The First M. e. church was complet-
ed recently, costing in the neighbor-
hood of 100000. There are now four
churches here. Cambridge also boasts
ia splendid school building.