The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-06
WORK STARTED ON
BIG CAN PLANT
Contractors Thomas And BrChawn
Start Foundations ON Another
Big Industry For Cambridge
Will Employ More Than One
Hundred Persons.

hundred PERSONS.
The Phillips Can Company, com
banus Phillips, and w. Grason Win
terbottom, recently awarded the
contract for the erection of theil
can-making plant to Contractors
William H. Thomas and Charles
Brohawn, and work has been start
ed on the plant. The plant will be
/ located on the north side of the
railroad, in the rear of the brick
! warehouse, and also in the rear OF
what was formerly known as the
! Hearn Company plant.
The structure, which will be 150
feet long and so feet wide, will be
two stories in height, and will
have concrete foundations and a
cement floor. The work on it will
be rushed rapidly, in order that the
! building may be completed and rea-
dy for occupancy by the last of
October.
AS stated in a recent issue of
this paper, three batteries, or lines
of can-making machinery will be
installed, each battery being a COM
pletc can-making unit. Starting in
the first machine, with the sheet
tin, when the last machine is reach
ed the can will be completed, tested
and ready for use. Several SIZE
cans will likely be made, the prin-
cipal output being what are known
as No and No. tomato and
fruit cans. In addition to these,
one, two, three and five gallon
oyster cans will be manufactured.
No industry was ever started in
this section with brighter prospects
for success than this one. The Phil
lips Packing Company is the larg
est packers of tomatoes in the
world in addition to this company,
which operates three large plants in
this city and a fourth one at Link
wood, there are numerous other
plants around Cambridge and in
the county that will undoubtedly
give the home manufactured cans
the preference over those which are
made elsewhere, as there can be
no doubt of the fact that it is to
the interest of every one to keep
as much Of our own money in circu-
lation at home and nearby as pos
sible.
The factory will have a capacity
of 250.O0O cans daily, and will give
employment to about one hundrRl
persons on the start, which nInr1eip
will likely be increased fro-e~ time
to time, as the business 6f4 the
company grows, and, as Cambridge
possesses many advantages for the
distribution of the cans, there can
be no doubt of the rapid and stea-
dy growth of the business.
1t cannot fail to be a source of
satisfaction to Cambridge business
men and the public generally to
have this factory started. New
Cambridge is growing beyond any
old Cambridge; petty jealousies and
business policies
have been discarded, and the real
business men of the city are Strlv-
ing harmoniously together for the
advancement of the city and its
interests, realizing that in so doing
they are going to do much larger
business and earn larger profits.
The starting of this factory will
be of benefit to every business in
the city. IT will be of direct bene-
fit to the lumber mills, to the
wage -earners, and will mean more
business for the dry goods mer-
chant, the hardware merchant, the
shoe merchant, the grocer, the land
lord, the banks, the doctors, the
lawyers, and all other classes OF
business, for it means the putting
into circulation each week of
large sum of money, some of which
will find its way through business
channels into every business and
every profession. This is the rea-
son why cooperation is so success
full in the upbuilding of every COM
munity