The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-21
WHERE WORK MEN
 RIDE IN MOTORS
Superintendent of Tin Plate
 Plant Cites Evidence of Prosperity

Indianapolis. Ind. July 21.-rhe Indianapolis News, an independent newspaper. has sent its staff cores pondents to. several Hoosier towns to llearn the actual industrial conditions and to ascertain whether or not the l Republican cry of calamity is true as to Indiana.
 w H. B1odgett. a republican, is the I corr espondent who went to Elwood, a little city of 13,O00 inhabitants. about fifty miles from Indianapolfs. The following is report of his observa- l tions as publish ed in the news, under an Elwood date lire
 l"Did you ever know of man working for day wages who went to 1 the payInasterss office in his own au-. | tonobile to get his money2 Well, that is just what more than 10 per cent. of the men working at the American Tin PIare ColnpanY's plant in this city do. Tom O 'Brien, gen. eraI superintendent of the plant, is authority for the statement that on ity of the plant is so thronged with autop obfles owned by the rInen who work in the plant for day wages that it is almost impossible to get through them.
 "A banker told me that last year more than $50 1000 of Fslwooa money was Invested in autom obiles and d large part of that sum came from men employed in industrtaI plants Of this city.
 Tn 1918 the improvements in the city of ETwood amounted to about S500,OOO. Tn the list were a public building and large schoolholse- This year the improvements ins streets houses, dwellings,, additions to plants, etc, will amount to about
 what about sthe industrial situa- ton in E1wood?' I asked republi- can politician. QA
 Elwood is prosperoua.' he an swered.
 sRusiness is line in Elwood5 said banker. Our deposits are increas- ing all the time and the merchants have money and a good trade
 Just to see what the industrial situatfontis in Elwood, I took a look into the pay rolls of the different fac tories. The biggest plant here is that of the American Tin Plate Co.,, sub sidiary- of the Steel Trust. Because of the extreme heat it is impossible for the men to work full time ana there is some falling off in the num- OCT of men employed at this season fof the year. All the other factories are working Ia full scomp1ement of men and some of them are working overtime. Here are the leading in dustries of TsIyvood and the mcnthly pay roll of each:
 The Am Tin Plate CO. s110, GOO The Indfana Box Co, g 1000 The Ames Tool & Shovel CO, ,000 c. T. Sellers & Sons, Kitchen
 cabinets, 5000 The Macbeth Evans Glass Co. 12so0o The EIwood Lawn Mower
 Mfg. Go. 1.50O The E1wood Iron Works. $500 The Frazier Packing Co....s. 1000
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 ssAnd that is. not so bad for a city of I3sooO pop1la4i on. This city has a good deal to fes1 proud over It has good streets,s good water, and good lights, and some of the hand soonest public and private buildings in the State. Its schools rank with the best in Indiana, and it's public library is largely patronized by work ingmen.
 Calamity item from an Indianapo4 lis newspaper: tsOne hundred and f1f- ty automobiles are being sold every day in Indiana this ssunmer, accord ing to the records ins the office of the Secretary of State. The Hcenses fs- sued so far this year number 5S, 511- The greatest number of the autonno- piles go to the rural districts
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 Calamity Item No. Squash Jr. l=Won sux them 3elarnity squawk- CTS wuz sent to our durishins sity by the trusts & the RepubHkfn canpane kommfttee to help ceIlebrate the glowyus Fourth. He left to1ite on the $40 & in a big hury To first he got us go1n's s.Do you feIlers no,. he hol- lered, maxim his Independence Day spooch, that times air so bad in our beIuved land that them kumpatri hots uv yourn in WawI Street, Moo Hawk air re5uced to a mere pitance uv a n1ilyun do1Iers a day2'' He got us go- in & our eyes. bekum gusfin' wells I uv hot teers But when the GIowy-us Fourth, as the pote says, had folded his tent & shuck away that there feI- Ter kept son a shootin, off his gab.s This heres a busy kommunfty now so a dommittee called around this rnornin on the clamity feller & Bill Finch our cheernaan, made a spoooh "Do you no-'' Bill hol1ered s'that we got the hunkiest crop in the hole his- try uv Squash County? If big husky fellers like you stick around heer, you got to swslIx- = With that the kornn1ft- tee seized the fel1er & perlitely but firmly talk him out to Cy Higgins le putt lltn to feedin' the thresher Well tode sundown he snuck away & hit the road fer town & snuck into the depott 6 lay in hidins atween two chidken GOODS & to last, when the $40 train kuIn, he gave a turible screech 6 made wild dash & got abode. Good Government Jobs
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