The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-09-18
BOARD
OF Trade Meeting Win Be Held
in the Court House This
Evening.

q. w. Dudderar. secretary treas
Iirer of the board of trade, issued the
following today:
Remember the board of trade
meeting at the court house this even
ing at 8 p. m. and be present. Our
first work Will be the consideration
OF our revised constitution and by
laws, which we hope to dispose o.
this evening.
Carksburg wants more factories,
and additional factories after all are
one of the essential things necessary
to the continued growth Of this or
any other city, therefore we are after
them. and since assuming work here
the Importance of this fact has been
pumped into the secretary almost 70
the exclusion of other important con-
ditions intimately related to the bust
ness of facory getting. For instance.
some of the first questions a manu-
facturer will always ask are about
housing conditions and cost of living
for his workmen, transportation IA
cilities and freight rates, taxes, In
sllrance rates and fire protection,
while he will observe for himself con
dftions relative TO street paving
cleanliness and general appearance
of the city. water supply and costs.
sanitary conditions, disposition OF
sewerage. etc. and all these things
have considerable weight as well as
our cheap fuel towards influencing
his decision.
We are now at point where some
of these matters are pressing for So
luton. From Terra Haute, Ind.
| comes word that the secretary OF the
board of trade in that city had prac-
! tfcally closed deal for the location
| of a large stove foundry to emplay
| Inn after all
seemed settled the company changed
its determination and decided to TO-
cate elsewhere, and why? Because
limitation in the source OF supplies.
because of inadequate transportation
facilities? Not at all. Simply be-
cause there were no houses for Its
workmen.
The city that tries to grow without
making some provision for expansion
is like a man asleep in narrow cof-
fin. He had as we'll remain asleep
for If he wakes he can't stretch.
Does not Terra Haute's experience
hold lesson for us? We have at
considerable expense located fine
industry, the d. e. McNicol Pottery
company, whose plant is now practi-
ca1ly under roof and will be ready
for operation before the first of the
year. The need of skilled labor will
fall the heads Z. of = pro baby nifty
homes, some of whom Will want to
bring their families at once. Your
secretary has persistently urged the
need of providing houses, the plant
is now about two-thirds built, some
departments will be ready for opera
ton soon, and scarcely half dozen
houses are now under way. Another
big industry, a deal for which was
practically closed, but has been held
in obeyance by reason of disturbed
conditions resulting from the Euro
Ipean war, has required a. guarantee
| that a certain number of houses he
built before they will commence con-
struction. we will without doubt be
called upon to give this guarantee,
and should take care of the present
I situation as we'll.
!, Some of those other things sug-
u eested above also require our atten-
l'tion, and If you are interested, as we
i know you are, in the continued
i growth of Clarksburg and the great
! opportunity now before US for such
]. development, you should attend this
and future meetings and help solve
/ these problems. Come, get in the
game, it's up to you.