Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-15

INDUSTRIES
0RTHEC CITY
R r. Freeze, Secretary ami Treasurer
Of Freeze.Bac0n Hosiery Mills Says
Local Conditions Are Favorable to
Development Of Both Industries and
Tourist BUSINESS; Our Advantages
Should be Made KnOWn.
Editor Democrat:

Editor Democrat:
Replying to your inquiry concerning
Hendersonville's need of industries. }
take pleasure in making this brief,
though much belated, reply.
In considering Hendersonville's ma
tural advantages, we have little left to
desire, which in time, if rightly devel=
oped. will make for US a most splendid
city. That however, as l see it, car
not be done by following up just one
line. Every must be engaged
if we want a rapid growth M provision
made for self-support if we achieve a
permanent prosperity. Suppose we po-
sessed the industries that other towns
grow rich upon and the three months
business additional, think what a sur
plus we could acquire. There would
be money for improvements, for attrac-
tons that the moneyed tourist de-
mandS.
AS to the presence of these indus
tries; it is not necessary that they add
any Objectionable feature. The mod
ern factory is much more sanitary
than many even of our public build
ings. There are certain moral stand
ards required of their operatives that
! even our UoSI uOIG1S Cdn AOI dhO4N ~
require of their guests. In addition,
they spend their money at home. They
do not have time to go to the nearesr
larger town to buy their coat suits or
their shoes. Suppose we had a pay
roll OF say fifty thousand dollars a
month, our merchants and u real
estate men and incidentally u banks
would handle every cent. l would not
| by any means make this a factory
town; the presence of factories does
not of necessity do this. The going in
! for lust "A thing is the very object
that every town should fight against.
We want industries to help push other
resources. Every payroll that we get,
even though small, will add something
to our ability to improve ourselves in
such a way as to attract other things,
and IL you please, more. desirable
things.
i Now as to what we have to offer for
the location of these industries. W.
| have no money for bonuses. l do mol
think we need it. We leave that meth
cd for towns which have no other in
ducements. The very things that at
| tract tourists will bring men with
| capital to invest in industries when
once the knowledge and the spirit OF
our encouragement OF those things
| get abroad. The same thing applies
| To labor to operate them. Men aad
women helping to run industries all
over the country are only too glad to
return to the mountains whenever
there is a place for them at home, TO
! say nothing of the labor that is here
! 10 be trained. And moreover. as con-
, ditions require it, force going to waste
in our mountain streams can be har-
! messed into power, giving further en-
ployment to the idle poor.
We are much nearer the raw mate
| rial than any of the manufacturing
centres of the east. AS to our relative
| position in regard to other towns OF
the Carolinas, we have an even 9
: The principal thing in regard to this Is
/ good railroad facilities and this We
can boastfulR claim. The manutac-
turer's freight rate on raw. materlal
and finished product is based prlncl-
nallv on New York and Chicago freight
rates to and from his shipping point.
BY way of illustration, in comparing
the New York rate on our product
with that Of High Point and Spartan
burg, we find the HendersonviIle rate
a few cents more than High Point but
a few cents less than Spartanburg.
The Chicago rate is the same for all
three places.
! I>have touched merely on our need
/ OF industries; The subject of Hen
dersonville's Needs" are many and va
ried and will multiply as we go for
ward. Every improvement will call
for something towards which we had
not hitherto. aspirsd. This, how