Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-11-02
INDUSTRIES BENEFIT
At CURTIS BAY
Great Development Means Era Of
Prosperity.
WORK FOR THOUSANDS.
improvements Costing Millions En-
phasize Ports Growing Import
tance As Trade Centre.

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Rejecting the faith which far-sight-
ed business men and financiers have
in the future possibilities of this
county, the improvements now under
way in and around the Curtis Bay dis
trict. and which, when completed.
will represent an outlay of millions
of dollars, are emphasizing as nothing
which the port of Baltimore occupies
as one of the leading industrial cen
tres of the East
Busy people. perhaps. have been
too preoccupied with their own affairs
TO pause long enough TO give though,
TO the new era of industrial develop
ment which is dawning before their
very eyes and to realize that its ush-
ering in is going to mean new and
interesting chapter in the history OF
the business life.
It would be no exaggeration TO say
that at this time. an amount approxi-
mately Sl0,OO0,0OO is being spent in
the erection Of a new industrial en-
terprise within seven miles of Balti-
more enterprises which certainly
equal and INN any instances sur
pass similar concerns throughout the
country and which are going TO loom
large in their contribution to the
business prosperity of the people Of
Baltimore as a whole.
Most of this money is being spent
in the Curtis Bay district-in the
opinion of many. the most advanta-
geous section on the Atlantic sea-
board for the location of industrial
concerns. And when mention is
made of the Curtis Bay section, one
naturally considers it really por-
ton of Baltimore city, for the inter
ests of Curtis Bay are those of Balti-
more although geographically, it is in
Anne Arundel county, and is separate
and apart from Baltimore, where gov
ernmental matters are concerned.
Without any blare of <trumpets this
improvement work is progressing
rapidly. and the concrete evidence of
the manner in which millions are be-
ing spent should be intensely inter
esting TO every Baltimorean. The
money which is being invested in the
new enterprises is going to stimulate
every fibre of the varied business ac-
roads have already felt its stimulus
by the increase in traffic which have
come their way in the movement Of
building supplies used in the con-
| struction OF the future homes of these
enterprises the laboring element has
felt It. for thousands have found lu-
| crative employment and will be pro-
vided with steady work for months to
come. and the street railway company
| is benefitting by IL, too. as these en-
ployees have to be conveyed to and
from the scene OF their daily labors
twice a day and the receipts from this
travel are very large.
In addition, the retail merchants
and manufacturers of Baltimore have
furnished a portion of the material
being consumed in the building ac-
tivities at Curtis Bay, and this de-
mand for commodities has proved a
profitable part of their trade But
the greater benefits are to accrue in
the future. For the enterprise which
are rising as if by magic on the vast
| acreage of land at Curtis Bay are to
| become permanent fixtures. They
l are in no sense of the word temporary
| makeshifts. only here TO remain for
l awhile and then be removed else
where, seeking other commercial and
/ industrial fields to conquer. They are
| to become part of the fixed founda-
tions upon which the city's future
commercial and industrial expan-
| sion is to rest
| Baltimoreans arc only to visit
Curtis Bay and gaze upon the splen
structures which are being erect
ed by the United Sattes Industrial
| Alcohol Company, a New York con
Germ, with more than $12,000,o00
capital, and also the Baltimore Car
and Foundry Company, to be fully
! convinced that these companies are
to become permanently identified
with the industrial life Of the Great
er Baltimore district.
1t is true that much of the recent
| activity at Curtis Bay has resulted
since the war began. In fact. some Of
ii is not two months old. This is the
case of the work now being done by
the United States Industrial Alcohol
Company. This concern is one of the
largest of its kind in the world. II
has received large war contracts, from
which it will derive millions of dol
lars in profit. 1t already owns plants
in Brooklyn, n. Y, and New Orleans,
which are being enlarged to turn out
products in sufficient quantities to
meet the demand. But the demand
proved greater than the supply and
the company then decided to erect
plants in Baltimore.