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Join The Cambridge
Shipyard Drive

For six months the Organization
Committee representing the Cam
bridge Banks, the Board OF Trade,
the Town Council, and the Cam
bridge public generally has worked
actively and earnestly TO procure d
big ship building plant at Cam
bridge. We have not been making
newspaper announcements fro il
time to time, but we have been on
the job all the time, and have waited
to make our announcements until
we had something definite to an
nounce. We believe now we are IN
position to get a big ship yard at
Cambridge We are in communlca-
ton with a Company that is operat-
ing a big government ship building
plant in Maryland. This Company
states it is willing and ready TO 10
cate a big ship yard at Cambridge
to do government work with govern
ment wages.
Our Organization Committee has
been assured by our public generally
We could furnish the labor and the
capital if only we could find deslr-
able contracts. We believe we are
in position now to get these con-
tracts, and to get them at once. IL
is up to the Cambridge people now
to make good. We need at once sub
scriptions for 100000. This sum
will be ample We ask for subscrlp-
lions only and the money will noS
be collected until the deal is closed
and government contracts are as
sured. Every subscriber will be Civ
en- preferred stock bearing s per
cent interest, payable semi-annually,
with a share of common stock as
bonus for every share of preferred
stock paid for Every dollar paid in
will be spent in buying and equip
ping ship yard at Cambridge or be
deposited in a Cambridge bank as
weekly pay roll for the Company.
We believe it is possible to get
quickly at Cambridge a ship yard
that will do government work and
employ several hundred men, with a
weekly pay roll of eight to ten thou
sand dollars We have ship carpen-
tiers in Cambridge and Dorchester
county who are leaving every day to
procure employment in ship yards IN
other cities. They have assured us
they would come back to Cambridge
and bring others with them if we
y
A ship yard such as we are trying
to.get would bring many families in
to Cambridge; would increase bust
ness in every line and give the whole
town a new lease of life If we fail
in our expectations not dollar OF
the money subscribed will be collec-
ted or spent. If we can procure TINS
ship yard, it would be big invest
ri n
100000 and gave it as present TO
someone to establish here a ship yard
such as We have an opportunity now
to get; but our people are not asked
to give anything We are asked to
make subscriptions payable only on
the call of our banks, when our
ship yard proposition is assured. For
all the money we pay in We will be
given preferred stock bearing s per
cent. interest, with common stock
equal our preferred stock given 10
us as bonus. u
If our people do not grasp the rea-
sonableness of a proposition of this
kind, they do not want ship yard.
If we want a ship yard we should
hand in our subscriptions at once.
The directors of the Farmers G lIer-
chants National Bank Of Cam
bridge have voted unanimously to
underwrite one-fourth of the mo
ney needed to finance our ship yard
proposition. We have promised to
secure subscriptions for the other
rs per cent.
We need some industry TO give
employment to our laboring people,
who are leaving daily, and to bring
back those that have gone. We need
a government ship yard, and we are
hoping and believing we can get it.
Will you help? How much? Get a
subscription blank today from Rob-
ert H. Matthews, Treasurer, or Yer
non S. Bradley, Chairman of the Or
ganization Committee.
Get it now.
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