The Washington herald., 1919-08-04
GEORGETOWN BOOM PLAN
BRINGS BUSINESS QUERIES
Many Northern Manufacturers Interested in
Facilities Offered Here, Particularly
Attracted by Possibility of Har-
Messing Potomac.

Prospective business for the pro
posed Merchants and Manufacturers
Association of Georgetown is pflinl
up.
Inquiries are being made by manu-
facturers in the frozen north" whit
are seeking locations for their plant!
in a more temperate climate, as t
the facilities afforded by the George
town river front. Queries also arr
coming in regarding any plans tina
may have been made for harness
ing" the Upper Potomac with its fall:
and rapids, and applying this wastc(
power to manufacturing. AS yet thcs,
inquiries are in the nature of Gyini
straws, but P. T. Moran says The,
Indicate the direction of a brisk bus,
ines breeze.
In this connection. Mr.. Moran suE
gestsd yesterday another line OF nc
tivities for the proposed commercial
organiza ton. 1t is to have the George
town Channel dredged so that ordi
nary steamboats, may come to TIT
wharves along K or Water street anc
unload their cargoes, as was the Gus
tom years ago. The rebuilding of th'
piers will be Necessary. The big BLACK
steamship. L. C. knight. which nlieC
between Georgetown and New York
a quarter OF a century ago, could not
reach her old pier now because o.
the filling of the channel with sane
and storm debris from the Upper Po
! tomac.
S6Nyitb tho yYopdarf,,I -ra,.rass ", a
is making in navigation. and WizarC
inventions such as the aeroplane anC
submarine, and more wonders tc
come" Mr.. Moran said. I'VE George
town folks will not forget the pa
tient. plodding old canal boat mule
still a familiar figure along the tow
path leading from our town t
. Cumberland. The mule and tn
, craft he hauls has more than onc'
been boon to both Georgetown
and Washington when the railroad:
were lied up and transportation va:
at a standstill. The electric powe'
canal boat and automatic vessels 70,
canals are all right. but re still love
the ancient, lonS-earcd reliable cana
mule who has stood by Us through
thick and thin"
Included in the big business con-
Germs located in Georgetown. and a
the top Of the list. is the Connecticut
Fie Company. This plant is situated
at Wisconsin avenue and o streets
in a large and sanitary building. and
its products are supplied not only tc
every section OF the District. but tC
several Of the nearby States. The
bakery and other departments are
equipped with the very latest pie
making machinery. The plant was
established more than twenty-five
years ago by Henry Copperthite. now
residing at Burkes Station. Va. ano
the Connecticut Pie Company organ
lied It was named for Mr.. Cop,
perthiteS native State, which has
-ained a worldwide reputation fcl
the purity and richness OF its pies.
The present officers Of the company
are Rudolph Behrend, president; P
T. Moran. vice president: Alber
Schulteis, manager; Mendol Behrend
superintendent. and a directorate com
prisinC the foregoing officers and DR.
Robinson. John beavers. Moses Sin
sheimer. Daniel Steinberger and AGyel
NordIinger.
The Connecticut Pie Company 1
making pies that have gained for i
a dcIicatessen reputation that ha:
made the name famous in this par
of Uncle Sans domains.
The faculty o. Georgetown Cnfver
sitv is preparing for the creates
scholastic season in the history o
the venerable institution Of learning
The registration Of applicants ALREADY
is larger than ever before at this sea
son. The university buildings are he
ing renovated and overhauled in ad
vance Of the rush OF students that :
eXrected.
Rev. Father Giperich. Of tht
faculty OF Georgetown University
has been transferred 10 Baltimore
where he will engage in church
work
Rev. Father John I. Quirk. for
sometime past professor of senior
philosophy. has gone to Yonkers. y
Y. where he will commence work
on his forthcoming volume or
Latter Day Latin Poets" The 20
sition he vacates at the univerSjt ty
will be filled by Rev. J. Gardasr
Causey. s. j.. Of Baltimore. who was
formerly professor Of senior phil
OSOpnE dl tOI OOhlN IL eDA4Vo Sc, -. l.
Rev Thomas Love, s. J.. will head
the department Of physics IL the
coming scholastic year.
Rev. John F. Y Murphy. late oi
Fordham University. y y. has beer
appointed professor OF history a
the university.
H. Z. Levison. proprietor OF the
Jefferson. Georgetown. on Wiscon.
sin avenue. says newspaper adver,
tising spells success" and he ought
TO know as he has been an exten.
Sive advertiser. He IS especially
pleased with the Georgetown ad.
vertislnE department in The VAST,
ington Herald. and says the an.
nouncnncnts OF local business mel
through that cnanncl should briuz
results. Il am doing my b"sr tC
keep down the high cost of things
he SAID. and am selling the best
ice cream and fruit juices. I sci
from 800 to 500 gallons of ice cream
each week. My motto is-'A bis
FOR SAFE