Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-07-22
LEATHER COMPANY
TO COME
CITY COUNCIL RATIFIES
AGREEMENT WITH AMITY
LEATHER PRODUCTS
viii Pave Clinton Street With Rem
forced Concrete Is Unanimous
Vote-Till Open Fifth Avenue is
Decision.

At a special meeting of the city
council last evening, an agreement
with the Amity Leather Products
Company, Wisconsin corporation of
West Bend, Wis, was ratified, the
Chamber of Commerce also playing an
important part in the agreement. The
city agrees to permit the concern to
have free possession and use of the old
city hall until factory can be COM
pleted. 1t further agrees to renoyate
the building to make it fit for occu-
pancy, to remove partitions now ON
the second floor so as u make one
large working floor and to open up
the walls if that be found necessary,
to get the maximum light. Toilet and
plumbing facilities will be remodeled.
To Employ 100.
1t is understood that the concern
will employ 100 persons, twenty-five
men and seyenty-five women. The
company will install machinery as
soon as the building is made ready,
for the manufacture of high grade
leather products as now manufacture
ed by the concern.
After the company has been located
in the city for time and has employ
ed twenty-five or more hands in it's
enterprise, a site for the location of a
permanent building may be requested
Of the city. I'm the event of the site
offered the said company not being
satisfactory" the agreement reads,
then said company may at its option
have the said site appraised by three
disinterested appraisers, one to be ap-
pointed by the city of Wausau, the
second to be appointed by the COM
pany and the third to be appointed by
the two appraisers thus selected, and
thereupon the city agrees to pay the
company the amount of money equiva-
lent to the appraised value of the
site"
Chamber OF Commerce.
The Chamber of Commerce figures
in the location of the concern in the
city to the extent of $4,000. 1t agrees
to share equally with the Amity
Leather Products Company in the ex-
pense of the erection of a factory
building up to the sum of $4,000, i.
e: one-half of the cost of the factory,
provided it does not exceed the sum
of $4,000. The concern is declared
to be one of the most promising the
city has obtained in long time.
Clinton street and First avenue
south of the Northwestern tracks and
north to Gallon street, will be paved
with REINFORCED concrete as a result
OF unanimous vote of the council.
The pavement of that thoroughfare
has been the subject of considerable
dispute. Brick could not be obtained
and the property owners were visited
with petitions. The majority declared
they would prefer concrete now than
long wait before the street was
paved. Among those who were alb
sent were George Borowitz, who OPP
posed the use of concrete as a paving
material in the city, Matt Kuss, and
Mark Scholfield, who was out of the
city.
The Herman Dern property, it was
voted, would be purchased at $4,000
and Fifth avenue will be opened al
that point. The health department re-
quested the council to furnish it with
an automobile, DR.. c. d. Partridge de-
claring in letter that would mean q
saving of 5000 month to the city as
one visiting nurse with an automobile
could do the work of three without
Alexander Heinberg, Northern hotel
was granted saloon license.