The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-21

the greatest innovations for TaIpon
Springs in the way of new business is
at present assuming form. For years
we have waited and planned for some
thing that would bring into active
working line the latent advantages and
influences which this city has within
her bounds. Many matters have been
up for discussion and some of them
have been tried out. In most instances
there has been lacking some essential
element necessary to achieve success.
1t seems now that the proper chord
has been found and sounded and that
this city will soon begin to realize new
life.
For some time negotiations have
been on foot with view to interesting
men and money in the cigar industry
here. Now we feel safe announcing
TO the readers of The Evening Leader
that this is an accomplished fact.
Last night two gentlemen, Messrs,
Jose Saurez and VIM. Fuchs of Tam
pa, met with the business men of the
city to discuss the plans for opening
up a cigar manufacturing business in
this city that will undoubtedly do more
for the general business welfare Of
the community than any other thing
that has been done for years. These
gentlemen have come here prepared to
! take over the Spong Exchange Cigar
I Co.'s factory building, to install nov
nnu;nn1ent and plac the business on a
~"''00''o"or", paving b~s's. As has been
noted in The Leader for the past two
days, Mr. A. NJ. Lowe, president of
the Sponge Exchange bank, has pub
| lished a call for a meeting of the bus
mess people and especially of those
who had agreed to guarantee the pay
ment for the cigar factory building,
At $3.50 last night the meeting was
called to order by Mr.. Lowe, with
about 25 business men present, and
including Messrs. Saurez and Fuchs.
Mr.. Lowe stated the object of the
meeting as being to reorganize the
cigar business here. He stated that
the gentlemen from Tampa had made
a proposition to take over the business
already here by absorbing it into the
Saurez Capitano Cigar Co., an insti-
tuition already incorporated and doing
business in Tampa. but which Was
, looking for place to build up bust
ness where they could find advantages
not obtainable in Tampa. The cor
poration named would compare favor
ably with the best cigar manufacture
ing plants Of the country. The mem
bers of the company realized that
they must seek fields where competi-
ton was not so keen and labor trouble
not so rife as in Tampa. Their inves-
LEGATIONS in different sections of the
state had been made with this in view,
and thew had decided that this city
afforded the best opportunity.
Mr.. Fuchs stated to the meeting
that he had been engaged in the cigar
manufacturing business for a number
Of years and thought that he was
qualified to handle one end of the bus
mess. He he'd started IN the buckeye
trade and succeeded. Heshad enlarged
his scope and gone into the business Of
manufacturing cigars on q larger
scale. together with Mr.. SaureZ, and
together they had seen the necessity
of conditions which were found in this
city. He spoke conservatively and i'm
pressed his hearers with the thought
that he knew what he was talking
about. Mr.. Saurez was called on and,
aside from bearing out the statements
of Mr.. Fuch, gave the meeting clear,
concise account of his experience in
the cigar manufacturing business. En-
tering the field of work when he was
II years old, he had been coached by
his father through every branch, line
and detail of the business. He was,
as he said, practically raised in the
business. He understood the work
from the planting of the seed to the
selling of the finished product.
He has been through every depart
ment of the largest and most success
full factories of Tampa and was at