The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-03-29
TO HOUSE NEW INDUSTRIES.

10 HOUSE NEW INDUSTRIES.
~PleasantYille, through its Chamber
of Commerce, last Friday night grasp
ed opportunity by the forelock, author
lied a bond issue of sufficient size TO
purchase a mill property, and offered
it TO the Best Silk Manufacturing Com
pany, whose representative accepted
Personalities proposition. Within
the neXt month the silk industry will
be given a try-out. If the location is
favorable after a reasonable time is
given il TO learn whether labor can be
had in sufficient numbers, the silk firm
will construct a large modern pill and
equip it for the manufacture of silk
on a large scale, replacing plants it
operates in another section in the east.
1t is said their initial investment, if
they locate permanently in Pleasant
vile. will be approximately half a mil
lion dollars and that employment will
be provided for hundreds of men and
women.
When the factory purchased by the
Chamber of Commerce becomes vacant
again it will be offered to other manu-
facturers who are interested in locat-
ing here on inducing terms, and will
prove a permanent property for the
tryout of industry of various kinds
here. The result will mean a consid-
cradle increase in construction of
housing quarters in P~leasantyille, in
creased in the stores, ETC.,
here and in other parts of the County
and should real a considerable boom
here in the immediate future. AT
present there are no properties to be
had for dwelling purposes to rent and
but very few for sale. Contractors
are now planning development in sew
eral sections of the city.
The Chamber of Commerce has been
assured the moral support Of City
Council in its action and will likely
receive such financial support as the
municipal body can l~egitimately give
it. Bonds will be issued Immediately
for purchase of the mill and it will be
altered for the occupancy of the silk
firm about May l.
The Chamber of Commerce is ON
posed of some fifty odd members, all
active business men of the city, who
are turning their energies to civic bet
terment projects again now that the
many war drives in which they have
been interested the past year have
discontinued
The original purchasers paid some
s. $500 for the mill and afterwards ex-
pended $3.50 for necessary repairs and
alterations. 1t is now bought by the
Chamber of Commerce for $3.50 and
the remaining 1880 of the bond issue
is for the purchase of the adjoining
three lots and for making a ten-foot
/ addition RI tho nroSQD+ huildipU in or
der that the Best Silk Company may
have room TO install ten looms with
which to begin manufacturing on a
paying basis.
Under the head "~Enterprising Pleas
antville.' the Atlantic City Press says
editorially:
THAT Pleasantville has a Chamber
of Commerce that is wide awake has
been demonstrated IN various oecas-
ions. and that boards latest action
with regard to boosting the industrial
life of the city merely aecentuates the
fact.
1.-The Willingness of a silk mill pro-
prietor of Philadelphia to erect a large
plant on the main highland. provided
the city raises a sum to get the pro-
ject started and to test out the avail
+ dUllllA VI SQnlIlEIl nGiPi HGS bCCAa
promptly met by the Commerce Cham
Der appropriating $4,000 for the exper-
iment.
Silk manufacturing. to be a success,
must have clear air, an absence of
smoke that might injure delicate ma
terial and a minimum dampness.
These conditions, it is hoped, will be
found on the highland.
The proposed plant will be a
branch of a large concern and in itself,
if it is permanently placed in Pleasant
vile, will represent an outlay close
TO a half million dollars.
1T is an experiment rich in POSSIBLE
tiles, for upon the success of the VEN
ture will depend future engagements
that will give a tremendous upward
push to the city. The business men
are eager TO sound the merits of the
proposition, and should the deal fail.
one consolation viii be that Dame Ma
ture turned the trick and not a civic
board that was too cautious to take a
chance"