Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-04
CHANCE TO HELP INDUSTRY.

The most encouraging development in the
Industrial situation here in some time is con-
tanned in the announcement of the Standard
Underground Cable Company's plans to enlarge
the cable plant, which will mean employment
for many more men in addition to the large
number now working for that company.
This expression OF faith in the general pros
perity of the country also reflects confidence in
the future of Perth Amboy as an important
Industrial center. The future of this city
depends upon the expansion of it's plants, for
in that way IS work assured for the ever
increasing population. If the owners and man
ayers of the industrial plants here have the
courage and will to do big things at a time
when business in general needs stimulating and
accelerating, they should receive every con-
sideration and assistance that the community
can give them.
The cable industry has been one Of Perth
Amboy's leading industries. In times of war
as we'll as peace It has been an important part
of the industrial structure of the city. But like
every successful enterprise, large or small, 1t
cannot stand still. 1t must expand, build up
and produce goods for the worlds markets.
Tn this it should be encouraged, for neither can
the city stand still. 1t, too, must expand, de-
velop, and as nature has destined this city to
be an industrial community, 1t can easily be
seen that action must be taken to protect and
develop the Industrial life of the city to full
fill it's mission in the nations m and
trade.
The cable company proposes to greatly enlarge
their Industrial plant here, manifesting enter
prise that may lead to general boom sooner
than expected. In their petition read at the
meeting of the Board Of Aldermen Monday
night the cable company outlined plans for the
new structures and pointed out the need of
~trackage to take care Of the increased
volume of business that will result from the
enlarged plant. The company asks permission
to extend its tracks along the easterly side of
High street to the southerly line Of the COM
pany's property at Washington street, to be
located between the curb and the plant build
ing. A fence will be erected to protect pedes-
TRANS at this point, where the sidewalk Is of
sraIpie size. addition to this, the company
promises to have the crossing guarded. thus
eliminating any danger to pedestrians.
BY prompt action in granting the cable
works request the aldermen will be doing a
three-fold good. They will be adding industrial
expansion and at the same time help to solve
JU6 eIlQl Y iobASA
contractors employing local labor built the
present cable plant, and there is every reason
to believe that the new buildings will be put
up by local men.
1t has been shown in the past that the Board
of Aldermen stands ready to aid the growth OF
the citys industries. Especially is this true in
the case Of the Barber Asphalt case. Surely
the extension of railroad tracks already located
on the company's property in an industrial
section of the city is no more OF a detriment
to the city than the closing of a street, as was
done in the Barber Asphalt Company case. NO
one will be Inconvenience or endangered by
the extension of the trackage at the cable works
under the conditions outlined in the companys
petition.
Should the aldermen, for reasons of their
own, see fit to turn down the cable works situa-