6UILDINGUPBUSISS AN ORIGINAL PLAN TO TEST NEy/ ENTERPRISES. \N INDUSTRY INCUBATOR Suggestions as to Assisting Small Manufacturers Toward Success and Helping Town Interests. Regardless of the magnitude of a •city or town there must be employ ment for the people. In fact, popula tion of any city depends upon the op portunity that it may afford the resi dents gaining a livelihood. The agri 'icultural town receives its support from whatever mercantile traffic it can gain •from contiguous territory, aud what industries in the manufacturing lino fthat can be advantageously conducted. !The city draws support from the smaller towns in an area of country, rwhich, owing to its geographical posi tion and what other advantages it may Ihave, it may command the trade of. It is to the advantage of every •town to have as many manufacturing (Plants as can be profitably operated. (Natural conditions regulate manufac turing to a great extent. Transporta tion facilities, the cost of raw material land fuel are highly important factors; Jyet there are certain lines of small jmanufacturing that can be well car aied on in any community if only trightly managed. For many years ■(ambitious towns have followed the {practice of offering bonuses to manu facturing concerns in order to secure kheir location. The bonus system has mot always ope?s*ad satisfactorily. |Too often promoters of manufacturing lenterprises look to the bonus offered »as a means of making profit rather {than to the legitimate conduct of the jbusiness. Then, again, there are •stock-jobbing schemes that operate in •connection with the bonus plan, and it lhas been known that hundreds of of dollars have been lost by (people anxious to further the manu facturing interests of their home (towns. Numerous manufacturing centers Ihave been gradually built up through rthe right kind of co-operation of the (citizens. There i 3 one prosperous city lin Illinois that owes its activity main lly to the plans pursued by an enter- Iprising class of Swedish citizens, who (some 30 years ago organized a !Swedish Aid society. This society ad vanced money to worthy workers who •desired to engage in business. Officers ■of the society supervised the business tto a great extent, and small concerns which were established have grown to be factories whose output run well up into the millions annually. This aid "society loaned money to be repaid 'from the profits of the business. The plan was a successful one. The system here referred to sug gests a means whereby each town or "city which desires to build up manu facturing interests can do so at the minimum cost; that is, that the dan igers and objections offered by the tbonus systems are entirely eliminated, i.as is also the chance for promoters to iTeap a harvest through the exploita tion of unsound enterprises. This plan involves the incorporation of a fpromoting company. Local capital ■may be subscribed to whatever extent Js deemed expedient. To illustrate: .'if an organization be formed with $2.1,- 'OOO capital. SIO,OOO of this capital can be employed in the equipment of a building for manufacturing purposes. "This building can have facilities for (half a dozen to a dozen small manu facturing concerns. The power neces isary may be supplied from a general •power plant. The machinery for man ufacturing can be installed as required. A board of directors shall be selected »to oversee the business. Whenever «a small enterprise is found to be seek ing a location, the directors are em powered to negotiate for its location in the town. The concern may be in corporated and a small amount of stock taken by the holding company. Facilities for manufacturing and mar keting whatever the product may be are afforded. If the enterprise proves successful it can be moved from the experimental station into a separate building, the holding company invest ing in its stock, and the dividends on the stock can be placed in the general fund for the extension of other enter prises. Should an enterprise prove to t>e lacking in merit it can be discard ed. In this manner from half a dozen to a dozen different, enterprises can be carried on and thoroughly tested as to practical workings. Of course, it must not be expected that all of the undertakings will prove successful, but if good judgment be usod in select ing enterprises, a large percentage •will prove profitable. Those who sub scribe for the stock of the holding .company can be compensated by re ceiving an equitable percentage upon the amount invested in stock. This plan eliminates the objection able features of granting bonuses and the subscribing for stock in concerns that are in embryo stage and purely ■experiments. No Good to Town. The man who spends his time loafing ■about the town stores and ing of the conditions of his environ ments is no good to himself, his family or his town. There are a class of men who spend their time in bemoaning "the fact that they are not getting the right kind of living which the world •owes them, and who never once think •how much better this living could be iff they would only hustle. The man .who is constantly grumbling about jthe dullness of his town is never found looking around to discover a means by which he can make it livelier. EQUITY IN BUSINESS. Practice of Live-and-Let-Llve Princi ples Most Desirable. Too frequently it is noticed that, in the struggle to attain wealth the rights of the individual are ignored. Fair dealing is a desirable thing as well as most simple and it requires only common honesty to practice it. Not alone is there honesty involved in the matter of selling but also in the matter of buying. It is quite as dishonorable for the purchaser to ex act that the seller receive no profit on an article sold as it is for the seller to demand an exorbitant price for his goods. There Is much sound philosophy in the live-and-let-live gospel. This is nothing more than an observance of the Golden Hule that has found ex pression in all ages of enlightenment from the time of Gautama down to the present. In every day dealings it is apparent that there is too much of exaggerated selfishness in evidence, too great a struggle for the vantage. There should be a spirit of Christian cooperation that would be just to all alike. 'Whole communities suffer sometimes from the lack of this sense of equity on the part of merchants and their customers. How often is the complaint heard in rural districts that the storekeepers of a town charge too high prices for what they have to sell? How often is it noticed that where this feeling dom inates the people that the home town suffers as a consequence? It is short sightedness on parts of mer chants to require of their customers more than what may be considered a legitimate and just profit. In fact, it is poor business policy to follow out a plan of this kind. There are many towns whose growth has been pre vented through a grasping tendency of the merchants to make all they pos sibly can in a few short years, and to give the people as small an amount of goods as they will take for their money. The natural result of a pol icy of this kind is that the people seek other towns in which to do their trading and quite often buy from the distant mail-order house. Habits once formed are hard to break. It is quite as difficult for the merchant to recover from the habit of making exorbitant profits as it is for the patron of the mail-order house to turn his trade to the home stores. Should both the merchants and their customers calmly consider principles that enter into commerce, and both determine to practice equity in their dealings, the merchant to sell honest goods at honest profits and the cus tomer to give patronage to merchants who would practice this principle, it would be wholesome not alone for the home towns, but for all the com munities. TOWN HELPS. It is easy to estimate the business importance of a place by the appear ance of its stores. Dingy, dirty ap pearing business places always give a bad impression and are generally indi cative of the character of the business men of the town. • • • Good newspapers are important fac tors in building of towns. Well filled advertising pages, as well as local news pages speak for the prosperity of a place and makes an impression upon the readers that assist the town to greater prosperity. » • • Each town should have a good pub lic hall, a place where meetings can be held or entertainments given. If such a hall be erected by private en terprise if rightly managed can be made a profitable investment in the average small town. » • • Quite often when towns are organ ized the matter of providing for public parks is overlooked. Every town is a city in embryo. No one can prophesy how great it may become in time. It is well to look into the future and to set aside grounds that may be used for park purposes. It has been the experiments of many cities that the park ' question is a troublesome one when not looked after in ample time. There is nothing that makes the city more attractive or is such a blessing to its people as a cozy park where they may meet for recreation during the wanner months of the year. PUBLIC OPINION. Power of the Country Press and Its Influences Upon the Community. While the influences of the great city papers are recognized and the great magazines fill a necessary field, neither of these conveyers of general Information can ever supplant the field that is occupied by the country press. The home paper is the medium that conveys local intelligence to its read ers. It fills a place in the journalistic world that no other publication can ever supplant. The country press is one of the greatest powers in the molding of public opinion. It may not be up to the highest classical standard, but its rough literary gems are contin ually sljining resplendent and cast their rays in the most remote corners of the land. It is a power for good, in its reflections of events, in the local field are shown rte progress of the people whom it represents. It is the mirror of the condition of the town and the country. The residents of every community should take the greatest pride in assisting in making the home press more powerful. Stand up for your home paper. It is the one staunch advocate of your local inter ests and to an extent is indicative of either your prosperity or your lack of progress. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS* THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1907 OLD ORCHARD, I, IS smv FIRE. MANY HOTELS AND RESIDENCES WERE DESTROYED. THE LOSS IS OVER $500,000. Ten Hotels and 50 Cottages are in Ashes —The Burned Area Covered 50 Acres Along the Shore of the Ocean. Old Orchard, Me. half of Old Orchard's summer hotel section along the shore front was swept by lire last night, the loss prob ably exceeding $500,000. So far as known no lives were lost. The Hotel Fiske, one of the finest on the beach, valued at $50,000; the Hotel Emerson, valued at $75,000 with its furnishings; the Hotel Alberta, the Aldine, the .Lawrence house and a halt' dozen smaller hotels, together witii about 50 cottages, were destroyed within two hours. All the buildings were of wooden construction and were easy prey for the flames, which were fanned by a southwest breeze. The Old Orchard fire department was utterly unable to handle the blaze and firemen from Portland, Biddeford and Saco who re sponded to calls for assistance were hampered for some time after their arrival by difficulty with the hose couplings. At 11:40 o'clock the fire was placed under control. The fire was discovered about 8 o'clock in the upper part of the Olym pia hotel annex, which was occupied by servants employed in the Hotel Emerson. It is supposed that an up set lamp was the origin of the blaze. Adjoining buildings containing stores located along the board walk beside the Boston & Maine railroad tracks soon caught fire and from these the flames jumped the tracks and com municated with the Aiberta hotel and several other large buildings near the shore. An area of 50 acres along the beach was soon blazing. In this area were located some of the most popular of the hotels, all of which were filled with summer guests. Many valuable summer cottages were also located in this district and these, too, were swept by the fire. Most of the guests managed to save a considerable quan tity of their personal effects. The Boston & Maine railroad sta tion was blown up by dynamite to ar rest the fire in that direction. The Hotel Seashore, across the street from the Hotel Emerson, was also burned. WAR SEEMS TO BE CERTAIN. Guatemala and Salvador Will be Ar rayed Against Honduras and Nicaragua. Mexico City.—A cablegram re ceived here from San Salvador says that Capt. John 11. Poe, who was at one time well known as a Princeton football player and Annapolis coach, and who recently has been fighting in the Honduran army, has left Salvador on the steamer San Juan for San Francisco, where he purposes to re cruit a "foreign legion" to take part in the expected war between the Cen tral American states. Poe held the rank of captain with the Hondurans. He was'in the artillery branch. He was recently detained at Managua by President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, on the charge of being a spy. The best sources of information here unite in declaring that trouble in Central America is certain. Guate mala and Salvador will be arrayed against Honduras and Nicaragua. President Figuerea, of Salvador, and President Cabrera, of Guatemala, have agreed that peace is impossible so long as Zelaya remains president of Nicaragua. They will attack him as soon as the rainy season coni33 to an end. Figuerea has cancelled an order sent to England for three gun boats because they"cannot reach him in time to be of service in the war. He is sending an agent to San Fran cisco to purchase steamers and mount guns on them. Capt. Eysler. who was at one time an ensign in the American navy and who is now first officer of the steamer Para, trading on the Pacific coast, is to be offered the command of the Sal vadoran navy. General Lee Christmas, formerly of Memphis, Tenn., who is now in com mand of the Salvadoran army, accom panies Capt. Poe as far as Guate mala. There he will attend to the re organization of the "foreign legion," which is to be composed of Boers, Englishmen and Americans. It is declared here that foreign in tervention Is the only thing that can prevent the threatened conflict. Agents of each of the four countries concerned are now in Costa Rica, each one endeavoring to influence that country in his favor. It is re ported. however, that the Costa Rican government is maintaining its neu trality with firmness. Left a Shortage of $13,000. Omaha, Neb. Theodore Olsen, former Danish vice consul at Omaha and at one time city comptrol ler of Omaha, is missing from the city and it is' alleged that his accounts with the Danish government are short about $13,000. Attacks on Casablanca Continue. Paris, France. —Admiral Pliillibert, telegraphing Wednesday, reported isolated attacks on Casablanca which the troops easily repulsed, being as sisted by the shell fire of the French cruiser Gloire. UNEXPECTED FAILURE RECEIVERS ARE NAMED FOR THE POPE COM PAN IES.' A Recent Strike in One of the Com pany's Plants Is Said to Have Caused Banks to Curtail Loans. New York. Receivers for the Pope Manufacturing Co. and Its subsidiary company, the Pope Motor Car Co., which manufacture automo biles and bicycles, with main offices and plant at Hartford, Conn., were appointed Wednesday in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massa chusetts. Similar action will be taken shortly in Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and ; Maryland, where the companies own plants. The petitions filed by the McManus- Kelley Co., of Toledo, asking for re ceivers, show the total assets of both companies to be $11,205,570, with to tal liabilities reaching $1,972,826. The difficulties ef the Pope companies were the direct result of a curtail ment of loans and reduction of loans on notes. Albert Rathbone, counsel for Albert L. Pope, vice president of the Pope Manufacturing Co., who has been appointed a receiver in New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut, said the troubles of the companies were the outcome of the present rigid monetary conditions. Loans were falling due, Mr. Rathbone said, and the company was unable to meet them. The petition of the receivers shows that the total capitalization of the Pope Manufacturing Co. is $22.- 500,000, and that the company was or ganized In 1903 in New Jersey. The Pope Motor Car Co.'s entire stock ia owned by the Pope Manufacturing Co., which owns and operates plants at Hartford, Conn.; Westfield, Mass.; Hagerstown, Md.; Syracuse, N. Y., and Chicago. The Pope Motor Car Co. has plants In Indianapolis and Toledo. William A. Read, a director of the Pope Manufacturing Co., said the company was hurt by a strike in one of the automobile plants six months ago and at the time orders for 200 cars were cancelled. Since then the banks began to restrict their credit and the failure resulted. Hartford, Conn. The failure of the Pope Manufacturing Co. caused one of the biggest surprises that this city has known, but it is not thought that the big industry will be affected by the action of the court. The probabilities are, according to Receiver Albert L. Pope, that the business will be continued. Mr. Pope stated that the company employs in all about 7,000 hands In its various plants. He said the company has am ple assets to meet the claims against It. HE WILL NOT INTERFERE. President Roosevelt Will Not Take Action In Regard to the Teleg raphers' Strike. Oyster Ray, N. Y. President Roosevelt will not concern him self personally with the telegraphers' strike, according to the best informa tion obtainable here. Appeals to the president to take some action looking to a settlement of the strike were received at the ex ecutive offices here Wednesday from boards of trade and commercial bodies of a large number of cities. The applications were similar in char acter to those formulated by the Chi cago board of trade. Each emphasized the importance of direct action by the president. The communications have been re ferred to Commissioner of Labor Neill. No instructions or recommen dations have been forwarded to Mr. Neill. From the first, Mr. Neill has been active in an endeavor to effect a settlement of the trouble. New York. There was little change in the telegraph strike situ ation Wednesday as far as concerns New York and other eastern cities. Both the Western Union and Postal telegraph companies profess to be thoroughly satisfied with the progress made toward normal conditions. On the other hand, the leaders of the strikers declare their cause has been strengthened by the responses to the calls togo out in many of the cities where strikes had not already been inaugurated. No trouble developed among the telegraphers employed in the scores of broker offices In the financial dis trict, where, according to the Tele graphers' union, many big houses granted the demands of their men as regards wages and working hours, fhe news service throughout the east was practically unimpaired except in the cases of two or three smaller cen ters and the news of the world was moved to ail points. The hope of the strikers* that the ■ Order of Railway Telegraphers would make common cause with the com mercial operators has not been re alized. A Victory for Reformers. San Francisco, Cal. The pri mary election In this city resulted in a sweeping victory for the Republican league, or Ryan ticket, which stood for earnest support of the bribery and graft prosecution and the present mayor and board of supervisors. A Prediction of War. Mexico City. —lt is reported here in government circles that there will bo war in Central America within four days. Guatemala is ex pected to lead off with an attack upon Nicaragua. Guatemala and Salvador will be arrayed against Honduras and Nicaragua. Tariff Will Not be Revised. Washington, D. C. —"There will be no revision of the tariff by tha Six tieth congress," said Speaker Joseph O. Cannon, of tho house of represent atives, last night I Balcom & Lloyd. | IWE have the best stocked general store in the county 9 and if you are looking for re liable goods at reasonable prices, we are ready to serve 9 you with the best to be found. Our reputation for trust- fj worthy goods and fair dealing is too well known to sell any but high grade goods. 1 Our stock of Queensware and Chinaware is selected with B great care and we have some ?L of the most handsome dishes B ever shown in this section, both in imported and domestic makes. We invite you to visit us and look our goods over. I 1 I | Balcom Lloyd, j yup www w wip wwwififwiryy wirww wnnwi «* ifc «** ** **. m.mkmk *±M±m. ***±**.m.£k2L 2|, | LOOK ELSEWHERE BUT DON'T FORGET jj | THESE PRICES AND FACTS AT |j j | Laß ARS || 1 N 11 W M |4 h We carry in stock - 1 JM II the largest line of Car- ' || || pets, Linoleums and ry, r ' (w£g*l jinTfTTTtTYfIIB Eg Mattings of all kinda *,> fl |j M town. Also a big line ,: -;•> ■ '•"* Pj A very large line ot FOfi THE I M J3 Lace Curtains that can- _ £ * |X ' fo"ce auy COflfORlM LOD6IN6 l\ ■Hi 111 Art Squares and of fine books In a choice library Rugs of all sizes and select the Ideal pattern of Globe- H M kind, from tlie cheap- Wernicke "Elastic" Bookcase. M Pi est to the best. Furnished with bevel French || || plate or leaded glass doors. |g 14 Dining Chairs, I ro " •»«■« ■* I || JJ Rockers and GEO. J. LaBAR, £| |d| Chairs. Bole Agent for Cameron County. |J £2 A large and elegant I——-———————————J ?1 El line of Tufted and || Drop-head Couches. Beauties and at bargain prices. M Ms3o Bedroom Suits, CTC |4O Sideboard, quar- tfOft solid oak at 4)ZO tered cak 3<3U ** C 3 |26 Bedroom Suits, Co| $32 Sideboard, qnar- C.OC k* P9 solid oak at 4>Zi tered oak... jij #■B $25 Bed room Suits, Ofl $22 Sideboard, quar- CIC ||| solid oak at )ZU tered oak 4)1 D £| S| A large line of Dressers from Chiffoniers of all kinds and || $S up. all prices. || || The finest line of Sewing Machines on the market, Eg || the "DOMESTIC" and "ELDRIEGE.' All drop- || kg heads and warranted. Ij A fine line of Dishes, common grade and China, in j se ts and by the piece. M As I keep a full line of everything that goes to H ||l make up a good Furniture store, it is useless to enum- H || erate them all. M ?< Please call and for yourself that lam telling || kg you the truth, and if you don't buy, there is no harm |* II done, as it is no trouble to show goods. n GEO. J .LaBAR. jjjj UNDBHTAK.IKrG. *J EZZZZZZZXZZZZZZZJJZZZZZXZZiJ 3
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