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The principal manufacturing and commer- David Schmidt. Gents' Furnishings, 5 houses. cial enterprises at this time may be thus desig- Glass Works, Gorsuch Glass Co., G. W. Kearns nated: Agricultural Implements, T. C. Berk- & Co., United Glass Co. Wholesale Grocers, shire, Gray & Richards, Zanesville Hardware Baker Bros., Harper & Cosgrave, Pinkerton Co. Awning Makers, Henry C. Mylius & Co. Bros., the Stevens-Wheeler Grocery Co. Han- Baking Powder Manufacturers, Burchinal & dle Manufacturers, J. Smith & Son. Harness Co. Bent Wood Works, Henry J. Kimble. Manufacturers, G. G. Akerly, William Betz & Bookbinders, The Courier Co., George Lilien- Co., John Frederick, Henry Mylius, H. C. thal, C. H. Rea & Co., E. R. Sullivan. Books Werner. Hotels, Clarendon, Kirk's, Mt. Clare, and Stationery, E. P. Church, G. R. Fox, S. A. Windsor, Arlington and several others. Ice Jenkins, M. V. B. Kennedy. Wholesale Boots Manufacturers, Zanesville Artificial Ice Co. and Shoes, H. C. Werner, W. N. Werner. Re- Iron Manufacturers, Ohio Iron Co. Iron tail Boots and Shoes, 12 houses. Box Manu- Fencing, Wm. Allen. Jewelers, 6 houses. facturers, Frederick Abel, C. J. Brenholtz, J. Lime, Plaster and Cements, Stitt, Price & Co. Smith & Son. Brass Founders, C. Dockray & Locks and Safes, J. D. Winder & Co. Lumber, Son. Brewers, Bohn's Brewery, J. A. Brenner Samuel W. Clark, Curtis & Company, Thomas & Co., Washington Brewery (Simon Linser), Drake & Co., Herdman Sash, Door and Lumber The Riverside Brewery. Brick Manufacturies, Co., Lorimer, Lane & Co., D. Zimmer & Co. the Fish Pressed Brick Co., H. M. Gooden, W. Machinery Manufacturers, Blandy Machine Co.,
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Griffith & Wedge. Mantles and Grates, W. Brown, secretary, treasurer and business mana- M. Adams & Bro., L. H. Parker, G. M. Shaw. ger. The Elliot Paper Co., office and ware- Marble and Granite Works, Mitchell & Bald- house 19 N. Sixth; incorporated Nov. 7, 1885; win, L. A. Moore, E. O'Donnell, R. H. Sloan, capital $10,000; Joseph Elliot, president; Thos. W. C. Townsend. Molding Sand, E. M. Ayers, H. Elliot, secretary; John Elliot, treasurer; The J. Downerd & Son Co. Musical Merchan- Henry Elliot, general manager. The First Na- dise, H. D. Munson & Sons, C. E. Townsend. tional Bank, 134 Main; organized Feb. 24, 1863; Newspapers, 14 publications, (see elsewhere.) capital $200,000; surplus, $100,000; W. A. Gra-
Wholesale Notions, Block & Grant Co., Frelich ham, president; Geo. H. Stewart, cashier. The & Greenfield. Oatmeal Mills, Edward John- Home Building & Savings Mo. Savings Bank, son. Ornamental Brick Manufacturers, Oak- 155 Main; organized May, 1886; capital $1,000,- land Press Brick Co., T. B. Townsend Brick & ooo; Harvey Darlington, president; Jas. T. Ir- Contracting Co. Paints, the Goheen Manu- vine, treasurer and secretary. The J. Downerd facturing Co., H. M. Widney. Paper, Elliott & Son Co., office 208 Main, 2d floor; incorpor- Paper Co. Potteries, J. B. Owens Pottery Co., ated Nov. 18, 1887; capital $50,000; E. C. S. O. Willer, Muskingum Stoneware Co., Zanes- Downerd, president; M. E. Dunn, secretary and ville Stoneware Co., Roberts & Co., American treasurer. The Kearns-Gorsuch Glass Co., of- Encaustic Tiling Co. (limited.) Real Estate, fice s. e. cor. First and Main; incorporated Feb. 8 offices. Roofers, D. L. Hopkins, Lumb & 3, 1886; capital $200,000; J. T. Gorsuch, presi- Ludy, C. J. Marcellus, David Schmid, Gilbert dent; Wm. T. Gray, vice president; Noah Kearns, Snyder. Soap Manufacturers, Schultz & Co., superintendent. Officers Board of Trade- The Butler & Hannum Manufacturing Co., president, George R. Fox; second vice-presi- George Hahn, Stained Glass Works, Adolph dent, A. E. Starr; secretary, W. S. Bell; treas- Brown. Stoneyard, J. N. Steiner. Stoneware, urer, Alexander Grant. Steamboat lines -- Manufacturers, Muskingum Stoneware Co., Steamer Bessie Siler, Newton Price, captain; South Zanesville Stoneware, Brick and Paving runs daily between Zanesville and McConnels- Co., Zanesville Stoneware Co. Stove and ville; dock foot of Sixth street. The Muskin- Range Manufacturers, Jones & Abbott, Shinnick gum Coffin Co., office and factory cor. Main Woodside & Gibbons. Tanneries, Jacob F. and Canal; incorporated 1881; capital $80,000; Greul, Findries & Heckel. Tiles, American J. T. Newman, president; N. C. Highfield, vice- Encaustic Tiling Co., L. H. Parker, W. M. president; Joseph Shaw, secretary and treas- Adams & Bro. Woolen Mills, Zanesville urer. The Oakland Press Brick Co., office cor. Woolen Manufacturing Co.
Market and Third, works at junction of the Bel- Zaneville and Cincinnati and Belt
Following is the historical list of the incor- laire, porated companies with offices here: American Line railroads; incorporated December 23, Encaustic Tiling Co. (limited), office and works 1886; capital $25,000; W. A. Graham, president; Marietta road; incorporated under laws of New C. V. Graham, secretary and treasurer. The York in 1878; capital $150,000; B. Nisher, pres- Odd Fellows' Beneficial Association, office 160 ident; George R. Lansing, treasurer; Wm. G. Main; organized April 26, 1869; incorporated Flammer, secretary; Geo. A. Stanbery, general March 12, 1873; Geo. Rishtine, president; J. A. superintendent. Brown Manufacturing Co., Parshall, vice-president; T. D. McCaddon, office and works cor. Underwood and Railroad; treasurer; W. R. Hazlett, secretary. The Ohio incorporated 1873; capital $150,000; Jas. Herd- Fuel Gas & Incadescent Light Co., office cor. man, president; N. H. Moore, secretary; W. A. Sixth and Market; organized Dec. 4, IS88, Graham, treasurer; U. H. Brown, general man- under the laws of West Virginia; capital $1,000,- ager; D. S. Brown, superintendent of works. 000, stock full paid and non-assessable; G. E. Griffith & Wedge Co., office and works 85 to 121 Meigs, president; P. G. Marshall, F. N. Wedge, S. Fifth; established 1858, incorporated August C. W. Kauke, vice-presidents; A. E. Boone, 4, 1885; capital $150,000; Francis Wedge, pres- secretary, treasurer and general manager; G. ident; John Hoge, vice-president; F. N. Wedge, F. Axline, assistant treasurer; F. D. Moses, en- secretary; E. Gigax, treasurer; founders and gineer; Cyril Hawkins, general agent. The machinists. The Citizens' National Bank, 130 People's Savings Bank, Monumental Building; Main; organized July 1, 1881; capital, $200,000: incorporated September, 1889; capital $50,000;
H. C. Van Voorhis, president; W. M. Shinnick, T. F. Spangler, president; Willis Bailey, Ist vice- vice-president; A. V. Smith, cashier. The president; C. Stolzenbach, 2d vice-president; Courier Co., office 32 S. Fourth; incorporated Alex. Grant, treasurer; Wm. J. Atwell, cashier. March 14, 1889; capital, $70,000; John Hoge, The Shinnick, Woodside & Gibbons Mfg. Co .. president; H. C. Lindsay, vice-president; R. B. proprietors Union Foundry, office and foundry
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Fountain avenue, east of Seventh; incorporated Eugene Printz, superintendent; telephone 205. July I, 1885; capital $150,000; Wm. M. Shin- Zanesville Mining Co., office 14 north Fifth, nick, president; Wm. J. Woodside, treasurer; Opera block; incorporated February, 1882; Geo. D. Gibbons, secretary. The T. B. Town- capital $50,000; F. J. Terry, president, J. Hope send Brick Co., office 195 Market, works 3d Sutor, secretary; Geo. Brown, treasurer; Noah ward; incorporated January 1, 1890; capital Shrigley, superintendent of mines, Salina, $200,000; T. B. Townsend, president; R. C. Boulder county, Colorado. Zanesville Woolen Burton, secretary; O. N. Townsend, treasurer. Manufacturing Co., office and mill north side The Times Recorder Co., office 14 S. Fifth. Muskingum avenue, south end Third street The Union National Bank; organized May 3d, bridge; incorporated 1870; capital $50,000; 1890; capital $150,000; James Herdman, presi- John C. Harris, president; Robert Fulton, sec- dent; M. Churchill, vice-president; E. Martin, retary and treasurer; John L. Turner, superin- cashier; W. H. Pierpont, assistant cashier; 128 tendent.
Main. The Zanesville Water Works, office 2d
Reference has been made to the parent, if floor Market House; Geo. R. Humphrey, presi- such it may be termed, of the present gigantic dent; H. S. Crozier, secretary. The Zanesville enterprises of the American Encaustic Tiling Athenaum, library and rooms 30 and 32 south Company, whose office and salesroom is in Fifth; organized December 19, 1827; incorpora- New York, its great manufacturing plant in ted December 22, 1828; E. C. Brush, president; Zanesville. It was the old Howson pottery, J. R. Stonesipher, secretary and treasurer; Miss on South Seventh street, opposite Shultz & M. A. Stillwell, librarian; directors, M. M. Co's. soap factory, and a small brick building Granger, J. R. Stonesipher, C. H. Abbott, C. yet remains to mark the site, although the C. Goddard, J. W. King, T. B. Townsend. The kilns have long since disappeared. The plant Zanesville Canal & Mfg. Co., office 114 Main was devoted to the manufacture of crocks and corner Third; incorporated 1814; M. M. Gran- kitchenware, and was conducted on a very ger, president; R. S. Mershon, secretary; trus- small scale.
tee McIntire estate. The Zanesville Hardware In 1874, Mr .B. Fischer, of New York, had Co., 169 Main; incorporated Oct., 1888; capital his attention directed to the clays at Zanes- $100,000; W. A. Fillmore, president; A. T. ville. He was induced to investigate them and Cassel, vice-president; Wilbur F. McCoy, sec- was convinced that tile could be made here. retary; W. A. Herdman, treasurer; wholesale He purchased the plant above mentioned, as- and retail hardware. The Zanesville Stone- sociating with himself, Mr. George R. Lansing, ware Co., office and works northwest corner of the same city. For the first two years, the Woodlawn avenue and Cooper Mill road; in- work was an experimental one. No tile that corporated 1889; capital $50,000; E. G. Bowen, was merchantable, was made during that whole president and treasurer; A. T. Clark, secretary. period, and a man with less tenacity of pur- The Zanesville Street Railroad; incorporated pose than Mr. Fischer, would have abandoned August, 1890; capital $200,000; A. L. Conger, the plant altogether. He had faith in Mus- president; F. M. Atterholt, vice-president; F. kingum county's clays, however, and his ex- A. Wilcox, secretary; F. A. Seiberling, treasurer; periments were continued. Many of the older all of Akron, O .; A. H. Johnson, superinten- citizens still remember when kiln after kiln of dent; office barn, Marysville Pike. Young fresh burned tile were pronounced failures, Men's Christian Association, 51 north Fifth; and were hauled away to fill low lots or to incorporated August, 1888; A. P. Pinkerton macadamize the roads. Such experiments president; C. S. Hoskinson, vice-president; O. could not continue forever without some result, L. Martin, recording secretary; J. S. Dewacter, and finally merchantable tile was produced. treasurer; E. A. Pierce, general secretary; C. In 1877 the courthouse here was floored with P. Evans, assistant secretary. Zanesville Elec- tile manufactured by the, company, and a part tric Light and Power Co., office and works 227 of that tile was made at the old factory on the north Sixth; organized March 1, 1887; capital river bank. That floor cost $I per square foot, $75,000; John Hoge, president; R. D. Schultz, and it was considered a triumph of art. The vice-president; Frank Durbin, secretary; F. G. same floor can now be laid for 40 cents per Grace, treasurer; Wm. O. Perry, superinten- square foot, and it has become quite common dent. Zanesville Gas Light Co., office corner as compared with the higher and more beauti- Fourth and Main, 2d floor, works 187 to 219 ful designs that have been developed. The north Sixth; organized 1849; capital $50,000; fact had been established that merchantable Moses M. Granger, president; G. A. Allen, sec- tile could be made in this country, and that retary; Citizens' National Bank, treasurer; Zanesville was especially adapted to the pur-
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pose, and the firm decided to build larger. duced them to hold the matter open a few days. Ground was purchased at the present site in He returned home to Zanesville and the situa- the Third ward. In 1877 a building about one- tion was made known to the board of trade. fourth the size of the present one was erected. The exciting meeting of that body which fol- It consisted of a building 125x68 feet, and six lowed will be remembered by all. Citizens kilns. It was looked upon then as a great pledged themselves to pay large sums of manufacturing institution, and its projectors money provided the city could not be bonded thought that it would be amply sufficient to for the amount of money required to meet the supply all the demands for tile for the next demands of the company for a sufficient sum to generation. They little dreamed of the mag- purchase a site and sink a test well for oil and nificent proportions of the business whose gas. The bill submitting the matter to a vote foundations they were laying. In the same of the people passed the legislature, and at the year Mr. Stanbery became the superintendent spring election the people voted almost unani- were issued to the amount of $40,000. Then of the works, and he has occupied the position mously in favor of issuing the bonds. They ever since.
In 1878 the plant was placed under the followed the choice of a site. Various places management of a stock company. Strange as were viewed, but the utmost secrecy was ob- it may seem the production of American tile served as to which would be the favored one. by American artisans did not open the Ameri- The list was finally narrowed down in the can market. The dealers in tile were prejudiced minds of the company to two-one in Fair against them. Finding that they could not Oaks and the other the present one. At this seil the tile to the dealers, who would handle juncture Col. H. A. Blood, of Boston, president none but the European article, the company of the C. C. & S. Railway Company, learned of became contractors as well as manufacturers. the situation of affairs. He was soon in Zanes- They laid tile floors themselves, and soon ville, and made such substantial offers in the brought the dealers to recognize the worth of way of tracks, switching facilities, etc., that the the article they were manufacturing. Since works were located as at present.
that time their market has been, as is well
The mammoth plant which was dedicated known to our citizens, constantly expanding Tuesday, April 19, 1892, is ample guarantee of until now it embraces every State in the Union. the wisdom of President Blood in making so The American Encaustic Tiling Company was liberal an offer. The present factory is the the first company in this country to produce most complete on the continent, but is a merc merchantable tile. The first products as com- plaything when compared with the new one. pared with the present were crude and simple, It consists of a double row of buildings about consisting only of flooring tiles of the most 1500 feet long. The size of each building is simple designs and the plainest colors. Not given in the list which was furnished by Evans satisfied with this end, although it was a de- & Dunsweiler, the contractors:
Raw stock house, 50x200 feet, 24 rooms, two experiment until now the finest and most stories; slip house, 60x100 feet, 6 rooms, three beautiful art tile are produced.
cided triumph, the company has continued to
stories; slip press and clay and dry house, 95x
From the time of the building of the first 162 feet, 4 rooms, 2 stories; grinding house 68 structure on the present site in the Third ward x94 feet, 26 rooms, two stories; ground clay until the present day the growth of the plant house, 64x200 feet, 66 rooms, two stories; press has been rapid. New buildings were added house, 72x200 feet, one story; dry house, 72x until all the ground was occupied, and then it 200 feet, one story; placing houses, 42x200 fect, was found necessary to arch over the run which 7 rooms, one story; bisque kiln house, 132x216 flows through the premises and build over it. feet, one story; placing house, 32x42 fcet, 2 The time came when more ground must be had, rooms, one story; smear kiln house, 44×1 14 feet, and it could not be bought at the present loca- one story; sorting house, 74x120 feet, one story; tion in the Third ward for anything like a rea- glazing house, 48x220 feet, 3 rooms, one story; sonable sum. This brings the history down to placing houses, 16x20 feet, 4 rooms, one story; recent events, which are still very fresh in the glazing kiln house, 96x200 feet, one story; ware minds of the people. The New York stock- house, 216x216 feet, 9 rooms three stories; holders, who own by far the largest interest in freight and cooper house, 52x218 feet, 4 rooms, the establishment, determined to move it bodily one story; engine and boiler house, 48x172 feet, to New Jersey. They communicated their in- 2 rooms, one story; machine shop and carpen- tention to Mr. John Hoge, who was interested ter shop house, 44x76 feet, 4 rooms, two stories; in the enterprise. By persevering effort he in- blacksmith house, 20x44 feet, I room, one story;
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seggar house, 52x106 feet, 4 rooms, two son, Albert Baker, Dan Buell, J. J. Adams, C. stories; stock houses, 20x76 feet, 5 rooms, one U. Shryock, W. W. Harper, Rev. George P. Tor- story; locomotive house, 23x44 feet, I room, rence, J. W. Conrade, John Crooks, C. D. one story; fifteen bisque kilns, 22 feet diameter Wedge, T. J. McDermott, F. N. Grigsby, T. M. at base; three smear kilns, 16.8 feet diameterat
Williams and E. L. Winchell. The program in- base; eight glaze kilns, 22 feet diameter at base; cluded an address of welcome by Hon. W. S. one seggar kiln, 26 feet diameter at base; one Bell, mayor of the city, addresses by Hon. improved eight tunnel drier; brick smoke stack, Wm. Mckinley, Jr., governor of Ohio, Hon. 121 feet high, 18x18 feet at the base. Home John O'Neill, Col. H. A. Blood, of the Cleve- institutions were patronized to as large an ex- land & Canton R. R. Co., President Fischer, of tent as possible in the erection and equipment the Tiling Co., and others. Amusement was of this plant, and everything that Zanesville the order of the day and evening, and the Bar- could furnish was purchased here. Evans & racks band from Columbus, the Seventeenth Dunsweiler had the contract for laying the regiment band of Zanesville, and the Dresden 12,000,000 brick. The boilers, air compressors K. of P. bands were in attendance.
and tile presses were manufactured by Griffith Schultz & Co., " The " soap-boilers; factory & Wedge. The lumber was furnished by and office, Canal Bank, between Sixth and Sev- Thomas Drake. The Blandy Machine com- enth streets, Zanesville, O .; New York office pany furnished iron work. Rækel & Son laid and depot, 164 Franklin street, New York, are the fifty miles and more of pipe used in the well worthy to adorn the pages of a book building. Snyder, the slater, placed the slate dealing with the history of Zanesville. Both roofs used. D. Schmidt constructed the gal- members of the firm are natives of Zanesville, vanized iron work and spouting. Still other and have lived in the city of their birth all Zanesville firms, employing Zanesville work- their lives, and have been active citizens, both men, performed other contracts.
as young and middle-aged men, engaging in
The plant is chiefly valuable to Zanesville public-spirited movements calculated to ad- because of the labor it furnishes and the result- vance the interests of this community. Be- ing increase in prosperity and population. It sides their own large manufactory, they are will give work to from 800 to 1000 persons when heavy holders of real estate, and stockholders running to its full capacity. in a large number of other manufacturing con-
The demonstration at the formal opening of cerns. Messrs. Robert Schultz and John Hoge these works marked a "red letter" day to the are the individual members comprising the people of this part of Ohio. The program for firm, so widely known throughout this country the dedication was under the direction of an as Schultz & Co., manufacturers of several executive committee composed of Hon. Wm. brands of soap which have a world-wide repu- S. Bell, A. E. Starr, H. A. Sharpe, Charles Geis, tation for being the best for family use. Messrs. H. C. Werner, J. A. Morrow, G. R. Clements, Schultz & Co.'s factory is a four story brick J. H. Swart, Edward McGovern, J. A. Dennis, structure, the dimensions of which are 70x200 C. C. Harrison, Thomas Trainer, G. A. Allen feet, every inch of which is utilized in the man- and Dr. H. T. Sutton. The reception committee ufacture of the firm's products. The building consisted of Messrs. T. F. Spangler, John Hoge, throughout is supplied with all the latest and R. D. Schultz, F. A. Durban, Geo. H. Stewart, most improved machinery necessary in an estab- C. Stolzenbach, D. H. Gaumer, H. C. Van Voor- lishment of the kind, and seventy-five hands find . his, F. H. Southard, H. C. Werner, Dr. T. J. steady and remunerative employment, besides a Barton, Geo. A. Stanbery, H. H. Sturtevant, number of traveling salesmen, covering terri- Wm. Kirk, S. A. Baldwin, Gen. R. B. Brown, tories which know no bounds. They also own Rev. F. Richards, D. M. Evans, D. S. Brown, a large warehouse at the depots, with switches W. R. Mathews, E. P. Bloomer, John C. Sulli- in from the different roads, used for storing van, Julius Frank, B. Wheeler, Wm. Bateman, their surplus stocks. Messrs. Schultz & Co. Dr. E. C. Logsdon, David Lee, M. Churchill, began business in 1866, being successors to Mr. Jas. R. Peabody, Charles Brendel, J. Hope Wm. Schultz, under whom they served from Sutor, Capt. Mader, Hiram Waller, W. J. Wood- boyhood. Prior to their accession to the busi- side, G. D. Gibbons, Lieut. C. E. Gillette, R. S. ness, the trade had been purely local; but Mershen, A. O. Jones, Edward Gigax, William shortly after, they introduced into the Western Swart, James Herdman, Thomas Murphy, Alex- markets their celebrated "Star" brand, which ander Grant, Charles Abbott, William Wells, was entirely different from anything else in Edward Abbott, James Wheeler, S. A. Weller, the soap line. Subsequently the firm placed Theodore Wiles, J. W. Pinkerton, G. D. Mun- upon the market their famous brand, "Irish
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Soap," which proved to be their first great suc- meeting of the association was held June 13, in cess, and gave them a national reputation. the office of Mr. Geiger, Clerk of the Court. This brand immediately became an immense At this meeting a permanent organization was favorite as a laundry soap, and at once bounded effected and Mr. Geiger was elected president, to the front ranks of all the leading markets of John H. Drake vice-president, Andros Guille the country. The firm added to their list other treasurer, and W. O. Munson, secretary. A famous brands. Messrs. Schultz & Co. now constitution and by-laws were adopted, and C. make "Star Soap," one of the best and most W. Potwin, Peter Black and Robert Silvey desirable for general family use, and the "Duck were appointed, trustees. Thursday, Septem- Soap," a good laundry article. The volume of ber 19, 1878, was held a grand county re-union, trade extends to all parts of the United States. under the auspices of the association, which in The firm's products have no superior, and there addition to being the largest ex-soldier de- are few homes in the land where the name of monstration held in the county up to that time, Schultz & Co. is not familiar. Messrs Schultz was a financial success, netting the association & Co. are also sole owners and managers of $1,000. At the first annual meeting held June the Zanesville Opera House, which has the 13, 1879, the old officers were re-elected, and reputation of being one of the finest and best an executive committee composed of five ladies managed theaters in America.
and five gentlemen was appointed. This com-
About the year 1875 Schultz & Co. pur- mittee was Mrs. F. Cogswell, Mrs. F. J. L. chased the Zane House property, and the Opera Blandy, Mrs. James Buckingham, Mrs. L. B. house and Opera House block were erected in Taylor and Messrs Fred. Dietz, R. B. Brown, 1879, which then, as now, were the pride of this W. H. Cockins, W. S. Harlan and Howard city. Mr. Hoge's enthusiasm was impressed Aston. It was now determined to increase the upon his partner, and unaided these two daunt- amount for the monument to $10,000, and a less young men erected a row of metropolitan plan of guarantee notes was formulated and an business rooms and a theater, at that time une- active canvass begun. At the annual meeting qualed in the state. That this was a most ex- June 13, 1883, five years after the organization pensive undertaking goes without saying. of the association, the secretary in his report Such was their credit that not the semblance alluded to the fact that a trifle over $5,000 was of a mortgage encumbered their property, yet now on hand, that the members of the associa- it was freely predicted by the croakers that tion had voted to have the monument erected Schultz & Co. would be ruined. The business in front of the court house, that the Com- sagacity of Mr. Hoge soon manifested itself in missioners had refused to move the fountain to the management of the Opera house. The give place to the monument, that many of the rules laid down by him were unique, and a heaviest subscribers were in favor of diverting marked innovation on the established methods the fund already raised and adding to it fifteen of the "profession." The result was a wide- or twenty thousand dollars more, and in lieu of spread notoriety and a national reputation for a monument, erecting a " Muskingum County the Schultz Opera house. Theatrical people Soldiers' and Sailor's Memorial Building." stormed and swore like the army in Flanders, "This, in the opinion of your secretary, would be but they eventually yielded gracefully to the a good investment, permanent, progressive and iron-clad regulations. Their ravings have lasting." At this meeting a paper was read, turned to exultant praise. The "rules" have which led to the sending out by the secretary been widely copied throughout the country- a circular letter requesting each subscriber to the best tribute to their fairness. "The Appeal designate his choice in the matter, by which it to the Profession," written by Mr. Hoge, and was decided to erect a memorial building in- placarded in all the dressing rooms of the the- stead of a shaft or monument. ater, won the warmest commendation from the "show people."
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