Work being done to secure location of the Hemingray Glass Co. in Latonia

Charles Mason, a real estate man and a promoter of Latonia, came over and was on Change yesterday with J. T. Earle. Mr. Mason is working to secure the location of the factory of the Hemingray Glass Com­pany in that suburb of Covington, and thinks that he can get what he is after. The inducement that will be held out to Mr. Hemingray is that the Licking River is navigable up to Latonia with a good stage of water long enough during the year to get all the coal that any factory could use to run during the entire 12 months and the sav­ing over what the cost of coal would be in some location back of Cincinnati would more than pay the company to be in Latonia. As a matter of fact, however, the Hemingray Glass Company can secure an admirable location on the river front on the Cincinnati side and away above the high water mark that will give the concern a great many more advantages than can be held out by Latonia. Hence Mr. Mason ap­preciates that he will have to offer the com­pany some other inducements in order to get the factory on that side side of the river. Latonians and, indeed, all the people of Kentucky cities have their hopes built up on what Congressman Berry is attempting to do in connection with the Licking River. He has secured an appropriation for a survey of the river with the view of constructing one or two locks that will make the Licking a stream with a navigable stage at all times well up from the Ohio. This would open up a large amount of territory on that side that would be available for factories and will draw those that are looking for cheap fuel by means of river connection. This would be a good improvement, and would, so the Kentuckians claim, add 75,000 to the population of their cities in a few years. The only thing that is objectionable about this to Cincinnatians is that it might draw more from this city than from outside, and while it might result in a general growth it would be largely at the expense of this side. The factories along the river and down in the bottoms on this side now have anywhere from 60 to 95 per cent of their employes that live on the other side of the river, and the Kentuckians claim that this would be an argument to many of the factories to move over bodily. Opposed to this plan of improving the Licking River is the other plan of improving Millcreek or even constructing a ship canal up the Miami Valley that some far sighted business men declare will be the salvation of Cincinnati, and the best thing that can be done for the city.