Gatling Weekly News, June 1, 1893
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The Arrangements for the Grand Excursion Complete Free Ride, Free Music, Free Lunch
All the details of the grand free excursion to Gatling are now completed. There will be two special trains on the W.N.Y. & P.R.R. leaving the Exchange Street Station at 10 a.m. sharp; also from Exchange street at 1 p.m. Trains returning will leave Gatling at 6 p.m. Orders for tickets, Free tickets, bear in mind, can be had at the office of the Town Site Co., No. 24 Erie Street.
Excursion Notes
Over 3,000 tickets have been given out, and the excursion promises to be a grand success.
After the dedication, visitors will be allowed to inspect the property of the Gatling Town Site Company, surrounding the site of the steel works.
The big tent, to hold 1,000 people, for the luncheon to be served by Caterer H.W. Weeks of New York to-morrow noon, is being erected under Mr. Week's own supervision.
A telegram received yesterday afternoon states that a carload of intending investors are coming from Gloversville, Clyde, and vicinity; and letters from other points indicate that the attendance will be very large from all over Western New York.
The streets of the new town are all made, the lots are all numbered, and the improvements going on on all sides ought to impress the visitors favorably. It is expected that the shoe factory of the N. Lehman Company will be in operation to-morrow.
An order was wired on Wednesday to the Union Metallic Cartridge Company for 500 rounds of ammunition, which, if it arrives in time, will be used in firing a salute in honor of the event from the Gatling machine gun which has been on exhibition in Buffalo for the past few weeks.
The first special train for the dedication will leave Buffalo at 10 o'clock a.m. sharp, from the Central station, over the Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad. It will consist of 10 coaches. No stops will be made till the train arrives at Gatling, when it will be run out on the siding, which extends for half a mile across the Town Site Company's property.
The part in to-morrow's exercises to be taken by the Gatling Ordnance Company will consist of simply the laying of the corner-stone of the main furnace buildings by Dr. R.J. Gatling, the famous inventor, at 11 a.m. No ostentatious display will be made, nor any effort at oratory on the occasion, but Dr. Gatling will outline the plans for the coming summer's work.
Mr. Jere Johnson, Jr., president of the Brooklyn Real Estate Exchange, and for 35 years the leading real estate man in New York City, will conduct an auction sale of lots, beginning at 1:30 p.m. This will be a unique feature of the day's proceedings, and will be especially watched by real estate men.
Mr. Johnson will arrive in the city at 10 o'clock on Friday morning, accompanied by his sons, Remson and B.S. Johnson. Mr. Johnson ascribes the great success of his business to the fact that he always sells property to a purchaser standing upon the lot that he buys, and not from a map of property unseen. This fact, together with the easy payment plan, has enabled him to sell more than 200,000 lots in the vicinity of New York and Brooklyn, and to build several flourishing towns on Long Island and in New Jersey.
Gatling Weekly News, vol. 1, no. 17.
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