EBERHARDT’S MILL - 1901

EBERHARDT, GRODE, DUESNER, COURTAND, GRUBE, MCNAMARA, KAIMMORCH, FETSCKELE, TURNER, BEITT

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 12/18/2016 at 22:15:28

Dubuque Daily Telegraph – March 5, 1901

EBERHARDT’S MILL
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THE STATEMENT THAT IT IS OLD
AND DANGEROUS IS DENIED
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EBERHART SUBMITS STATEMENT
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He Alleges That Petitioners
Are Malicious and Untrue
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At the last meeting pf the city council a petition from a number of residents living near Lawrence Eberhardt’s plaining mill on Rhomberg Avenue was read. The petition, among other things, stated that Mr. Eberhardt’s mill is old and dangerous and that it is a menace to the neighborhood in that it is likely to burn down at any time. The council referred the petition to the committee of the whole which body visited the mill and after looking it over, decided to get an opinion from the city attorney before condemning the property.

In reference to the claim of the surrounding property owners Mr. Eberhardt submits the following statement;
When Mr. Grode, the complainant, put in an article to the paper concerning the factory of L. Eberhardt and asking the council to condemn it as they proclaimed it to be a nuisance which is not true, we saw that Mr. L. Eberhardt left the matter rest. Now as they are still telling things that are not true we think it is no more than right to answer these statements, whereby we, the employees will apply our signatures to state that there is not anything true about it.

For instance as they state Friday evening in the paper that there was a fire at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday and that we refused to call the fire department is wholly untrue. In the first place, there was no fire, secondly we employees do not start work until 7 o’clock, therefore how could we refuse to call the fire department if we were not there at all; and thirdly the neighbors did not help to put out the fire as none existed. There was a fire under the boiler, if they mean that. In regard to the inexperienced fireman he has been an engineer for years and has paper to show it.
Signed:
G. Duesner, foremen
P. E. Courtand,
Henry Grube,
Frank McNamara,
Frederick Kaimmorch,
John Fetsckele,
Joe Turner,
W. Beitt