Show 0 ZINC TOWN TO BE A MODEL will have eleva elevated ted Rall railroad road and many advantages Is an immense enterprise according to well established reports stephen S palmer of new york president of the new jersey zinc company of 0 pennsylvania who hag been at pa for several months personally supervising the construction of a new plant has also arranged with th tho chestnut hill railroad for an extension from its present terminus at kunkle town ton monroe county to Strouds bur burK to connect with the lackawanna rall railroad road mr air palmers halmers Pal mers project Is said to bo be rivaled in america this year only by two other great industrial organizations one at oary gary ind by the united states steel trust and the other at south bethlehem by charles al schwab for many years the parent plant of the new jersey zinc company of 0 pennsylvania was in south bethlehem the workmen of the plant many of whom 40 years yeara ago came here front from prance nance and belgium to produce zinc are the best and most respected craftsmen in the town when during the bethlehem steel strike the rioters assaulted workmen indiscriminately air palmer decided to ab abandon antion the plant there and concentrate his industry in tho the palmerton section where the new plant was located on ted and the town named for him the immensity of the enterprise can be imagined from the fact that the furnaces and reducers will be scattered along a range of five miles and to adjust itself to new conditions the central railroad of new jersey has decided to abandon two old stations and erect a new one in tho the center of the works work a at a cost of it has been decided by mr palmer to spend to make an elevated railroad first tor for the safety of the workmen and their crill dren partly for economic advantages and to preserve the beauty of the town |