Show HOW TO BUILD A GITY there 2 may ay be many ways to build aiga a city ty tg a and id un undoubtedly d every expert along that it line has his ideas as to the manner of go going ing about it but secretary t ary S H clay or of the salt lake commercial club told the citizens of brigham city last evening of a few of the fundamentals which are absolutely requisite I 1 in n accomplishing that result mr air clay delivered one of the best and most sensible talks heart to heart talks if you please that has ever beet beed delivered in this city on masiers matters that pertain to the community welfare he presented his all subject b eject in a systematic manner affa iad laid particular stress atres upon on the one principle of cooperation lie he illustrated this contention by citing the experience of 30 enterprising men of salt lake city who made a pilgrimage durina the past summer to the uintah basin and spent a week talking to the people As a result of that visit and the publicity it was given within a very few weeks a great many mr clay gave the exact number families new settlers went in to the basin and took up land by cooperation mr clay insisted that the men were not the only ones to take into consideration but the ladies must also be recognized and he went cn to say that thai some of the biggest and most beneficial reforms that have been brought about in the country came through the influence of clubs the one all powerful and most potent factor in the building of a city is a live commercial club and mr fr clay contended that the real secretary who is doing his work is pursuing the nob lest labor performed I 1 by any man or class of men save the ministers of tile the gospel the real secretary is the man who never gets discouraged but keep everlastingly at it building suo sua tanti ally and for the future so marshalling ills his forces that he makes we the club do the greatest good to the greatest number the real secretary W is constantly devising ways and means to bring about needed changes re forms and improvements that will put the city on a better and higher plane commercially socially and morally and lie he must not be a man who sets ets discouraged cou raged for no position is the target for so many discouraging thrusts as that of the secretary of a commercial club which is alive and doing things in the matter of building a city Mr clay asserted there area are a number ot of details which which are absolutely essential to success street and sidewalk paving is one sanitation throughout the city is another street illumination is another and one of the most important and on that subject mr air clay said that the robber and thief thrives only in the dark and disease germs flee when tile the light is turned on he elaborated at some length on oil the splendid opportunities our western cities have for illuminating their streets because of the wide thoroughfares mr air clay said any man set of men or community who wills to do a thing will accomplish the result and he told of big million dollar packing plants which had bad been to oklahoma city through tile the indomitable courage or of a lew few citizens who who ra raised ased SOO anything is possible for those determined to accomplish it the attendance at the meeting was very good musical numbers were rendered by cliff rogers Rut ruthven liven forsgren stewart vance miss jessie whitaker and miss alias mary pearse |