Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-06 | Page 16 | Rotarians to Honor Heroes of Battle

MIS TO HONOR HEROESOf BATTLE Memorial for Utahns Who Fall in Struggle Under Consideration. L'tah heroes who perish in the titanic struggle "over there" for the rights of i man will be called to the minds of travelers trav-elers through the state in all the coming years by a splendid monument, or possibly pos-sibly something even grander, If a plan launched by the Rotary club at its reg- , ular weekiy dinner at the Hotel U tab yesterday is carried out. The club decided de-cided to keep a record of all Utahns who lost their lives in the war and to father ' a project for the erection of a splendid memorial after the waves of human violence vio-lence have subsided. Where tho memorial should be set up was not decided. The capitol grounds and Liberty park were propose J. The public would be called un to participate. As to the possibility of something even grander still than a monument, it was suggested at the meeting that the precedent prece-dent of Chattanooea, Tenn., in honoring the dead heroes of tho civil war, might be followed. A huge has relief might be carved on tho side of one of the score of precipitous cliffs about Salt Lake. Somo feared tills idea might prove financially loo extravagant. The exact character of tho memorial was left undetermined. C. A Quigley, D. G. Bolton and F. E. Gardner were appointed a committee to act with the Rotary club committee of Ogdcn and representatives of tho northern north-ern counties In representing to the state road commission the advisability and importance im-portance of completing the concrete roadway road-way between Salt Pake and ogden. Some eighteen miles of this stretch is still unfinished. un-finished. The club took a decided sLand against a city municipal mnrket. A voto of sentiment sen-timent showed the membership opposed almost as a unit to the expenditure of SIOU.OCO or more for a site for tho purpose. pur-pose. Tt was represented that buildings would have to be erected and that for live months In the year, at least, such a market would bring In no revenues. It was asserted by some that the real producers pro-ducers would profit little by a municipal market and that tho public would got little beneilt in the way of lower prices.