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Show fjfiKE' THE TOWfl PSETTY : : fiS ;WHI BUSY, ;THE ADVICE OF A BOOSTER walk. It 1b reform In many of these little things that we want. It Is just m easy to get rid of smoke as it Is to make it. "I think I can point you to a building build-ing on Fourth and Vine streets in this eity. Our boilers there are earrying heavy loads. We are making eleetnrity for the whole building and for the Western Union, and yet we are consuming con-suming pr cen't of the smoke that is made. (Applause.) "The effect of that sample has been that every skyseraper around us has gone to work and spent some thousands thou-sands of dollars to do likewise. Yet I can stand in that building and look out from my window fcnd see coming from the stacks of the reformers smoke enough to spoil a half-dozen cities. I have known men high in authority in this city who said, 'You must not preach this. Plenty of smoke shows business. If you stop the manufacturers manufac-turers from making smoke, you will ruin the city.' "Now, let's preach something better than that. Let's preach them what is wastefulness. A large amount of smoke means waste. Then, if the people do not heed it, let us commence a crusade that shall stop it. This Applies to Salt Lake. "There is no reason why rhis citv should not be fair and beautiful, ft has the finest of blue skies; it has beautiful trees. There is no lovelier spot on God's earth than between the two Miamis. and yet, vou have made it practically the worst. Vou come in here from other cities, and in th morning spe a pall of smoke that hangs over the place. "Now the next thing 1 wttnt to do is to rlean the streets. (Laughter and applause.) ap-plause.) "Here is a good plarp to start one of your reforms and good, clean, nice streets would be just as good for vour city as a steel company. Thpy are )oth good, hut let's keep cleanliness, lot's Good advice to boosters in Bait Lake and every other growing city was contained con-tained in an address delivered a few nights ago before the Industrial Bureau , of -Cincinnati by M. E. Ingalla, until recently president of a great railroad system. While not all the suggestions are applicable here, the speech contains much food for careful consideration by every man and woman who wa&ts to help make Salt Lake City a good -place both to lire In and to do business in. The following extracts are from a report re-port of Ingalls' address published . in the Citizens' Bulletin. "I think there are manv things here that we ought to do more ihan to spend our time in building factories, although' al-though' they are essential and good. But what use ii there in bringing factories fac-tories here, and what nse is there in piling up dollars, if, after yon have done it, your eity is not fit to live in and is not a place to bring up your children inf I would turn my attention, atten-tion, if I were you, a little more to the esthetic side of life. "If men like unto those I see before be-fore me will devote a little time to that side, the results will be marvelous. You can have a city in which men will delight de-light to dwell and in which people will enjov spending their money and their weafth. Then your factories will settle here, and there will be something besides be-sides the mere making of dollars and cents. Too Much Politics There. "In the first place. Mr. President, vou have too much politics in this citv. 1 believe there is more politics here to the square inch than in any other place on God 's earth. I believe in a good, sharp campaign and fight, but after it is done, why keep up the fight t Why not hold up the hands of your officers, if they are trying to do as well as they can, and not publish to the world that keep happiness and business hand in band, and let us not stand all the time making dollars while living in a pigpen. "There is no city in the countrv that has improved its sidewalks so much as this city in the last few years. Let 's go on and build up the side walks and clean the streets and these two things will add more to the reputation repu-tation of your city than anvthing rise. Spend Your Money Here. "Vour trouble here is that vou have not increased your population, chiefly, I think, because you have not niaie it a pleasant place to live in. .lust as soon as a man gets money to live on here, he goes off somewhere else to spend it - to Washington. Boston or New York. These cities are full of Cincinnati emigrants who spend the money they made here. Vour ratio is going down and Cleveland has passed vou. and Bucalo and Pittshurg. and Ixouisville is nearlv up to vou. and vet ou are being left, and one of the ressemm for it is. yon have not taken in the terrilorv yon ought to." After urging the annexation to I'm cirnati of the entire county, Mr. In galls continues: "When you do that, in order to make this a beautiful and comfortable city to live in I am talking on the esthetic side I want you then to get a law passed authorizing the Court of Common Com-mon Pleas, which I suppose is the best place to go because they are county Judges, to appoint a park boaid of nve men, who shall serve without pay. In ! the history of this city you have had more success from boards that draw no salary than you have had from boards who do. and there are plenty of men here with public spirit who will give their time, their thought and their wis dom to the ctty. Need of Boulevards. "Now, it is no use to buy beautiful parks and get lovely lands, with frees and grass and places where the young and the old, and the poor and the rich should go, if you are not going to build some way to get to them, and yon never will do that except by one concentrated pian. Now, nut into the hands of this board of park commissioners the right to build boulevards to the distant points of the coun'j. the right to main tain them and the right to sav whall be on those boulevards. I.et them set tie whether a train of cars shall run down through the middle of it. and if thev do. let that right be paid for. If is for them to say whether your electric motors shall carrv goods bak rm l forth, and if thry do, let that franchise i be paid for. you are cursed nv the worst government there is T (Appfause.) "If the Republicans or Democrats win a campaign today, and there is iot another election for a year, why begin that fight tomorrow! Why not go on in peace for eight or ten months and let people think yon have a decent city and fit to live in, instead of fighting and howling until people believe you are cursed by bad government f So much for politics. Want "a Comfortable City." "Some of us were unfortunate in making investments, but now thev are payiDg ones, and there is no reason why we should not spend a reasonable amount of money in making this citv comfortable. It is like a man who will not allow bis wife to spend a dollar, who is ating-v, and wboee house and home looks like a barn and whose children chil-dren are all glad to get away from him and to leave their home; he has no pleasure, but he has light expenditure. (Laughter.) Let us spend what is necessary nec-essary and make a comfortable home to live in. "I wf interested when our friend over here on the left (Mr. Manss) was telling about the manufacturers and about their belching out their smoke. Why. good (rod, that 's our trouble' There is too much belching. (Laughter.) It is the curse of Ihis city. Mike the Town Beantfinl. "As I think of the beautiful citips I have seen: as I think of the cities that have double the number of manu facturers we have here; as I think of the large factories that I have looked at in other lands, making money, but with an atmosphere not defiled and spoiled; then come back here and see the factories, aye. the stores, the bank buildings and the dwellings that are turning out fhei rsmoke and wasting their fuel. I think vou are a wasteful people. There is no necessity for it. There is no need of it. "I picked up in the paper the other day. after I got Mr. Conroy's letter about coming here, a little squib that might apply to a good many of us here. Let me read it: He railed for a city beautiful. He shouted it dav by day; He wanted a city where noise was not, He wanted a city that should be fair, Where filth might never be seen. But forgot in spite of the city he had To keep his backyard clean. Reformers and Reformers. "We have some of the greatest re formers in this city to be found in the world, who are continuously preaching reforms of one thing or another, and vet forget to keep their backyards clean. "You will find them everywhere. They will not shovel snow off the side- every man, woman and child in this city a sum innnitesimaJly .mall as compared with the good it would do you. ''Now. M Prcidcrt and j;c n ' lern e n . don't think that T am a dreamer: do not think that this is an idV fan-v of mine. I have been rather 'icee.f.i'nl in lnisiRChi.. and it has gr. 1 n me time to j look at onie oth'r thin If has bf n ' 'in pleasure to wander in "'it land find sen how people ii-, 1 spent months in England investigating eitv government and public utilit.-. b . 1 the best thing T found was that their citizens gave a large puitiin of their time to improving and benefiting and beautifving the condition, under which their people 1 1 r d "'Now. 1 beg of the members nt this c I ' 1 h and the eiti.ens of 1 in. -innati to deote some of their time each dav to I the good of their fellow members who ' are not fi fortunate, and ine.-td of , spending their time, evcrv div and j everv hour and everv m?nute. in piling up the dollars which will do them no good after thev have got them, bi-vond what thev can ue for their own health and can give awav. "Put in some of your time in maJeing this city the best, the mort comfortable . and the most beautiful city in America 1 to live in. and then you will find that j the factories will come and that their ' owners will stay here, anc: taat the em ployees will delight to be here." (Ap plause.) "Put it into the hand of fie of i vour most eminent and honest citizen. f a man wants to go out to Glendale. he will have the most beautiful country in the world. If he wants to go out on the hills toward Lebanon, what a beautiful beau-tiful boulevard can be made up that wav. If you have a svstem like this, with boulevards and paths well main tamed, it will be like those they have in ''hicago, which are the glorv of that citv. Thev will be like those in Bo ton. Worth All It Costs. "Now. Mr. President, this system of boulevards and this svstem of parks will cost you monev. 'yo doubt about that. You do not want to be wnsting it in small checks, as you have been do ing in the last two years, where there have been put two or three or four or five hundred thousand dollars on lands not worth having and not worth main taining. "If you want land for children to plav in. vou can get it in Mill ('reek, and buv it cheap after the flood, and make the finest athletic grounds in the world. When the floods eom, you can easily get out for a short time and go back again. "We want to make this city attrac tive so that people will come here and we can keep them after thev come have them make their homes here. You want your avenues, your boulevards, running out into every corner of the county. Your streets and places can be made like those of Dresden, the prettiest pret-tiest city in the world. Yon want places where the automobiles can go; von want places where the boy can ride h.is bicycle; you want places where people can ride in their carriages, and places where they can walk.. "Suppose you do spend ten millions for this. The interest on ten millions would be $350,000. It would be $1000 a day. It would be 3 cents day foe |