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Show I FOR CIVIC IMPROVEMENT. M Tho Woman's A. C, club, which now pro- B poses to interest Itself In clvlo Improvement, M may And Inspiration In the work accomplished ' and attempted by the Ogden ImproTcment M League. In the past two or three years the M Junction city's organization, In the language B of Its president, took tyi the following: M "First of all, perhaps, was the passage of a M law creating a board of park commissioners, to m have full charge of our city's breathing places, M all parking, treo planting and the like. H Then tho Improvement of tho grounds at B the union depot, grounds that for years iiad H been unsightly and unsanitary. B The settlement of a long and very expen H slve litigation between Ogden city and tho H Ogden Waterworks company. This settlement, M while not approved by everybody, saved our H city more than 130,000 and gave to Ogden free B water for practically all city purposes. , Through the league's efforts the epidemic M for "civic Improvement" has spread f mm house B to liouso throughout the entire city, adding H wonderfully to tho beauty and value of many M homes and streets. Much street parking has B been and Is now being done, many fences have flv been removed, and In other ways tho hom.es of M our city have been made brighter and more B beautiful. m Wc suggested that Ogden city should have B a moro respectable patrol wagon. Our city r fathers heard our plea. m, We protested against the granting of cot- H. tain II lings upon waters of Ogden river In Ogden Ht canyon and asked thai the river be not pumped H' dry. Mr Bancroft had the applications with- H drawn. H In order to stimulate the movement toward M civic improvement wo'offcred prizes for the H best kept lawns In the city. Itcost us 25, but M It paid a hundred fold or more. M We asked that the signs in Ogden canyon M be prohibited and that the dangerous places m along the boulevard be fenced. Our requests M were not denied. . B We found that by purchasing about $50 B worth of pipe we could restore the magnificent M waterfall in Ogden canyon. Wc bought the M' The president continues and sajs many M other minor but essential Improvements were B secured. Work for the future Includes the re- B raoal of all poles from the streets, all hideous M billboards removed, business streets lighted In B. a more modern manner with cluster lights and B iron pillars upon the sidewalks, signs placed at M the intersection of all streets and asphalt pave- M ment substituted for the (lagging. One of the 1 fond, hopes is to have the league erect a haod- M some electric drinking fountain on a prominent M corner. M The Woman's club could hardly be expected M to accomplish tiich wondrous things and all In M a short time, but It could arouse the public M along some of the lines mentioned, and by ac-fl ac-fl tive, earnest, Intelligent effort could undoubt-M undoubt-M cdly arouse the slumbering public and eventual eventu-al ally secure an organization of business men and M women who could accomplish what they would. |
