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Show I Businsss Men Tackle Ogden's Housing Problem HOW 10 GET ! MORE HOMES, I FORI TOPIC II Encouraging Note About Hotel for Ogden Sounded by Chairman Wattis CHAMBER OF COMMERCE GATHERING SUCCESSFUL Business Men Decide to Make. Informal Organization Per- j manent Feature M d n IH II Weber club last night, enjoyed a din- H ner, an open forum discussion .-inri II lO IhC o,e .1 , Jl : on HrH with meetings every month. V IH Ptfrsuani to this decision, the megi- B H bers elected Mayor Frank Francis as S H chairman of the next open forum 9 H and voted that the subject to be re- ported upon .-it th.j' meeting should be the question of get- ting more houses In (gden. U Th comniilte,r to present that sub- 3 S J' ct at the next mefit,itg will Include. 'A lH besides Mayor Francis, the followiav:. A Rocoe Cwllllam. attorney 1. 9. KH I I idgSOl Ct; P Men ill. lo- H cal manager of the Utah Dower & 1 H laght company; aa(i J. W. Abbott. R H hi orge A l This toinmltli 'ect a MH ber of th chamber of commerce to bBI act secretary' of th open forum. f bbbbLs! PURPOSE OF MEETTIXG. I jSSt night's meeting was opened r ssBBBBsi Kalph E. I Bristol in which he explained that it M IH opt n forum plan i;i 'tSSLsBBBsl I v ith the chamber of commerce In - tsssl be brouzht ("loser together, could ore- IbbTsbTsbTsTsbI sent their Ideas and have first-hand jB knowledge of just what the chamber ! He introduced Warren L, Wattis. ' president of the chamber of com- R merce, as the chairman of the meet- i sjbbsbI Mr "attis called upon Captain Ora . g..v emn en leer In ch -H of the Ogden arsenal, and Cataln gave i description of H the B REASON loii IRSBNAL. I "The need of an arsenal was appar- S ent at the close the v.;t with gr:i: wl 1 quantities of shells and .;)-.'. - i' stored in expensive warehouses in con- ! gested centers on the Atlantic coast " 1 ! arsenal being b here now and the mem- -t of the chant ber of commerce i v e ... wide awake that they saw to It the government knew the ad- vantages ol thi location fselseted. H "Already the department is askinc H I for $475,000 more than the original B I allotment to spend at the arsenal uuA m' lno.-i'di.t n ' e I' B oi . ii,.. jH progress. Th" work is Zl per i sssstf complelod. H is ahead of schedule jH The contractor was handicapped be- L I I ise labor which he might have ob- jl I talned would not stay because there M.I were no housing facilities at the ar- Kl sen.il or in Ogden. I I "In normal times the arsenal will I need a force of about 12G men In Wa ' m busier than a beehive." IH VO DAXGEB rO l IT1 i n i said that In his opinion ihen- would H I 1 ago of shells the arsenal ' Cajitain Dundy saitl his residence In t H I SBsl high opinion of the city and I I citizens that he Intends making Ogden I ! his home u-'ien' he obtains his (lis- 1 I Following the captain's talk Chair- I BhH man Wattis declared the mectinx I open for talks from members on any 1 subject. Il II. Hessler made the following t 'H proposal: W ORGAXIZ1 R ! Mi l Its. f propose to organise 'he retail gH dealers engaged in the same line of I jH business so that they wilt pool their I 4H wholesale orders. The large BiSS of f' Ml the pooled order will allow the most nisBSLsl favorable price ami at the same feline lliaaaafl enable the Individual merchant to or- I riBBBBSB der stock In small riuantHies. Thi' JBjjLssWi method leducen Investment In Stock Msbbbsh and Increases turn-over for both ri - fll taller and wholesaler a matter of fll I peels! interest during this readjust- lf ' in ent period and in preparation for i falling market. BOOST 6T04 K SHOW. ii? og- I den livestock show, said Ogden was WaH becoming famous by reason of the ! iiH size of Its livestock market and he 1 said the furthcoming show would be a ; H sulemlid exhibition of fine stock. 11 j iBVl wanted merchants to close for a half i IH flay on tho opening day of the show and to decorate their stores in honor j lw of the event. 'H "The show is put on and conducted ' 1 by Ogdeu business men and ils poasl- jj bllltlea for good arc almost beyond I ffl me:i-surc." n BJ Charles It. llollinpsworth altornev , If BJ proposed that one topic to be taken ii Bj up by the open forum be Ogden's B need of a hotel. II B n I ED OF HOU61 B W. I'j Zuppann. advertising man- Il I ager of the Ogden SUtndai -tl-lOxa miner. j I proposed that the housing problem be 8 I in open forum tonic He related hi i M mi to Gef More Homes, Forum Topic i ontinued i "rom Page nc experiences as a hbusi teeker In g-1 den to back tip ins statement that bousing wtas an Imporlajol question In this cliy ' J William J. Blackburn Bald in his; opinion the housing question was more pressing than the hotel malt'. r. At this point Chairman Waitls de- i I dared thai tin board had been irork-j ing oil thi hotel question, for tnonths I and the board recently rejected one ; j proposition because it meant thai the hotel would not he strictly an Ogden owned hotel. He concluded With the optimistic statement: We hope very soon to have some- I thin going, a proposition that will! prove Bsvtlsfai tory." L. s. Hodgson, architect, said he waj In fftVOr of a new hotel but he: thought that in the discussion of the1 need new hotel an Injustice I was don. to the owners of hotels already al-ready in operation here. Me said the Impression should not go out that! ' (t;.l. n does not have hotels. He men-j tioned that the Reed hotel was plan- nipg tb enlarge Hs ilimnc room to he I j In ii position to handle banquets of .on i n Ions. SMOKE M l B M John cull. prbposed thai the ihal. loern of the snioKe nio-anee be 1 one of the open forum problems to be solved. Joseph storey urged thai Ogden be-J ; bin at once to plan tor an automobile ' show. He tendered the use of a build- j ! ing for s-.'ch :i show, rent free. I John s. Levis, jeweler, urged Hut the croup prpefed to organize. He j said such a group could accomplish i wonders. He predicted there would be I a new note In r BO on. but he said the epy should not forg't the good ! service being rendered by the Ri ed ' and the Healy hotels. HAIiF HOIilDAY. BamVtel Martin, secretary of I'alne .v Hurst's, said a better Qgdep should ! mean a h..ppi r Ogden. He urged the 1 weekly half holiday. In Connection with the organlr.a-I organlr.a-I tion of the forum there wen other addresses by members, including Pi T. I Wright, manager of Wright's. George Glen, of tih-n Bros.-Roherts TMano company; A P. Blgelow, cashier of I the 'imieii Slate bank; A. P. .Merrill. local manager of the I'tah Power & Light company, and others. |