Passaic City record., 1890-10-30
IMPROVEMENTS FOR PASSAIC.
Citizens Association Notes.
A Board of fTrade.--Home Enterprise,

A Board of Trade. .--H Ome Enterprise.
The Citizens Association has
some substantial and practical bus
mess men on its roll, and if they
will form themselves into Board
of Trade, such as Olean, n. Y, has,
PASSAGES interests might be mate
rally advanced. (See "They En-
courage Manufactures in the REC
ORD of October 23d.)
The first thing for them to do is
to secure the confidence of local
business men by encouraging home
enterprise. There are many intel
ligent, wide-awake men in and out
of the Citizens Association, and if
they will unite in an endeavor to
improve and increase home indus
tries success must follow.
The only men of worth to town
or community are those who for
get their own selfish ends long
enough, and who are liberal enough
in their ideas, to encourage every
public and private enterprise; to
push all projects calculated to build
up the town and enhance its inn
portance. The enterprise or push
of a town or community is the
foundation of its permanent Sue
cess. A town may as well pre-
pare for it's funeral as to become
Indifferent to the enterprise in its
midst. Men who come to a town
to make it their future home, and
who cannot look far enough be-
fore them to see that money placed
judiciously in public enterprise
will be returned hundred fold in
the appreciation of their property
are to be pitied. They are of the
class who are ready to take all
they can of some one else's enter
prise, but are not willing to do any
thing themselves. What would
Passaic, or any other town of her
size be without her newspapers
the heralds of the community; and
how many families and industries
are brought to town through one
or all of its newspapers; and yet
how tardy is the appreciation of
the enterprising, hard working,
pushing publishers meted out
by the influential citizens.
Encourage home industries, for it
will pay you and your neighbor
and all your fellow townsmen.
That Railroad switch.
1t is earnestly hoped that at
least some of the improvements
which the Citizens Association
has undertaken to accomplish for
Passaic will materialize. The re-
moval of the freight switch through
the heart of the city should be insist
ed upon, and it is quite likely that
the Erie managers will realize that
it is positive detr1ment to the
town A New York gentleman
who recently came to Passaic to
examine some real estate, men,
toned in the RECORD as desirable
property, said: Il would not buy
nor rent property on Main avenue
while freight cars are allowed to
obstruct the view from side to side"
The Committee of the Citizens
Association will receive all possible
encouragement from local business
men.
Trees and Shrubbery.
AS previously announced exclu-
sively in the RECORD Qast Thurs
day. the Councilmen and a COM
mittee of the Citizens Association
went to New York last Saturday
and enjoyed an excursion through
Central, Morningside and River
side Parks, after which they dined
at the Casino, made speeches and
enjoyed themselves thoroughly.
One of the objects of the excursion
was to view the trees and shrub
berry and it is expected there will
be some improvements in this line
in Passaic ere long. 1t seems to
us it would have been more advan-
tageous if they had made their
excursion earlier in the season.
when there was something more
than falling leaves and bare brown
limbs to look at.