The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-06
APPROVE THE HALF
MILLION CLUB.
UNITY AND BROAD STATESMAN
SHIP SHOULD DOMINATE
ITS PLANS.
BUSINESS MEMS IDEAS OF 1T,
M. A. GUNsT, H. E. HIGHToN AND
G. E. KNOX DISCUSS THE
PROJECT.

81 believe that the Half-million Club
will be grand success and the most bene-
fetal institution the city has ever pos
sessed," said Police Commissioner NJ. A.
Gunst, "if only the projectors of the enter
prise will work together in absolute unity.
The great trouble in the advancement of
our city has been the fact that petty jeal-
ousies have been allowed to overshadow
the great ends to be accomplished. This
man has been sore because he was left
out of a committee when his neighbor was
appointed. Mr.. Jones fought an enterprise
might be benefited by it.
1.-The great secret of the success which
Chicago has achieved lies in the fact that
every citizen aided every enterprise, and
the result was metropolis second to none
in the world. Chicago wanted to reform
certain departments in her city govern
ment. What did she do? Cry to the world
that she was corrupt and needed reform {?
No; not by any means. All her citizens
went to work with common aim, and the
publication of her municipal government
was accomplished at once.
The little town of Los Angeles furnishes
a shining example of the success of the
h.
heard OF a business man of that city de-
crying any proposition which would in
any way beneftit? You cannot find such a
man.
81 believe, too, in putting to the front
young men. In New York Police Com
missioner has just been appointed who is
only 81 years old. Oregons new Senator
put to the front men who have not out
lived the vigor of their youth, and thus
will our city prosper"
Mr.. Gunst added a few humorous re-
marks concerning the ministers of San
Francisco who had in their ill-considered
agitation, in his opinion, greatly injured
the future of the city.
George T. Knox, the California-street
Commissioner of Deeds approved the OBJ
jects of the club 1--WE need in California"
he said, more population for the develop
ment of our resources. | mean by more
population a greater number of artisans
and mechanics, men who are willing to do
the work wanted themselves, rather than
professional men and those who desire to
make their living by their wits or by the
practice of their professions. In this State
to-day the cobbler wants his son to be
lawyer or doctor and the bricklayer de-
sires to be the father of a civil engineer.
The girls prefer to pound a typewriter
rather than do homework and the result
Has Deen JudU we nave QdQ TO import our
artisan classes from Europe and the East.
1--WE want men here who will bring
with them their lares and penates. those
who will settle here and identity them
selves with the interests of the State We
have had enough of bummers and to
spare"
Henry E. Highton is very much interest
ed in the new enterprise. 81 would like to
see the Half-million Club conducted, ".he
said, "on principles of the broadest
craftsmanship and not made SUBJ
servient to the interests of any class.
The amusement man would predict success
If the city be made Paris of the West and
filled with opera-houses and theaterr The
man of an iron and steel, brick and mortar
disposition, from whose makeup the
esthetic element has unfortunately been
omitted, would make it exclusively CITY
of manufactures and mercantile business.
Paris is not IL my opinion the ideal city,
nor is London with its fog and business.
The ideal city is that which is developed
in the exact manner and ratio best adapted
to its situation and natural advantages"
Hugh Craig, chairman of the provisional
committee of the club, desires that San
Francisco shall be the worlds center of
trade, commerce, finance, art, literature,
philosophy and amusements. To this end,
he thinks, it has been endowed with its
superb natural advantages, its unrivaled
climate, its location on the broad Pacific
and its facilities for manufacturing.
wv eastward the star of empire takes its
way" and Hugh Craig has an idea that its
final destination is the city of the Golden
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