New Ulm review., 1901-12-25
THE COUNCIL MEETS
Commercial Union Presents the matter OF
securing State Training School.
NO APPROPRIATION CAN BE MADE,
Council will act with Commercial Union.
All are Heartily In Favor of School.


At special meeting of the CONNER
cial Union held in the New Ulm Busi-
ness College there was representative
attendance of business men present to
listen to the report of the committe sent
to St. Paul to interview the Board of
Control. This committee reported that
the state required from forty to eighty
acres of land AID side track to it. To
procure such site in this city would re-
quire the expenditure of between $4,000
and $4,000. This was apparent and in
order to put the city behind the move
ment committee consisting of DR..
Strickler, F. H. Behnke, Albert Pfaen-
der and J. Klossner was appointed to
wait on the city council and secure
meeting of that body so that the matter
might be properly presented and if pos
sible an appropriation made. This COM
mittee called upon the clerk and mayor
with the above request and were told
that the council could have nothing to
do with it and it was unnecessary to con-
vene that body. Not discouraged by this
the committee went to the members of
the Commercial Union and succeeded in
getting personal promises from different
ones, agreeing to assist in raising suffic-
lent money to purchase the desired To-
cation in case the institution was sue.
cessfully landed. With this ass arance
to back him S. D. Peterson was again
sent to the cities on Saturday with pow
er to make the offer binding. In this
the Commercial Union Is acting in ac-
cordance with the best wishes of the ma
joritY of the citizen of the city.
On Saturday night, however, the COM
mittee from the council appointed to act
with the Commercial Union having
learned that the citizens were very much
in earnest about the matter, waited on
Mayor Weschcke and prevailed upon
him to call a specia! meeting which
accession was made and the council met
with the committee and officers of the
Commercial Union. The matter was
presented by J. Klossner, F. Crone, DR..
Ifricl DhiI TioooE n
meyer, eace one speaking several times.
The city attorney made it plain that
the council could not appropriate money
for any such purpose under the charter
and it was not tn" business of the coun-
ell to do So This the committee assur-
ed them was not what was wanted. The
object was to get the good will of the
authorities of the city, SO that the official
strength of the city would be behind the
movement and then the Union could 20
forward without feeling that they were
weighted down with opposition at home.
After the matter was thoroughly un-
derstood the council was unanimously in
favor Of giving the committee and the
Commercial Union the influence of the
name of the city and its full moral sup
port. With this everybody was satisfied
and it was decided that the council
should act through its committee in all
the work pertaining to the school in
case it shall be secured.
There is not a business man in the city
who cannot realize the Importance of
having an institution of this kind here.
1t not only advertises the town, but the
expenditure Of an appropriation by the
state of $4,000 means that certain
per cent of that amount is to be expend-
ed here. Labor would be necessary to
construct the building and prepare the
grounds; large amount of material,
brick, stone, etc., would have to be pur-
chased and after completion certain
amount of supplies would have to be
bought here. People would come to Wis
it the girls who would be in the institu-
tion and then the hotels would be bene-
flied. That the institution can be look
ed upon as not benehcial to the city is
taking very pessimistic view of it. It
would he matter of pride to which peo-
pie would point as one of the main OBJ
jects of interest when showing their
friends about the city.
SAVED HIS LIFE.
II wish to say that / feel owe my life
to Kodo1 Dyspepsia Cure" writes ii. c.