The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1902-12-12
A City Club Room.

A City Club Room.
Logan needs library and reading
room. Each of the Colleges have one
but they do not fill the requirements.
What we need Is nice comfortable
room as near the business center of
town as it is possible to get it, where
people can drop in and spend an hour
or two reading the papers or perusing
the latest magazines. We have
a good many young people and old
people also for that matter, whose
home surroundings are not as pleas
ant as they might be, and they seek
pleasure elsewhere. Many of the
young men come up town and drift
into the saloons and billiard halls and
come i'm contact with the influences
and associations Of those who frequent
resorts Of that kind. Young ladies
cannot with prOpriety seek diversion
in saloons but will spend more time
on the street that is profitable for
their good. There is another class of
people that might be considered i'm
this connection. We refer now to
those who are tied at home all day
with routine duties, and to whom
little exercise and mingling with man
kind would come as a welcome diver
sion. To these people an hour at a
reading room or club would come as a
welcome relief as an oasis in the
monotony of daily life.
An ordinary reading room would
hardly answer these requirements; we
would want to go little further, just
what we would need we could not say
but it seems to us we could follow the
lead of the Young Mems Christian
Association with profit.
we VISITED
one of their associations recently IN an
eastern city about the size of Logan
and were surprised and pleased at what
we saw.
There was nicely arranged reading
room furnished with chairs and tables
and supplied with books, magazines
and papers; adjoining this was an
other room supplied with chess and
checker boards and a variety of other
games. Adjoining this again was
pool room with two pool tables. In
another room was bath tub and
barber shop; another was fitted up as
a gymnasium. In another room was
piano where those who loved music
could spend an hour of an evening
listening to the best talent the town
could afford. We were told that the
rooms were kept up by the association
partly by voluntary contribution and
partly by monthly dues paid by the
members. The amount of the dues
were arranged according to the bene-
fits derived. For instance fifty cents
week entitled person to one shave
and one bath. If a person wished the
advantages of the bath room only, the
fee was less. Admission to the read
ing room was free. Fifty cents
quarter entitled person to take one
book week from the library. Two
nights week the association gave
sort of concert in the music room.
We were informed that the club had
become so popular in the town that
nice little sum was left over after all
expenses were paid, which was spent
in purchasing new books.
SUGGESTION.
Now some such organization as that,
1t seems to us, is what we need. OF
course it would take time to work il
up, but it can be done. 1t would seem
to us that the Mutual Improvement
organizations throughout the city are
the proper people to take hold of this
matter, The rooms in the second
story of the tithing Office building
would be very suitable and would cost
but little. Nearly every mutual i'm
the city has small library that are
doing little good where they are now.
These could be collected and form the
nucleus for library. The news
papers in town can furnish papers and |
from their exchanges. So
that commencement could be made
without very great OUTLAY.