Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-02-10


increased proportions, which will pro-
vide employment for an increased
population and which viii give growth
| to the city in which we live. Surely
no man will claim anything selfish i'll
the aims of this organization which has
successfully maintained it's existence,
year by year Increased its membership
ana Whlcn at this time rests upon a
hrp and substantial basis. Its officers
serve without pay and its committees
| nave given and propose to give great
| deal of their own time, which mas Il
| value to themselves, to this Board OF
Trade in which they believe and which
| they have seen grow so strongly 1or
| the past ten years. If the Board OF
| Trade is successful in its undertaking,
| and 1t Is bound to be. there Is no man
| in the city of Gardiner except he reaps
I Il proportion of the fruits which new IN
dustries which locate in the city OF
Gardiner will bring to its citizens. Per-
| haps the man who is in business reapS
| more than the labOrer but every cltl-
zen has his proportional share in the
| increased prosperity which new AhduS-
| tries bring to our community.
| 1.-THE scope of the Board OF Trade Is
broad for it confines its efforts TO no
single aim but attempts to build sound
" for the benefit of all and it deserves
the earnest support of every one of our
citizens. 1t is the duty of every citi-
zen to do his share in materially aiding
| the Board of Trade in its effort to To-
| cate here new industries which will
bring material growth to our city and
| tO re citiZpnS
New industries are being started each
day in many localities and if this Board
of Trade would have its share of these
newly going business concerns it must
use earnest efforts to procure them and
| by such l mean the earnest, concen-
trated efforts of the citizens of this city
to interest men in what they are in
terested in and make them believe
what they believe in.
at is not as if Gardiner were the only
city which has an active Board of
Trade. Almost every other city has
such an organization and if we would
succeed beyond the others, work must
be done beyond the others. The past
years have been successful far more
successful than you realize; the shoe
factory is in our midst; Il new industry
is to start early this year: 1t is not
the intention of the Board of Trade to
let we'll enough alone but to push on
and make Gardiner the commercial city
which il can be and which its geo
graphical location proclaims it must b.
and it is not fair of the citizens of
Gardiner to ask that this thing be even
attempted to be brought about by a
| few. Each citizen must do his share
and new members of the Board of
Trade are now wanted to aid the old in
the work which is proposed to be done
this year Other than the duty which
it is to join this association it should be
pleasure to ALL as it is to many. to
work earnestly and with practical
methods for the welfare of our city
which we live in. which we believe i'll
and which we propose to succeed i'll. 1t
is earnestly desired that every man
who is a property owner here or who
believes he has any affection for or any
interests in this city should join the
Board of Trade and, by so doing, en-
| courag by his hearty approval the old
members who have done so much for
| the city and at this time give evidence
of his willingness to do his share of the
| unselfSh ana sensible efforts which are
| being made by the directors of this or
ganiZatiOn to first, build up a large
membership of citizens, members of
| the Board of Trade, who they know are
| backing them in their attempts to win
mercantile prosperity for this city; sec
| ondly, to weld these citizens together
! into band of men with one purpose in
| view, to work with indomitable power,
| with persistent energy and with firm
| conviction that they are using their eff
| forts for an object which may be ac-
| omplished-namely. the bringing about
| of larger number of producing mer-
camille plants in Gardiner and, finally,
| that which includes all, the cOnsum-
nation of those things which, what
ever they may be, are actually for the
commercial welfare of the city of
| Gardiner.
THE Board Of Trade is not an or
ganization which works on theories. 1t
is not an organization for civic i'm
provement or for moral bctterment or
for the furtherance of intellectual ideas,
though it stands firmly for every one Of
| these things. 1t is purely. wholly and
| simply an organization with the pur-
poses in view named above. 1t deals
with the commercial and mercantile
| side of the community's interests. 1t
always has used practical methods and
| proposes to do so in the future. 1t is
an organization to which every man of
our city is indebted. Each man reaps
| the rewards Of the organizations eff
forts without knowing it: he gets its
benefits almost unconsciously and he
should do his share toward maintain
ing it. ask each citizen of Gardiner
| to think over for ten minutes earnest
ly, honestly and fairly those things
| which have been done by the Gardiner
Board of Trade during the last ten
years. Such thought given fairly to
the subject will impel him with a sense
of duty to send his name in to the sec
retary or to one of the following gem
tlemen: ]. r. Cunningham. j. w. faf-
ter, r. f. Strout, NJ. D., or G. d. Libby
| who yesterday were appointed COM
mittee for the procuring of new mem
bers of the Gardiner Board of Trade
| Every man who has any interest in the
City's welfare is eligible to membership
and | firmly believe it is such mans